"J.C. "Watts" Enslin" wrote in message SNIP

Dude, have you *seen* a lake? They're ****in *HUGE*!

What kind of idot can't have a few and still manage not to hit
something?

Jon

Dude, have you ever seen the aftermath of a boating accident? I spent
twenty years in Fire/EMS and have been to more than my fair share of boating
incidents, with at least four fatalities that I can think of off the top of
my head that will haunt me to my grave. There were two alcohol related
fatalities in my home area last year, and in both cases, the drunken boat
drivers ran over other boats legally enjoying their time on the water. Both
drunken boat operators were convicted of vehicular homicide and are now
serving long sentences, and rightfully so.

I don't care how *HUGE* a lake is. When you take someone and put them
behind the wheel of a vehicle capable of highway speeds, without brakes,
then impair their judgment, reflexes and response times with alcohol, there
are going to be problems of the worst sort. The bad thing is that usually
those injured are unfortunates that simply happened to be in the wrong place
at the wrong time.

Can you even imagine what a propeller spinning at three to five thousand
rpms does to a human body? Stick your finger in a spinning blender and
you'll get something close to the same injury. That doesn't even consider
the impact force of a two to four thousand pound boat slamming into another
boat! Often times in a boating collision, one boat goes over the top of the
other, so you have impact injuries as well as slicing and dicing trauma.

And then there's the problem of increased response time by the emergency
responders and the difficulty of a water rescue.

There are more idiots out there than you can possibly imagine that feel they
can have a few and be all right. Unfortunately, they're wrong. Do the
world a favor and save having a few until the boat is tied to the dock.
--
Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
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G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
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