From the Denver Post By Jason Blevins:
Clear Creek sheriff’s deputies on Thursday arrested a rafting guide for swimming to a stranded young rafter who had tumbled from his boat on Clear Creek.
Ryan Daniel Snodgrass, a 28-year-old guide with Arkansas Valley Adventures rafting company, was charged with “obstructing government operations,” said Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger.
“He was told not to go in the water, and he jumped in and swam over to the victim and jeopardized the rescue operation,” said Krueger, noting that his office was deciding whether to file similar charges against another guide who was at the scene just downstream of Kermitts Roadhouse on U.S. 6.
Duke Bradford, owner of Arkansas Valley Adventures, said Snodgrass did the right thing by contacting the 13-year-old Texas girl immediately and not waiting for the county’s search and rescue team to assemble ropes, rafts and rescuers. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–We all know how efficient government is–all we need do is look at how they’re handling the oil spill in the gulf. Why they were dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, this guy was swimming out to the young girl and providing aid. It seems to me they should be thanking him instead of arresting him.
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I sure was glad that a kayaker rescued me when I was whitewater rafting and fell into the Black River in New York. . . .I would've been sleeping with the fishes waiting for anyone else to rescue me.
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