Silver, Did you see the video......

[gatorman001]

Of some charter Captain named - brock horner, going after a kid fishing under the US 41 bridge linking Punta Gorda to Port Charlotte? It all stems from horner earlier in the morning, running his boat at a high speed while passing under the bridges.....Ill send the link on facebook if you haven't

UPDATE: well this video is apparently well on its way to becoming viral. The internet sluths have dox this guy in every way imaginable, he basically lied about everything that came out his mouth..(including his service record), personally I suspected it was pretty much a lie, when his arrest record was published.

 

[Silver King]

I'm a captain; these are my home waters. knew about it as soon as the first drumbeats sounded. This is becoming a national story. Stay tuned; it may surpass the kids in Sarasota that dragged the shark a few years back.


https://www.riffusion.com/song/08ca...Db10Onpv0LgkxLxZKL_aem_s-sMjp03L5aaxuAS6ikKDg

 

[gatorman001]

I'm a captain; these are my home waters. knew about it as soon as the first drumbeats sounded. This is becoming a national story. Stay tuned; it may surpass the kids in Sarasota that dragged the shark a few years back.


https://www.riffusion.com/song/08ca...Db10Onpv0LgkxLxZKL_aem_s-sMjp03L5aaxuAS6ikKDg

The wife had played the song for meearlier today, but wow! Less than 5 days old and the guy's earned himself a song!

 

[Silver King]

The wife had played the song for meearlier today, but wow! Less than 5 days old and the guy's earned himself a song!

That song was out in about 48 hours. Here's my take, for better or worse, from my Peace River FB page:

Dear Peace River family, I feel the need this morning to editorialize.

After days of blowing up Facebook, today we wake up to TV coverage of a bad captain. It provides a cautionary tale, whether you’re a license holder, casual boater/fisherman, or commercial fisherman.

This individual's actions have embarrassed everyone who makes their living on the water.

The water belongs to everyone. As such, everyone needs to follow the written rules/regulations (the law, such as you’re responsible for your wake), local customs, and etiquette (things like how to drift Boca Grande Pass, or pass someone who is fishing, or not pull up on a spot while they're fishing).

If you don’t know, don’t go. Learn first; take a Power Squadron course.

Charlotte Harbor has produced a century and a half of many highly respected captains and masters, as well as the licensed and unlicensed in the commercial fishing industry.

We have a rich tradition on our portion of God’s blue waters. We love the environment in which we work, and many of us are its fiercest defenders against polluters like MOSAIC or Big Sugar.

A single deluded, undisciplined individual came along and escalated a situation that could have been avoided. He became an immediate internet/national sensation for his selfish act and bravado. His arrest and TV coverage are launching this to the national level. Already he's become the most recognized guide in SW Florida. But for the wrong reasons. He’s gotten more play than every guide who won decades of Boca Grande’s World’s Richest Tarpon Tournaments combined.

He wanted the kid to apologize? He needs to apologize to the rest of us who have worked SW Florida’s waters for the embarrassment he’s caused, the reputation he has tarnished, and the business that will be lost to other captains.

If he is suffering from PTSD, I am sympathetic. But I know many other veterans with severe PTSD who are able to control that on the water, including several career captains—there will always be disagreements and arguments; you have to control yourself. If you can't, this is not the profession for you. I learned that from mentor captains as a Tarpon Guide in Boca Grande Pass, a Back Bay Guide, and a Commercial Fisherman in my 20s. That served me well, representing the colors of the owners yachts I represented as well as the schooner I owned over my 43 years as a license holder.

I also feel sorry for the guy for allowing his temper to override his common sense and situational awareness - he saw he was being videoed yet couldn't disengage. I hope he gets help.

 

[gatorman001]

That song was out in about 48 hours. Here's my take, for better or worse, from my Peace River FB page:

Dear Peace River family, I feel the need this morning to editorialize.

After days of blowing up Facebook, today we wake up to TV coverage of a bad captain. It provides a cautionary tale, whether you’re a license holder, casual boater/fisherman, or commercial fisherman.

This individual's actions have embarrassed everyone who makes their living on the water.

The water belongs to everyone. As such, everyone needs to follow the written rules/regulations (the law, such as you’re responsible for your wake), local customs, and etiquette (things like how to drift Boca Grande Pass, or pass someone who is fishing, or not pull up on a spot while they're fishing).

If you don’t know, don’t go. Learn first; take a Power Squadron course.

Charlotte Harbor has produced a century and a half of many highly respected captains and masters, as well as the licensed and unlicensed in the commercial fishing industry.

We have a rich tradition on our portion of God’s blue waters. We love the environment in which we work, and many of us are its fiercest defenders against polluters like MOSAIC or Big Sugar.

A single deluded, undisciplined individual came along and escalated a situation that could have been avoided. He became an immediate internet/national sensation for his selfish act and bravado. His arrest and TV coverage are launching this to the national level. Already he's become the most recognized guide in SW Florida. But for the wrong reasons. He’s gotten more play than every guide who won decades of Boca Grande’s World’s Richest Tarpon Tournaments combined.

He wanted the kid to apologize? He needs to apologize to the rest of us who have worked SW Florida’s waters for the embarrassment he’s caused, the reputation he has tarnished, and the business that will be lost to other captains.

If he is suffering from PTSD, I am sympathetic. But I know many other veterans with severe PTSD who are able to control that on the water, including several career captains—there will always be disagreements and arguments; you have to control yourself. If you can't, this is not the profession for you. I learned that from mentor captains as a Tarpon Guide in Boca Grande Pass, a Back Bay Guide, and a Commercial Fisherman in my 20s. That served me well, representing the colors of the owners yachts I represented as well as the schooner I owned over my 43 years as a license holder.

I also feel sorry for the guy for allowing his temper to override his common sense and situational awareness - he saw he was being videoed yet couldn't disengage. I hope he gets help.

Silver, there's another video of him berating a man and 2 small sons on one of his chartered fishing trips, so the behavior isn't anything new. In as far as his military service, while I haven't seen his DD-214...he left the military after 4 years of service a E3. My guess his discharge was in all probability a general discharge. His service awards were all more less being part of campaigns or training. His MOS was in human resource. No purple heart, which immediately told me his disability while it apparently occurred while he was in the military...had nothing to do with a combat injury. (I knew individuals in the USPS, that had a service connected disability, that occurred during boot camp or a auto accident on base)......the guy is a fraud, plain and simple and karma finally caught up with him.

 

[Silver King]

His reputation in the charter community isn't good; not many were surprised. The USCG will likely make sure he never has a license again. Not for the verbal junk, but for acting like a pirate and taking a felony charge for boarding and leaving his vessel "not under command" and his passengers unattended. They frown upon that. Stepping onto that boat, under the conditions he escalated, put this in a whole other category with the law and his governing body. PG Police charged him with assault and battery; FWC and USCG are on deck.

All that aside, some of the initial reactions were amusing. But people are pitiful; it's been mentioned his family has received death threats, and some cretin threw a dead animal in their yard. People are treating his wife and 7-year-old kid for the same things they're pissed at what he did to the 22-year-old.

And we wonder why the damn country is the way it is.

 

[peezy28]

That song was out in about 48 hours. Here's my take, for better or worse, from my Peace River FB page:

Dear Peace River family, I feel the need this morning to editorialize.

After days of blowing up Facebook, today we wake up to TV coverage of a bad captain. It provides a cautionary tale, whether you’re a license holder, casual boater/fisherman, or commercial fisherman.

This individual's actions have embarrassed everyone who makes their living on the water.

The water belongs to everyone. As such, everyone needs to follow the written rules/regulations (the law, such as you’re responsible for your wake), local customs, and etiquette (things like how to drift Boca Grande Pass, or pass someone who is fishing, or not pull up on a spot while they're fishing).

If you don’t know, don’t go. Learn first; take a Power Squadron course.

Charlotte Harbor has produced a century and a half of many highly respected captains and masters, as well as the licensed and unlicensed in the commercial fishing industry.

We have a rich tradition on our portion of God’s blue waters. We love the environment in which we work, and many of us are its fiercest defenders against polluters like MOSAIC or Big Sugar.

A single deluded, undisciplined individual came along and escalated a situation that could have been avoided. He became an immediate internet/national sensation for his selfish act and bravado. His arrest and TV coverage are launching this to the national level. Already he's become the most recognized guide in SW Florida. But for the wrong reasons. He’s gotten more play than every guide who won decades of Boca Grande’s World’s Richest Tarpon Tournaments combined.

He wanted the kid to apologize? He needs to apologize to the rest of us who have worked SW Florida’s waters for the embarrassment he’s caused, the reputation he has tarnished, and the business that will be lost to other captains.

If he is suffering from PTSD, I am sympathetic. But I know many other veterans with severe PTSD who are able to control that on the water, including several career captains—there will always be disagreements and arguments; you have to control yourself. If you can't, this is not the profession for you. I learned that from mentor captains as a Tarpon Guide in Boca Grande Pass, a Back Bay Guide, and a Commercial Fisherman in my 20s. That served me well, representing the colors of the owners yachts I represented as well as the schooner I owned over my 43 years as a license holder.

I also feel sorry for the guy for allowing his temper to override his common sense and situational awareness - he saw he was being videoed yet couldn't disengage. I hope he gets help.

That song was out in about 48 hours. Here's my take, for better or worse, from my Peace River FB page:

Dear Peace River family, I feel the need this morning to editorialize.

After days of blowing up Facebook, today we wake up to TV coverage of a bad captain. It provides a cautionary tale, whether you’re a license holder, casual boater/fisherman, or commercial fisherman.

This individual's actions have embarrassed everyone who makes their living on the water.

The water belongs to everyone. As such, everyone needs to follow the written rules/regulations (the law, such as you’re responsible for your wake), local customs, and etiquette (things like how to drift Boca Grande Pass, or pass someone who is fishing, or not pull up on a spot while they're fishing).

If you don’t know, don’t go. Learn first; take a Power Squadron course.

Charlotte Harbor has produced a century and a half of many highly respected captains and masters, as well as the licensed and unlicensed in the commercial fishing industry.

We have a rich tradition on our portion of God’s blue waters. We love the environment in which we work, and many of us are its fiercest defenders against polluters like MOSAIC or Big Sugar.

A single deluded, undisciplined individual came along and escalated a situation that could have been avoided. He became an immediate internet/national sensation for his selfish act and bravado. His arrest and TV coverage are launching this to the national level. Already he's become the most recognized guide in SW Florida. But for the wrong reasons. He’s gotten more play than every guide who won decades of Boca Grande’s World’s Richest Tarpon Tournaments combined.

He wanted the kid to apologize? He needs to apologize to the rest of us who have worked SW Florida’s waters for the embarrassment he’s caused, the reputation he has tarnished, and the business that will be lost to other captains.

If he is suffering from PTSD, I am sympathetic. But I know many other veterans with severe PTSD who are able to control that on the water, including several career captains—there will always be disagreements and arguments; you have to control yourself. If you can't, this is not the profession for you. I learned that from mentor captains as a Tarpon Guide in Boca Grande Pass, a Back Bay Guide, and a Commercial Fisherman in my 20s. That served me well, representing the colors of the owners yachts I represented as well as the schooner I owned over my 43 years as a license holder.

I also feel sorry for the guy for allowing his temper to override his common sense and situational awareness - he saw he was being videoed yet couldn't disengage. I hope he gets help.

Hey which Peace River page is this?

 

[peezy28]

Of some charter Captain named - brock horner, going after a kid fishing under the US 41 bridge linking Punta Gorda to Port Charlotte? It all stems from horner earlier in the morning, running his boat at a high speed while passing under the bridges.....Ill send the link on facebook if you haven't

UPDATE: well this video is apparently well on its way to becoming viral. The internet sluths have dox this guy in every way imaginable, he basically lied about everything that came out his mouth..(including his service record), personally I suspected it was pretty much a lie, when his arrest record was published.

Hey we aren't connected on FB lol I searched but couldn't find maybe you have your settings set to avoid being found lol.

 

[peezy28]

His reputation in the charter community isn't good; not many were surprised. The USCG will likely make sure he never has a license again. Not for the verbal junk, but for acting like a pirate and taking a felony charge for boarding and leaving his vessel "not under command" and his passengers unattended. They frown upon that. Stepping onto that boat, under the conditions he escalated, put this in a whole other category with the law and his governing body. PG Police charged him with assault and battery; FWC and USCG are on deck.

All that aside, some of the initial reactions were amusing. But people are pitiful; it's been mentioned his family has received death threats, and some cretin threw a dead animal in their yard. People are treating his wife and 7-year-old kid for the same things they're pissed at what he did to the 22-year-old.

And we wonder why the damn country is the way it is.

It's the world we live in man. We should always assume we are being recorded and our actions will have consequences....

I'm really glad we didn't have Smart phones and social media when I grew up. I know I shared the Ron DeSantis I knew from HS and how some of that could've been used against him now if we had social media 😆.... (Nothing heinous but you know they pull on all the strings)

Everything is on video and will come back haunt ya 10 20 30 years from now and can even cause your family harm (I think its bs but it is what it is).

 

[gatorman001]

Hey we aren't connected on FB lol I searched but couldn't find maybe you have your settings set to avoid being found lol.

Facebook wouldn't allow me to add you? Looks like we chatted on facebook messenger back in 2020 about the vaccines. I messaged you on facebook messenger this morning, see if you can add me from there?