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Dam close! Boat with four women saved from plummeting over water’s edge
NY Post ^ | 11 June 2021 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 06/12/2021 5:19:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Hair-raising photos show a boat perilously close to plunging over the edge of a Texas dam — because the passengers were too busy gossiping, police and rescue officials said.

“They approached the dam, weren’t paying attention, they were talking to each other,”

James Kane, who works at Retro Boat Rentals in Austin, said he rushed to the scene after getting a distress call from the passengers — and quickly tied a rope to the endangered vessel as it approached the edge of the dam.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
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To: deport

I bet none were Americans either .
Indian Job stealers shipped from Silicon valley ?


41 posted on 06/12/2021 6:36:31 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists is a )
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To: Pollard

I dunno, they seem fairly attentive in that picture?


42 posted on 06/12/2021 6:42:02 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: deport

I don’t see life preserver one being worn. Evidently Texas don’t have that law.


43 posted on 06/12/2021 6:52:55 AM PDT by sport
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To: texas booster

Or they were snockered, which may be one of the reasons for their inattention…


44 posted on 06/12/2021 7:00:11 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Well, it was in Austin, TX so they were probably blathering on about how stupid Trump voters are.


45 posted on 06/12/2021 7:04:35 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Pollard

Looks like a classic Glastron restoration.


46 posted on 06/12/2021 7:06:37 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: ncalburt

Got to be as the warning signs are everywhere!!!

They should have looked up what WARNING means in their language!!

Austin was busy yesterday with shootings and dam hangers!


47 posted on 06/12/2021 7:27:11 AM PDT by YouGoTexasGirl ( )
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To: MissEdie

Get 2 women in a boat and take hey will just drown out the engine. Anymore than that and there is no conscious rational thought or sense of direction.


48 posted on 06/12/2021 7:32:06 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: Midwesterner53
Masculine toxicity and fragility to the rescue?

They should have asked whom they voted for before starting the rescue.

49 posted on 06/12/2021 7:36:28 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Pollard

Everyone knows the big fish are pushed against the dam wall.

That is the place for lunkers!!!


50 posted on 06/12/2021 7:38:13 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: PghBaldy

—”Florida Evans had something to say about this”

Same thing only different.

Just that short clip and I feel bad for her.


51 posted on 06/12/2021 7:44:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: texas booster

—” They knew that a big, strong man would come out to rescue them ... this is Texas after all”

I lived in Texas in the early 1970s and drove an ancient Ford flathead PU, that occasionally needed an assist.

Good people and super helpful.

Once, out on a back road on my motorcycle, and spotted a HUGE Tarantula!

I wanted it!
Found a milk carton and was attempting to corral the critter into the carton.

A cowboy stopped and ask what I was doing.

He picked up the tarantula with his bare hand and put it in the carton!!!

Texas!


52 posted on 06/12/2021 7:58:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: YouGoTexasGirl

—”Austin was busy yesterday with shootings and dam hangers!”

Could they also be referred to as dam bangers?

The boat must have banged on the dam?


53 posted on 06/12/2021 8:04:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Is that the Squad?


54 posted on 06/12/2021 8:08:45 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: bray

—”Is that the Squad?”

Perfect!

Well worth drilling down through 50 replies!!!


55 posted on 06/12/2021 8:12:36 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Grateful to hear. Good in the rescuers.

Why is their conversation termed gossip? Did they have a recording to decide whether the content of their conversation was important?

Apparently they did not pay enough attention while they were talking. But maybe they were discussing the health issues of their child or what to do for continuing education or an upcoming funeral or the current cancel culture. Why is it always “gossip” when women are talking?


56 posted on 06/12/2021 8:20:11 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Persevero

Or something of extreme importance, what they are prepareing for dinner for their hungry husbands?


57 posted on 06/12/2021 8:28:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: dforest
Here's some broadbrush for ya: it is God-given, in that God created males to compete and females to relate. That's why women are so much more talkative, and why--unlike men--they can stand (and even like) listening to all that yakking.
58 posted on 06/12/2021 8:42:07 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Watch "THE CHOSEN," about Jesus & the disciples He chose: https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen)
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To: texas booster

Lifejackets wouldn’t have mattered if they tumbled over the edge!


59 posted on 06/12/2021 8:46:56 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What about the stereotype (that is advanced by Joe Biden) that AfricanAmericans are not “sophisticated enough” to learn how to swim?


60 posted on 06/12/2021 9:02:27 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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