I HATE reading news stories like this. It just makes me sad. Several lives affected significantly, tragically, needlessly. It’s against the law to operate a watercraft while drunk, but do we really need a LAW to tell us this is a bad idea? Yeah, well, I guess we do.

Man reportedly drunk when boat overturned

 
TED S. WARREN / AP
A Thurston County sheriff’s deputy searches near the bank of the Nisqually River on Friday near Lacey for a man and a 9-year-old boy who were missing after the boat they were in capsized Thursday evening.

I’ll spare you the details…you can read the rest of the story at the Seattle Times website, if you really want to.