The zip tie story.

Somehow overnight almost everything in our boat was zip tied closed, shut, together, or to something else it shouldn't have been attached to. All hatches, lockers, the net, oars, anchor, trailer winch, tie down strap, etc, were zip tied shut, so the tackle, including knives and pliers were locked away.

Sounds like a good joke.

What happened though, was we were about first in line at the launch, so everyone else had to wait while we found some pliers and then searched the entire boat for zip ties in the dark. There was quite a line behind us.