Posted on 04/10/2024 11:53:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The 20-year-old passenger who jumped off a Royal Caribbean cruise last week after an argument with his dad has been identified as a former high school football player and avid hunter living in Florida.
Levion Parker, of North Port, Florida, has been missing since he jumped overboard April 4 in front of his brother and father on the cruise to Cuba and the Bahamas’ Grand Inagua Island, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
The release of his identity comes shortly after the Coast Guard called off its search for Parker.
Social media posts show Parker often went on hunting and fishing trips. He also played football for North Port High School before he graduated in 2022, according to the Daily Mail.
Parker jumped off the 18-story Liberty of the Seas after reportedly getting into an argument with his father.
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Drunk or sober, perhaps he had "problems" with his father.
Reminds me of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV show of a man jumping overboard.
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” Dip in the Pool (1958)
-PJ
-PJ
He jumped in front of his family. Saf especially for them.
“Drama boy mat not have known that there’s a strong slipstream along the hull of a ship that will pull you into the screws.”
Not very likely.
I guess he finally made his big splash.
Just another (young) Florida man, “Here, hold my beer and watch this.”
But the kid was 20, obviously wasn't in college nor trade school, he was DRUNK, had a problem with his father, and did a very stupid thing.
And smearing me, for NO reason, other than your lack of reading comprehension, are the one who needs to get off your high horse and calm down.
If YOU have lost a child, I'm sorry, but that is NO reason at all to lash out at me! And I know full well what the death of a child does to a family. Assumption about someone you know nothing about doesn't help your insulting me, nolr anyone else here, for that matter.
What a tragedy. The family will never be the same. Simply awful. Prayers for the son and the family.
My favorite one is:A LEG OF LAMB".
Parker said “so far, so good” as he passed 9th story.
Sad. Irrational attack on self.
"Man from the South" starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre was another popular Roald Dahl story that Hitchcock did.
Norman Lloyd directed it. Remember him from Hitchcock's "Saboteur?" Also St. Elsewhere.
-PJ
I think alcohol and drugs were most likely involved.
"SABOTEUR" is one of my favorite movies! And yes, I did watch St. Elsewhere too.
I learned about Roald Dahl and Harlan Ellison, from watching Alfred Hitchcock presents, as a kid, bought books that they had written and never knew, until many decades later, that Dahl had written children's books.
-PJ
True, and while Ellison never wrote any children’s books, he did write stories and books and articles in many different genres; Sci-Fi, fictional represenation/exposition of time he joined a gang, in the 1950s, in N.J., as an undercover reporter, T.V. critiques, and more.
8^)
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