Hopefully it is one of those moments when a lot of people learn a simple less. Doing it right can save you a whole lot of heartache. Morehead City, N.C. has a fishing tournament called the Big Rock. They go deep sea fishing for Blue Marlins and the biggest fish gets the biggest prize. This year the prize was more than $900,000 dollars, and an extra prize for a fish over 500 pounds on the first day.
The boat came in with an eight hundred and eighty-three pound fish. Everybody was impressed and the tournament was thrilled. No boat came in with a bigger fish all week. Other fish were caught but the next fish was 500 pounds. But the events took a very sourer turn when they began to check the people on the boat for fishing licenses. Rules say that everybody on the boat has to have a fishing license. $15.00 per person per year. Turns out one of the "mates" on the boat did not have one when the fish was caught at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The mate bought one, on line I guess, because they said he bought it at 5:00 o'clock as the boat was coming in. Because he did not have a license when the fish was caught the boat was disqualified and the people lost more than a million dollars in prize money.
There are a lot of tough lessons in that story. There is the lesson that it is cheaper and better to do it by the rules from the beginning. There is a whole study of the collective punishment for one person's sin the whole boat suffers. Who knows why the mate did not have one when he went out. They obviously knew that he needed it as they got him one as soon as they could. Ah, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
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