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{Here's a pic, looking at the lake from it's NE corner. They were down in the SE corner, there are two fountains, there is another one near where they were swimming. Closer to the near shore than this one in pic is.}
The idea was originally jump in get wet, get out. Which everyone thinks is going to really suck. But the water, while not warm was not that cold. It was at that point someone decided to swim to this aeration fountain in the middle, 30 ft away. At that point AJ got back in the water. He didn't make a sound that any one heard, but with 15-20 guys goofing around I'm not suprised. Do I think alcohol impaired the judgement of those around AJ, probably. From what everyone said about AJ, was he fine literally his last drink was at 9-10pm. They went in the water around 2am. My guess was that after walking in, and then getting out, he assumed it was shallow the whole way. The fountain looks very close and is, if you can swim. Once he hit the point where it got deep he was done. It being dark and everyone being noisy no one noticed. Once he didn't turn up, most people assumed he walked off to take a crap or something, got bored and left. Only one guy thought he was in the water. So most went diving (way to murky to find him), one guy called the police. Some went searching the area on foot. And a couple went to his house thinking he left and went home. (An interesting aside: When the police showed up the cop said two things at first, one what fraternity are you guys, and b. if this is a prank you have to pay for all the manhours wasted.)
On alcohol and accountability. If you were driving and got in wreck while drunk, who's fault is it? In Nevada with the amount of alcohol in AJ's bloodstream he would be charged not with felony DUI but a misdeamnor (sp?) form. Another example, now if I'm driving down the road, and someone's riding with me, but doesn't buckle his seat belt and we get in a wreck where everyone lives that's buckled up, but the guy who isn't died, is it my fault he died? Do you think I'd get charged with a crime? Even if I was speeding, not a 100mph speeding, but say 10 over the speedlimit?