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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:36 PM
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Big MPH Boats should be Run On Oceans or Great Lakes or Wide Bodies of Water lots of Room to Pin It.
Thats what the 38'-50'size is Made for and Called, Off Shore

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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by guy regal
Who is that a$$hole that is on the right in that picture? Who does he think he is boating around like that? There's a poker run going on!!!! Doesn't he know? What an idiot.
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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by CigaretteSam
I certainly don't want to point fingers at anyone, especially at this time, given this unfortunate accident, but I just came across this video on You Tube- also from the Lake Cumberland Poker Run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoHBQNqNSg

From what I can see, this Skater separated form the rest of the group and made a very close pass between that Checkmate and a few other boats.....

Why go all the way over there when you have more room in the main channel of the lake?


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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by CigaretteSam
I certainly don't want to point fingers at anyone, especially at this time, given this unfortunate accident, but I just came across this video on You Tube- also from the Lake Cumberland Poker Run.
Sure hope those were his buddies on both sides of that fly by...

Where I live, you'd been picking beer bottles out of the seat back, if they missed.....
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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Tborisch
No excuse for that kind of stupidity... What if somebody was swimming next to the boat.. Or his engine blew and pulled to one side, or broke a prop, broke a drive, etc..

Grow up and drive like a responsible human being..

Stupid.
I'm not disagreeing with you but John Tomlinson did the exact same thing a few years ago at Desert Storm poker run in the silver M35 DCB that flipped earlier this year. People were upset about it til it was said that JT was driving and then the attitude changed to "well, he is a professional race boat driver". I just don't think it's right that people on here are already saying the owner of the PP Skater should be booted from boating events when everyone turned a blind eye to when JT did it and he's been welcome at the boating events ever since.

Edit: Point is I just don't want the owner of PP to get "outed" when JT got a "pass" for the same thing.

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Old 09-09-2013 | 10:56 PM
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What an absolute tool in the red skater passing between parked boats like that ! I would go to the dock where he is and take him for a swim !
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Old 09-09-2013 | 11:01 PM
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Everyone makes mistakes. Sounds like JT made a mistake a few years back, and if memory serves me he heard about it. That being said, it appears the PP skater has done this on multiple occasions (if it is the same boat in both videos). While I don't think JT doing it a few years back was acceptable in anyway at all, to do this type of thing multiple times shows a complete disregard for the safety of his crew and the safety of innocent spectators.
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Old 09-09-2013 | 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Plowtownmissile
I'm not disagreeing with you but John Tomlinson did the exact same thing a few years ago at Desert Storm poker run in the silver M35 DCB that flipped earlier this year. People were upset about it til it was said that JT was driving and then the attitude changed to "well, he is a professional race boat driver". I just don't think it's right that people on here are already saying the owner of the PP Skater should be booted from boating events when everyone turned a blind eye to when JT did it and he's been welcome at the boating events ever since.
I didn't see that occur, but let me the first to publicly say, because I don't worry about impressing ANYONE in life...if JT did that same move, he would have been in the wrong. It doesn't matter who you....who you think you are...or who you wish you were....when you drive like a wreck less idiot there's no excuse. Just because someone races boats does not give them the right to put innocent lives in danger. There's no free passes for negligence. The video of that skater flying by the spectator boats was negligent, no two ways about.
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Old 09-09-2013 | 11:14 PM
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If you want to eliminate speed in a poker run, limit the field to sailboats. Saftey assured...
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Old 09-09-2013 | 11:27 PM
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If you want to eliminate speed in a poker run, limit the field to sailboats. Saftey assured...
I guess your not following America's Cup racing this year?
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