baffled in N.J.

[bassintom]

i've been watching and minding my own business,but it's time to vent again.here in jersey a boater is required to have a boat operator's license and they are required to take a boater safety course and carry the credentials that they have successfully completed the course.and i have absolutely no problem with that.
here's the problem...boat rentals....at a local reservoir they rent boats..to anyone!..
i have had quite a few problems with this.first of all,when they rent the boats nobody instructs them on safety or courtesy.i have seen boatloads,and i mean like 5 or 6 people in a 14ft boat that have come close to having serious accidents.these people will come within 3 or 4 ft of you at full throttle(which isn't that fast,but too fast for them) almost hit you and have to swerve at the last minute.i am not talking isolated incidents here.this happens almost every weekend.
the water level has dropped about 4 feet and still dropping.there are some serious rockpiles just below the surface near the shoreline.i have had these people come between the shoreline and my boat and hit rockpiles.when i try to warn them they smile and wave..they don't speak english so they have no idea what i'm yelling to them.i don't see how they can be told about boating safety when they don't understand english.
just yesterday i had a boat rental employee(a kid)come flying between the shoreline and my boat.he didn't even look at me or he would have seen me motioning that i had my line out..ran right over my line as i couldn't reel in fast enough.all i could do was watch as this idiot pulled off about 100yds of 50lb powerpro.my only consolation is that hopefully this stuff will destroy the seal in the lower unit and it will blow.now this was a rental boat so it will probably end up costing the taxpayers for the repairs.at that point i was really agitated.
then there's 3 boat rental employees(kids)in rental boats playing some game with a volleyball.one kid on the dock would throw the ball out and the 3 in the boats would go after it.running around in circles hitting each other.i fired off an e-mail to the powers that be this a.m. but i don't expect much.
also yesterday(wish i had a camera for this one)i saw 4 women,wrapped head to toe.all you could see were their faces.they came within 2ft of my boat and didn't even look at me.they were jabbering in some language i'm not familiar with yelling at each other,not even watching where they were going and almost hit a sailboat.
then one of the employees(a kid again)from the boat rentals slammed into a rockpile.again i tried to warn him it was there but he didn't even look at me.i saw him tilt the motor up after he hit to check it out.i guess it was OK because he took off and hit another rockpile,again he tilted up the motor to check it and then went off into the sunset.
my point is...why would guys that have been operating boats for years,guys who know what they're doing,be required to take the boater safety course,and then they just let any lunatic rent a boat?
makes about as much sense as the pa.law that says you have to wear a seatbelt in a car,but you don't need a helmet on a motorcycle.
i'm venting again...theses are rhetorical questions....here's the soapbox,i'm done.