re: Teen killed on 4th of July boating accident on Blind River; driver booked, DWI

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Downvote away but automatically blaming the barely drunk guy b/c he's driving is misguided and stupid.

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This is not the point of blaming drunk drivers. Even if you drink and drive and objectively aren't at fault (someone else crashes into you, someone jumps in front of your car), the point is not that the alcohol didn't have anything to do with it. It's that the alcohol was in your system.
Statistically, more people with alcohol in their system operating vehicles, more people in automobile accidents, more death on the road. Most of the time that death could have been avoided had someone just not drank.

The barely drunk person who may very well be capable of driving gets lumped in with the drunk person because there is no objective way to measure the acceptable level of alcohol consumption per person because even with a baseline, metabolizing alcohol varies depending on a great many factors.

You may be a person who can drive with a beer in their system, but the truth is we have to have a way to keep people that aren't as responsible off the roadways. The benefit of creating some sort of intricate system based on each individualized person is convoluted and would have a benefit nowhere near what it would cost, both in terms of money and manpower. The result is a baseline that caters to the most conservative amount of alcohol. We can't do any better without wasting a ton of money just for the sake of allowing people to drive home from an even after drinking.

It's much better for society if you have the fear of the law in you and abstain completely.

The captain is responsible but were there no other adults on the boat??..drunk or sober. Where's the parent(s)?

Most obviously dangerous thing possible on a 'toon.

Boaters be dumb. Passengers be dumb. General public mostly be dumb. Dumb people do dumb shite and people die. Never fails.

Don't be dumb.

Holiday weekends were made for drinking on the dock and watching the dumbasses go by. The ramp is always good entertainment too.

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I'm tired of the responsible drunk driver automatically getting charged/blamed for dumb arse bad luck under the guise that had the driver NOT been drunk, they would have avoided killing the person who was actually responsible for the incident.

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This is the problem. Capt. of the boat is in charge of everyone's safety. That's the responsibility whether it be a flat boat or a yacht. Those guard rails are there for a reason.

FOR EVERYONE WHO MAY DRIVE A BOAT IN THE FUTURE. DO NOT LET PASSENGERS SIT OR STAND BY THE BOW.

If a person falls from the bow then this happens. He definitely shouldn't have been at the helm inebriated and also lacking any basic boater safety knowledge.

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Downvote away but automatically blaming the barely drunk guy b/c he's driving is misguided and stupid.

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If you are at the controls of a boat your total alcohol consumption should be zero, if it takes a zero tolerance policy by law enforcement to change this behavior I have no issue with it.

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I think we'd all be safer with not allowing boat purchases or boat navigation without passing boater safety courses once every couple of years.

There is no shortage of stupidity for some people.

My family has a house on the canal between hill top and canal bank. We’ve spent tons of weekends out there over the years. Whether I’m driving the boat ir one of my buddies is, we don’t drink a drop until we’re docked for the day. Too many idiots to chance it. I would’ve stopped and had the girls move back behind the railing or we wouldn’t go another inch. Hanging over the front of a boat while it’s in gear is insanely stupid and dangerous.