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Originally Posted by sunset on the dock
I'm surely setting myself up for a thrashing here but....what's going on? There's a lot of indignancy and venom being directed to El when he posts his opinions.
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Do you support this ludicrous statement of his?
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Originally Posted by Elchase
If we did not have the SL in effect that day, I'd agree that going out to retrieve these bodies endangered the officers' lives, but only due to the dangers of getting run down and cut in half by a speeding cigarette boat. Since the SL was in effect that day, that risk was eliminated and these guys faced little more risk on the lake than had they stayed ashore.
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The implication that somehow this is the only danger of being the lake is insane. There are many risks of boating, and we can legislate them away. The risk of a speeding boat hitting you is down around the same probability as getting struck by lightening.