Kaybug
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Linz was the one who said .14 is hardly incapacitated (I'm Columbo and I didn't say that!)
I saw that and just corrected it.
Linz was the one who said .14 is hardly incapacitated (I'm Columbo and I didn't say that!)
Hmph :banghead: Not aimed at you but I don't think I'm explaining myself very well.
THE CAPTAIN IS LIABLE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T CALL THE COAST GUARD HIMSELF AND BECAUSE HE WAS OPERATING THE BOAT TRASHED OUT OF HIS MIND.
If this wasn't a sensational Hollywood story I think everyone would see the issue here.
Imagine you went on a party cruise with a bunch of girlfriends and two guys got in a fight and started punching each other and whoops one of the girls gets knocked overboard.
What would the captain of the boat do?
He's sling back some drinks and just wait around until one of the guys told him what to do?
He's a CAPTAIN that title gives him certain liabilities and ethical and legal responsibilities.
He is blaming it on RW. Even if RW got in a fight and tossed her over the side, why didn't the captain call the coast guard?
A person is missing from your boat and the dingy is gone and she's drunk, you don't wait until morning.
And I hope he gets totally nailed for this. :twocents:
I just googled this quickly
http://matadornetwork.com/notebook/how-to-become-a-boat-captain/
If he is charged because he failed in his duties........then so be it. However that doesn't mean he isn't telling the truth about what happened.IMO
bolded by me.
I pretty much agree with you.
He was just so frozen scared in that interview, I wouldn't be surprised if it was because he knows he can be held accountable now. If he is a recovering alcoholic, doing a twelve-step program, he may now realize he was morally wrong for not carrying out his duties as captain of the yacht, and needs to straighten things out before he meets his maker.
Knowing how justice is sometimes meted out, he probably will be held accountable and the real guilty party (being affluent) will walk. He knew he was taking a huge risk and that's why he was so scared,almost too scared to talk.
colombo i hope cw comes forward, too--but i hear he's hired a lawyer now.
I don't think the Captain is going to bring this up again if he feels it is anything to do with him, he would be stupid if he did . To me it takes some guts to for him to want to get this sorted , lets hope they do. Some new evidence maybe from other people has come to light.
It makes sense to me that RW didn't want to call the coast guard right away. They had a fight, she said she was leaving or something like that. He calls the coast guard it's all over the news.
So I can understand RW not quite realizing it was a problem. But again, the captain should have over rode him.
Just think of it as if Natalie Wood was your daughter. Imagine the Yacht captain telling you that he was drunk out of his mind "plastered" and that the other guy told him not to do anything so he didn't.
I think people would want the guy to fry if your child died and this is the guys response. And "owning up" to poor "decisions" is not exactly accepting responsibility for gross negligence that lead to the death of your passenger.
I think he's disgusting.
Why not? He already published a book about it and got away with it?
He seems to be on the path of "confession" which is what a lot of recovering alcoholics do, they go around making amends. Except in this case even if everything he is saying is 100 percent true, it still doesn't point to RW as having anything to do with her death.
It points to a couple that had a stormy relationship having a fight, she storms off and he doesn't take it seriously until it was too late. Where was Walken during this whole thing? Couldn't have seemed that serious to them.
But as a captain he is supposed to be responsible.
Put it this way, if he wasn't the captain I bet she would still be alive today. If you changed only his actions in all of this, she would still be alive.
And if this wasn't such a Hollywood drama, people would realize the truth.
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