Nothing big in stealing or daring...

[Saitek]

Two 14 year boys steal a boat and go to have larks in choppy seas in November at 2am.

The outcome is predictable. I hope this is a lesson to all those kids out there who think there is something clever in doing what those two did. I hope that boy is found alive, but I doubt it now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6185130.stm

[Souichiro]

The first time I read your story I read that they stole a Goat... which makes the rest kinda odd...


Having said that I hope they find the Kid alive

[F3Hadlow]

Hopes there both alright of course, but there both stupid idiots for doing it in the first place.

[C]

I'd like to think I could feel sympathic, but alas, I can't.

[Craig.]

Not the smartest place in the world to do it either. They had a slight chance if they stayed in the harbour, but since that seems unlikely now. I'm afraid the kids gone.

[Saitek]

I studied that area for my geography a few years ago. It is a terrible part of the coastline to do something like that at night in treacherious seas. Just mad.

[ozzy72]

Darwin Award

[Fozzer]

The first time I read your story I read that they stole a Goat... which makes the rest kinda odd...

A much more sensible, and less dangerous idea, to our way of thinking, Soui......?

Baaaaa.........!

LOL... ...!

Paul... ...!

...reminds me somewhat, of the two thieving toe-rags who stole my

[Saitek]

Did you get the money back on it?

[TSC.]

I'd like to think I could feel sympathic, but alas, I can't.

I'm with Charlie on this one - seriously, if you really MUST steal a boat for kicks, then at least do it at a sensible time of day - not at 3am in the morning in foul weather.

Idiots.

TSC.

[Hagar]

Come on you lot. You're talking as if you've never done anything stupid in your lives. When I think back it's a wonder to me that I ever survived my childhood. This is the sort of thing most kids, especially boys, do for a bit of fun. I don't know the facts behind this tragedy & have to wonder what two 14 year-old boys were doing out at that time of night. They could have been drinking or on drugs for all I know but it was probably just a lark that went horribly wrong. One thing I do know, they won't be doing it again.

[TSC.]

Come on you lot. You're talking as if you've never done anything stupid in your lives.

I can see your point Doug, we're not all guilt free - but I never did anything as stupid as stealing a boat at the end of November, at 3 in the morning & then taking it out past the breakwater into the English Channel. We've all done silly things in out 'yoof', but we also knew when to draw the line - thats why they don't call it 'survival of the fickest'

& like you said, what on earth were two 14 year olds doing out at 3 in the morning anyway

Cheers,

TSC.

[C]

Come on you lot. You're talking as if you've never done anything stupid in your lives.

Not that stupid...

[Hagar]

I can see your point Doug, we're not all guilt free - but I never did anything as stupid as stealing a boat at the end of November, at 3 in the morning & then taking it out past the breakwater into the English Channel.

Well, I've lived by the seaside all my life & know just how powerful the sea is, even when it looks harmless. If the tide's on the turn anywhere along the South Coast it doesn't take much to be swept right out to sea as I discovered to my cost on one particular occasion. Only takes a few seconds. After all these years I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking about what might have happened.

& like you said, what on earth were two 14 year olds doing out at 3 in the morning anyway

Sign of the times as they say. It doesn't seem anything unusual these days.

[Alonso]

Now that's really stupid.