RedactedNarrative:   ON THURSDAY, MAY 20, AT APPROXIMATELY 3:15 PM, I WAS CONTACTED BY THE WHITE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER IN REFERENCE TO A BOAT THAT HAD HIT THE BUOYED CABLE NEAR NORWAY DAM.  AS I WAS EN ROUTE TO THE SCENE I HEARD A WHITE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DEPUTY, ADVISE THAT HE WAS ON SCENE. DEPUTY ADVISED THAT IT WAS A RENTAL BOAT AND THAT ANOTHER BOAT WAS ON SCENE HELPING TO GET THE BOAT BACK ONTO THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE CABLE.  HELMS THEN ADVISED THAT THE BOAT WAS BACK ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE CABLE AND THAT THE BOATS WERE HEADING BACK TOWARDS LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS.  I RESPONDED TO LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS INSTEAD OF THE SCENE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE BOAT OPERATOR AND PASSENGERS.      
      WHEN I ARRIVED AT LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS, DEPUTY AND WHITE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SERGEANT WERE ALREADY ON SCENE AND SPEAKING WITH THE OWNER.  DEPUTIES WERE ADVISING OF THE INCIDENT THAT HAD JUST TAKEN PLACE INVOLVING ONE OF HIS RENTAL BOATS.  He ADVISED THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A COMPLAINT OF ONE OF HIS RUNABOUT BOATS DRIVING RECKLESSLY ON THE LAKE AND THAT HE HAD SENT TWO OF HIS EMPLOYEES OUT IN ANOTHER RENTAL BOAT TO FIND THE RECKLESS DRIVING BOAT AND HAVE THEM RETURN TO THE BUSINESS.  HE ADVISED HE ONLY HAD ONE RUNABOUT BOAT RENTED OUT AT THE TIME SO HE KNEW WHO IT WAS.  AS HE WAS TELLING US THAT INFORMATION, I OBSERVED TWO RENTAL BOATS PULLING UP TO THE BOAT DOCK.  I WENT OUT ONTO THE PIER TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE SUBJECTS.      
      I OBSERVED FOUR MALES EXITING THE RENTAL BOAT THAT HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT WITH THE CABLE NEAR THE DAM.  I ASKED WHO WAS OPERATING THE BOAT AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT AND ONE OF THE MALES, LATER IDENTIFIED, ADVISED THAT HE WAS OPERATING.  I ASKED HIM TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT HAD HAPPENED INVOLVING THE RENTAL BOAT AND CABLE.  ANOTHER MALE SUBJECT, LATER IDENTIFIED, BEGAN TO TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED.  HE ADVISED THAT THEY WERE DRIVING ALONG THE EDGE OF THE CABLE AND AS THEY TURNED TO DRIVE AWAY FROM THE CABLE, THE REAR OF THE BOAT STRUCK THE CABLE AND SOMEHOW THEY ENDED UP ON TOP OF THE CABLE.  HE ADVISED THAT THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD GET OFF OF THE CABLE WAS TO PUSH THE BOAT OVER THE CABLE TOWARDS THE DAM.  THEY THEN HAD TO DRIVE THE BOAT BACK OVER THE CABLE TO GET BACK ONTO THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE CABLE.  I ADVISED HIM THAT I APPRECIATED THE INFORMATION BUT THAT I HAD ASKED OPERATOR WHAT HAPPENED AND I REALLY WANTED TO GET HIS ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED
  
  OPERATOR THAN TOLD ME THE SAME ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED AS HE DID.  I ASKED ALL OF THE SUBJECTS IN THE BOAT IF THEY HAD ANY IDENTIFICATION AND THEY ADVISED IT WAS IN THE VEHICLE PARKED IN THE LOT ON TOP OF THE HILL.  I ADVISED THAT ONE OF THEM NEEDED TO GO UP AND GET THE VEHICLE SO EVERYBODY COULD OBTAIN THEIR IDENTIFICATION.  I THEN ASKED ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES IF THEY HAD CHECKED TO MAKE SURE NO WATER WAS LEAKING INTO THE BOAT SINCE IT COULD HAVE SUSTAINED HULL DAMAGE FROM THE CABLE.  THE EMPLOYEE LOOKED AND DID NOT SEE ANY WATER IN THE HULL OF THE BOAT.  I THEN ADVISED OWNER THAT HE SHOULD PULL THE BOAT OUT OF THE WATER SO WE COULD CHECK IT FOR DAMAGE.  AFTER PULLING THE BOAT OUT OF THE WATER, THERE WAS NO VISIBLE DAMAGE TO THE HULL AND SOME MINIMAL DAMAGE TO THE LOWER UNIT.  OWNER ADVISED THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH DAMAGE TO HIS BOAT TO NECESSITATE AN ACCIDENT REPORT.  ALL OF THE SUBJECTS FROM THE BOAT GAVE THERE IDENTIFICATION TO DEPUTY SO HE COULD ADD THEM TO THE CALL REPORT THAT THE WHITE COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER HAD ALREADY CREATED.  I WAS GOING TO GO TO NORWAY DAM AND LOOK AT THE DAMAGE TO HE CABLE.  DEPUTY STAYED AT LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS WITH THE FOUR SUBJECTS WHO HAD BEEN IN THE BOAT.        
      WHEN I ARRIVED AT NORWAY DAM, I WAS MET BY DEPUTY AND NIPSCO EMPLOYEE.  EMPLOYEE REQUESTED THAT WE TAKE OUR PATROL BOAT THAT IS KEPT ON A LIFT NEXT TO THE DAM AND LOOK AT THE POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO THE BUOYS AND CABLE.  DEPUTY, AND I BOARDED OUR PATROL BOAT AND PROCEEDED OUT TO WHERE THE RENTAL BOAT HAD STRUCK THE CABLE.  AS WE WERE HEADING OUT, HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD SEVERAL MINUTES OF VIDEO OF THE BOAT DRIVING IN A RECKLESS MANNER RIGHT TOWARDS THE BUOYED CABLE AND THEN WOULD TURN AWAY IN AN ABRUPT MANNER JUST BARELY MISSING THE BUOYS AND CABLE.  HE ADVISED THEN THE BOAT DROVE STRAIGHT AT THE CABLE AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED BUT NEVER TURNED AND DROVE RIGHT INTO THE CABLE.  AS WE APPROACHED WHERE THE RENTAL BOAT STRUCK THE CABLE, WE OBSERVED THAT ONE OF THE LARGE ORANGE BUOYS THAT SUSPENDS THE CABLE HAD BEEN STRUCK SO HARD THAT IT WAS DAMAGED AND MOVED OUT OF PLACE FURTHER DOWN THE CABLE.  WE COULD SEE ANOTHER BUOY HAD BEEN STRUCK AND IT HAD VISIBLE DAMAGE TO IT AS WELL.  DEPUTY TOOK PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DAMAGE WHILE I OPERATED THE BOAT.  I ASKED HIM TO GIVE ME AN ESTIMATE ON WHAT HE THOUGHT IT WOULD COST TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE AND HE ADVISED PROBABLY $5000-$10,000.  I THEN PUT THE PATROL BOAT BACK ON THE LIFT AFTER WE WERE FINISHED LOOKING AT THE DAMAGE.  I REQUESTED FORWARD THE VIDEO HE HAD OF THE RENTAL BOAT'S DRIVING TO ME AND I REQUESTED DEPUTY PROVIDE ME WITH COPIES OF THE PICTURES THAT HE HAD TAKEN.  I THEN WENT BACK TO LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS.      
      WHEN I ARRIVED BACK AT LAKE SHAFER BOAT RENTALS, I MET WITH THE FOUR SUBJECTS AGAIN.  I ADVISED THEM THAT THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE BUOYS ON THE CABLE THAT THEY HAD STRUCK AND THAT I WAS GOING TO BE COMPLETING A BOAT CRASH REPORT.  I ALSO ADVISED THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE RECEIVING A CITATION FOR DANGEROUS OPERATION.  I EXPLAINED THE CITATION TO HIM AND ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING IT.  HE ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT AND HE SIGNED THE CITATION.  I ADVISED THE FOUR SUBJECTS THAT THEY WERE FREE TO GO.  I HAD OWNER PROVIDE ME A COPY OF THE RENTAL AGREEMENT AND BOAT REGISTRATION INFORMATION.  OWNER ALSO PROVIDED ME WITH A COPY OF ALL FOUR SUBJECTS' IDENTIFICATION.    