Did the "life jacket" look anything like this?
Posted on 06/03/2014 1:24:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The important thing is that the cops involved got to go home to their families.
Ping.
It's a good idea to have some reserve power on the L of the Oz. The Honda is clean and quiet.
I have nothing critical to say about the Water Patrol. Integrating the Highway Patrol into the Water Patrol has begun to improve security on the big lake. Years ago, the Water Patrol was a hack organization with inadequate, worn out patrol boats. Those old timers are gone, retired and that's a good thing. The Donzi fleet was the right move and I recently read we're getting a few more.
Many folks misunderstand what happens at the Lake during the “high season” of summertime boating. There are weeks when our 100,000 year round population jumps to five or six times that figure. I've seen estimates of 1 million locals and visitors on some weeks in the three county area.
I'm surprised there aren't more jet ski fatalities. These can be rented at a dozen locations on the lake without any serious training. They are cheap and dangerous. I recently saw an ad for a new Kawasaki jet ski with 310 horsepower.
Gad.
The dateline is very misleading-—This happened in Missouri—at Lake of the Ozarks. NOT in Iowa.
I honestly don’t know what to think about this one. It would be interesting to know how the life jacket came off, if his hands were cuffed behind him.
I think that was reported in the linked local news story?
This is a very long story, short on important facts.
The story should read;
Cops went to work this morning, at the most dangerous job in the nation.
Their day was interrupted by an out of control civilian, who had to be put down for his own safety.
Fortunately, nothing of significance interfered with their going home safely to their families that evening.
No comment due to lack of meaningful data, beyond the bare fact that a man drowned while in custody.
Apparently it must have been one of those Orange vest type thingys that if the belly strap isn't secured can come off. If it was a real "vest" and secured to him, even if handcuffed, front or back, he would have bobbed like a cork, head above water and would have been OK, conscious or not.
I used to fish from a canoe in a local river where people would run speedboats and it always made me furious when some well meaning but unthinking person would come upriver running forty miles an hour and barely making a ripple across the water and upon seeing my canoe would cut the throttle and create a huge bow wave that would almost throw me out. I used to wish they would just maintain full speed. All would have been fine had they cut the throttle sooner and then proceeded at no wake speed which means barely moving upriver but they would wait too long, then cut back and travel at a speed not quite fast enough to lift the boat up to plane which meant a huge bow wave followed by smaller waves, one behind the other.
It happens constantly at this lake. I guess they want to be helpful and polite but don’t understand.
If I stay on plane for just that reason, I often get nasty looks, so you’re not always going to have agreement.
One of the suburbs in my local area with its own police force has as their motto "Solve The Problem." It's on all their patrol vehicles. Man, can that be taken a lot of different ways...
“Ellingson was handcuffed behind his back, officials said. Reinsch said the trooper placed a standard “Level 3” life jacket – the type that resembles a vest and buckles three times in the front – on Ellingson. It came off in the water.”
Murder, plain and simple.
Did the "life jacket" look anything like this?
“Ellingson was handcuffed behind his back, officials said. Reinsch said the trooper placed a standard “Level 3” life jacket – the type that resembles a vest and buckles three times in the front – on Ellingson. It came off in the water.”
“His body was recovered Sunday morning, 80 feet under the water in the same spot where he went in,”
Finally, a sane post.
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