Two kids, 7 adults thrown in water after overloaded boat capsizes

[BMarkey]

Two kids, 7 adults thrown in water after overloaded boat capsizes

http://www.palmbeach...er-1389081.html

I've been pulled over numerous times by Coast Guard and local police authorities while boating for random safety checks (once just after passing a guy vomiting from his Waverunner; he wasn't checked). I was never cited. But every damn time I go to the ramp, I see severely overloaded boats. Once recently, I counted 15-plus men, women and even infant children disembarking a cuddy cabin boat that was 22 feet long at the most.

Never once have I witnessed a police agency try to strop one of these accidents waiting to happen from proceeding. The boat police need to stop wasting their time with major holiday, media-serving holiday saturations and enforce safety laws every day.

Edited April 11, 2011 by BMarkey

[Kamper]

"There's never a cop around when you need one!"

The ramp is best place to catch a lot of miscreants but if the cops hung out there, none of the criminally negligent would go onto the water where the water cops can get them. So to be sporting... Plus, if they hang out at one spot the naughty folks will just stay somewhere else.

Another reason the W/C miss the stuff at the ramp is they have to patrol a larger area for public safety reasons. I know, it feels like they are just there to pester you and oggle your lady's boobs. You can use that to your advantage, understand?

[BMarkey]

Between Phil Foster Park and Peanut Island on a weekend, numerous police agencies can be found patrolling. That boat was seen by a cop before it capsized.

[BMarkey]

Here is the video.

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_c_palm_beach_county/riviera_beach/fellow-boaters-save-family-after-vessel-capsizes

Should eight people, plus tents, coolers, etc., have been in this boat? The only way the bow went under is because the boat was overloaded! I don't think there are too many rogue waves by Phil Foster Park!

Yet, the story does not have any comment from law enforcement as to charges and/or mistakes.

[yottyboy]

We call it "thinning the herd". This group was being led by someone with a genetic predisposition for ignoring boating safety rules. Only laws they broke were the laws of physics and the penalties are mandatory and harsh.

[dmarent1]

The trouble is you can not regulate stupidity.thank God the kids did not drown!