always wear a lifejacket

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_6322345

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

88skisupreme, no. that article has absolutely nothing to do with wearing a lifejacket. thats like me posting an article of an airplane crash and then saying always wear a parachute.

scottyb · Posted: Jul 10, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

sht...ima start wearing my life vest when i drive.

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

it says the kid was at the surface but he sunk and died possibly because of an injury. He should have wore a life jacket. Always wear a life jacket when you drive a car into a lake.

ImSoWakested · Backside 180 Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 628 City: Madison

88skisupreme, all ways wear you jacket when car lake driving

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

88skisupreme, actually, if the kid did wear a life jacket it might have made it harder for him to escape out of the car and he would have died an even quicker death.

scottyb · Posted: Jul 10, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject:

Mr. Top Hat, the car didnt have a roof. so wearing a life jacket probably would have saved his life.

but your post made me laugh for like 2 minutes. Laughing

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

ScottyB,

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

I don't know, I feel like for my sensibility, 88skisupreme melted the cold ice around my heart with this sound advice: always wear a life jacket when you drive a car into a lake.

But I also appreciate Mr. Top hat's first analogy.

However, now that I've read the news article, 88skisupreme's advice is really just the moral of the story (per Margie Martinez, spokeswoman for the Weld County Sheriff's Department).

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

That is super sad!!! Those dudes probably got concussions and broke their arms and faces and died a horribly painful and scary death.

They probably didn't anticipate that driving a car into water at 35 MPH is pretty much the same as driving into a brick wall.

That sucks.... getting knocked out underwater is no way to die.

ImSoWakested · Backside 180 Joined: 26 May 2007 Posts: 628 City: Madison

why would yu do this in the first place, it just screams bad idea

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

Not wearing ur life vest while out on the water is stupid.My uncle was skiing, and he wasnt wearing a vest. He wrecked and was knocked out. He drowned. So Mr. Top Hat, if u feel like risking ur life for no reason, then be my guest. Say hi to my uncle for me.

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

WAKEMan1, i have been sent to the ER so many times from wakeskating accidents and i do not need you to tell me what to do. regardless of that fact where in this thread do you see me encouraging riding without a vest?

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

Mr. Top Hat · Dead Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 5818

that was in reference to his logic, not the statement itself.

t-rex · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 2007 City: Denver

Mr. Top Hat, Laughing

vests are good. driving into lake= no good.

do yall ever read the darwin awards? Smash

Mr. Top Hat, i think you would love the darwin awards.

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

oh sorry for lashing out at u. i just hate it when people say " I dont need to wear a vest i can swim a mile!" IF UR KNOCKED OUT, ITS PRETTY TOUGH STUPID! ( again not directed at u Mr. Top Hat)

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jul 10, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

WAKEMan1, this is true, but now adays, some of the vest people where wouldnt even float you, such as the gooru... its more like a puffy shirt then a vest. I can tell you right now if u were laying face down, knocked out, you would stay there, and continue to breathe water and probly die quickly, same as if u were to have no vest on face down in the water. But non the less, i would rather ware a vest, unless its really shallow water then i dont mind being vestless.

Jesse · Posted: Jul 10, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject:

-=AlexXx=-, my Gooru floats me and I weigh 210 pounds and it rolls the person face up. I tested it Laughing