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Old 06-22-2008, 04:42 PM   #383
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Originally Posted by VtSteve View Post
There should be, and Rule 6 was a good place to start.

But it's articles like this that fully explain both the intent of the new law, and the intent of the supporters.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.a...7-789376f5182b

"On a calm summer evening in 2002, an elderly Meredith man was out slowly boating with his family when he was run over and killed by a speeding 8,000 pound, 1,200 HP cigarette boat. The cigarette boat operator appealed his conviction to the state Supreme Court, where one of the Justices asked in amazement: "Isn't there a speed limit?" Why can everyone seem to recognize this omission except our Legislature?

John Chase is a musician in Wolfeboro."

Always similar language, and Always a complete disregard for the facts, which is clearly the intent. When just the facts of an incident are reported, it's far less effective as a biased medium.

One thing that's almost always divisive, and ineffective, is being blatantly dishonest and/or misleading. I might add, I do not concur with the reasoning of one Justice, that wondered why there wasn't a speed limit law. The Court affirmed the Insurance company's denial of coverage due to his negligent operation of the boat (http://www.insurancejournal.com/news...2/21/48902.htm)

So, they ruled his operation of the boat that night (at some 28mph I remember?), was negligent, and thus, not covered under his insurance policy. Skip did a great job on posting the facts of this accident awhile back. I believe the same rules apply on our roads and highways, where many have been deemed to be operating too fast for conditions. I must admit, I've never heard of a policies coverage being denied for that, but I don;t follow that stuff either.
{I disagree.} i have investigated this incident pretty well and cant seem to find it saying that speed was the direct link. and another thing, media is BIAS. i have taken a whole class at PSU on how the media is bias so never use or quote a newspaper when your trying to prove a point. all you people hear is "speed boat" killed whoever on the lake and you immediately think the person was speeding and thats why there was an accident. o yeah and by the way that supreme justice that made that comment has never seen this lake nor knows how big it is or how popular it gets. therefor he doesn't have an educated opinion with this matter.
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