Man drowns trying to save toy boat

[LoKyBuckeye]

"Quit playing with your dingy!"

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Man drowns trying to save toy boat

Wed May 31, 9:49 AM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man drowned after jumping onto an inflatable raft and paddling out to the middle of a lake to try to retrieve a stalled, radio-controlled toy boat, police said Tuesday.

Another toy boat punctured the raft, causing it to deflate rapidly, and the 31-year-old victim could not swim, Miami-Dade Police said.

The accident occurred Monday evening at a park northwest of Miami where the victim and several friends were racing the remote-controlled boats.

"I think it was all purely accidental. It's a fluke," said Detective Joanne Duncan.

 

[scarletngrey11]

That sucks.

 

[exhawg]

Hopefully he didn't have any children before he died.

 

[RugbyBuck]

It's a fluke," said Detective Joanne Duncan.

That's not a fluke. He couldn't swim and rowed out to the middle of a lake in a rubber raft. That's natural selection.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Was his name Edmund Fitzgerald?

 

[AJHawkfan]

Wait a minute....... this guy cannot swim, but gets into a rubber raft to paddle out into the middle of this pond to get his toy boat, when one of his "friends" boats "accidentally" rams his raft, pucturing its side, and he drowns?

Let's face it, this was no accident. And those guys were not his friends.

 

[BB73]

toy boat
toy boat
toy boat
toy boat
toy boat

Try typing that 5 times fast.

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

Was his name Edmund Fitzgerald?

Someone call Gordon Lightfoot! It's time for a sequel!

 

[ScarletBlood31]

How do you row out into the middle of a lake, and you can not swim, without a life jacket on? It looks like he may have had it coming to him...