DNR Officer who died not wearing life preserver?

MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Officer Eugene Wynn Jr. died on April 19.  He and another officer were were responding to a call of something suspicious in the water on a lake near Pine City.

KNSI: DNR Officer May Not Have Been Wearing Life Jacket.

Emergency dispatch audio shows an officer on shore asking if 43 year old Eugene Wynn Jr. had a life jacket. A response a short time later said, "I don't believe he had it on."
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Friday evening, Wynn and another officer from the Pine County Sheriff's Office were responding to a call of something suspicious in the water on a lake near Pine City. Within a minute of launching a boat to get a better look, the pair were thrown into the water.

The deputy was rescued by nearby boaters, but Wynn slipped under the surface and never came back up. His body was recovered around 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

The object in the water which sparked the original call was never found.

Officer.com: Conservation Officer dies after being thrown from boat.

“The original call was about a body in the water, a potential body in the water,” said Joe Albert, a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) spokesman. “Like any law enforcement people, [they] [sic] jumped on it and got out there as quick as possible.”

Details after that point are scant, Albert said. About 7:45 p.m., Wynn and a Pine County sheriff’s deputy got into a boat to check on the floating object [.]

The Sheriff’s Office and DNR declined to say whether Wynn was wearing a life jacket.

Page 15 of the 2019 Minnesota State Boating Guide:

Had this same situation happened to John or Jane Q. Pubic, I can only imagine the overkill campaign of hyperacuity undertaken by the DNR, the MN Nanny State in general, and the media in an endless stream of Public Service Announcements (PSA) and "Awareness Campaigns" telling us how important it is to always wear a life preserver when boating.

It's only a matter of time until some group, (the DNR?), seeks billions of dollars of additional taxpayer money investments for a promotional and wide-ranging campaign making us "aware" that life preservers need to be worn when boating, swimming, bathing, running through a water sprinkler, drinking a glass of water - or other liquids.

The DNR declines to confirm that Officer Wynn wasn't wearing a life preserver.  Had the officer been wearing a life preserver, it would have already been confirmed and stated as such. We can reasonable presume he wasn't and are again treated to another chapter of hypocrisy and double standards in a Nanny State where, "do as we say, not as we do" is The Mantra.

It never surprises me when I'm on the road and make it point in noticing how many police driving in their squad cars aren't wearing their seat/shoulder belt. I've noticed the same behavior by those in law enforcement, in their vehicles during rain without their squad car headlights turned on - which is law in The Peoples' Republic of Minnesota (TPRoM). 

TPRoM just passed the Distracted Driving law, which goes into effect August 1, 2019. I can only imagine the magnitude and massive amount of PSA's and "Awareness Campaigns" that will bombard us under the guise of "educating the public on the dangers of Distracted Driving." Surely there must be a need for millions and millions of taxpayer money investments needed by TPRoM for funding this "Awareness Campaign" because none of us know that distracted driving can cause deathly consequences.

Signage is needed. Cutesy radio jingles and television ads are compulsory. Time and money must be spent for "free" community events informing us that distracted driving is dangerous. New, mandatory government websites will be created. All of these mass "Awareness Campaigns" will, of course, be powered by renewable energy.

The funny part about TPRoM's Distracted Driving law is that it is an offense for a driver to be holding a cell phone or electronic device. How is "holding" (not using) a cell phone any different from someone driving while holding a mug of coffee, a can of soda or worse - those who drive while eating burgers, fries and/or tacos?

It's probably a good idea that we all wear a life preserver all the time, even if we have no intention of being near a body of water. We never know when one of those Noah-age floods might rain down upon us without notice.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Officer Wynn. This is not a post that is critical of him or his service. This is about hypocrisy within the institutional and governmental bureaucracies where equal standards are not applied for political optics and selective enforcement is...well...selective.

What caused the boat to lurch remains under investigation. It will be interesting to find the answer.

TSA Overkill: Two FAT TSA Cunts at Washington Dulles International Airport

I keep my blog in a, relatively, mostly "PG-13" (or sometimes "R"), category. But there is an exception to everything, and I don't have any problems departing from the PG-13/R standard when certain situations require it. This is one of those exceptions.

Hence the title of this post. If use of the "Cunt" word offends you, well...you'll probably get over it. If not, I won't lose any sleep over it.

And ladies, I do not apply the term "Cunt" only to women, it's not a sexist thing for me. I've called plenty of men "Cunts" too. If the TSA agents in the video were men, I assure you, I'd be applying the same term to them.

I will say this for the fat Cunt who's doing the TSA pat-down on a 96 hear old woman in the wheelchair; she is at least being very polite. Probably a recently hired agent who was told by her supervisor - the OTHER FAT CUNT who attempts to block filming with her WIDE ASS - to do the pat-down. Actually, the one doing the pat-down probably thinks what she's doing is absurdly over-the-top.

The footage is disgusting. It's abhorrent. How many fucking times do you have to pat down the SAME AREAS on a person before you're satisfied there is nothing hidden? Twice? Seven? Nine?

And using the "wand" to check for traces of explosives? Are you fucking fucking kidding me?

This is blatant, TSA OVERKILL and ABUSE. I'd argue these TSA Cunts and their superiors should be charged with elder abuse.

And to boot, an almost SIX MINUTE search?

I hope the daughter got both first and last names of the TSA CUNTS.

I wish I could copy and paste the footage here, but I can't.

=> Here's the LINK to the video.

"My 96 year old mother being extensively searched by TSA.

"The 3 of us were all in wheelchairs. Only my 96 year old mother was subjected to this prolonged, repetitive search."

- -  Jeanne LaBrier Clarkson is at Washington Dulles International Airport.

2006 Ontario Terrorism Plot

To paraphrase RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell, I guess the 96 year-old lady in the wheelchair getting repeatedly frisked by the TSA Cunts isn't considered a member of the "Broad Strata of Society."

More on "the Broad Strata of Society" HERE, HERE and HERE.