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Originally Posted by Alana Flames
And the people that drowned going over the weir- life jackets wouyld have made it worse. The only way to get out of the current from the weir is to swim DOWN.
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Right, but that's an entirely different danger all together. Most people who die on the river don't die going over the weir. Just happens the most recent drownings happened there.
Oh, and BTW- everybody who was with the people who drowned who were wearing life jackets survived.
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Originally Posted by Alana Flames
I've never understood why there's such an outrage to people having a social beer in public.
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What about having a social beer while driving your car? Are you in favour of that? I have zero problem with a social beer in public. The issue is somebody having one too many on the water, getting into trouble, and then getting killed.
Eliminate the one variable that proves to impair your judgement and will also cause you to succumb to hypothermia, and now you have given people a fighting chance. The bottom line is they had always turned a blind eye to it; until it started becoming the next place to get hammered. So they are stepping up enforcement.
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Originally Posted by Alana Flames
Aren't there gangs and drug rings to be worrying about???
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I've never seen any gangs on the river, and the last time I checked the police use a boat that is not amphibious- so they can't really go patrolling the streets in a power boat.
Yes, that last bit was a little sarcastic, but the job of the police is to protect the public. And it seems to me we lose about as many people on our rivers each year as we do with gang violence.