I notice that in the event of a kayaking tragedy, fingers are often pointed and the blame is often nailed to the victim for being irresponsible, not anticipating weather and often overestimating personal skills and abilities. I snipped the following from the "news" and "edited" for Content : ) This Alert comes to you From: <snip> The Paddlers Whistle... Kayakers Beware! The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with several kayak manufacturers, for the past five years, whereby the kayak makers were installing black boxes in kayaks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 30 seconds before the crash and burn. They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the last words of paddlers in 61.2 percent of fatal incidents were, "Oh, Shit!" Only the state of Minnesota was different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer and watch this!" <end of snip> Okay, I made a lot of that up. It is true, however, that paddlers in Minnesota have more fun. Minnesota, where the water is either frozen, or getting there. Phil Huck thekayaker_at_yahoo.com huck_at_mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu thekayaker_at_yahoo.com huck_at_mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 11:37 AM 11/17/99 -0600, huck wrote: > Only the state of Minnesota was different, where 89.3 percent of the final >words were: "Hold my beer and watch this!" ><end of snip> > Gee, I didn't think there was that much white water in Minnesota. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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