Sometimes I miss Florida.

Because you do get to see silly stuff becoming increasingly stupid and ultimately dangerous. Fishing guide exchanges words with a teen and then escalates things.

I have seen this video in several places and a lot of the comments end with “Piracy!” Florida does have a piracy statute, but it is applied to aircraft rather than water vessels, however it does have coverage of a couple of things boat-related.

Boarding a vessel with intention to commit an offense is a third-degree felony and carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or a $5,000 fine. The lesser charge is First-degree trespass of a vessel occupied and is punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine. And that is the nice way this could have ended, why i say that? Because I almost positive (IANAL warning) that Castle Doctrine also applies to vessels and used of deadly force is legal.

This charter “captain” was lucky he encountered a young, unarmed fisherman and not a saltier Floridian who knows you don’t go into the water without the proper means to repeal boarders and tell gators to go away.