DOGGONE IT!

Pesty pooch drives pal’s RV into lake

PROFESSIONAL angler Eric Jackson has got a whale of a fish story about how his beloved pooch Bodi sank his 38-foot recreational vehicle in a lake.

The arf-ful accident came after the Rock Island, Tenn., fisherman had driven the huge motor home with his two-year-old Dalmatian down to the Sam Rayburn Reservoir in Texas for a tournament.

He’d backed his boat trailer down a ramp into the water and was about to unload the craft when buddy Bodi got too frisky with the gear shift and accidently put the RV into reverse.

A video caught the freakedout fisherman in a mad scramble to stop his wheeled wonderland from sliding into the lake.

“By the time I got my foot on the brake, the back wheels were floating,” says Jackson, who’s owned RVs since 1997.

Fortunately, the RV didn’t drift too far. A fellow fisherman with a truck helped Eric haul the monster vehicle back up the ramp.

Other anglers cruised out into the lake to fish back his boat.

“Eric has taken this in stride as no people or dogs were hurt,” jokes Joe Opager of Fishing League Worldwide.

“He says that he likes his new lake house.”

Later, Jackson posted video footage of the incident online with the caption: “RVs float, until they sink.”

Ironically, when he’s not hooking fish for a living, he runs Jackson Kayak and is a four-time winner of the World Freestyle Championships in that craft, notes Opager.

Next time, Jackson should take a kayak. They float better than RVs.

Eric was backing his trailer when Bodi hit the brake and the reverse switch at the same time The silly dog hid as Eric rushed in to put his foot on thebrake The RV was eventually pulled from the lake and fortunately nodogs or people were hurt!