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Tubing nightmare: Women thought river went in circle
Michigan Live ^ | 7/15/16 | afsnco

Posted on 07/15/2016 5:57:57 AM PDT by afsnco

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To: Celerity
... If you wrap your hand around an egg perfectly, you can’t crush it.

I saw some depth-stamped CCTV video from a deep research submersible , focused on an egg sitting outside in a collection basket while it descended. It was amazing how long it lasted before it imploded.

61 posted on 07/15/2016 6:58:38 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: FirstFlaBn
It goes in a circle and it’s downstream all the way, so you won’t need to paddle much.

Bet M. C. Escher could make it work. :^) http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/back-in-holland/relativity/

62 posted on 07/15/2016 6:59:11 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: afsnco
These women are not smart enough to reproduce, but they will anyway.

Because some dumb ass rescued them.

63 posted on 07/15/2016 6:59:34 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: wbill

They reproduce.


64 posted on 07/15/2016 7:02:45 AM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: afsnco

20 hours total after three hours floating?. Heck, if they had just stayed in the tubes for a couple more hours they would have floated into downtown Muskegon and landed there.


65 posted on 07/15/2016 7:05:32 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: afsnco; Lazamataz

I was going to ask “would Laz”, but I opened the link and answered my own question. Product of public education.


66 posted on 07/15/2016 7:05:40 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: moovova
The absolute best part of the story... “No one reported the women missing...” Can’t imagine why.

I see your point. Maybe now we know who told 'em the river went in a circle ....

67 posted on 07/15/2016 7:06:25 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: afsnco; All

We are all having a laugh at these women’s expense. They had a terrifying night.

While it is human to laugh at other people’s problems, consider that these women likely had never been in a river before. They never were exposed to raw nature before.

They trusted the advice of a stranger. It is hard to get outside of our personal worldview, and the people on freerepublic are several steps above average (yes, that is a frightening thought).

People on freerepublic are smarter, better informed, wiser, more sophisticated, better educated, older and better off than the average, by considerable amounts.

Didn’t we all do some stupid things when we were young?

Maybe not in our 20’s, but in our teens?

There may well be things that these women know about that we do not (such as the best time to visit their local mall, for instance).

I suggest a small amount of empathy to temper the humor of the situation.


68 posted on 07/15/2016 7:12:25 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Stosh

LOL!!

Looks like that went over (under, around, through) more than a few heads.

Well played


69 posted on 07/15/2016 7:12:43 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: wbill

Some want to run countries.


70 posted on 07/15/2016 7:18:25 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
How does one live more than 20 years and not learn that water flows downhill?!?!

Government run public schools.

71 posted on 07/15/2016 7:18:32 AM PDT by null and void (Has there ever been a death associated with the Clintons that *wasn't* beneficial to them?)
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To: afsnco

72 posted on 07/15/2016 7:18:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: afsnco

“The river flows in a circle....you’ll come back to where you put in.”

That has to be somewhere near the top of all time snowjobs. And the fact that these ladies BELIEVED IT....! Obunga and Hillary voters, all.

Probably told to them by the guy selling the tubes. He might be advised to watch his back....or relocate, e-vunn.


73 posted on 07/15/2016 7:20:34 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: afsnco

And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We’re captive on the carousel of time
We can’t return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game


74 posted on 07/15/2016 7:23:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Cut them some slack! Congressman Hank Johnson had lived way longer than that when he posited that too many people on an island could cause it to tip over.

Geesh.


75 posted on 07/15/2016 7:25:42 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: marktwain

“There may well be things that these women know about that we do not (such as the best time to visit their local mall, for instance).”

The time a store opens has nothing to do with the laws of nature. Water flowing downhill does. If you pour a cup of coffee, the coffee goes DOWN into the cup, not UP into the coffee pot. Most people notice that by the time they are 5...


76 posted on 07/15/2016 7:27:18 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion)
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To: afsnco

They shouldn’t have been on the water. Most of them can’t even swim.


77 posted on 07/15/2016 7:46:28 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: marktwain
We are all having a laugh at these women’s expense. They had a terrifying night.

While it is human to laugh at other people’s problems, consider that these women likely had never been in a river before. They never were exposed to raw nature before.

.....


Which is the exact reason Lord Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts.

His experiences in the Boer War showed that city kids didn't know anything about the outdoors. Over a century later and that is still true.

78 posted on 07/15/2016 7:49:50 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: baltimorepoet

Vermont cows are bred with shorter legs in front so they can stand on hills.


79 posted on 07/15/2016 7:51:26 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: afsnco
"They were informed by somebody at the bridge that the river goes in a circle and if they put in there they would come back to their car,"

Just a case of the country mice havin' some fun with the city mice.

80 posted on 07/15/2016 7:51:38 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Blue on Black, match on a fire)
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