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MythBuster
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Boat Bill
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3/27/2008 4:20:13 PM
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"Personally, I've only been swamped by a cigar boat once or twice."
And how many times have you been swamped by a canoe? Or even a jonboat? Or a 17-foot Stingray?
"With great power comes great responsibility" is more than just a line from the Spiderman movie. In this case, too many people with great power-- big POWERFUL boats-- failed to act responsibly when it mattered. Because of those few, many must pay the price. (Self-policing by the responsible owners would help, but that's just asking the impossible; on a lake this size with this many boats, there's only so much than someone can do.)
My personal point of view is that cigar boats and other built-for-speed craft are not the problem; it's those giant-cruisers-that-belong-on-the-ocean that throw the massive wakes (because people won't, don't, or can't operate them correctly) that cause dock and shoreline damage, and turn the lake into a mini-ocean. It's hard for a cigar boat to do any damage without suffering damage itself; the cruisers leave a wake of destruction behind them, and the drivers are either oblivious, or uncaring. And if you want to get people mad at you, act oblivious or uncaring towards them and something that is important to them.
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