Sometimes bad decisions look… spectacular. Other times… stupid.
Jey Gonzalez-Diaz apparently thought the best way to skip a $16,710 (about R290,000) gambling debt on a Royal Caribbean cruise was to leap straight into the ocean.
According to CBS News, Gonzalez-Diaz was on the Rhapsody of the Seas, returning from Barbados to the Port of San Juan on August 31.
Around 9:15 a.m., just as the ship was docking and U.S. Customs was inspecting passengers, he decided to make a splashy exit.
Luckily for him (or maybe not), a passerby on a jet ski rescued him from the water.
Authorities later found Gonzalez-Diaz near the Puerto Rico Capitol Building, carrying $14,600 (roughly R254,000) in cash, two phones, and five IDs.
He told officers he…