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Wild Video Captures Family Being Tossed Violently During Boat Ride (That Ended in Hospital Visit)

Sep. 5, 2012 4:00pm Liz Klimas

All seven passengers in a speedboat on the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri last Friday were injured after their vessel hit a large wake.

The camera facing inward from the bow of the boat captures footage of the family jolting with the wake at first, holding on for stability. They are then hit even harder and sunglasses are sent flying and bodies stumbling.

Seven Injured After Speedboat Hits Large Wake on Lake of the Ozarks

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

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CBS reports five were taken to the hospital and treated for minor to moderate injuries.

Watch the Lake TV report of the incident (via Daily Mail):

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davecorkery
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 4:47pm
Here’s a great idea: Let’s get a boat with a bazillion horsepower, turn the camera on some hot chicks in itsy bitsy bikinis, and put the hammer down to impress the heck out of them! Might get lucky ’cause they’ll be so turned on!
Maybe that’s how people in the Ozarks lose most their teeth.
The bikini part is good, though.

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1kingforall
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 2:55pm
Ahhh! now you know why it’s called the SHOW ME STATE !
Can someone SHOW ME how to drive this darn thing !!

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Afghan_Vet
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 2:13pm
So the really funny thing is the fact that the news got the footage. If I did something that DUMB there’s no way I’d put that footage anywhere except in the fire!

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conserv2011
Posted on September 6, 2012 at 8:30am
they didn’t build that.. some one else made that happen

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amtsoundsmith
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:43pm
My hell, “Lake TV” has the cheeriest news ever…Everyone on there must me on anti-depressants.

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Watermain
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 11:43pm
Lots of morons here…obviously, the driver leads the pack, but the people stupid enough to get in a boat with him are right up there.

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scrudge
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 9:20pm
Ah Yes….. WHO CARES ?????

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oceanbnd
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:31pm
Gotta wonder what that guy was doing driving the boat…definitely a moron when it comes to handling a boat.

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 8:01pm
Been a boater all my life, that guy does not have a clue how to handle a boat, dumbassclown…..but those chicks were smokin hot…………….gotta love that !

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geomann
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:05pm
That guy obviously didn’t have enough experience to pilot a boat that powerful.

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GlintoftheScythe
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 7:05pm
Truly stupid driver.

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DoctorRon
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 6:48pm
I, too, wonder why a camera was mounted there and filming.

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nzkiwi
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:50pm
Living on a group of islands, this is something that many kiwis know about.

Look ahead, plan ahead.

If it looks a bit dodgy, for God’s sake slow down. Drop off the plane, if necessary. Hitting a lump of water at high speed can be like hitting concrete.

Oh, and the master of a vessel has a duty of care…

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stloocardsfan
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:40pm
Typical summer fun at Lake of the Ozarks. All boaters must finish a 64oz beer bong before boarding any water vessel there.

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COFemale
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:40pm
This was staged and it backfired on them. Who films this unless it was planned. No sympathies.

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sailorV
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:36pm
That’s why after a lifetime at sea, without any loss of life or limb I might add, my retirement recreation is a 16 foot long sailboat named “Set and Drift.”

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watersRpeople
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:25pm
So many people think they know everything there is to know, and then they find out they don’t know squat. Seeing things like that always remind me of McCandless whom disappeared into Alaska thinking he would just live off the land, and they found him dead some months later in an old bus – written in the book “Into the Wild.”

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GrumpyCat
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:24pm
Do they know about this at the DNC? Surely its G.W. Bush’s fault!

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hi
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:15pm
If one of the male Blaze writers had covered the story it would read,” Bouncing Blond Babes in Bikinis!!” I’m glad Liz covered it.

Also, that was really scary. They are lucky to be alive!!

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:50pm
If they were sitting down, they would not have been injured, I believe. I assume they wanted to be seen?

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- Fredhead
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:16pm
  If the driver of the boat had any sense, that none was shown,, POWER DOWN! and TURN INTO THE MASSIVE WAKE! don’t try to jump it!!!! Idiot. People were not secured, no life vests,, and most important the operator clearly was not in controll of the vessel. How much acohol was involved?
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:21pm
  Actually watch their knees, they act as shocks on the initial wake. Had they been sitting they likely would have been tossed straight up from the boat at high speed with out a LIFE JACKET.
  
  This cigar boat was easily doing 50mph. Sitting would leave bruises on your tail bone even with the comfiest of seats and no cross wakes to contend with.
  
  And the guy isn’t falling in the video, it’s an optical illusion because the camera is fixed to the boat. The boat came up to meet him faster than his body was affected by gravity. It’s why it looks like he falls stiff as a board… he didn’t fall, the boat rose. Owe.
  
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Mister July
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:19pm
It’s better in slow motion

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- watersRpeople
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 5:32pm
  Their futures so bright…they got to wear shades….Doh…maybe it wasn’t so bright.
  
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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:16pm
Thats why boats have a throttle and are not recommended forinexperienced operators.

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- Mr.Fitnah
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:18pm
  Pretty sure that vessel have some uncool seat restraints
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:57pm
  The Bruce Willis poser starts to throw the throttle up and down during the tumult. Might have made it worse.
  
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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:08pm
LOL pretty funny video. The girl in the yellow bikini had really nice….sunglasses I hope her sunglasses are ok.

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Exidor
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:06pm
Holy Cow!!!

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80mesh
Posted on September 5, 2012 at 4:05pm
Its all fun and games till somebody loses a bikini top …. lolz

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