Boat driver of Kyle Busch cited for BWI-UPDATE: Story not true??
Quote selected text Published July 11th, 2007 in NASCAR News
The pilot of a boat owned by NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was cited for BWI [Boating while intoxicated] on the Fourth of July. Lake patrol officers said the 44-foot cabin cruiser came within inches of hitting the boat of a lake patrol officer who had his blue lights on and was citing another boater. Two other lake patrol officers witnessed the near collision and rushed to the scene, thinking that the cabin cruiser, owned by Kyle Busch, had actually hit the other officer’s boat.
Those officers said the person operating Busch’s boat, who officials later identified as a front tire changer for a NASCAR team, realized he was in trouble and got his girlfriend to take the pilot’s seat while he went into the cabin. The two other lake patrol officers saw the switch, caught up to the cabin cruiser and stopped it.
The boat’s pilot was cited for boating while intoxicated, operating a boat with insufficient lifejackets, failure to move over for blue lights and careless and reckless boating. Kyle Busch was a passenger on the cabin cruiser but he was not piloting the boat. He owns the boat but he is not facing any charges. The boat is actually registered to NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, because Busch had just bought it and he had not changed the registration yet.
UPDATE:
Jayski.com is reporting that Hendrick Motorsports reports Busch was NOT on the boat and it was not his boat, WCNC.com informed me the story was pulled as they looked for a second source, sounds like something that should had been done in the first place.
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hahaha… I bet Biffle wants him to get the registration changed quick now.
I didn’t know pigs could swim…
hahaha sad thing is, that was my first thought too. Swimming piggies ^_^.
Was it really necessary of them to point out Kyle Busch owns
it twice in one article?
Damn Kyle! Just buy the lake and you wont have these problems, I mean duh. Even better get the lake and police sponsored by Kellogg’s and then
they will just let you go because “There GGGGGREAT”!
“the story was pulled as they looked for a second source”
Wow… Anyone heard of Journalistic Integrity before? Maybe confirm a story like that before it gets published? Not saying anything about this site or Jayski, but the original author of the story. It’s like Colin Cowherd says on ESPN Radio: “I’d rather be the last to report a story and get it right than to be the first and butcher it”.
Hah. I just looked at wcnc.com and it’s a legitimate NBC station in the Carolinas. Guess they thought it was going to be awesome when they were first on a story about a crew member that nobody has heard about driving Kyle Busch’s boat after he knocked back a few brewskies!
The Herd is the best
They should’ve hired the reporter from Chicago that was caught in a bikini at the home of a man who’s wife disappeared 2 months ago to cover this story. She’ll do whatever it takes to get to the “bottom” of the case. Amy Jacobson, that’s the ticket!
sounds like a reporter trying to get his or her name in the paper, sorry sob’s
Yeah Gigolo George, they need to put her on the story… Heck, she’s available now!
Don’t forget about the SI Hoops writer that stole material from a blog and then found out that not only did he plagiarize the material from a blog, but it was a made-up quote in the first place!
All in all, it’s been a pretty poor week for the “legitimate media” types!