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    Default Central Alberta woman killed after snowmobile strikes steel cable: RCMP

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    Rimbey RCMP is investigating after a 25-year-old woman from Bluffton, Alta., was killed in a collision with a steel cable while snowmobiling on Saturday.

    The woman was snowmobiling with her spouse and friends who were riding two other snowmobiles on the Blindman River near Township Road 441 and Range Road 15 northeast of Rimbey. According to RCMP, the woman struck a long, intertwined steel cable that extended across the river and she was severely injured.

    Mounties responded alongside Ponoka County Fire Department and EMS around 4:30 p.m. Saturday for reports of a serious injury collision involving a snowmobile.

    The emergency crews provided medical care onsite until STARS airlifted her to the University of Alberta hospital. The 25-year-old succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.

    Rimbey RCMP is investigating the placement of the steel cable across the river. RCMP’s traffic analyst and major crimes unit is assisting with the investigation.

    “We believe the cable has been there for some time, and we don’t necessarily believe it was put there to harm somebody,” said Cpl. Troy Savinkoff with RCMP. “It doesn’t still mean there could be legal ramifications because of the placement of that cable across a waterway. That’s what we’re investigating — if there’s any criminal element that might involve that cable.”

    Bluffton is a hamlet located within Ponoka County, located about 220 kilometres north of Calgary. The population of Bluffton, according to 2021 Census data, is 140 living in 66 private dwellings.

    Savinkoff said these kinds of incidents are tough on small communities like Bluffton.

    “They’re a tight-knit community and everybody knows one another,” said the officer. “You have a tragic incident that really happened out of the blue. … They’re enjoying their weekend and to have something very tragic like this happen is very hard on the community.”

    Anyone with information about the steel cable or the collision is asked by investigators to call Rimbey RCMP at 403-843-2224. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.P3Tips.com.

    “We’re looking for any knowledge from the public about who may have put that cable there, who may have owned it and is the public aware of that cable. Is that something that is known to the community at large? It does appear it has been there for some time,” said Savinkoff.


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    Yikes.
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    There have been many reports of NIMBYs sabotaging motorized off-road trails in the last few years. I hope they’re caught and have many, many years of reconciliation with a violent prison population.

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    theres some land near me that's got signs warning of spike belts. Wonder if nows a good time to have the police take a look.

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    Snowmobiles make motorcycles look safe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    Snowmobiles make motorcycles look safe
    Canadian average rate of being dead whilst operating a snowmobile / bike / car is 87, 205, 907 per year. Since snowmobilers are the cyclists of the off-road world, they tend to do stupid shit and not recognize the danger they are in.

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    theres some land near me that's got signs warning of spike belts. Wonder if nows a good time to have the police take a look.
    If it’s public land, then do it.
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    @gwill , if its public land, any waterway, or anything that "feels like a trail" then do it. You aren't allowed to booby-trap anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darell_n View Post
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    Canadian average rate of being dead whilst operating a snowmobile / bike / car is 87, 205, 907 per year. Since snowmobilers are the cyclists of the off-road world, they tend to do stupid shit and not recognize the danger they are in.
    Canadian average rate is 87,205,907 per what, exactly? Those numbers are not meaningful without a denominator.

    If those are the raw numbers of annual deaths, the rate is orders of magnitude higher for snowmobiles and bikes than it is for cars, given that each of them is only used by a small portion of the population and only for half the year (at most).

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    Quote Originally Posted by bjstare View Post
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    Canadian average rate is 87,205,907 per what, exactly? Those numbers are not meaningful without a denominator.

    If those are the raw numbers of annual deaths, the rate is orders of magnitude higher for snowmobiles and bikes than it is for cars, given that each of them is only used by a small portion of the population and only for half the year (at most).
    Re-read my last reply, and yes I agree with you that motorsports are more inherently deadly than commuting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darell_n View Post
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    NIMBYs
    I'm not familiar with this term. Anyone help?.

    I have seen a cable like this before while out shore fishing a small stream near Rocky Mountain House (years ago). Didn't realize this was it's purpose. I thought it might have been remnants of a flood carrying debrisdown stream.

    Very sad situation. Condolences to your family @16hyphen3sp
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    Wasn't someone putting cables across mtn bike trails recently too?

    Edit: 2017 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...list-1.4195549
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    There are a lot of things that can be very dangerous to snowmobilers that are in place for some other purpose, or which are out of place due to flood etc. There are also reports of individuals placing items that are dangerous to snowmobilers across known trails in a deliberate attempt to injure.
    I sure hope this is the first category, or if it's the second, that the individual responsible is caught and charged.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SJW View Post
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    Wasn't someone putting cables across mtn bike trails recently too?

    Edit: 2017 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...list-1.4195549
    The guy in this article was known of other reasons too…

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    Quote Originally Posted by SJW View Post
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    Wasn't someone putting cables across mtn bike trails recently too?

    Edit: 2017 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...list-1.4195549
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...onse-1.4367842

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonJuan View Post
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    I'm not familiar with this term. Anyone help?.

    I have seen a cable like this before while out shore fishing a small stream near Rocky Mountain House (years ago). Didn't realize this was it's purpose. I thought it might have been remnants of a flood carrying debrisdown stream.

    Very sad situation. Condolences to your family @16hyphen3sp
    NIMBY = not in my back yard. Lots of land owners presume control of public lands and waterways near them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    @gwill , if its public land, any waterway, or anything that "feels like a trail" then do it. You aren't allowed to booby-trap anything.
    This specific property with signs warning of spike belts is technically private land. It's not fenced and is 75% trees and has crown land all around it so super easy to end up on some of the trails on this property.

    I know it's not the land owner as he's a crazy old hermit that few people have ever met...

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