Environmentalist drowns at Mexican resort beach

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 12/28/2012

[artichokegrower]

SAN FRANCISCO—The executive director of San Francisco-based environmental group Rainforest Action Network has died in a swimming accident at a beach near Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta, police said Friday.

Rebecca Tarbotton, 39, was swimming Wednesday at a beach about a half hour north of Puerto Vallarta when she was caught by a wave and tossed around, said Adan Leyva, spokesman for Puerto Vallarta municipal police.

Leyva said that paramedics tried to revive her after she was brought ashore, but she was dead by the time she reached the hospital.

In a statement on its website Friday, Rainforest Action Network said Tarbotton—who friends called Becky—was travelling with her husband and friends.

[artichokegrower]

The environment is a bitch.

[Candor7]

Poor Tarbottom, global warming got her.

[TADSLOS]

Lemmings and seawater are incompatible.

[blueunicorn6]

Are there rain forests at Puerto Vallarta?

[SIDENET]

Mother nature brought the smackdown.

[ejonesie22]

Would we say she died of natural causes or should we say there were environmental factors....

[Hardraade]

H2O is a dangerous chemical and must be banned.

[Postman]

Oh, the irony!!!

[Zakeet]

Should have stuck with hugging trees ...

[ConservativeStatement]

Jennifer Aniston's South Park character fared better.

[artichokegrower]

What upsets me here and I don’t me to speak disrespectful to the recently departed but I work in California agriculture. Gotta have Tier 4 compliant tractors, Tier 4 compliant trucks, keep logs on all equipment, work with the regional water quality control boards, basically bend over backwards twice to meet the demands of the environmentalists. I didn’t take a freakin’ vacation this year let alone one to Mexico. How come the environmentalists get to jet off to all parts of the world?

[bmwcyle]

Her days of lies are over.

[familyop]

Meanwhile, politicians drafted a bill to ban oceans.

[SIDENET]

Are the Earth flags flying at half staff in dear San Fran?

[Navy Patriot]

The environment just fulfilling it's designated function of killing.

This time it was stuck on Tarbottom.

[LongWayHome]

What....Gaia did not help her out ?

[Gay State Conservative]

Dihydrogen monoxide has struck again.Too bad this brave woman's valiant efforts to ban it failed.

[Lurker]

How come? Because they got suckers like you to pay for it. That’s how.

[Revolting cat!]

Oceans rose unexpectedly, as perdicted, and Obamessiah did not keep the promise to hold them back!

[tet68]

The Pacific is a wild place, it’s not the wave pool
at waterworld.

Prayers for her family.

[bray]

That’s one way to limit your CO2 emissions.

Happy New Year

[WashingtonSource]

Tarbotton? Good grief. That’s a real name?

Maybe Mother Nature got tired of all the lies and decided to slap down Tarbotton. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

[SIDENET]

I BLAME ASSAULT WEAPONS.

[Candor7]

How come the environmentalists get to jet off to all parts of the world?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thanks to the presidents Executive Orders which circumvent Congress, the representatives of the people, the EPA now does things according to executive fiat. Obama has created a new elite by his executive orders, and they get to make businesses suffer and jump through hoops,jet around while we ordinary “Amerikans” get to play at being peasants to the new regime. Its just that simple.

Read here:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

[Amberdawn]

That’s the name of my former neighbors-NO kidding. I wonder if she’s related, which would be terrible for them.

[43north]

Sounds like Tarbottom hit hardbottom and that was that.

[Chode]

feh...

[Vendome]

Just dang. Too young.

[Vendome]

Just dang. Too young.

[Intolerant in NJ]

“Fu*k the Rain Forest!”......

[ConservativeStatement]

Miss Stevens: All right, that does it. Eric Cartman, you respect other cultures this instant.

Eric Cartman: I wasn’t saying anything about their culture, I was just saying their city smells like ass.

[Tigerized]

If the late, departed Ms. Tarbotton had bothered to consider the nature of shoreline wave action, perhaps she would still be with us today.

Just because you profess to love mother nature, doesn’t mean that mother nature will love you back.

In fact, she can be a real bitch sometimes.

[dalereed]

why wern’t all her friends swiming in the same friendly wave!!!

I won’t live long enough just getting rid of one at a time!

[dalereed]

“How come the environmentalists get to jet off to all parts of the world?”

They have 4 generations of rat folowers that were trained with your tax dollars funding public schools!!

The only cure is to make public education illegal!

[meatloaf]

Did they fine her for illegal dumping in the ocean?

[kcvl]

https://mobile.twitter.com/beckytarbotton/status/281583482222821376

RT @RAN: Another #coal plant bites the dust! This time, 800 megawatts, in KY:ow.ly/geNhc
8:15pm - 19 Dec 12

[allendale]

Next thing you know, somebody will start complaining of Obama flying to Hawaii and back and then back and back again.....Soon the environmentalists will demand that an EPA permit will be required to own an internal combustible engine.Either Congress puts a stop to the EPA power grab or we might as well return to caves,

[KittenClaws]

We just don’t care anymore do we?

I know I don’t. I actually thought “good. One less liberal”

Kind of sad, what liberalism has forced us to face, forced us to become.

[onedoug]

The oceans are obviously dangerous and should be drained immediately.

[hinckley buzzard]

I used to hang out at those beaches in my earlier incarnation. Hard to believe you could screw it up bad enough to drown.

[wac3rd]

Gubmint and Eco-Marxist grants let them take nice trips while we toil. Lots of their money to kill our businesses come from taxes, ironically.

Just think, if Obamao has lowered the seas like he said, maybe it would have saved her.

Peace to her family, but the irony is thick.

[Liberty Valance]

RIP Tarbottom.

[SierraWasp]

Well, just think! What if she had fallen off the fiscal cliff onto that beach? Woulda broke her frickin neck and even worse... Oh! and OMG=Obama Must Go!!!

[married21]

I think there is a bit of jungle type stuff just south of town. I didn’t go on that tour when I was there, back in the 80s, but was told that the movie Night of the Iguana was filmed at a location there.

[Revolting cat!]

She thought it was all fun and games in Acapulco!

[liberalh8ter]

This must have created quite a conundrum for marine life environmentalists. On the one hand, they feel vindicated by the obvious score of retribution against a foreign invader but on the other, she was one of them.

[Psycho_Bunny]

She was a hypocrite who made people’s lives worse. Good riddance.

[beelzepug]

If her bottom was tarred she shouldn’t have sank.

[Newtoidaho]

I wonder who these scum are going to sue for this?

[Newtoidaho]

I wonder who these scum are going to sue for this?