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+--- Thread: Freak Accident Kills Mississippi Bass Angler (/showthread.php?tid=51163)
Freak Accident Kills Mississippi Bass Angler - davetclown - 06-24-2003
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[/size][font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]PICKENS COUNTY, AL--A Mississippi man was killed last Saturday in a freak accident on Gainesville Lake in Alabama's Pickens County.[/size][/#000000][/font][size 1]
[/size][font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Alabama Marine Police say James Eubanks died instantly when he was struck by his boat's rotating propeller.[/size][/#000000][/font][size 1]
[/size][font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Marine police Lt. Rick Vines says bolts attaching the motor to the boat somehow came loose allowing the still-running motor to flip over into the boat. [/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Eubanks, who was fishing in a bass tournament at the time of the accident, is the sixth boating fatality in Alabama this year.[/size][/#000000][/font][size 1]
I shure hope this was not some sort of sabotage from another tournyman. I shutter to think thay someone would be so desprate to resort to these tactics.
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