How about this for stupidity

The driver is lucky he didn't lose his head to the prop or be knocked unconcious by the rigid hull or leg. Obviously also not wearing the kill cord so a lesson for all of us who clip this to the engine handle then? A tiller extension might well have saved his ducking though as his weight might have been further forward adding to the ribs stability. (Might!)

Interesting to note the total lack of effective seamanship skills on the parts of the (presumably) hire boaters. If this was a "WNS" situation I'd have cut into the boat's turning circle and jumped in and pulled the kill cord as it slid alongside (and it wouldn't have been my first time for that stunt either).

Also, no attempt to get a line to the stupid prat driver and get him tied-off or otherwise recovered safely by either boat, to busy filming what could have been coroner's evidence I suppose. Still, fortunately I suppose, no damage and no harm done but it could have been so very different. Just another "landside boy racer showing off" but transposed to the water.
 
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Muppet in the water!

I agree with what has been already said:
1, Recover the Muppet.
2, Recover the inflatable.
And a lesson for outboards not fitted with a kill cord....never have the throttle adjustment set...so that it does not spring back to idle when released.
 
Surely one of those cruisers should have got between the boat and the driver in the water?

Was this a set up?
 
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