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Originally Posted by Barefoot
A 63 year-old Airboat operator, presumably experienced around gators ....
How could this man have acted so stupidly? A sad story indeed.
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I'm always amazed that older people are accorded some level of credibility for their "experience" just because they have lived to a ripe old age. I remember one story about a 70 year old man who suffered horrific burns over much of his body due to a fueling accident. He was pumping gasoline into his pickup truck while smoking his cigarette. The newspaper quoted him from his hospital bed saying something like "I've been smoking while fueling my car/truck for 50 years and this never happened before."
Moral of the story...just because you've "gotten away with" doing something stupid for a real long period of time doesn't mean it wasn't always stupid!