Marine Patrol

Silver Duck · 11-22-2006, 06:48 PM

I've got to more or less side with the Big Kahuna on this one. I agree other folks that the MP is not, and probably shouldn't be, a towing service.

But, the circumstances were that this was a disabled boat, full of kids, at night, in the middle of a post-fireworks traffic crunch.

Those people were clearly in danger and would have been much safer if the MP had stayed with them with flashers going until a tow boat arrived. The MP might even have had his dispatcher call one.

So far as I know, that's what a NH State Trooper would have done in an equivalent situation on the highway; I can't imagine why the MP would behave differently

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Silver Duck

11-22-2006, 06:48 PM	#11
Silver Duck Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Billerica, MA Posts: 364 Thanks: 40 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	I've got to more or less side with the Big Kahuna on this one. I agree other folks that the MP is not, and probably shouldn't be, a towing service. But, the circumstances were that this was a disabled boat, full of kids, at night, in the middle of a post-fireworks traffic crunch. Those people were clearly in danger and would have been much safer if the MP had stayed with them with flashers going until a tow boat arrived. The MP might even have had his dispatcher call one. So far as I know, that's what a NH State Trooper would have done in an equivalent situation on the highway; I can't imagine why the MP would behave differently ... Silver Duck