'Duck boat' design flaw flagged years ago

[Irish Exit]

Bwa ha ha ha, sure, assign me one of your two boxes, bwa ha ha ha ...

I do have two boxes--the one I stand in and the one most people, including you, stand in.

[Fentoine Lum]

I do have two boxes--the one I stand in and the one most people, including you, stand in.

Oh I know pard.

[Leonthecat]

Does putting other people down make you feel important or does it make you feel smart? One thing's for certain: It makes you look stupid.

Assessing the reality.
I have been to Branson for work and seen it first hand.
Full of obese redneck hillbillies who love to eat and listen to hillbilly music.
This tragedy could have easily been avoided. The weather was predicted hours before and the boats were overloaded with fat people who were trapped by the canopy and windows.
Those are the facts.
Call me names if you wish, but I speak the facts.

[Leonthecat]

Geeze. WTF is wrong with you guys tonight? Not everyone who visits Branson is a redneck or hillbilly -- but fucking what if they were? Do you really want to be like the Reichtards here who wish death on libruls because of who we vote for/are?

I've been on many different types of tourist and commercial water vehicles -- sailboats, commercial fishing boats, tour boats from Alaska to Florida. Not a single one has ever required the passengers to wear life jackets, nor does the Coast Guard require that. They *ARE* required to instruct the passengers before the boat leaves dock where to find them -- as you said, often under the seats, but just as often stored in lockers well-marked by CG regs. Just like when boarding a jet, smart ppl pay attention to the safety briefings, mark the exits, and know where the flotation devices are. I'm pretty sure though that no one on a calm lake like Table Rock thought this type of disaster would happen.

The weather warnings were out hours before it struck.
No Duck boat had any business on the water, overloaded in 60 mph winds.
These deaths were caused by greed and callous disregard for safety.

[Fentoine Lum]

The weather warnings were out hours before it struck.
No Duck boat had any business on the water, overloaded in 60 mph winds.
These deaths were caused by greed and callous disregard for safety.

"Let the buyer beware", capital's grand fuck you to humanity.

[Leonthecat]

Well then, I am sure you can find some scientific evidence to support that. And also that all those poor souls on that vessel were from Branson. Do not take to long providing that information. Thanks.

I have at stayed at Branson for work several times. I have witnessed the heartland obesity epidemic first hand.
These people eat things like fried mayonnaise and fried butter and they don't care how fat they get.
It is an appalling thing to see.


https://www.google.com/search?q=frie...h=478&dpr=1.25
http://friedmayo.com/

Ride The Ducks is part of the Branson Tourism Center.
Branson is like Disneyland for country rednecks. They come from all over the south to eat and see country music shows.

[Leonthecat]

"Let the buyer beware", capital's grand fuck you to humanity.

Let the greedy callous swine be sued.
Ride The Ducks is in big trouble.

[Leonthecat]

Coast Guard regulations do not require duck passengers to wear personal flotation devices (PFDs), which puts them in danger of drowning, Mongeluzzi said. But the devices could pin their wearers against the vessel's canopy, which is what happened to several victims in the Arkansas accident, according to the NTSB.

"If you keep the canopy on, then you're damned if you do and damned if you don't," said Mongeluzzi, who characterizes the canopies as "death cages." "If you put your PFD on, it's harder to get out. If you don't put your PFD on, you're more likely to drown. Passengers on a sightseeing cruise should never be faced with that life-or-death decision."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/17/duc...ety/index.html

[Fentoine Lum]

Let the greedy callous swine be sued.
Ride The Ducks is in big trouble.

Anyone recall the phrase "fuck a duck"?

[cancel2 2022]

Does putting other people down make you feel important or does it make you feel smart? One thing's for certain: It makes you look stupid.

Twatsky is an arsehole, always has been, always will be. He likes to think he is the JPP watch poodle yet many of the dead on that boat were blacks!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-jackets.html

[Fentoine Lum]

Twatsky is a arsehole, always has been, always will be. He likes to think he is the JPP watch poodle yet many of the dead on that boat were blacks!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-jackets.html

Does putting other people down make you feel important or does it make you feel smart? One thing's for certain: It makes you look stupid.

[cancel2 2022]

So they deserved to die? WTF guno, that's a shitty ass thing to say.

He is a pretty shitty person, have you just noticed?

[Leonthecat]

Does putting other people down make you feel important or does it make you feel smart? One thing's for certain: It makes you look stupid.

Poor Tom

[Leonthecat]

Twatsky is an arsehole, always has been, always will be. He likes to think he is the JPP watch poodle yet many of the dead on that boat were blacks!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-jackets.html

Was there racism Tom?
Were the black family the only passengers who were told not to bother with the life jackets or was the whole boat told that.
Poor Tom

[volsrock]

I remain unconvinced these stats are anymore real than any of your other bullshit lies.

How many on the ducky boats here?

Black children ages 5 to 19 drown in swimming pools at a rate more than five times that of white children, the research found. That suggests a lot of blacks are not learning to swim, said the lead author, Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usa...om/amp/9146213