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#262054 - 07/24/13 07:21 PM 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident
Roarmeister Offline
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I guess the good Lord figured now was as good a time as any to take these 2 dimwits... unfortunately one was pregnant so an innocent and their dog were also lost. eek

A couple of hikers who were found in a Maine park after becoming lost subsequently drove their car into the ocean and drowned.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/two-hikers-l...scued-1.1381169
http://www.firehouse.com/news/11057670/rescued-lost-hikers-drown-after-wrong-turn-in-maine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...o=feeds-newsxml

ROQUE BLUFFS, Maine -- Authorities say two women who got lost while hiking in a Maine state park died in a car accident shortly after their rescue. Thirty-seven-year-old Amy Stiner, of Machias, and 38-year-old Melissa Moyer, of Sunbury, Pa., were killed Tuesday night when they drove their car into the ocean after driving the wrong way down a road. The county sheriff says Moyer was five months pregnant. Officials say the women became lost while hiking near Roque Bluffs State Park. A landowner found them and their dog and gave them a ride to a home. Authorities later took them back to their car. A short time later, the women called to say they had driven their vehicle into the water -- and then the phone went dead. The car was later found underwater.

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#262060 - 07/25/13 12:32 AM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
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Some people are visited by bad fortune. Some, it might be argued, have a talent for visiting it upon themselves. The latter makes many of us frustrated, angry, contemptuous. In fairness, I think many of us can remember situations where fortune tipped in our favour through no merit of our own.

Regardless of the circumstances, lives were lost unnecessarily. That is always a tragedy; we are all works in progress, and we cannot see the good they may have done in the world, before or after. Name-calling ultimately diminishes the caller.

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#262061 - 07/25/13 12:50 AM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
clearwater Offline
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I would guess there was something else going on. Shock likely from being lost, or hypothermia, drugs etc. Too bad there wasn't a real SAR debriefing with the two, might have prevented tragedy.


Edited by clearwater (07/25/13 12:52 AM)

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#262062 - 07/25/13 12:56 AM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
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Good observation. Surely there is more here than meets the eye.

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#262067 - 07/25/13 12:26 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
MDinana Offline
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Registered: 03/08/07
Posts: 2208
Loc: Beer&Cheese country
One of the other news articles mentioned heavy fog at the time, which might have contributed. Still, I've never driven fast enough to plow myself into the ocean, fog or no.

Ironically, same day as this story came out, there was a story of a girl that had a near-drowning in Brasil. As lifeguards approached to rescue her, a bull shark got her. She later died in the hospital.


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#262070 - 07/25/13 02:45 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
bacpacjac Offline
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Loc: Ontario, Canada
I wonder if the dimwit part is driving in fog, getting lost, ending up in the ocean or not knowing how to get out of the vehicle? Since we don't really know the details of how the car got into the ocean, I assume it was thick fog, not that they thought they were on a NASCAR track. It can get pea soupy near the ocean and I don't think it would take much to get turned around or slip off the edge or a road. They wouldn't be the first to be unable to get out of a submerged vehicle. they may have been too terrified to know how to get out and unable to think or act rationally in a water-filled car.

I'm not going to start mud-slinging on their corpses.
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#262071 - 07/25/13 02:47 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: clearwater]
bacpacjac Offline
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Originally Posted By: clearwater
I would guess there was something else going on. Shock likely from being lost, or hypothermia, drugs etc. Too bad there wasn't a real SAR debriefing with the two, might have prevented tragedy.


Agreed. Thanks for giving them the benefit of the doubt. We forget to do that around here sometimes.
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#262072 - 07/25/13 02:48 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
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A different view from a different forum:

"According to the article the car sank quite far from the water's edge, out in deep water. An official suggested that they didn't even hit the brakes before they hit the water (presumably no skid marks on the ramp), which would imply the fog was so thick they had no idea they were heading off the ramp and so would have hit the water at speed and momentum would have carried them out far to deep water. If they didn't know how to swim, escaping the vehicle would have been suicide. My guess is they thought the car might remain afloat long enough for them to be rescued. Tragic."
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#262074 - 07/25/13 03:02 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
Arney Offline
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There's no reason to call people names, especially after they have DIED. From the news reports, sounds like simply a tragic accident of making a wrong turn after a stressful ordeal combined with bad weather. And they weren't the first ones to drive off that boat launch either.

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#262078 - 07/25/13 03:13 PM Re: 2 Hikers lost in Maine park die in car accident [Re: Roarmeister]
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And sometimes it's your day to die.

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