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re: Deadly boat accident on Tickfaw River at midnight (2 killed, 6 injured)

Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:15 pm to
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
22904 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:15 pm to
Thoughts and prayers for the victims of this accident
Posted by KemoSabe65
70605
Member since Mar 2018
6329 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:42 pm to
Would’ve saved two lives in this instance if enforcement had been on the water near that bar.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
13411 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:52 pm to

Would’ve saved two lives in this instance if enforcement had been on the water near that bar.
—at midnight?
Posted by Lithium
Member since Dec 2004
63991 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:54 pm to
Well if the driver had been drinking they are in trouble unless their Dad is the DA... never mind that's St Tammany Parish
Posted by HeadedToTheWoods
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Dec 2013
1286 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 7:57 pm to
WL&F


They're a PITA and overstaffed
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Understaffed
And if most followed the rules they wouldn’t be as relevant. Wanna be an agent that spends days fishing a body out of the water because no PFD was worn, or someone chopped up by a prop? They see terrible things on the water
Posted by Clm25
Member since Jun 2019
31 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 8:10 pm to
We bought a camp on the tickfaw (terry harbor) this past spring. My family and I are out there every weekend and there’s always multiple sheriff/wlf boats patrolling the water.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
53898 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 8:23 pm to
No different then tiki tubing and local law enforcement was getting calls everyday without sufficient manpower to respond to all the calls
Posted by Higgysmalls
Ft Lauderdale
Member since Jun 2016
7653 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 8:33 pm to
I heard through my sauces that party barge was running dark with no lights. If you are making that mistake why would you be in middle of the canal. I've ran with no lights before but always along side at half speed where nothing else runs
Posted by N2cars
Close by
Member since Feb 2008
37907 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 8:35 pm to
They're always fiddle-farting around doing checks, and there's multiple agents on the boats.
Posted by phil good
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2013
1685 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 9:03 pm to
From a coworker that was at the scene the sea fox driver left in handcuffs.
Posted by MikeD
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
8148 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 9:36 pm to
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If this is the case, as much as I’d like to blame the sea fox, it isn’t his fault.


Unless he’s drunk, then it doesn’t matter
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175754 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 9:39 pm to
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Sounds like someone that’s never had a mmf threesome.

Mikelbr taught me the order of the letters matter. If you had a mmf it means you went at another dude with a woman. If you had a mfm you went after a women with another dude.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42953 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 9:42 pm to
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Mikelbr taught me the order of the letters matter


I’m familiar.
Posted by SWLA92
SWLA
Member since Feb 2015
4550 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 10:11 pm to
Yep there was a wreck last night in Sulphur, where a guy ran into the median on I10 then tried to walk across interstate and got hit by a vehicle. The guy that hit him was impaired and got arrested. If he was sober he more than likely wouldn’t have got arrested. Wrong place wrong time.
Posted by TackySweater
Member since Dec 2020
24650 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 10:18 pm to
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Both are illegal Mr Esquire

It appears you have missed the point
Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
14985 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 10:20 pm to
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The guy that hit him was impaired and got arrested. If he was sober he more than likely wouldn’t have got arrested. Wrong place wrong time.

Driving drunk down an interstate isn’t “wrong place, wrong time”.
Posted by Tiger Prawn
Member since Dec 2016
25107 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 10:26 pm to
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Everyone needs to pass a min standards boating test not just those born after 84
No they don’t. You don’t need a damn thing if you were born before 1984.

I have my boater ed certification and have been stopped on the water about a half dozen times by LDWF checking for equipment and/or fishing license and creel checks. Never been asked to show proof of boater safety, even though I’m required to have it.
Posted by SWLA92
SWLA
Member since Feb 2015
4550 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 10:37 pm to
Who said the driver was drunk. He could have had one beer over the legal limit. Not drunk at all but some goofball decides to walk across I10 at night.
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30025 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 11:06 pm to
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quote:
Everyone needs to pass a min standards boating test not just those born after 84
No they don’t. You don’t need a damn thing if you were born before 1984.


I think his point was everyone SHOULD have to pass a test to show minimum competency to drive a boat, just like a car.

I have no idea what the number actually is, I assume no one does, but especially by 5-8pm the percentage of rec boaters driving while over the legal limit is likely outrageously high.

I am the odd guy who will not take the boat out if I have been drinking, period. It isn't as much handling the boat as it is I feel a responsibility to people on my boat if shite goes sideways. I want to be sober to make the appropriate communications early on by phone or radio and don't want to second guess it because I have been drinking. I want to be able to get the drunks into life jackets and if we go in the water I want to be able to keep a head count and keep everyone together. I also want to be able to administer first aid and if more than that is needed I want to be able to follow my wife's instructions since she may be drinking and not comfortable being hands-on with someone. I know some will see that as silly and an overabundance of caution but I'll accept that.
Posted by slinger1317
Northshore
Member since Sep 2005
6837 posts
Posted on 7/28/24 at 11:35 pm to
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It sounds like the pontoon didn’t have any nav or anchor lights on


How can you do this at midnight and actually see where you are going?
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