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Abby Sunderland Feared Lost at Sea
abcnews.com ^
| June 10, 2010
| ROBERT RUDMAN, MARC DORIAN and TOM McCARTHY
Posted on 06/10/2010 11:11:42 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Texas56
A 16-year-old girl from England Australia.
To: Theophilus
What, may I ask, is your blue water sailing experience?
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:51:23 AM PDT
by
outofstyle
(Anti-socialist)
To: maddog55
Personally, Im all for it. Shes doing something shes wanted to do and worked hard towards while most kids her age dont have a clue what they want in or out of life at 16 and for the most part well into their 20s. Amen, we take risks all the time but the unusual risk taken by a brave young lady and her parents get slammed. If she survives I'd be proud to have a son of mine marry an audacious and mature girl like that.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:51:51 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
To: Bernard Marx
How brave you are! You can do what you like with your own adult life but parents have no right to place a 16-year-old into a situation like that. Hopefully they'll be charged with child endangerment. Freedom should be illegal!
No one, anywhere, should be allowed to do anything you disapprove of.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:52:18 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Red in Blue PA
Do you think 12 year olds should be allowed to drive? Sometimes we need laws to protect children.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Give it a rest. The sea is no place to "find yourself" or set records as a teen in a solo adventure like this.
I'm not calling for prosecution like the other poster, but at some point you have to calmly way the risks. She, and her parents, didn't do so it seems.
I was on the MIDWAY (remember that old girl?) and watched that carrier tossed about like a cork. Cannot even imagine what a sailboat would be subjected to in a WESTPAC storm.
To: tongue-tied
I agree with you. Parents are and should be the authority but when they act recklessly and irresponsibly, there should be consequences.
Why did she have to sail at 16 rather than 18 or 19? The answer is to set a record. How important was that to the parents I wonder. If she set this record then the next shot would be at 15 or 10 or 8!
I put people like this in the same boat (pardon pun) as the lil teen miss pageant parents. Most often it for their own personal aggrandizement. The child is simply a means to that end.
To: ex 98C MI Dude
There is a big difference between adults making these decisions and children.
To: Texas56
Thanks for correcting me. Good for the brother!
To: Red in Blue PA
people agreed govt does not know what is best for an individual and parents are supposed to know what is best for their 16 y/o children.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:54:56 AM PDT
by
outofstyle
(Anti-socialist)
To: bboop
So true..
My grandfather run away from home at 13. By 15 he was supervising a work gang building a railroad. His parents found him at that point! My grandmother was a meterologist in Arctic by the time she turned 17, flying in an open cockpit plane.. the other grandma was driving cattle from Ukraine through half of USSR to Siberia as German army advanced behind. She was 16 at the time.
16 is old enough IF you are old enough! Some people are never old enough..
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:55:01 AM PDT
by
dimk
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:55:55 AM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
To: outofstyle
What, may I ask, is your blue water sailing experience? Sadly, none, would that I had the resources. I've never been on the Titanic either.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:56:00 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Still missing the point. I’m all for living at the cost of dying.
But...I’m also for responsible parenting. As a parent, I am responsible for my children until they reach age 18. I am supposed to be the voice of reason and good judgement in their lives.
To: tongue-tied
Exactly. Bad judgment by the parents. The girl didn’t know better, but her parents should have. They will have to live with it. Along with the loony-toon “green” advertising sponsors who funded the debacle.
To: tongue-tied
She, and her parents, didn't do so it seems. A hundred years ago, 16-year olds were adults, and acted like it.
We are so much better off now that society is populated by Peter Pans.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:57:04 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: The KG9 Kid
![](http://www.k12.hi.us/~kapunaha/student_projects/newworld/magellan/ferdinand-magellan.jpg)
Senhor Ferdinand Magellan says:
"Never send a little girl to do a man's job."
To: Red in Blue PA
There is a big difference between trained professionals like the astronauts and a 16 year old kid.
The space program used hundreds of trained people who were the best in their fields. Not so sure about letting kids take such risks just so they can enjoy their 15 minutes of fame.
I can bet you one thing though. The parents will milk any outcome to their advantage. Seems that these kinds of people let their kids do this stuff so they can be in the spotlight for what ever reason.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:58:40 AM PDT
by
RickB444
(beat your sword into a plow and you'll wind up plowing the fields of someone who kept their sword.)
To: tongue-tied
I'm not calling for prosecution like the other poster, but at some point you have to calmly weigh the risks. She, and her parents, didn't do so it seems. You can't derive whether or not someone has weighed a risk by the outcome of taking the risk. If nothing had gone wrong, would that prove that they had weighed the risk?
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:59:49 AM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
To: Theophilus
I went diving with my 12 year old off the gulf coast of Florida. We were looking for fossilized sharks teeth.
A non-fossilized teeth filled shark came to investigate.
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posted on
06/10/2010 11:59:50 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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