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Tallyman
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Verizon, Blue Creek
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5/12/2009 11:07:38 AM
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Does anyone have Verizon wireless broadband coverage in the StillWaters/Blue Creek area, and if so, does it work well.
(I do have a kill switch on mine which makes me feel safer without actually being safer.)
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Swimmer27
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LOL
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5/12/2009 1:44:28 PM
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You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. The one time I needed a kill switch it definitely saved tremendous damage and quite possibly lives. Ask anyone that was around Veazeys Marina on July 3, 1988 when my steering cable broke and threw everything out of the boat including me, the wife, child and dog right in front of the bouys. IF not for the kill switch the boat would have run over numerous people, boats, piers, gas pumps, etc. until some catastophe stopped it and/or sank it.
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Tallyman
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LOL
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5/13/2009 9:23:15 AM
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So, since 1988, tens of thousands of Alabamians paid exhorbitant prices to yankee and foreign manufacturers for kill switches that "may" have prevented one crash into a dock? That is cost effective?
I suppose boaters in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina just have to be risk takers since their elected officials don't require kill switches on motorboats.
I think you have been brainwashed by the Alabama Marine Police, however impossible that seems.
I bet you ride around with your bumpers hanging over the side also.
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Swimmer27
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LOL
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5/13/2009 10:49:54 AM
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I am the CEO of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but in this case I don't care what the 'nanny state' says. Kill switches save lives. How may runaway PWC's would have been running around the lake without them? You shouldn't need the government to tell you do something that increases yours, and everybody elses safety.
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Summer Lover
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Whoa
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5/13/2009 11:43:41 AM
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"You shouldn't need the government to tell you do something that increases yours, and everybody elses safety." Come on Swimmer, life is a contact sport, and if you do only what is "safe" - you ain't enjoying it.
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Tallyman
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Whoa
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5/13/2009 1:28:23 PM
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Kill switches are required on PWC's in most every state, including Georgia and Florida. There is a reason for having a kill switch on a PWC. There is no reason to mandate a kill switch on a boat. Of course, this being America, those who disagree can buy their own if they live in a jurisdiction that does not require them.
We have become a nation of nervous nellies. Remember that everytime you take off your shoes when boarding a plane or surrender your penknife when you go into the courthouse.
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