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Originally Posted by Mee'n'Mac
Given this viewpoint what's with your agitation over this accident ... or last year's flip ? or the one in Missouri ??...If your argument is that "offshore" powerboats are killers by design then I'd think you'd have sufficient evidence...
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These accidents indicate
risk-taking personalities. That's fine in sky-diving, diving, shark-petting, snowmobile skimming, snake-charming, lion-taming, box-comb jellyfish collecting, venomous snake photography, mountain climbing, bullfighting, tarantula training, and auto racing -- on a closed track.
But these Offshores take too much of the lake from us -- we who are absorbed with family boating, or sailing, or rafting, or "just drifting" --
Risk-Averse behavior.
What do you ask yourself when one of these things turns into your cove entry and guns the throttles, closing in at a mile-a-minute or, likely
even faster?..."Using-up the lake" at a rate of
an acre every few seconds*?
Is he sober? Drugged**? Distracted? Cellphone-using? Cellphone ringing? Adjusting his trim? Turnout? Got a sticky throttle? Is he in litigation? A divorce? Having a "bad carb moment"? Is the owner at the helm? Or his girlfriend? Is he looking at you? Or at the scenery? At the beer supply? At the gas supply? Did he just drop his sandwich? His cigar? Can he see over his own bow? Does he call you a "speed bump"? Does he have his safety equipment disengaged? Is he even competant?
None of things matter in the Open Ocean -- where Offshores originated. He risks no innocents...offshore.
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Originally Posted by Mean-Mac
I've always considered appealing to people's emotions rather than to their intellect to be a sign of a weak argument.
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"Killer Offshores"? A "Killer Offshores" term
would be appealing to Emotion...
Prepare to engage your Intellect: They
have killed -- and
do kill -- and
are killing.
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Originally Posted by Mean-Mac
I think the stats cited above speak to how much concern is warranted to the "offshore" problem.
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We disagree: Concern was warrented on August 12th, 2002, and too many other occasions before and since.
Maybe Skip is pulling up those numbers now -- the number of
I/O-Manslaughter cases versus the
Offshore-Manslaughter cases.
Heck, I've got three Offshore-Manslaughter cases from last season alone. All three involve fleeing the scene -- interesting behavior for risk-taking personalities, eh?
No more "Gun"
-- No more "
Top Gun" -- if they're caught.
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Originally Posted by Mee'n'Mac
IF safe boating were the sole concern, I'd really expect you to be pushing for the return of Prohibition
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I'm not a fan of drinking while sky-diving, diving, shark-petting, snowmobile skimming, snake-charming, lion-taming, box-comb-jellyfish collecting, venous snake photography, mountain climbing, bullfighting, tarantula training, and auto racing -- on a closed track.
Or boating.