Comments on: Boat Accident Survivor Account Disputed

Father Of Missing NFL Player Rejects Idea That His Son Removed Life Vest And Gave Up

[legacyabq]

Leave it to a Left Wing Athiest Loony Democrat to take a tragedy and turn it into Political Agenda.
Posted by demslie2all at 8:06 AM


Whos bringing up politics?? You are the only one who mentioned politics on this entire blog... Looney indeed..

I mean, look at your screen name.. You think everything is political, and you say that someone else is bringing up politics?

Some guy says God bless them all.
Where was God when they drowned??

Its a simple question, and you cant answer it..

Your simple mind just sticks the word liberal on anything you cant explain and then your empty mind is satisfied..
Thats some nice life you got there..
You must be soooo smart to have it all figured out:

ITS THE LIBERALS!!

Damn, you are an egergiously stupid person

[legacyabq]

Legacy, do you believe in GOD?
Posted by rdclark120365 at 7:28 AM

Look, some guy said god was looking out for this guy and watching over the families..

If thats true, why did he let them all drown?

Its ludicrous. Get a life..

And HELL NO I dont beleieve in invisible sky gods, or sun gods, or fairies, or ESP, or ghosts, or any other insane garbage..

Get a dam life already and learn some critical thinking you silly silly fundie person

[spiritwalk]

Come on, this guy went through enough and will have a lot of survivors guilt to contend with -- and now one of the fathers is busting his chops while the guys still recovering in the hospital. This just isn't right.
Posted by dagrandma

What isn?t right is ?survivors guilt?. That is not something that people put on themselves, it is something that society puts on them. We have all been fed this image of ?heroics? by imposters like John Wayne which says it is better to die a hero than to do nothing.

If the sea were strong enough to flip the boat over then they were too strong for this guy to think about jumping back in the water and trying to pull a 300 lb man up on the boat. I wouldn?t have tried it and I would not feel guilty about it and I wouldn?t care if people called me a coward.

The father is upset because this guys story isn?t plausible and he wants to know what the truth is. If the guy just said that the boat flipped and there was nothing he could do, that would be the end of it, but to tell this story of swimming under the boat and swimming out to bring them life jackets and then getting back up on the boat is ridiculous. He is going beyond survivors guilt and trying to claim heroics that just could not have happened. If I was the dead man?s father I would be upset as well.

[spiritwalk]

Does anyone else, suspect the slight possiblity that they staged it ? and took off to mexico ? I hate to think that, but strange why they couldn't ALL cling on until help arrived.....why only the one guy ?
Posted by Joe-NY-3
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It seems that we are in the minority, but I agree with you, there is something wrong with this story.
Like you, I have been wondering why the others did not pull themsleves out of the water and up on the overturned boat.
I have a hard time with this story of him swimming under the boat to get the others life jackets and him still having his flip flop on.
I wouldn't think it was staged though. I think it is more likely that they all went overboard and he got himself up on the boat immediately and watched as the others went under and he doesn't want to admit he did nothing. He probably couldn't have done anything and would have drowned as well if he had tried. He sat there for a couple of days thinking about it and this was the best story he could come up with to keep people from thinking he was a coward. By now he might even believe it himself. But, the idea that these guys stayed in the water for 2 days and didn't try to get up on the boat just isn't plausible.

[dagrandma]

Oh yeah, it's all a big conspiracy! The three of them have really gone to the lost continent of Atlantis and are living in up with the mermaids. Come on, this guy went through enough and will have a lot of survivors guilt to contend with -- and now one of the fathers is busting his chops while the guys still recovering in the hospital. This just isn't right.

[A_Better_Tomorrow]

It's easy to say his son would not give up while you're standing on dry land or sitting in a la-z-boy. Who knows the pain, hunger, dehydration or delusions that led those guys to call it quits. Whatever it was, they had enough. Maybe that's how he'll deal with his pain, to just deny it happened. Now that the father has lost his mind, you could call him the 4th victim. Too bad.

[briannorwood]

Look, they found the survivor clinging to his capsized boat. How or why his shipmates couldn't stay with the boat is irrelevant. He is darned lucky to be alive, and his friends weren't.

[demsliethedingleberry]

I love it when an uneducated bumpkin throws his two cents into the ring and reminds us why the repubs are on the outs.... hahaha get a life and dictionary ya dingleberry

[thgdriver]

Something is fishy about this guys story. It's time to call CSI, or maybe Sherlock Holmes.

[PVperson2]

The father wasn't there, his imagination doesn't mean anything. He needs to come to grip with the reality that went on.