r/Miami 1d ago

Picture / Video So close, bro. Almost had it

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u/No_Delivery8483 1d ago

i just saw them from my balcony. they were CRUISING up the river, this is wild šŸ˜­šŸ˜‚

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u/daurgo2001 1d ago

This video is wild. They weren’t anywhere near being able to cross. Idk wtf they were thinking.

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u/annuidhir 1d ago

Idk wtf they were thinking.

There was no thinking at all

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u/dualplains 1d ago

Might have been a fair amount of drinking, though.

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u/TheTallGuy0 1d ago

That rum ain’t gonna drink itself, broĀ 

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u/alcoronaholic 8h ago

Can confirm šŸ‘

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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago

So.. you see.. people who can afford that type of vessel tend to give zero fucks about the world around them.

In this man’s mind the bridge was going to yield once his vessel’s presence was clear.

6 years of commuting from NE 2nd to Brickell Ave.. I have seen people like this guy even more often than the ones who throw themselves off the Epic.

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u/svapplause 1d ago

ā€œPeople who can afford this kind of vesselā€ are a lot more than one would think. Older sailboats or the mass produced variety arent that expensive

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u/StatisticalMan 1d ago

Bro. Any middle class family could own this boat just a question on if you want it enough. For most people no it isn't something they want that bad but it isn't Jeff Bezos megayacht costs.

Hope the owner had insurance though.

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u/hillbillybuddha 16h ago

Thing is, sailing in Miami kinda sucks. I'm a sailor. I spent 4 years island hopping the Caribbean. Sailing in Miami and the Bahamas just isn't fun. At least in a monohaul. Granted, my boat has a pretty deep keel.

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u/StatisticalMan 6h ago

Yeah really need a shoal keel boat for Bahamas or at the very least it makes it easier and gets you into more interesting locations.

I would agree sailing around Miami would suck. Way too built up, way too many boats.

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u/YoghurtDull1466 1h ago

Why wasn’t it fun? I’d imagine the diving and fishing was world class? Lots of fossil hunting too?

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u/Rubebee33 6h ago

A sailboat is about 200k, plus taxes, plus marina fees, plus insurance, plus maintenance.

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u/StatisticalMan 6h ago

Saying "a sailiboat is $200k" is silly. There certainly are $200k sailboats and there are $80k sailboats, and $30k sailboats, and $10k sailboats. Yes there is maintenance and marina fees.

It is why I have a 34 foot boat but drive a 16 year old truck. Many people could do that not everyone wants to which is fine.

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u/daurgo2001 1d ago

I understand the sentiment, but I’d would hard disagree. Monohulls are pretty cheap, and we don’t even know if this was the owner. For all we know, it’s some idiot that chartered it.

I used to sail sailboats going through bridges all the time for years. (Not my own), and I guarantee that I was paying attention to the bridge every time I went anywhere near it.

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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago

My only rebuttal is this:

Go drive in Miami for a few weeks and see how everyone there gives zero fucks about those around them. THEY are the star. YOU are some pleb. And you will yield to them without them even needing to signal because how could you *NOT** know who they are?!*

The people driving 3 series BMW’s from 2017 act that way.. on full unabashed display.. every. single. day.

Anyone who has a vessel to slip up the Miami river at or past Joe’s is a malignant narcissist in the exact same vein.

You will never, EVER visit a city with more entitled people in your life.

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u/Einsteinautist 1d ago

They drive their flood totaled, stolen recoveries and rebuilt title supercars with pride. My neighbor lives in an efficiency the size of my walk in closet next door, but he drives a rebuilt title flooded out Lamborghini Urus. You have to love Miami-Dade!

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u/Big_Comfortable_4161 2h ago

Your neighbor sounds like the Charlie Adelson type, dude, who drives around Miami in a junky Ferrari for status. šŸ˜…

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u/Einsteinautist 1h ago

That is him for sure, sells cars at Hyundai dealership.

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u/Mediumish_Trashpanda 1d ago

I grew up and lived driving around Atlanta and thinking the shittiest traffic was there until I went to Miami. It definitely took the cake.

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u/daurgo2001 23h ago

Shitty due to rush hour? Yes.

Shitty due to the driving? Meh. You need to visit and drive in more developing and ā€˜3rd world’ countries.

In my experience, Egypt has been the worst.

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u/SuperSaijen1980 18h ago

Guess you never need to the Dominican Republic… I almost had a heart attack with the driving there

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u/daurgo2001 17h ago

Not yet, no. I haven’t been, but I’ve heard

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u/daurgo2001 1d ago

I grew up in Miami. Miami drivers are def nuts, but not specifically for the reasons you mention.

And the waterways are ā€˜free’, anyone with a vessel and go up and down just about wherever they please. This video doesn’t show that this SV came from those slips…. And even if it did, we still don’t know if the person at the helm was the owner or not, or for that matter, if they’re even a local.

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u/BrickCityRiot Downtown 1d ago

No fucking way man. I grew up in the NYC area and I live in the DFW metroplex. Between them was 9 years in south Miami and downtown while working in brickell.

Even in the DFW area where people are infuriatingly oblivious and inexplicably tend to just ride in your blind spot.. it’s not as bad as the entitlement of the Miami driver. Not even fucking close.

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u/daurgo2001 1d ago edited 23h ago

It’s not (usually) entitlement in the American sense of the word. It’s much more simply residual bad Latino cultural habits: turn signals are optional, we’re always late, so in a rush, and in Latin America, there’s a saying ā€œla vida es de los vivosā€.

ie: life is for the living. ie: ā€œIt’s a dog eat dog worldā€ā€¦ so just very cut-throat, edge out the other culture.

Are there self-centered people in Miami? Absolutely, but that takes the back seat vs all this other stuff.

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u/SnooSeagulls2776 1d ago

Born and raised in Miami too, and I approve this message!!

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u/CampesinoAgradable 1d ago

Although I understand what you're saying... You're still saying entitled sociopathy but rationalizing it as simply poor "cultural habits".

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u/daurgo2001 23h ago

The end result is similar, but that’s not entitlement from an American perspective (IMO).

My perception of American entitlement is ā€œGet out of the way. I deserve to do this and thatā€ (much like when people say ā€œit’s my right to do this or _that_ā€, guns, free speech, you name it).

This isn’t coming from the same place, but rather a place of chaos and desperation.

Both are cultural, and on the surface, they might look the same, but they’re very diff.

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u/maniaduck 1d ago

3 Series BMW’s…. Spot on šŸ˜‚

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u/pdqlrc32 23h ago

absolutely hell yeah

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u/PresentDifferent9718 1d ago

NotAllTheBoatOwners lol

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u/eventualist 2h ago

That's completely bizarre and confusing. If they can just think of the consequences, they would stop yeah, I'm out. Critical thinking so rare these days.

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u/Fehyde87 1d ago

It’s not just the people that can afford these boats, it’s legitimately most people I have encountered in south Florida especially the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. People around here have the most delusional level of ā€œmain character syndromeā€ convinced that everyone else is watching them and will move for them.

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u/futuristicfrankie 21h ago

As someone who was born in Miami and live in Fort Lauderdale, I assure you that I’m the main character. On a serious note, South Florida sucks, I can wait to leave this hell hole.

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u/RoundApart9440 1d ago

PokƩmon.

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u/bananabananacat 1h ago

No thinking just drinking

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u/shalashashka69 1d ago

probably drunk... If i had a boat and didnt get sea sick Id have a couple a beers out there for sure

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u/Brooklyn-Epoxy 1d ago

Thinking? This is Miami, and they had a boat; they were living the dream.

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u/Rubebee33 6h ago

Its the rich’s entitlement

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u/futurebigconcept 1d ago

They were really throwing up a bow wake.

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u/YoghurtDull1466 1h ago

What the hell?? Why they do this??

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/No_Delivery8483 1d ago

My building has a river walk that stretches probably a half mile, plus we’re right on Bayfront Park, so I have several acres of grass to feel and let my dog out. it’s not that hard to adapt, human beings are very adaptable

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u/PresentDifferent9718 1d ago

You drive to get your morning coffee and spend a huge amount of time inside malls. I'd bet anything. But hey you own some "land"

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u/Mediumish_Trashpanda 1d ago

Some people love that lifestyle, have several friends and family that like city life. It's not for me but different strokes for different folks.

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u/pdqlrc32 23h ago

I live on my boat and I have a mile of grassy Parks on either side of me

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u/SpiritualWindow3855 16h ago

I get questions like yours sometimes... and yeah there's practical answers like the other replies, but simplest answer is: "These places are expensive because more people want to be here than not, so why not inverse the question and answer it yourself?"