Posted on 06/16/2012 6:38:40 AM PDT by dewawi
The family of 16-year-old Chiccena Carpenter, who drowned at Cedar Lake last week, also wants to push for legislation to make sure beaches in Minnesota don't stay open without a lifeguard present.
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Oh my goodness.....our dirt bikes! You’re bringing back so many memories of my childhood!
Skateboards, dirt bikes and roller skates. Ahhhh, to be young again without so many fears.
No prob. =)
Not to argue against grieving parents who would be wrong and are acting out of grief (and guilt?).
I’ll argue against them, they can bite me!!
Asking for legislation - BEGGING TO BE CONTROLLED - is not the American way.
We all sit around and moan and groan saying “How did we get to this point, where every damn thing we do is regulated or photographed or copied or archived?”
Yeah, we sit around and moan about it - but get this, WE ASKED FOR IT!!!!!
Living n Minnesota, to expect that there will be a life guard at all times at every beach in the state is beyond ridiculous. Think about it. There are thousands of summer lake homes all over the state and, kids just should not be swimming if they do not know how to stay above the water. The same is true at public beaches.
Any proposal to close all public beaches without life guards will never pass in this state.
If you can’t swim.....DON’T GO IN THE WATER!!!!
WTH is wrong with these people???
Another question I have. If she could not swim, how did she get to the floating dock they were trying to swim back from.
If she could not swim, how did she get to the floating dock?
Please read my original post.
Legislation for neglectful parents is senseless. I never said anything to the conntrary.
My sister used to jump off, so I’d hit the ground and cry, so she could laugh!I remember that game. Not often, but I did see it once in awhile. Most of the time, just hours and hours of good fun. Too bad for kids these days, not having that. It's not a BIG deal, but still, it would be nice.
As would the merry-go-round. But I guess the morons ruined that one forever.
And monkey bars. I spent hours on monkey bars just climbing, climbing, imagining I was on some monkey bar planet, and climbing some more.
***Sounds like you missed the famous Alar on apples tragedy. Geeez those were scary times.***
That was decades later, about the time RADON was going to kill us all if Alar didn’t.
Back in 1961 my dad brought home the plastic bags used for dynamite. I still remember the smell. Mom would rinse them out and we would use them to carry our laundry to the Laundromat. Never got any headaches but I do remember this was well before plastic bags came into common use for trash. The bags were real heavy duty!
I have at least a half dozen wooden powder boxes...Hercules Explosives. Used to find them in old mine adits and tunnels in Nevada.
I worked in tunnels as a miner in my disorganized youth...one time I hopped a Greyhound for Vegas to work at the Test Site at Mercury and I used a cardboard 65% Herc dynamite box for a suitcase...got a couple of looks, but mostly ignored. Imagine doing that now...LOL.
Why not put solid covers over every creek, river, pond and lake?
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In West Hartford CT I am told, there was a brook called Trout Brook. A portion of it was placed into a large conduit after a child drowned, I would say this happened in the eighties.
Of course this was normative for the area which at the turn of the century covered the Pig river and used it as a main sewer for the city of Harford.
I can’t believe there are that many people in the world that can read a post and come away NOT realizing it was facetious.
God help you kids if they ever pull a practical joke on you. You won’t understand it.
I can’t believe there are that many people in the world that can read a post and come away NOT realizing it was facetious.
God help your kids if they ever pull a practical joke on you. You won’t understand it.
1965. My cousins and I were deer hunting around Brainerd, MN. They had blasting caps in the cubby hole of the truck and 5 or 6 sticks of dynamite in the back of the truck. Never thought a thing about it. Brainerd was an iron mining location. They also brought the dynamite down to my Uncle’s farm near Montevideo, MN and used it to blow big rocks up and out of the ground in the farmland. Even used it to crack them by putting mud on the rock over a stick of dynamite. I can still remember my cousin digging a gopher hole along side a huge rock and worming down into it to put a stick of dynamite under the boulder. When that thing came out it was like a big hand underneath lifted it out. We also taped dynamite to trees and set them off with high powered rifles. It was like a karate chip to the tree. Also went “fishing” with dynamite in a local river. Got some carp is all.
Get lost sonny. Take your n00b ‘RAT troll crap back to your pals at the DUmp seeing how you like to post there.
Next time READ a post and think for a minute, better yet ask your 4th grader to interpret it for you..
Dry up you T.C.B.E.M.S n00bie troll. Go post to your ‘rat pals at your real home, the DUmp.
Lunacy is posting T.C.B.E.M.S. and expecting anybody but you and two others to know what it stands are.
I am guessing you think it cool so it must be stupid.
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