How does this happen? 4 guys drown
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How does this happen? 4 guys drown
(CNN) -- Four men died after horsing around in a boat on a southern Idaho reservoir, authorities said late Monday.
The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. Leilani Morgan of the the Power County Sheriff's Department.
The search began Sunday for the four boaters after authorities received a 911 call from a child on their boat, said Power County, Idaho, Sheriff Jim Jeffries. The four men were "horsing around," he said. One man was standing up in the front of the boat and another man pushed him into the water as a joke, not realizing he could not swim, he said.
"There were enough vests for all four adult men to have them on. However, they did not have them on," Morgan said.
KIFI: Four boaters' bodies found.
The victims have been identified as 57-year-old Darrel Shappart, 26-year-old Jared Hale, his 30-year-old brother Aaron Hale and 30-year-old Stephan Verbeck, Morgan said. The men were boating on the waterway Sunday along with five children under the age of nine.
The frantic 911 call triggered a search where rescuers used boats with side-scanning sonar to locate the men in the reservoir, which is about 180 miles east-southeast of Boise.
The bodies of four men were found Monday evening in the American Falls Reservoir in the same area where the men had fallen into the water a day earlier, said Cpl. Leilani Morgan of the the Power County Sheriff's Department.
The search began Sunday for the four boaters after authorities received a 911 call from a child on their boat, said Power County, Idaho, Sheriff Jim Jeffries. The four men were "horsing around," he said. One man was standing up in the front of the boat and another man pushed him into the water as a joke, not realizing he could not swim, he said.
"There were enough vests for all four adult men to have them on. However, they did not have them on," Morgan said.
KIFI: Four boaters' bodies found.
The victims have been identified as 57-year-old Darrel Shappart, 26-year-old Jared Hale, his 30-year-old brother Aaron Hale and 30-year-old Stephan Verbeck, Morgan said. The men were boating on the waterway Sunday along with five children under the age of nine.
The frantic 911 call triggered a search where rescuers used boats with side-scanning sonar to locate the men in the reservoir, which is about 180 miles east-southeast of Boise.
Seriously? One man couldn't swim, so all 4 drown? They must have all been hammered drunk or something.
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Throwing the life vests would have been almost a no-brainer I would think too. They had to have been drunk, idiots or both.
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to me swimming is like walking, there has to be something physically wrong for someone not to know how to hold themselves up in the water, seriously as humans we float. Why was this guy on there in the first place?