On 5 Aug 2003 09:56:20 -0700, (Curtis CCR)
wrote:

Wayne.B wrote in message . ..
On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:57:34 GMT, (Steven
Shelikoff) wrote:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/2380218/detail.html

Such a shame. But from what I see in a lot of areas around here, I'm
surprised it doesn't happen more often.

It is a shame. I blame a lot of it on the way they are advertised and
promoted, but where are the parents in all this? It's one thing for
25 year olds to run around in circles like a bunch of mindless bozos,
but 14 and 15 year olds?

Hard to say exactly what contributed to this accident. All the brief
report says is that there was apparently a collision. Doesn't say
anything about people running around in circles like a bunch of
anything - let alone "mindless bozos."

In this case, what seems to have happened is that the 15 year old was
driving the 14 year old and they were riding alongside his 15 year old
sister on another jetski. One of them, I think it was the one with the
two boys but am not sure, swerved to avoid a buoy and hit the other
jetski. It was the girl's first time riding solo after taking the
boating course required to operate a jetski.

You have 3 young kids, all under the legal age of 16 for riding jetskis
in NJ, riding so close to eachother that they hit when when one swerved
to avoid a buoy. Ok, so they weren't running around in circles. But it
was still pretty mindless.

Steve