RSSAruban Responsibility: Safety Issues with Quad Racers and Tourists
So how long will Aruba wait until implementing tourist Quad-racer safety rules? Are accidents and injuries not enough? Or does something worse have to happen first?
Another tourist in Aruba has gotten into an accident and injured while driving a Quad-racer. This is just another is a rash of recent tourist quad racer accidents. At what point does Aruba standards to those using quad racers or are they too concerned with the money made from renting them to tourists? It is Aruba’s responsibility to set guidelines and rules, not just hoping tourists know what and where to go.
Quad-racers recently destroyed quite a few turtle eggs during a wild ride through the dunes. Arikok National Park foundation that is responsible for the management of the park is considering a possible ban of quad-racers in the national park.
How can anyone blame anyone for anything if there are no rules stating where a quad-racer is permitted to go? If turtle eggs are so important and precious to Aruba, why would you let anyone near them? Aruban officials know where turtle eggs might be, a tourist does not. Imagine this, turtle eggs destroyed and Texas EquuSearch was not even in Aruba. Or was it starting fires in landfills? Aruba, you are responsible to set policies when it comes to tourism safety and your own island natural resource protection, not blame tourists. Then again, that has become quite the norm in Aruba … as the tourist is always wrong and to blame.
Amigoe, August 15, 2007: Another accident with a quad-racer
ORANJESTAD – Yet another tourist got injured due to an accident with a quad-racer yesterday. A tourist collided with a garbage truck near Santa Lucia last Monday; on Tuesday morning, a tourist lost control of her quad-racer and collided with a rock. The woman was injured and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Quad-racers recently destroyed quite a few turtle eggs during a wild ride through the dunes. Arikok National Park foundation that is responsible for the management of the park is considering a possible ban of quad-racers in the national park.
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Hey, ROOBA… I don’t think TES harmed
your precious turtles!
I think you have far too much
to worry about with the drugs, rapes
and murders on your island that
you do not seem to want to
do anything about. Deal with
that prob first!
You need to attack that
BEFORE you get to
the turtle problem
on the docket.
ARUBA, WHERE’S NATALEE HOLLOWAY?
JORAN VAN DER SLOOT, the slaughtering, Aruban gang-raping murderer and his father know. -j4n
Hey, I read Joran Van der sloot’s
Oinker of a mother’s life story on the ‘Internets’ today, I wanted
to share it with my beloved
SM Brethren.
…..
Competitive gum chewer Violet Beauregarde chews an experimental piece of Three-Course Dinner Chewing Gum despite Mr. Wonka’s warning. The defects of the blueberry pie within it turn her into a giant blueberry; she has to be taken to the Juicing Room to squeeze the juice out of her to avoid fatal bursting.
…..
Justice for Natalee!
Damn them Arubans, not only are they LITERALLY killing our citizens, but they are killing off the turtles too! Seriously, no comparison I know (human life versus reptiles), but they did blame TES for killing the turtles while searching for Natalee. Evidently nothing (in their eyes) is their fault. Their reality couldn’t be further from the TRUTH!
BOYCOTT ARUBA AND HOLLAND TIL HELL FREEZES OVER!!
JUSTICE FOR NATALEE
Speaking of equu search. Any word if they are doing or going to do the water search?
If they are so worried about the turtle eggs why don’t they hook up the Sloots’s, Kalpuke’s and the rest of the pimps to rikshaws (sp) for the (it won’t happen to me) tourists that still go there.
#hey there mayan…thats pretty darn funny…about the tourists…
Hey Vicki!
Good Friday to ya Miss……yeah i’m thinking hooking up the pimps with rikshaw’s they could kill 2 birds with one stone by protecting the turtle eggs & still taxi incapacited female tourist’s away from C&C’s & all the other bars.
Incompacitated rather…..
Hey Meee
Steve Holloway posted last week that the search is still on. The delay happened because 1. Tim’s latest missing person search took longer than expected & that the ship was used for business when that happened. He also said that maybe a brand new ship of the same size may be purchased and its maiden voyage would be for the search & recovery of Natalee.
Wouldn’t that be something if Tim finds Natalee on it’s maiden voyage?? I’ve got a good feeling that its a real posibility thats the way its going to happen.
Hi Vicki!?! Thanks for
your recent email!
Hiya Mayan,
How are ya girl?
….
> Incapacitated, evennnnnnnn.
-Snaggle Puss
….
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-j4n
Justice 4 Natalee
LOL CARPE!
I’m hanging in there friend, the temps & the heat index have been BRUTAL this week! 9 deaths & one guy was only 32! 0_o
How are you this fine friday? I wanted to ask ya…..in my last email i’m betting the pic i tried sending you didn’t attach again did it? lol
(exit stage left)
http://www.globest.com/news/973_973/gsrglobal/163245-1.html
Another US company pums 65 million into Aruban economy above and beyond the 200 million they already spent.
You can boycott the rest of this mans holdings in Vegas and Atlantic City and Mexico – he wont care.
Boycott a US money maker for sure.
Hi Beel,
We may never cut off all the money to
Aruba. There are certain folks without
hearts and souls, who could care less.
People who are much
like the murdering, date-raping, Van der sloot
family of Aruba. They could care less if someone lived or died, as long as they “got theirs” at
the end of the day.
Hopefully though, we’ll reach enough of the
caring souls! Enough to crush Aruba’s spine
into a thousand pieces. Enough to leave Aruba
brutalliy eviscerated, and painfully destitute.
If we can reach enough caring people,
to injure Aruba badly enough,that
it takes them ten years or more to
heal…
Well, it’ll never bring Natalee
Holloway back… but it would
make me feel better, knowing that they rotted
in effin hell for what they allowed Joran
Vandersloot, the uncaptured,
slaughtering, Aruban date-rapist
do to dear Natalee and
her family.
Pi$$ off, huh?
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-j4n
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Fred Gillman needs a clue… growing tourist popularity? How about nightmare waiting to happen.
Turtle eggs were destroyed and the cops are all over,,, cops couldn’t even call the FBI for Tim Miller to get the ok on the equipment he needed while in Aruba looking for Natalee.. Are these people for real?
Mayan- thanks for the info.
#13 – a little over the top don’t ‘cha think? Good Lord…
Didn’t Guido Weaver have one of those quad racers?
# 16 Maggie
The day that Tim Miller needed the phone call they were in (coverup mode). They are for
real.
JUSTICE NOW
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-30/1187287159111160.xml&storylist=missinggirl&thispage=2
NewsFlash Home | More Search for Natalee Holloway
Decade later, Opp police still seek answers
8/16/2007, 12:40 p.m. CDT
By NANCY BLACKMON
The Associated Press
OPP, Ala. (AP) — In the late summer of 1997, fours days before Kemberly Lorin Ramer, a dark-eyed teenager with the long brown hair, was to start her senior year at Opp High School, she vanished.
Ten years later her disappearance from her father’s home in Opp on Friday, Aug. 15, 1997 remains a mystery. The last time anyone saw Kem Ramer was about 10 p.m. on that Friday leaving her boyfriend’s residence to return home, which was about five minutes away.
Two days later on August 17, her parents reported her missing. Reports at the time said she left her personal belongings behind at the home, including her eyeglasses, her contacts, jewelry, and money. From the beginning, the authorities and her family suspected foul play.
NewsFlash Home | More Search for Natalee Holloway
Decade later, Opp police still seek answers
8/16/2007, 12:40 p.m. CDT
By NANCY BLACKMON
The Associated Press
OPP, Ala. (AP) — In the late summer of 1997, fours days before Kemberly Lorin Ramer, a dark-eyed teenager with the long brown hair, was to start her senior year at Opp High School, she vanished.
Ten years later her disappearance from her father’s home in Opp on Friday, Aug. 15, 1997 remains a mystery. The last time anyone saw Kem Ramer was about 10 p.m. on that Friday leaving her boyfriend’s residence to return home, which was about five minutes away.
Two days later on August 17, her parents reported her missing. Reports at the time said she left her personal belongings behind at the home, including her eyeglasses, her contacts, jewelry, and money. From the beginning, the authorities and her family suspected foul play.
“She would have left a note for me,” her father, Kenneth Ramer, said in an interview following her disappearance. “I was always reminding her to leave me a note. I even brought home a big stack of note paper not long before this happened.”
Despite many pleas from her parents and offers of rewards from both the FBI and the governor of Alabama, the case is still unsolved.
“The FBI still considers it open,” said Mike McDonald, Opp’s assistant chief of police, “but there is nothing new that I’m aware of that is substantial.”
In December of 1997, Kem’s parents held an emotional press conference and begged for the public’s help in locating their child. Sue Ramer told reporters that she spent her weekends searching for her child. Both parents believed someone had information that could help them.
“Somebody knows something,” Kenneth Ramer said in an interview following that press conference.
His wife echoed his thoughts and begged for information.
“They may not think it is something important or they might be afraid,” she said. “Please give us information if you have it.”
Over the years, there were tips and leads and searches, but nothing to bring any closure for the family.
Nine months after Ramer’s disappearance, investigators searched a rural Walton County lake, acting on tips that her body was there. The search lasted three days and turned up no clues relating to the case.
In 2001, a nonprofit group from Texas searched Baptism Hole with cadaver dogs and got several hits. They dug up an engine block with a rope tied to it, but had to leave the site before they could excavate it completely.
The next day the FBI brought in its own dogs, which gave no indication of smelling human remains, and no more searches were conducted in that area.
Again in 2006, investigators searched a sinkhole near Ponce de Leon, Fla., for Ramer’s remains after receiving an anonymous tip, but that search also turned up no evidence.
“We still get tips every now and then,” McDonald said, “but it is nothing that pans out.”
At the close of the 1997 press conference, Sue Ramer issued an appeal that remains unanswered 10 years later.
“I appeal to the person who has not come forward,” she said. “You can remain anonymous. Please help me find my daughter.”
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Hi, everyone. Just checking in from Denver.
With Hurricane Dean ravaging the Caribbean, maybe it’s just as well that the water search has been delayed yet again.
IF Natalee is in the water, then let’s hope and pray that the search, whenever and wherever it goes, does recover her remains.
If not, then ….
Hope that all the faithful readers are doing well.
No YoYo, not over the top.
Either you’re on drugs…
or perhaps you should
consider them.