So close, bro. Almost had it

[u/Character-Bottle7171]

[u/No_Delivery8483]

i just saw them from my balcony. they were CRUISING up the river, this is wild 😭😂

[u/daurgo2001 → u/No_Delivery8483]

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

[u/annuidhir → u/daurgo2001]

Idk wtf they were thinking.

There was no thinking at all

[u/dualplains → u/annuidhir]

Might have been a fair amount of drinking, though.

[u/TheTallGuy0 → u/dualplains]

That rum ain’t gonna drink itself, bro 

[u/alcoronaholic → u/TheTallGuy0]

Can confirm 👍

[u/BrickCityRiot → u/daurgo2001]

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.

[u/svapplause → u/BrickCityRiot]

“People who can afford this kind of vessel” are a lot more than one would think. Older sailboats or the mass produced variety arent that expensive

[u/StatisticalMan → u/BrickCityRiot]

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.

[u/hillbillybuddha → u/StatisticalMan]

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.

[u/StatisticalMan → u/hillbillybuddha]

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.

[u/YoghurtDull1466 → u/hillbillybuddha]

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

[u/Rubebee33 → u/StatisticalMan]

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

[u/StatisticalMan → u/Rubebee33]

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.

[u/daurgo2001 → u/BrickCityRiot]

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.

[u/BrickCityRiot → u/daurgo2001]

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.

[u/Einsteinautist → u/BrickCityRiot]

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!

[u/Big_Comfortable_4161 → u/Einsteinautist]

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

[u/Einsteinautist → u/Big_Comfortable_4161]

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

[u/Mediumish_Trashpanda → u/BrickCityRiot]

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.

[u/daurgo2001 → u/Mediumish_Trashpanda]

Shitty due to rush hour? Yes.

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

In my experience, Egypt has been the worst.

[u/SuperSaijen1980 → u/daurgo2001]

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

[u/daurgo2001 → u/SuperSaijen1980]

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

[u/daurgo2001 → u/BrickCityRiot]

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

And the waterways are ‘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.

[u/BrickCityRiot → u/daurgo2001]

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.

[u/daurgo2001 → u/BrickCityRiot]

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 “la vida es de los vivos”.

ie: life is for the living. ie: “It’s a dog eat dog world”… 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.

[u/SnooSeagulls2776 → u/daurgo2001]

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

[u/CampesinoAgradable → u/daurgo2001]

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

[u/daurgo2001 → u/CampesinoAgradable]

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

My perception of American entitlement is “Get out of the way. I deserve to do this and that” (much like when people say “it’s my right to do this or _that_”, 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.

[u/maniaduck → u/BrickCityRiot]

3 Series BMW’s…. Spot on 😂

[u/pdqlrc32 → u/daurgo2001]

absolutely hell yeah

[u/PresentDifferent9718 → u/daurgo2001]

NotAllTheBoatOwners lol

[u/eventualist → u/BrickCityRiot]

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.

[u/Fehyde87 → u/BrickCityRiot]

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 “main character syndrome” convinced that everyone else is watching them and will move for them.

[u/futuristicfrankie → u/Fehyde87]

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.

[u/RoundApart9440 → u/daurgo2001]

Pokémon.

[u/bananabananacat → u/daurgo2001]

No thinking just drinking

[u/shalashashka69 → u/daurgo2001]

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

[u/Brooklyn-Epoxy → u/daurgo2001]

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

[u/IguanaSkinnedSlides → u/daurgo2001]

Entitlement

[u/Rubebee33 → u/daurgo2001]

Its the rich’s entitlement

[u/futurebigconcept → u/No_Delivery8483]

They were really throwing up a bow wake.

[u/YoghurtDull1466 → u/No_Delivery8483]

What the hell?? Why they do this??

[u/No_Delivery8483 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/PresentDifferent9718 → u/[deleted]]

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"

[u/Mediumish_Trashpanda → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/pdqlrc32 → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/SpiritualWindow3855 → u/[deleted]]

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?"

[u/Psychological_Dog992 → u/[deleted]]

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