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Editor: Rod Sullivan
Profession: Maritime Attorney

Category: Boating Accidents

Camden County Commissioners have asked for a grand jury to investigate why two inmates from the Brunswick Correctional Facility were operating jet skis on the Crooked River when one of them crashed into a dock, requiring a trip to the hospital.

Camden County Sheriff Bill Smith says that he left instructions for the jet skis to be pulled from the water. That was the last thing he heard about until news of the accident broke.

While the accident deserves mention under the category "News of the Weird," and conjures up images of inmates lounging on the beach at "Club Med--Crooked River," the accident probably has a perfectly sound explanation. Trustees are frequently assigned to do work that needs doing, but that guards and police officers are too busy to do. If the Sheriff's Department permitted two non-violent trustees to move the jet skis from one location to another, leaving guards to do their job, I'm okay with that. The only real question I have is why the Sheriff's Office needs jet skis in the first place?