On Sat, 2 May 2009 07:35:50 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
wrote:

Here on Missouri (Saint louis specifically) our local news hardly ever
reports of the victims of boating accidents were wearing their PFDs.
And we not only live at the confluence of two largest rivers in North
Maerica (Mississippi and Missouri) but also have many many smaller
fla****er rivers (Ozark streams) plus a lot of lakes, Lake Of The
Ozarks being the most notable. Our local news reports many boating
accidents especially inb Summer, but they never bother to report on
PFD useage

It is pretty hard to drown while wearing one. The falls from the boat
while wearing a PFD don't make news. Guy slips and gets wet is not the
stuff of headlines. Where I do my boating the last couple of
fatalities were night collisions. In one a cop boat plowed at high
speed into an anchored boat, and killed a guy in his bunk. In another
a drunk ran over a boat from behind, killed the helmsman, and kept
going. They found his damaged boat, and rounded up witnesses to every
one of the many drinks he had that night, and he went to prison. The
cop should have.

Casady

Casady