Their boat sinks along with everything they had except their dog

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A couple who semi-planned for a better life put all their life savings and possessions (think apples in a basket)  into a crappy boat and it sank.

Luckily for them, they came away as finalists in the Darwin Awards and didn't actually have to die to make the cut.

The couple, Nikki Walsh, 24, and her main squeeze, Tanner Broadwell, 26, decided last year that they were tired of working, and tell me, what liberal can blame them for not wanting to work?

"How can we live our lives when we're working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?" Nikki asked of a reporter at the New York Post. 

How can we not feel sorry for her and Tanner? Why must they work? Life just isn't fair to them.

"Most of the work you do goes to your home. There has to be another option," she added.

They both quit their jobs

So the landlubbers sold all their furniture and their SUV and bought a 49-year-old 28-foot tub of a boat in Alabama to live on and eventually sail around the world and live happily ever after.

The boat was in the marina of Tarpon Springs, a town on Florida's Gulf Coast. They lived on the boat for several months along with their two-year-old pug, Remy, and stocked up on food and provisions.

"We were pretty prepared," Walsh naively believed, as the Darwin Award competitors planned a trip to the Caribbean.

With less than two days into their misadventure, their boat capsized in a channel of water called John's Pass. 

"We thought the channel was where we were going, but it wasn't," Walsh said. She told the reporter that the boat was equipped with a GPS and they also had paper navigation charts.

"We started freaking out because waves were coming, and it was tossing our boat back and forth," Walsh said, apparently not realizing how little she and Tanner understood about the sea.

Tanner was in the stern, holding onto the dog when the proverbial stuff hit the poop deck.

"My hands were shaking; we were terrified," she said.

Before abandoning ship, they grabbed some clothes and important documents, but not insurance papers because they didn't have insurance on the boat as they planned so wisely, eh. But at least they grabbed some chew toys for little Remy.

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"I also grabbed Remy's food and just about everything he needed," Walsh said proudly. "He doesn't deserve to go without his favorite toys."

Walsh, who worked as a timeshare sales person, and Broadwell, who drove for Uber, admitted they were "new to sailing."

Duh.

But they still ended up with $90 between them, a cute dog, no jobs, and no boat insurance. 

They're still hopeful, however, for their world-sailing plans and want strangers to pay for it as they've started a GoFundMe. Anyone who believes that this is a worthwhile charity deserves to go sailing with them.

The beggars are seeking $10,000 to rescue the tub, which sunk off the coast of Madeira Beach, Florida. Walsh said raising the boat alone will cost at least $6,700, but I don't believe her--it's always more than they estimate.

The couple is sponging off their family in Jacksonville, Florida, and they can't wait for them to leave and sink another boat or maybe not. They particularly don't like it when Remy glides across their rug on his butt.

"You only have one life. Why spend it doing what you don't love. Money isn't everything!" Walsh told the Post. 

But please go to her GoFundMe site and send money even though it isn't everything.


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