Posted on 07/11/2014 9:01:04 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
In spite of what happened, the Kaufmans say they plan to travel the world with their kids again, as soon as they get a new sailboat.
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“I’ll take Doubling Down on Stupid for a Thousand, Alex.”
Was the service cancelled because they didn’t pay their bill???
Those poor kids — having morons for parents.
and no backup communications?
I don’t know, but I’ll bet that the card was re-issued with a new date and nobody remembered to notify the automatic payment plan. That has happened to me.
Seriously, blaming the satellite company for a situation out of their control?
The phone was working and then stopped. I don't get how this is the satellite company's fault.
Why couldn't the wife go with the girl and he could sail the boat back?
I watched this mindless mother say that they raised their children to be sailors and love the sea —
Her kids are 1 and 3 years old.
To those who may find this deliberate sinking odd, if a vessel has to be abandoned, it cannot be allowed to drift as that makes it a "Hazard to Navigation!" Either sufficient capable people would have to stay on board to safely navigate the vessel OR it must be sunk!
To your question, because the boat was taking on water whenever they tried to start it up so the coast guard had to sink it. Funny how that is not mentioned in this article.
This couple are typical liberal thinkers. When the consequences of your poorly thought out actions come to bite you in the butt.... blame someone else.
We have a winner Alex!
Because they're incredibly stupid?
I'm sure that thought occurred to every last person on the USS Vandegaft as well... "He did WHAT?!?!?!"
All the cell phone providers I know of allow you to call 911 and the phone company itself even on a disconnected phone. They want you to pay your bill and will let you do it pretty easily. I don't know whether sat phones have the same feature.
What was the connection issue? Did they not pay their bill?
Why in the world would you bring kids too young to handle it if they fall overboard, even with a life jacket?
Why did they have to scuttle the boat rather than putting the kids and maybe one parent on the helicopter and try to return to port with the boat or at least stay on board for and pay for a recovery crew to come out to sail or tow it to a nearby port?
All sorts of questions which the idiot press won't cover in a three minute human interest story.
An “experienced” sailor without a VHF, 1000 miles out to sea, relying on a sat cell phone? That would be like an experienced sailor without a sail, I’m assuming he took one of those with him, of course.
The fact that the news report left that out makes me wonder what else they left out in order to make the story better for the idiot family. If they didn't bother to update their billing credit card and are blaming the phone company for that, I hope the company crushes them and gets lawyer fees from them.
HAHAHA, for sure, another set of parents that are Darwin Award prospects!
Maybe I’m missing the obvious, but why didn’t they return to port when the child became ill? Or at least sail back once she was airlifted off, rather than sink the boat? I think the best they’ll be able to establish is some degree of shared liability against the phone company.
There’s no explanation of why their service was shut off.
So we must wonder why the father didn't stay aboard when the family was offloaded, so he could bring back the boat.
Traveling like that with very young kids is beyond irresponsible.I don’t care *how* many antibiotics or satellite phones they have on board.
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