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Originally Posted by Bear Islander
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You are really stretching one here! Untying and retying a boat is not "exercising control over" in the context of a "DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY" statute.
Next thing you will be saying we can't roll over a car that's in 2 parking spaces.
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Nope, never said that "tying and untying a boat" violates the statute in question.
I clearly warned that once you do, you immediately assume civil liability for the vessel and "
should things go awry" (such as in Woody's case) criminal liabilites were (and are) possible. By the way, your analogy about moving a car clearly falls under this same statute.
The statue is pretty clear. You may not like or agree with it, but it is the law in this State. I am sure most of the readers here can comprehend its fairly obvious meaning and intent and understand that the moving of another person's vessel, without the owner's consent, is an unwise thing to do in less than emergency circumstances.
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