Beware the Duck Boats - Isabella Montague 5th period

        On Saturday, a Boston Duck Boat crashed into a scooter, killing the woman driving the scooter and injuring her male passenger. After the incident, the pair were taken to the nearest hospital, where the woman died of her injuries. The Boston Duck Tours spokesman said that they are working with the police and trying to obtain footage of the accident. This, however, is not the first Duck Boat- related death. In Seattle, five passengers on a charter bus were killed after being crashed into by a Duck Boat. In Philadelphia, a woman was hit and killed by one after walking across the street, distracted by her cell phone, and two Hungarian tourists were killed in 2010. Duck Tour Boats are used for sightseeing because they can take tourists on the water as well as on the streets.

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2016/04/30/woman-struck-killed-by-duck-boat-in-downtown-boston/

        Crashes happen all of the time, but these Duck Tour Boats seem problematic. However, I have been on one in Galeveaton, and they are quite enjoyable (as long as we aren't killing any people walking by). These kind of boat/bus vehicles were first invented for use in World War II by the United States in order to go from water to land in the same vehicle. They were then used by civilian law enforcement agencies, until they finally started to be used for sightseeing purposes. That is an interesting development, because I can't see tanks or bombs being used for civilian tourist use like that.

- Isabella Montague 5th period