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.
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I bet none were Americans either .
Indian Job stealers shipped from Silicon valley ?
I dunno, they seem fairly attentive in that picture?
I don’t see life preserver one being worn. Evidently Texas don’t have that law.
Or they were snockered, which may be one of the reasons for their inattention…
Well, it was in Austin, TX so they were probably blathering on about how stupid Trump voters are.
Looks like a classic Glastron restoration.
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!
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.
They should have asked whom they voted for before starting the rescue.
Everyone knows the big fish are pushed against the dam wall.
That is the place for lunkers!!!
—”Florida Evans had something to say about this”
Same thing only different.
Just that short clip and I feel bad for her.
—” 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!
—”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?
Is that the Squad?
—”Is that the Squad?”
Perfect!
Well worth drilling down through 50 replies!!!
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?
Or something of extreme importance, what they are prepareing for dinner for their hungry husbands?
Lifejackets wouldn’t have mattered if they tumbled over the edge!
What about the stereotype (that is advanced by Joe Biden) that AfricanAmericans are not “sophisticated enough” to learn how to swim?
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