Details of investigation/incident:  on 05-25-12 at approximately 8:05 a.m. central dispatch notified me of a message to call subject in reference a boating accident.  I spoke with subject on the telephone and he stated that yesterday(05-24-12) around 3:00 p.m. a personal watercraft splashed his anchored pontoon boat and caused damage to it.  He stated he was operating a boat and pulling people on a tube and his daughter was on the pontoon boat with several friends and anchored at a sandbar on lake james near their house.  Subject stated he was close enough to the pontoon to see the personal watercraft attempt to spray the subjects on the pontoon.  Subject stated he then approached the pontoon and noticed the damage to the starboard side of the pontoon.  He then drove after the personal watercraft.  He stated there were two of them together and he ended up getting one of them to stop.  He advised them of the damage and he stated he knew the mother of the male subject that he was talking to.  I asked him why he did not call and report the accident when it happened and he stated that he tried to talk to a couple different subjects and get it handled that way.  He stated that he told more than one of the subjects that he would call the dnr.  He stated that he did call in last night.  I checked with central dispatch and he called in to report the accident at 8:05 p.m.  i asked him if daughter was in charge of the pontoon and he said yes.  I advised him that i would need to speak to her.  He stated his wife and daughter were at the lake james address along with the boat.  He stated he would call them and let them know i would be coming to talk to her and to look at the pontoon.  
     on 05-25-12 at approximately 10:06 a.m. i spoke with wife and daughter.  Daughter stated she was the person in charge of the pontoon boat.  She stated she had friends there from school and there were twelve people on the pontoon and another six people in another boat with subject, her father.  She stated the pontoon was anchored at the sandbar approximately 150 yards northeast of their house towards the island with the house on it.  She stated they had been switching people from the pontoon to the other boat.  She stated that on 05-24-12 at approximately 3:00 p.m. two red waverunners approached the pontoon and there was a boy and a girl on each one of them.  They spoke with them and one of the waverunners was in front of the boat.  It then proceeded to idle along the starboard side of the pontoon towards the stern.  Daughter stated it then accelerated and got about two feet away from the pontoon and turned away from the pontoon in an attempt to spray them.  She stated it threw a wave over the side instead.  She stated the wave damaged two of the side panels on the pontoon near the steering column.  She stated subject instantly saw the damage and chased after them for about 20 minutes before he talked to them.  

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