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06-29-2010, 05:33 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: North Kingstown, RI
Posts: 1,229
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Birdbrains in action
I managed to shoot a fine example of stupidity gone wild. Watch this slideshow and watch what could have made the Darwin awards. I'm glad to report that there was no loss of life. I'm pretty sure they left here and then went and played in traffic.
http://laptew.smugmug.com/photos/swf...17947781_QF5jn |
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06-29-2010, 05:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: On the Island
Posts: 541
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Really great pictures Mike, as usual. Some people just don't have a clue. It breaks my heart to see kids get hurt or killed because they don't know what they are in for when they go to see the cool waves.
You should send that slideshow to a TV station and have them run it as a warning.
Just a few weeks ago a young girl lost her life playing on a sandbar at Plum Island. So sad.
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"It's not about the fish, it's about fishing for the fish. The fish is gravy."
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06-29-2010, 06:01 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Young testosterone in action.......
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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06-29-2010, 06:08 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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the quality of that camera is awesome.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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06-29-2010, 06:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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When I saw the title, I somehow thought there would be a shot of me in there
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06-29-2010, 06:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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Obviously
there are no warning signs
and no Rangers issuing citations either....
not to mention a lack of PARENTAL supervision 
great photography |
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06-29-2010, 10:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Holyoke, Ma
Posts: 1,183
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Wow and they wonder why people get hurt or die, just insane!
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06-29-2010, 11:13 PM
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Rockhoppin Dan
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: RI
Posts: 100
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Insane is right.... I don't even like to fish on a calm night over there. In my opinion, most dangerous place to fish in RI. Those fellas are extremely lucky.....
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Don't force it feel it.
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06-30-2010, 08:48 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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I was on that very rock recently and wussed out because I was solo and sliding as the waves washed over still with 2 hours of incoming tide left. Slippery as about anything in RI. You could lather it with Goose Poop and probably improve traction. Still more slippery than some North Shore spots  |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-01-2010, 12:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 258
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People just don't realize how dangerous it can become in seconds in and around the water. We havn't had a loss of life around hazard ave in a good long time, usually it dosent go 3 years without someone dying off those rocks. This is a good time to remind everyone, including ourselves,
#1 if you are out of your comfort level you shouldn't be there.
#2 If you don't have an "out of your comfort level" I won't mention any names, lol, keep yourself out of harms way at least somewhat. Can ne one say Great White at night, looking like a seal, dragging a bloody fish on a stringer?
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07-01-2010, 12:41 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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a few members here have had some close calls on those rocks....
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07-01-2010, 06:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: North Kingstown, RI
Posts: 1,229
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I will never forget the one night I pulled a scuba dive in the middle of the night. When I went to make my exit from the water I got the assistance from a big wave headed for a shale plateau, I was tossed, rolling like a log, into a cauldron of churning white water that now covered the shelf where we had entered from. After I scrambled up the rock I promptly sat down and waited for my partner to exit. I watched as his lights showed him getting the same rough treatment as me. He did a few log rolls before scurrying out of the surf.
Big fun....ONCE!
Mike
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07-01-2010, 08:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Bethany CT
Posts: 2,883
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how the heck do you land a fish in that mess? Those shots coulda been of northern California, where more double drownings happen than anywhere in the US. Makes me nervous just looking at those pictures.
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No, no, no. we’re 30… 30, three zero.
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07-01-2010, 09:54 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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one day i was trying to body surf ok...
first time....
and i was a total greenhorn out in CALI
not realizing just how dangerous the under tow was
at this particular spot
suddenly this huge wave toppled over me
and dragged me under water like fifteen feet down
and pinned me there
then proceeded to bowl me up the beach
luckily i new instinctively to just relax and let it happen
and i could hold my breath forever something i practiced for years
the next wave picks me up and i tried to swim then
but it scraped me up the rocks bad
cutting my chest the whole friggan way....
that was ONE Hell of a lesson....i'm telling ya.
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