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Trump Boat Parade On St. Croix River Causes Capsizing
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/09/06/trump-boat-parade-on-st-croix-river-causes-capsizing/?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,687 posts)The whip holding his docked boat in place snapped, and he says he fought violently for an hour and a half to keep it from sinking.
Boaters all know theyre responsible for their waves, but nobody cared, Smith said. They just kept going and going and hooting and hollering. Luckily I didnt slip and go off the side of the dock.
One of Keiths neighbors wasnt as fortunate, and did lose his boat.
There was so much wake from the boats that it actually lifted my dock up three or four feet, and the waves came underneath my floating dock, he said. The waves overwhelmed the boat.
Assholes.
underpants
(182,802 posts)Very irresponsible.
JI7
(89,249 posts)and then blame conspiracy theories when it causes problems.
malaise
(268,993 posts)There are no words for these deplorable scumbags
sheshe2
(83,755 posts)They don't give a damn about anyone but themselves.
Thekaspervote
(32,766 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Typical irresponsible Trumpers to care only about themselves.
intrepidity
(7,296 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Glad I don't live close to any water.
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)Because they are trump boaters so like him rules don't apply. MAYDAY suckers.
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)excuse me, for LIE-buralls. They probably don't wear masks in public either.
grumpyduck
(6,234 posts)"You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna get out of the harbor alive."
Both of those parades were kinda like deja vu, ya know?
Takket
(21,565 posts)rules are for other people, not me
we know better than anyone else, we don't need silly regulations
it is the rich that are ruining us with their big boats, and we'll blame obama all the way to the bottom of the lake.
selfish
foolish
racist
pathetic human beings. i will never forgive them for destroying America.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)somebody IS going to get killed very soon.
tanyev
(42,554 posts)Time to reject any more applications. The parades are obviously a giant magnet for idiots and assholes.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,687 posts)I don't think there are any rules against it. There aren't a lot of ways of enforcing the Coast Guard's right-of-way and other rules, although drunken boating is illegal everywhere and I'm sure there was a fair amount of that. Part of the St. Croix River is within the National Park system but I don't know if that's where they were.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)rurallib
(62,414 posts)She was told that if a boat (or an ice house for those who put such things on frozen lakes) goes underwater there are hefty fines for potential environmental damage.
Not sure if that is true, but there should be such laws.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,687 posts)and it goes through and sinks, it has to be recovered, and that's very expensive.
rurallib
(62,414 posts)and every spring there were several in the lake.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)Because FREEDUMB! Wee, look at me! I'm a rough, tough, MANLY-MAN, like President Macho!
An attitude that lasts until they hear the sound of a longneck breaking in the background and they realize that that salty taste in their mouths is their own blood and this ain't a Hopalong Cassidy feature movie.