Fred Dehl wrote:
wrote in
ups.com:
Right now, if a cop sees some 16 year old kid running a boat while some
14 or 15 year old is teak surfing...
Here's hoping you never answer a knock on your door to learn that a kid
or a grandkid was killed while doing something others would consider
"stupid".
Why would I permit unsupervised minors to operate a boat?
You're very lucky if your kids come to you, or came to you, for
permission before doing anything.
We see kids that look too young to drive a car out tooling around in
16-20 foot ski boats rather often. Partcularly on Lake Washington,
where a lot of wealthy families live along the shore, keep boats in
slips, and it isn't even unusual for the kids to have their "own"
boats.
The situation is perhaps a bit similar up at Lake Tapps, where the two
deaths used in the example occured. Upper end suburban community, most
households need two incomes to make the mortgage payments and the car
notes, teenagers home alone all day in the summer, boat just sitting in
the slip, folks tell their high school age kids it's OK to go water
skiing,...........