One time when i was running late to meet everyone at gandy beach i cut across the flats no wake area in front of weedon island knowing full damn well it was illegal. What looked like just another flats boat was indeed a fwc patrol, i had 2 pit bulls, my wife, cooler of beer, and no registration. He was not happy at first obviously but i gave the typical yes sir, no sir, im sorry sir i thought that was the flats marker over there sir answers and he was fine, asked bout the pups and sent us on our way, nice guy.
Bout a year before that i was out on the jet ski going thru pass a grille channel toward shell island. There were 2 other skis with me and we were just cruising thru to get around to ft desoto. Not jumping wake, not cutting in and out of the channel, not going faster than 40 mph and in single file on the right side, basically doing everything we were supposed to do. In flys 30 feet of twin 250 powered center console coming within 10 feet of me at 40 mph on a ****ing jet ski, i bust a 180 and stop dead like is so easy to do on a ski. After a big loop the first thing they say is HANDS!!!!! (they are both on my bars in plain sight) Then in seconds they grab me by my jacket and yank me on deck leaving my $12,000 ski drifting off. Now i am hand cuffed to the cleat and they are tearing my ski apart, "may i ask what you are looking for?", "Shut up" the youngest one says to me. Boss man finally decides the ski is assembled correctly and comes over, "we saw you jumping wake in the no wake zone in front of the tierra verde marina". I say "Sir" (the only word they want to hear) "my dock is on the west side of vina del mar so i never even passed th T.V. marina." He gets up and they pow wow on deck for another 20 min with me hand cuffed to the ****ing cleat. You need to slow down and stop jumping wake they say finally freeing me. "Yes sir" I dive off the back and swim to my ski to meet my friends at the wave pool. Found out later someone had a ski get stolen from right around there that same day so my guess was they thought it was me, found out it wasn't and had to cover their tracks with the BS wake story.
Good cop and really bad cop, are they normally dicks? I don't think so but can they be? Hell yes.