“Holy crap! They blew up!” a man purported to be Robbie’s brother says on the video. The boat sped away, he said, and seconds later they heard an explosion and saw black smoke rising from the other vessel.
The video shows a woman in the boat flipping her middle finger as they sped by, and according to Robbie the boat made a sharp turn and then circled around them at least six times, spraying water on to them and causing their boat to rock. “I could clearly hear the words gays and flags being shouted from their boat,” he told the Post. He said their boat was displaying a variety of gay pride and rainbow flags.Īt about 7pm he said they noticed another boat passing by with its occupants yelling at them. “We got them out of the water safely, we were nicer than they were,” the video’s author posted alongside the clip, noting that the three people rescued, two men and a woman, did not offer any thanks.Īccording to an account of the incident in the Washington Post, a boater named Robbie, who did not give his last name for fear of retaliation, was enjoying a day on the lake swimming, tubing and listening to music with his brother and two friends. Video of last weekend’s happenings has gone viral on TikTok, amassing more than 8m views and prompting an investigation by the Grant county sheriff, Tom Jones.
