Thread: another boater missing on wylie....

news just said another boater fell out of the boat and didn't come back up, this is getting bad!

I printed the Lake Wylie paper last night and read the story about the missing boater. The fact of the matter is ignorance, carelessness, and more times then not drunkeness are the cause of these fatalities. I'm convinced that most of these accidents are caused by folks that boat three times a year. The weeks before or after Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. The most likely time for these accidents are when these idiots are on the water. I have no problem with anyone enjoying a few cold ones while out enjoying the lake, but feel the penalties for driving your boat wrecklessly should include a suspension of boating privledges and a lengthy boating safety coarse before they are reinstated. I would also be in favor of automobile drivers that show a history of driving violations to also be required to under take the boating safety coarse along with a much shorter leash for any boating violations before being allowed to drive one.