A year or 2 ago, my buddy and I were gonna put his 12ft V in to do some saltwater inlet fishing. It was the first time we had launched a boat out there so we were pretty excited. We put all our gear in the boat, launched it, as soon as it was in the water I turned around to park the truck. 5 seconds later I heard him start freakin out, so I turned around. Of course, we forgot to put the plug in. The BAD part was, the night before, I had just bought my first "nice" rod, a St. Croix. It being the only 1 pc rod in the boat, kinda hung out the side a little. He, freaking out, frantically pulled the boat back in (which was only in about a foot of water, wouldn't have killed anything to get a couple of life jackets wet). The tip of my rod hit one of the pilings on the dock and, without bending at all, snapped the last 3ft off the tip. Needless to say, since it was such a new badass rod, it was the only one I brought on the trip, so, I had to fish for redfish with a 4ft long rod the rest of the day.
To top off the day, we were fishing right next to the Marine Science Museum, which has humongous observation windows that look out onto the inlet. I had to pee pretty badly, but it was really choppy, so I did my best and covered up with a jacket and went into the minnow bucket. Well, apparently one of the patrons of our fine Science Museum saw this and decided to call the cops. The next morning, the boys in blue CAME TO MY HOUSE at 6:30am and ARRESTED me. I was court ordered to go to therapy for it. Fun stuff.