Re: [Paddlewise] PFD Conviction

From: Dan McCarty/Raleigh/IBM <dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:06:51 -0400
| And, is there a connection to water sports or kayaking (no response
necessary). Thanks, Richard

Sorry Richard but you get a response!  8-)

There most certainly is a connection to kayaking.  Just last week we were
having the discussion of saving drowning victims.  Some of the posters were
verbably beaten up  for stating common emergency service rules such as "do
no harm" and "dont become another victim" while trying to save a drowning
person.

This man who killed the girl, violated both those rules.  I've been
following the story when it first hit the news wires.  One fo the items
that came out in the trial, that I have not seen in the latest new reports,
is that the little girl yelled at the man to stop taking off her PFD
because she would die.  Well he took the PFD and so died.

I would like to know if he had been drinking but I have not seen anything
on that subject.

The little girls death shows what a panic stricken person will do.

Later....
Dan McCarty


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