http://www.wday.com/news/3814337-sheriff-one-dead-multiple-injured-devils-lake-boat-accident
August 10, 2015 at 5:16 am
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One dead and others injured on Devils Lake ND
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August 10, 2015 at 5:53 am #1558710
Wow look at the pictures of the boat.
Chanhassen, MNAugust 10, 2015 at 7:37 am #1558715Very sad indeed. Just got back from 5 days out there last night.
August 10, 2015 at 8:45 am #1558737sad deal. you would think another foot to the one side and it could have brushed off the tree more instead of taking a direct hit. I have never seen a boat fold up like that.
August 10, 2015 at 9:13 am #1558744That’s nutz!
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August 10, 2015 at 10:02 am #1558764Holy Sheet!!
FDR
August 10, 2015 at 10:08 am #1558765Looks like a little more than 30 mph.
August 10, 2015 at 10:10 am #1558766Moral of the story is?
Don’t go fast at night on a lake that has trees IN it?
August 10, 2015 at 10:19 am #1558768Moral of the story is?
Don’t go fast at night on a lake that has trees IN it?
Maybe not fast at all…?
FDR
August 10, 2015 at 10:23 am #1558771RIP April
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August 10, 2015 at 11:15 am #1558787Moral of the story is?
Don’t go fast at night on a lake that has trees IN it?
Same can be said for cans on the river!
-J.
August 10, 2015 at 11:41 am #1558805Before I saw the pictures of the boat, I was thinking that 30 MPH at Zero Dark Thirty was WAY, WAY, WAY too fast. Now looking at the boat, they were going closer to 50 than 30.
Bad, bad things happen when a fast boat hits something. The stuff I’ve seen floating in lakes and rivers gives met the heebie-jeebies when I think of what would happen if somebody hit it at high speed. Last fall we saw a truck tire AND rim floating in P2. Yikes! It was too big to lift and too heavy to tow, but holy spit was that nasty. A few years back, I found a pallet floating in an area lake and that one I did tow back to shore. That thing floated just perfectly at the surface and it was invisible when the surface was disturbed with wind. Double yikes.
There’s a lot of big HP hanging on the back of boats now. Unfortunately, the common sense to use it is NOT standard equipment. Just cause you got it, doesn’t mean you have to run it wide open all the time.
Grouse
August 27, 2015 at 9:37 am #1562158
Chanhassen, MNAugust 27, 2015 at 11:02 am #1562216Hope he gets substantial jail time. No excuses.
August 30, 2015 at 6:00 am #1562839I have often wondered why people are so much more laxed about drinking and boating.
August 30, 2015 at 9:43 am #1562854I have often wondered why people are so much more laxed about drinking and boating.
i think the attitude is changing. goll, just 15 years ago it wasn’t even illegal.
i’ve got an 11yo daughter and her attitude toward drinking and driving is WAY smarter than i was at that age ZERO tolerance in cars.
Can’t come soon enuf to boating, IMO…
north fowlAugust 30, 2015 at 9:57 am #1562856I have often wondered why people are so much more laxed about drinking and boating.
Same goes for texting and driving. Just saying.
August 30, 2015 at 1:22 pm #1562867you got that right!
August 30, 2015 at 1:26 pm #1562868Same goes for texting and driving. Just saying.
Half life on texting and driving is getting pretty short. i’m guessing 2-5 more years, then it will be a felony, just like DWI; have seen a couple of negligent homicide prosecutions so far…
August 30, 2015 at 7:03 pm #1562880so sad. i must admit i am one that enjoys a drink while fishing but i always keep it to 2-3 beers for a full day of fishing. Hope people learn from this.
August 30, 2015 at 8:15 pm #1562886<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>hl&sinker wrote:</div>
Same goes for texting and driving. Just saying.Half life on texting and driving is getting pretty short. i’m guessing 2-5 more years, then it will be a felony, just like DWI; have seen a couple of negligent homicide prosecutions so far…
In MN at least it is hard to get a felony DWI. Not sure how WI is.
August 30, 2015 at 8:26 pm #1562889i was speaking of killing someone while DWI…
January 18, 2016 at 1:36 pm #1593520Here is a link to an update.
http://www.echopress.com/news/3924799-man-pleads-guilty-boat-crash-killed-detroit-lakes-womanDT
January 19, 2016 at 6:36 am #15937024 felony and 1 misdemeanor charge. Some well deserved jail time coming.
January 19, 2016 at 7:40 am #1593713sad deal.. very little justice for the family. And on texting… I believe it is way more of an epidemic than DWI ever was… meaning the sheer volume of it occurring at all times of the day and night. Granted if you drive 20 miles drunk once a week, your drunk the whole 20 miles and typically this is at 2am when the roads are lighter. Texting happens all day, and night, everyday all genders/race and most ages. In St Cloud, I see it constantly.. the worst are the 17-45 year old crowd… and if I had to narrow further… the 17-25 year old female. Granted I see ALL types, but this is what I have observed. Sadly, it is at the high traffic times and moreover, when kids are getting out of school. Texting is not the middle of the night killer DWI was/is…. it’s a much different animal, IMHO.
January 19, 2016 at 9:09 am #1593743One of my proof of guardian angels stories involves a high speed late night run on the water when I was younger and dumber. We went back to the area that we made the night run through in the daylight hours and found that it was a stump field with many either right at water level or just sticking out of the water. When I get to heaven, I’ll be apologizing to my angel for making them work so hard.
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