I went fishing on the Fourth of July at Toldeo bend. I hooked the boat up to my truck and started out of my buddies drive where he had a rough cattle guard and I make it down hwy 191 about four miles when I put the boat trailer of the road and feel it run onto the shoulder. I get it back onto the road and then I feel the rig come off the ball. I slow down so that boat doesn't smash into truck and smash the trolling motor and I feel the safety chains let go. Boat and trailer pass up truck in opposite lane and jump a driveway on the side of the rd. and come to rest in the ditch. I get to boat and trailer and the man who owns the driveway boat jumped comes running down to meet me saying he saw the boat jump the driveway with no truck pulling it and if it would have happened five minutes earlier it would have killed him because he was sweeping his driveway. I hooked onto boat and went fishing at pirates cove and the boat sustained no damage which was amazing considering it broke both straps off the back when it hit the driveway and stood straight up and then it landed perfectly back on trailer. The whole time my buddy was saying dude look at my tackle box and I was saying dude look at my boat. The only damage was a broken light on boat trailer. Moral of the story is make sure you put a lock in the trailer coupler. Lol
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