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Originally Posted by Seadoo
If MP do nothing on the lake then why is there a need for a speed limit? It is just going to be another "law" that they are not going to enforce.
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Horse Hockey! Not the point, who cares about the stupid speed limit, make it 5 mph for all I care. What I have a problem with is the one time I needed help from the Marine Patrol, I was told I couldn't get it. I had run out of gas, it was night time and I had a boat full of children and an elderly grandmother. If that happened to you how would you feel when they told you, sorry we can't help you that is not our job!
Well what is their job? Did I have to wait until someone broad-sided me and when my boat started to sink then they could have helped me. It's a degrace, it happened about 10 years ago and I can still remembered how I felt when I was told they wouldn't help me. I had to paddle a 27ft. boat full of people to shore, about 100 yrds. Do know how long that took, and how hard it was to do, and then once I got there had to walk about 3 miles to get some gas, and it was by act of chance that I was able to get some. I didn't get my family home until 2:00 AM. I still get upset when I think about it.
I know they save people, right time right place, but do you know how many people I have saved on this lake in the last 20 years. About 10, because there sail boat tipped over, or they ran out of gas and were drifting. And you know why it was me that saved them, because Marine Patrol was no were around!