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Motor home just wouldnt stop, sinks in Lake Lanier
Customized vehicle pulled from lake after sliding down boat ramp
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Charles “Randy” Smith of Marietta watches as his recreational vehicle is pulled from the water at the Duckett Mill boat ramp Friday morning. The bus converted into a camper malfunctioned while putting a boat in the water and slid into the water, with Smith escaping through the window.
Gray leather couches were scattered around the interior of a customized motor home as water poured out every nook and cranny. The white, green and blue shuttle bus, the interior of which had been renovated into a $35,000 custom recreational vehicle, was recovered Friday by divers after the owner, Charles “Randy” Smith of Marietta, lost it while backing a boat into Lake Lanier. The motor home, Smith said, “wouldn’t stop” at the Duckett Mill boat ramp off Dawsonville Highway in northwest Hall County.