Love Hurts.
The story of a Scotsman who traveled by jet ski across the Irish Sea to visit his girlfriend on the Isle of Man, which was closed to non-residents due to the coronavirus pandemic, did not end the way he expected. After being arrested, imprisoned and removed from the country, he revealed how dangerous his trip really was.
On the day of Dale McLaughlan’s jet ski trip, the forecast indicated calm waters.
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On the day of Dale McLaughlan’s jet ski trip, the forecast indicated calm waters, reports The Sun. Instead, he was greeted by 6-foot-high waves and heavy fog and quickly got lost. A trip he supposedly thought would take 45 minutes ended up taking four and a half hours.
McLaughlan, who has never driven a jet skit before, told The Mirror: “As soon as I got to the open sea I thought, ‘My God’. It was like being kicked in the teeth. It was terrible. It wasn’t fun. “
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Worse, he says, a wave took his GPS away, leaving him lost in the middle of the sea. “I had no idea where I was going,” he explained.
He would have arrived on the Isle of Man with only a few minutes of fuel left.
Isle of Man Chief Minister Howard Quayle called McLaughlan’s actions “an incredibly reckless and dangerous endeavor that could have ended very differently at the time of year.”
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Fox News previously reported that McLaughlan met his girlfriend, Jessica Radcliffe, in September, while working on the Isle of Man, after receiving an exemption certificate.
In mid-December, McLaughlan was arrested and sentenced to four weeks in prison for violating coronavirus restrictions. The carefree romantic traveled by jet ski from the Isle of Whithorn, Scotland, to the Isle of Man. Due to bad weather, the trip would have taken McLaughlan, who had never driven a jet ski before, about four and a half hours.
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McLaughlan was reportedly released from prison earlier and sent back to Scotland.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Isle of Man has been closed to non-residents since March. At the time of McLaughlan’s feat, the island had only four active cases of coronavirus.