Rescuers manage to get a rope on the Boy Scouts' raft Posted on 07/02/2005 3:23:44 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
Rescuers manage to get a rope on the Boy Scouts' raft
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - Authorities say the part of the Animas River where a Boy Scout was thrown from a raft before drowning is very dangerous.
State police say the body of 15-year-old Chase Hathenbruck of Farmington was pulled from the river about five miles from where he fell in near Lowhead Dam.
Hathenbruck and another scout were thrown from the raft when it got caught in the churning waters near the dam. The other teen was able to swim to shore but authorities say Hathenbruck's life jacket was pulled off by the current.
Hathenbruck was a member of Varsity Scout Team 313, a group that is chartered to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Hathenbruck was the third person to die in a rafting death in New Mexico this season. The first two were on the northern Rio Grande.
Oh this is too too much.
It's very sad.
They just don't make Boy Scouts the way they used to.
Or it is just a really bad year...
Unfortunatly, my worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money)lives there now so I try to stay from there.
LOL! I don't know. Who is your brother in law? :)
If you wish you were back there, why don't you move back?
You Said:
"They just don't make Boy Scouts the way they used to."
What the heck are you on about? That is a pretty sad remark.
This had nothing to do with how Scouts are taught skills, and is an accident. Go read what the family said about this accident.
And there have been quit a few Scouting Deaths every year, the same as there are deaths from other kids when they are in the outdoors TAKING RISKS.
I guess people like you would only be happy when all the kids do nothing but sit inside playing xbox, Huh? Or maybe you think only Scouts shouldn't be allowed? I wonder.
And if you think you could do better, get off your back side, go volunteer and teach them, that is if you know anything to teach.
**If you wish you were back there, why don't you move back?**
This is the reason.
Unfortunatly, my worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money)lives there.
After a visit with him you feel like a Philistine, slain by the jawbone of an ass.
Dear God, I love that country!
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