The Strange Case of Bismarck Dinius
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“........that you can’t prove how fast Chief Deputy Perdock was going, just doesn’t pass the smell test. Whatever his exact speed, it was obviously and indisputably way too fast. It was recklessly fast.
It was fatally fast. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it.”
“All we have are estimates, guesses and speculation.
We cannot prove the speed of the motorboat.”
Russell Perdock:
“I don't believe the speed at which I was going was unsafe. It was not fast. I have done that more times than I could count.”
Hit this Sailboat at 45mph, on a MOONLESS NIGHT,and killed Lynn Thornton,
the D.A. charged the SAILBOAT DRIVER with HOMICIDE !
How LAKE COUNTY turned TRAGEDY into TRAVESTY
ABCs of the California Boating Law:
“In restricted visibility, motorboats should have the engines ready for immediate maneuvering.
An operator should be prepared to stop the vessel
within the space of half the distance of forward visibility.”
“The power boat ramped over the sailboat,indicated by the prop marks on the starboard rear quarter and the crushing damage to the starboard gunwale...........The cabin roof had been torn off. A piece of the fiberglass roof, measuring approximately 26 inches by 14 inches, was embedded in the bow of the Baja powerboat.........”
“Mr. Perdock was operating his 24 foot Baja Outlaw powerboat ....... and by his admission was traveling at 40 to 45 miles per hour His boat ramped over the starboard gunwale striking Lynn Thornton, fatally injuring her. His boat continued over the top of the sailboat, exiting over the port bow into the water.”
THE STORY: Latitude 38 Seaworthy Magazine
“WHY DO WE CALL IT AN OUTLAW?” BAJA MARINE BROCHURE
“the 24 Outlaw ... punishes anything and everything that gets in its way ...”
“you blast through them full-throttle ... It's so good to be bad.”
When this SPEEDBOAT, Driven by CHIEF DEPUTY RUSSELL PERDOCK
