Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
I recall you once complaining that you went to an AMA field and nobody approached you while you were there. So it stands to reason that on a different occasion you were approached and came off with the same all knowing AMA sucks attitude that you have here and were treated in kind.
And please stop bringing your boat organization into these conversations. They are apples and oranges. A boat has less of a safety aspect to members and spectators, That is unless you’ve seen one fall from the sky at 100 mph. Continuing to bring boats into the conversation only makes you less believable.
So, it's my fault that some fliers were antisocial? Now that is a crock of crap.
How many people do you know of that have died while flying an R/C?
There are a couple of threads in the boating forum that talk about people dying while running boats. This one should tell you something about why we are required to shut down if someone gets too close to the water:
6/2006 (Translation)
10 year-old boy killed by R/C boat
QUEBRADILLAS - A boy of 10 years of age, identified like Jonathan Perez Valle, who enjoyed pasadĂ*a in the mouth of the Guajataca river, tragically died yesterday when a boat of remote control - of 3 feet of length which they practically handled to two young people in the area him “he nailed” in the chest, due to the high speed at which he moved on the water. Jonathan enjoyed, in the middle of these “unavoidable vacations” due to the fiscal crisis, next to their father Juan Perez Lugo and their uncle Eriberto Valle the Perez, who managed to transfer it to the hospital, where later passed away. The captain Manuel PortalatĂ*n Mercado, head of the CIC in this zone, said that the fatal accident reported last the 3:15 of afternoon and that both suspicious of the facts, although tried to escape, were arrested by the Police. In agreement with the investigation made by the lieutenant Miguel VĂ©lez, director of the Unit of Homicides of Aguadilla, the boy, who resided in the district San Antonio, sector Property in Quebradillas, underwent a deep wound in the chest when the boat of remote control was nailed in the torácica part of its body. At the time of the accident, the father and the uncle of the minor were bathing in the playera area of the place, although they supervised to the boy, who was near them. In afternoon of the both lengthy agents they investigated the case whereas yesterday hoped by the determination of the public prosecutor of turn to decide if would be to him positions.