I guess this probably should have a "hold ma beer", but I haven't seen for sure that they were drunk. I posted it because there have been several posts about "black boxes" in cars recently. This is not quite the same, but there is little doubt that this would not have been pursued as vigorously if there was not proof of excessive speed before the "accident". The I don't really have a problem with this. Ed had said previously that he was going much slower at the time and it was just an unavoidable accident. Was it an accident, or did criminally negligent behavior lead to someones death. The jury will decide. But as least they will know how fast he was really going instead of lies.
1 posted on
07/15/2003 10:39:20 AM PDT by
jim_trent
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2 posted on
07/15/2003 10:41:23 AM PDT by
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To: jim_trent
That's a very fast boat. As far as I know, only boats made for racing are generally capable of such speeds.
3 posted on
07/15/2003 10:49:37 AM PDT by
Sam Cree
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To: jim_trent
A passenger in the boat on May 31, Bruce Turner of Council Bluffs, was ejected when the boat struck its own wake. Something sounds odd about this. I'm wondering how a boat going 116 mph can "hit its own wake" hard enough to do this.
For that to happen would require them to have circled back in some manner, and gotten back up to speed, and still hit enough wake to a) eject the passenger, b) not eject the driver, and c) not flip the boat.
The black box might show how this could happen, but it does sound odd.
As for the other -- any guesses as to whether the victim was conscious after he hit the water at 116 mph?
4 posted on
07/15/2003 10:56:18 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: jim_trent
Why would he throw a dead body from a speeding boat?
8 posted on
07/15/2003 11:08:53 AM PDT by
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To: jim_trent
A passenger in the boat on May 31, Bruce Turner of Council Bluffs, was ejected when the boat struck its own wake.Hmmmmm.... sounds like a malfunction of the ejector switch
12 posted on
07/15/2003 11:17:20 AM PDT by
Willie Green
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To: jim_trent
116 mph? You gotta be kidding.
37 posted on
07/15/2003 12:04:24 PM PDT by
Junior
(Killed a six pack ... just to watch it die.)
To: jim_trent
If there's no speed limit.. Then I don't care if he was going 1000 mph.
The other idiot should have either been holding on or demanding the driver slow down.
45 posted on
07/15/2003 2:54:58 PM PDT by
Jhoffa_
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To: jim_trent
My car won't even go 116mph!
To: MJY1288
Ping.
I used to build jet boats. Fast as hell but nothing like this.
48 posted on
07/15/2003 3:02:35 PM PDT by
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