"jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>D Parker wrote:
>> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:wqHCi.29995$4A1.26917@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> D Parker wrote:
>>>> http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22352388-421,00.html
>>>>
>>> Sounds like a pointscoring op****tunity for training operators. A
license
>>> has only recently become necessary in WA, with on-water training
>>> contrary to the comment in the story. But no amount of training can
>>> prevent every accident and an untrained driver (me, for instance with
no
>>> formal training) is not necessarily the cause of an accident.
>>
>> Abolutley. Althought it has always intrigued me that someone can buy a
>> 40 ft Riviera and pass a quick exam at the govt office then drive it
>> seawards at high speed.
>>
>> Maybe that just reflects the low esteem in which boating generally is
> held in the community - they are never very impressed when you tell them
> you sail.
Yeh.. its a bit like that.. If you told em you were a footy thug they
would
care more .. hehe.
DP
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