Re: [Paddlewise] accidents in general - another option

   This whole discussion reminds me of the time a young child was mauled by a 
lion at Caspers Wilderness Park, here in sunny Southern California. The 
family sued the county and amazingly won a bucketful of money. Just what part 
of the word, "wilderness," did they not understand? So the park was closed to 
small children for a number of years while the county tried to figure out 
just how they were supposed to protect people from nature in what was 
supposed to be a wilderness setting.
   Nature can be sad and cruel. Personally, I see incidents like the 
uninitiated getting in over their heads (literally) in a kayak as natures way 
of culling the weak and stupid among us. Sure, try to educate the ones that 
are willing to listen. But there will always be those, in every sport and 
activity, that will resist being educated, and may end up paying the price 
for it. The bigger problem, as I see it, is how do we hold onto our own 
freedoms while the do gooders of society are trying to protect us from 
ourselves?

Scott
So.Cal.

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