There are days when luck is on your side: that's what the 4 Texan women who almost saw their small rental outboard boat caught by the spillway of a man-made dam said to themselves.

It is in the heart of Austin, Texas, that the drama took place this weekend, on Lady Bird Lake, an artificial lake created by the Colorado River in the 60's during the construction of the Longhorn Dam, which serves as a drinking water reservoir for the city.

Four recreational boaters, who had rented a classic electrically powered outboard from Retro Boat Rental ATX (most conventional motorized activities are prohibited on the lake), lost control of it, and saw their boat run directly into the spillway of the lake, a spillway whose drop is currently about 5m.

Warned by cell phone, the police intervened quickly, and pulled the boaters out of this mistake, under the eye of a videast present on the spot ....