Quinte Fishing

A friend of mine who worked for an Ontario police force in the Marine Unit once told me that, sadly, the majority of bodies they pull out of the water fit almost exactly into the description of this tragedy. Intoxication, no life jacket or PFD, and clear evidence that the guy (because 95% of the time the deceased is a male) was standing or hanging off of the boat to take a leak/dump. I myself have fit into that description and feel lucky to have avoided disaster.

Stay safe out there this season.

One thing I wonder from the reports above is, did buddy who stayed in the boat attempt a rescue? Did he gun the motor or swerve the boat as a joke, causing his "buddy" to fall? And how does someone become so seemingly self important as to consider their own "legal safety" ahead of the care and concern of his friend and that friend's family? That seeming self-importance is the most disgusting aspect of this story and leads me to believe that, because of folks like that, our entire humanity has slipped a little.

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"A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very very dangerous man who has his capacity for mayhem under voluntary control."

"(B)e wary of discarding the ancient system where we all have the right to make our own decisions for one in which we all have the right to make each others, in the hope of finding true human fulfillment through “positive” rights to other people’s money and applause?"