Posted on 11/20/2001 8:05:33 AM PST by jerod
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man dashing across a lake on a customized personal watercraft at about 55 mph was killed in an apparent collision with a flying duck. Leon Resnick, an employee of Riva Yamaha, was testing the water jet-propelled craft Thursday on a lake about 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, investigators said Monday.
A co-worker who was watching turned to pick up a radar gun to check Resnick's speed, and when he turned back Resnick was no longer aboard the craft.
Resnick, 31, of Hollywood, drowned after suffering a blow to his head, the Broward County medical examiner's office said.
"Our theory is that the bird was airborne and clocked him in the head," said David Bamdas, an owner of the dealership.
At the speed Resnick was traveling, the 10- to 15-pound duck "might as well have been a cinder block," Bamdas said.
The bird's carcass was found nearby and there were feathers on the water bike's handlebars, said Broward County sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf.
AP-ES-11-20-01 1126EST
Sorry, couldn't resist.
"DUCK!"
By Associated Press November 20, 2001, 9:42 AM EST DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- A man dashing across a lake on a customized personal watercraft at about 55 mph was killed in an apparent collision with a flying duck. Leon Resnick, an employee of Riva Yamaha, was testing the water jet-propelled craft Thursday on a lake about 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, investigators said Monday. A co-worker who was watching turned to pick up a radar gun to check Resnick's speed, and when he turned back Resnick was no longer aboard the craft. Resnick, 31, of Hollywood, died of a ...
10215393 posted on 11/20/01 7:53 AM pacific by Buzznutt
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida man died after a duck hit him in the head, knocking him off a personal watercraft and into a lake, sheriff's officials said on Monday. Leon Resnick, 31, was driving the watercraft at a lake in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Deerfield Beach on Thursday, while a friend watched from shore, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The friend turned to get a radar gun to check the vessel's speed, then noticed Resnick was missing from the craft. He found him several minutes later in the water, pulled him ...
10213037 posted on 11/20/01 5:42 AM pacific by Cagey
Sorta like what happened to thus guy.
Watercraft Operator Dies in High-Speed Collision with Duck -- Women and Minorities to Suffer Most.
I suppose all the Bushies out there are going to ignore this obvious NTSB COVERUP of the truth. There's nothing in this article about how the duck's body was found closer to the scene of the accident than several feathers. Why would the duck hit the water first? And there's no sign of any of the man's hair on the duck's body. Everyone knows that when you plow into a duck at 55 mph some of your hairs are going to get stuck in its feathers. And weren't there several witnesses who saw an explosion on the right side of the duck before the alleged impact? Naturally, the FBI has the only videotape of the scene and they aren't releasing it. You all know why. Maybe they were afraid that we'd see Janet Reno and John Ashcroft having a secret meeting with Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter in a boat nearby, hmmmm?
Just one more "accident" that we will never know the full story on.
Shalom.
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