One of the most moronic deaths ever

[zinny]

so i was just going to check my mail on yahoo a few minutes ago when i saw this featured short report on a cargo ship accident near Mumbai.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynewspoint/20100809/ts_ynewspoint/ynewspoint_ts3376

looks like a serious accident and something that would give you an solemn reaction. then i scroll down past the picture of the listing ship and read "One police officer fell off a patrolling speedboat and drowned, however, because neither the officer nor colleagues knew how to swim, a police spokesman told AFP." .....that has to be one of the stupidest ways to die.

 

[rdl65]

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Being stupid will catch up with you eventually. Should have been wearing a PFD if he didn't know how to swim.

 

[nashlaw]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rdl65</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Being stupid will catch up with you eventually. Should have been wearing a PFD if he didn't know how to swim. </div></div>

I used to fish in a jonboat with a 20hp on it. Speeds were very pedestrian and I always wore a pfd . . . whether alone/with a partner; underway/stopped; etc.

The older I get, the more I want to get older. Safety is good.

 

[Bob Shaver]

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That's funny in a morbid way.

I read the article 5 minutes before I opened up this thread and thought to myself, "How in the hell do you join the navy and never learn how to swim?"

 

[rsee03]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: El Shavewa</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That's funny in a morbid way.

I read the article 5 minutes before I opened up this thread and thought to myself, "How in the hell do you join the navy and never learn how to swim?" </div></div>

You wouldn't believe the number of people that join the Navy and don't know how to swim. Way I see it, doesn't really matter. Probably gonna be fish bait unless the SAR swimmer gets to you first, if the props don't suck you under.

 

[phantasm]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: IAretat20</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You wouldn't believe the number of people that join the Navy and don't know how to swim. Way I see it, doesn't really matter. Probably gonna be fish bait unless the SAR swimmer gets to you first, if the props don't suck you under. </div></div>

My bunk mate in boot couldn't swim. Baffled the shit out of me... but hey... he learned how to swim in boot. lol.

 

[Phil1]

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(CNN) -- Four men died after horsing around in a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir, authorities said late Monday.

The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. Leilani Morgan of the the Power County Sheriff's Department.

The search began Sunday for the four boaters after authorities received a 911 call from a child on their boat, said Power County, Idaho, Sheriff Jim Jeffries. The four men were "horsing around," he said. One man was standing up in the front of the boat and another man pushed him into the water as a joke, not realizing he could not swim, he said.

"There were enough vests for all four adult men to have them on. However, they did not have them on," Morgan said.

KIFI: Four boaters' bodies found.

The victims have been identified as 57-year-old Darrel Shappart, 26-year-old Jared Hale, his 30-year-old brother Aaron Hale and 30-year-old Stephan Verbeck, Morgan said. The men were boating on the waterway Sunday along with five children under the age of nine.

The frantic 911 call triggered a search where rescuers used boats with side-scanning sonar to locate the men in the reservoir, which is about 180 miles east-southeast of Boise.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/idaho.boat.search/index.html

 

[tuckner]

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Wow, that one takes the cake Phil.

 

[Guest]

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Phil beat me to it.
Leave to America to beat them at their own game.