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Hey, everybody, welcome back to Crime Whire Weekly. I'm Jim Chapman,
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and guess what today? We have no topics. We're gonna
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tell you in advance. It was a plan from the beginning.
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That's what I'm sticking with, right, Kelly.
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Jimmy definitely weren't running late.
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Yeah, we definitely weren't running late and had to scramble
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to get together what we were going to.
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Talk about today, and I didn't have time to write
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it down.
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So guess what is going to be surprise week for
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our listeners out there.
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I hope you enjoy that.
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Yeah, it's gonna be fine. We got this. We're professionals, Jim.
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We are pros.
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So let's get into this beautiful bean footage for today.
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And wait, wait, you introduced yourself? Should I introduce myself?
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Well, I said Kelly Jennings. Everybody knows you already got it.
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Go ahead, and I'm Kelly Jennings.
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All right, how did that feel? Awesome?
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Let's get Can we get into the stories now? Let's
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get into them, and we're going to start off in
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Michigan today, and I'm gonna tell you about two adults
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and a child who disappeared Kelly after going tubing. Well,
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they've been found safe and alive in the woods, and
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some people are considering this just flat out miracle. They
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were going for several days. It was two women and
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a nine year old boy. They were tubing and what's
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done is the Muskegon River that is in Michigan, and
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they were there for three days straining in the wilderness
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before they were actually saved. Jasmine Hawk who is twenty eight,
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her cousin, Sarah Vita, who is twenty eight, Vida's son
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who is named Caden, he's nine. They were all located
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this past Friday afternoon by state Police a CA. Nine
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teen in the Department of Natural Resources Servation officers. They
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were discovered deep in the woods about three quarters of
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a mile northeast of a boat launch in Muskegon County.
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This is they were several miles downstream from where they
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actually put in.
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At that boat launch on Maple Island, and.
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Michigan State Police said the three were alive, they were safe.
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He described it as Lieutenant pat Agma described it as
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amazing in a miracle. He netted the group was in
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a remote area, far from roads and houses. He said
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they were tired and worn out, and two of them
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had to actually be carried out of the woods. You
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don't think about it, but seventy two hours, that's three days, right,
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that's a long time without food. And I mean, I
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would imagine they drank something, but it probably wasn't much
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and it was probably out of a stream. And you know,
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they don't have the little capsules you can put in
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there like the military does where it purifies the water.
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So that's a good bit of time they went tubing,
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and concerns started growing when Hawk missed a scheduled medical
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appointment the day after their tubing trup. Her father later
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found one of the women's vehicles still parked at that
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boat launch with a broken window. So obviously police get involved,
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and that doesn't look good. Searchers were covered tubes believed
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to have belonged to the group, and they located footprints
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before they were able to find them on This occurred
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on a Wednesday or Tuesday. They were actually able to
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locate them on a Friday. Family members said the group
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had used pool rafts that were not suited for the river,
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So yeah, these ain't tubing like you go around here.
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We have tiki tubing places like that where they are
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these heavy duty tubes. They were actually taking like their
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pool floats and going tubing with it.
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Yeah, you don't want to do that. That's pretty thin.
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Is that something that's normally done there? Like that? People
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just get in that river like that are actually not
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I mean.
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It says the group had used pull rafts that were
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not suited for the river and the floats were destroyed.
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So I would imagine not too many.
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People, you know, use I don't know, very thin residential
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pull rafts, if you will. So they survived, all flowers,
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barking ants. What do you think about that?
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That's an interesting choice. But I would be scared.
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I'll well, they didn't have a menu, no, but like
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the ants of the bark tonight.
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Well, I'm just thinking I would have focused more on
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the flowers. I don't know that I want to swallow
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an ant, but I mean it's it's something when you're starving.
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I guess it's something to put in your mouth. Yeah, so,
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and I would have been scared too, Like, you know, mushrooms,
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certain ones can kill you. And if you don't know,
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like you're just taking a risk.
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Yeah, you eat a poisonous mushroom you can be seeing
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the spirit horse and everything else.
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Yeah, high as a cake.
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So also to complicate matters even with the lack of food,
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is that Hawk's foam battery died and that totally cut
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off any way to get any sort of help. All
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three they were picked up after they were found taking
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the hospital for treatment, and two of the three are
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still in the hospital. But everybody's going to survive all
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that stuff, and it was an emotional moment for family.
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They actually have some body camera footage if you're interested,
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you can look online and it's pretty interesting.
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The the husbands and kids of these people being reunited
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with them, and you know, they probably resigned to the
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fact that they're not gonna make.
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It out of here.
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I do wonder something, and I'm not I'm just curious.
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Why didn't they just walk back up the river where
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they had put in? Why did they.
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Well, I think they were so far down river by
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the point that you know, apparently the as I said,
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these boat rafts popped or whatever and probably jagged rocks
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things like that. Yeah, I mean, maybe they were making
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their way back and got lost.
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I don't know.
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I don't know what the terrain would be. But for me,
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I would have gotten out and just back the direction
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I came from. But then again, I don't know all
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the details.
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You did. You didn't end up and can it though somewhere.
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I probably would have ended up with third degree sunburns
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and you would have found me a crispy piece of
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bacon laying by the by the riverside getting eaten by
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dad gumbe deer.
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Yeah, bark, Well, there you have it.
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Good ending to that story. They were found and that's
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to be Okay, that's great.
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So we're gonna go to Louisiana. We're not far from here.
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We're actually right here in this story where a sixty
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three year old Denim Springs woman has been arrested and
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booked into the Ascension Parish Jail on multiple charges stemming
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from a three boat crash on the a Meet River
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in July that left four people injured. And that's all
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according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Nanette
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Normand that's a lot of ends, Nanette Normand I can't say.
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That quickly, is it Nanette or Nannette?
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I would have said Nanette, But I'm Southern South, so
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whatever miss Nan was taken into custody Monday and charged
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with cares operation of a vessel, failing to file an
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official operator's report, and four counts of negligent injuring. The
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crash occurred July eighteenth, where two adults and two juveniles
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were ejected from their vessel and transported to local hospitals.
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An adult female remained hospitalized from injury sustained in the incident.
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According to Wildlife and Fisheries, careless operation of a vessel
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carries a maximum penalty of a three hundred dollars fine
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and thirty days in jail. Each count of negligent injuring,
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and the failure to file an official operator's report carries
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a maximum of a five hundred dollars fine in six
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months in jail. Earlier reporting on the July eighteenth crash
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described the collision involving three boats around eight twenty pm.
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One family, a couple and their two young children, were
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ejected after what the husband described as an oncoming boat
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that failed to yield properly. The fiance suffered or sustained
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serious injuries, including multiple fractures and other trauma that required
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surgery and hospitalization. Wildlife and fisheries investigated the incident. But
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three boats in one crash.
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That's a lot.
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And you know, boating safety Unfortunately, when you hear about
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crashes with boat boats, I mean.
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It's usually really bad.
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We have one here a couple of years ago that
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killed several people and it was at night that this
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boat crash occurred, and it was horrific obviously, But almost
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every time you see accidents involving boats, people are seriously
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injured or killed because it's just different than a car.
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I mean that you don't wear a seat belt in
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a boat. Of course, everybody needs to be wearing life
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preservers things like that, but traffic laws are you know,
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it's a lot easier to stop at a red light
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than to or yield sign yielded a yield sign than
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to do that on a river because they don't have signs.
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You have to know the navigational rules, and I think
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that's why you see a lot of these accidents. It's
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people don't even roll, don't even know or pay attentions
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to the navigation rules.
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Yeah, there's a lot that goes involved, that goes into
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you know, being a captain of your boat, and I
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sometimes get very nervous when I see that. A lot
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of people like they'll turn out their teenagers and stuff
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on the river and let them just go take the
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boat and go do it, do what they do. And
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you wonder why is everybody so comfortable just letting people
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go out on that river without some sort you know,
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we have drivers at and we have all that kind
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of stuff or when you're driving, but boaters it's kind
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of like they just uh, jump out on the water.
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So, you know, prayers to those affected by that. And uh,
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they're not playing in this area with boating safety. They've
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got a whole department in Livingston Parish where we record
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out of that is a marine division. It's all they
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do is go up and down the river and there
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they are a department. Uh I guess employed by the
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Sheriff's office, so it's not wildlife and fisheries. They have
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their own marine division, which I think is pretty cool.
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Well, my my brother in law was killed in boating
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accident and it was because there's a lot of stuff involved,
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but another boat was not properly navigating the waterway. Yeah,
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and he ended up dying as a result of that accident.
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And so you know it's personal. You know when people
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you love get killed. And boating is a fun pastime,
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but you are you have a lot at stake and
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you you have to be in control and man your
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vehicle or you can cost people their lives one hundred percent.
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And I used to couldn't stay in them wildlife and
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fishery guys because I used to look at them as
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guys that were just killing your fun. Right, Yeah, you
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ain't got a life jacket on. Let me see your
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life jackets, you know what I mean, stuff like that.
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And now as I got older, this is when I
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was eighteen, I had this attitude. Now, as I got older,
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I realized what they were doing. But back then I
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just thought, you know, these guys are just giving people
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a hard time. I mean, who cares about life jackets.
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But now you know, when you especially when you do
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this for a living cover crime, Yeah, wear your life jackets.
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All right, let's go to uh, let's go to a
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another area of the country here, and we're going to
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talk about a middle school teacher who is the first
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and this is in Kentucky, the first teacher to be
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arrested under the new grooming law in Kentucky, and that's
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interesting because here in Louisiana, they just passed the grooming.
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Law here and we just covered that.
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Yeah, we just covered it.
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So this is a good example of a case where
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this law was used. I'm going to tell you about it.
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Graves County Middle School teacher Sadie Flores, who is twenty five,
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was busted Friday and charged with grooming a minor four
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years after marrying her husband, who is a machine operator,
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and only a year after giving birth to their first child,
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which is her daughter. As a matter of fact, she
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had a Facebook post where she put, we are so
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grateful God chose us to be parents of the sweet baby.
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So the reason I bring that up is you just
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never know who people are, sometimes person on Facebook and
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a whole other person in reality. This is allegedly a
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good example of that, if all these charges are true. Now,
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so what happened here was police said that she attempted
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to manipulate a minor and expressed feelings of love and
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admiration more so than a student teacher relationship. That's what
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the citation read. Police have not revealed the alleged victim's age,
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but school board officials were contacted by a parent of
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a fourteen year old, so they're making the assumption this
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person was fourteen.
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The parents said that they had found text.
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Allegedly shared by Flores and the child, and they were