Quote Originally Posted by RoadToad View Post
Well, obviously the father didn't, or the kid wouldn't have been there. So, who could have seen something bad about to happen,and stopped it? Somebody else out on the lake? Hardly. I can picture how that would come out, with someone hollering at the guy to get his kid off the bow, and I doubt that he would have said, "Oh, thank you! I'll be sure to be safe from now on!" He probably would have given them a one-finger salute and kept on. So that basically leaves law enforcement. Stretched as thin as they are, you can't blame them for not being there.

There's nothing puzzling about people doing stupid things. It happens every day, on virtually every body of water in America.
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Is there anything puzzling about people writing stupid things?

I can think of someone, besides the father, who was on that boat and should have been watching over the child........THE MOTHER! If she had been, it wouldn't be necessary for a stranger to yell at them to get the child off the bow.

Since when is a "one finger salute" as deadly as watching a child get its brains chopped out with a propeller? The father may have flipped someone a bird but there is a good chance he would have thought about what he was doing.

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