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[Duke41]

Darwinism in effect

[Gobi]

The issue is really with the children that accompany those folks. No child, such as the one that downed in Maine, deserves such a fate. Maybe we should be the responsible ones and see if some of our money that will be gobbled up by the State in the form of a salt water fishing tax (that's what it is, a tax, not a fee, for all of the tax and spend folks in the audience) could be used for something as simple as signs to keep people off of the rocks and warning of rogue waves at places such as Beavertail, Hazard, etc.... (Eben - I remember your post about Hazard and how you were nearly done in by a large wave there)
K

[MAKAI]

Cull out the stupid.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Gobi

The issue is really with the children that accompany those folks. No child, such as the one that downed in Maine, deserves such a fate. Maybe we should be the responsible ones and see if some of our money that will be gobbled up by the State in the form of a salt water fishing tax (that's what it is, a tax, not a fee, for all of the tax and spend folks in the audience) could be used for something as simple as signs to keep people off of the rocks and warning of rogue waves at places such as Beavertail, Hazard, etc.... (Eben - I remember your post about Hazard and how you were nearly done in by a large wave there)
K

Yep. I almost died at hazard.. and thats why I am so sensitive about this.. I knew what I was doing too which is the embarrassing part. Growing up in newport, spending summers cliff diving all the time, and I still got taken out by a rouge wave.. people should just stand way back when the heave is on...

[piemma]

Dec 1994 I'm standing 50 feet from the front of the Charletown breachway with my fishing partner at that time. The waves were big but not huge. All of a sudden the rogue wave appears and crashes over us and we are a good 50 feet in from the end rock. IT FLATTENED US!! We were shocked and got out of there very quickly. You just never know.
I have been in Nathan Cove's on the big rock and had a wave come over the top of the rock and me. That a 25 to 30' wave and those of you who know Nathans know the rock I speak of.

[Typhoon]

The sad fact is that because people are inherently stupid they ruin it for the rest of us. $100 says the family sues the park service for allowing them to put themselves in harms way and be idiots.

[striperman36]

Here is the article from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/0...ath/index.html