Boat that flipped at Desert Storm

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Originally Posted by rschap1

Just read about the Cig and an 8 year old girl...
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VERY sad

BE SAFE !!!

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What happened?

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Originally Posted by GotHalos

What happened?

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8 year old last Mon 4-22 fell off the front of the pontoon her dad was driving. Hit the prop and didn't make it.

Cig made a sharp turn and rolled on Sat. No injuries that I know of.

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Originally Posted by Bobby V

8 year old last Mon 4-22 fell off the front of the pontoon her dad was driving. Hit the prop and didn't make it.

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How in the fuck does an 8yr old fall off the front of a pontoon while daddy is driving and hit the prop????

How does that happen??? Why did that happen??

Holy shit I'm in a foul mood now.

RIP little girl.

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Originally Posted by Bobby V

8 year old last Mon 4-22 fell off the front of the pontoon her dad was driving. Hit the prop and didn't make it.

Cig made a sharp turn and rolled on Sat. No injuries that I know of.

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I heard about the cig while eating breakfast at the springs sat morning. I guess it happened down there before 8 am. No details outside of "it rolled".


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Originally Posted by Hotboat

How in the fuck does an 8yr old fall off the front of a pontoon while daddy is driving and hit the prop????

How does that happen??? Why did that happen??

Holy shit I'm in a foul mood now.

RIP little girl.

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Rented toon...I guess the rental company didn't go over (or dad wasn't listening) the very important rule about not sitting on the bow while under power. Very sad!

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Originally Posted by Bobby V

8 year old last Mon 4-22 fell off the front of the pontoon her dad was driving. Hit the prop and didn't make it.

Cig made a sharp turn and rolled on Sat. No injuries that I know of.

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That is just awful. You never want to hear a story like that, sad deal all the way around. Thoughts go out to the people involved.

Same thing happened in my area a couple summers ago.
Rented 'toon too.
Son was dangling feet over the bow.
Dad couldn't swim...

I just cannot imagine
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Such a sad thing and SO easily preventable.
I have yelled at a few doing that same on my lake and get told to "f" off pretty much.
Just HATE it!!
Also see cuddy boats with kids 1/2 out the bow hatches, or dangling legs under railings, or the proposing rig with a crowd leaning into the windshield.
Just asking for trouble.

Luckily I have not seen any injuries in over 10 years.
Hopefully it will stay that way too !!!!

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Originally Posted by GotHalos

That is just awful. You never want to hear a story like that, sad deal all the way around. Thoughts go out to the people involved.

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During Desert Storm I still saw it over and over again,,,,as they say you can't fix stupid!

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Originally Posted by Cigalert

I heard about the cig while eating breakfast at the springs sat morning. I guess it happened down there before 8 am. No details outside of "it rolled".

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I had heard that a kid was driving the boat and lost his hat..... and tried to turn quick to go back and get it... guess he didnt know that you cant turn a cig around at 70mph in its own wake!.....

Here some shots ingot from the photographer helping with retrieval of the boathttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/05/a8yja7u7.jpg
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