I hope they are sent a bill for the rescue!

Not having life jackets is a ticket-able offense.

Remember that kids will be kids and hopefully they learned a valuable lesson and that their parents hammer that home.

The parents should have to pay the fine for no life jackets and the rescue. These kids could all be dead right now. The parents need to make sure this is taken seriously to help guide their children to make better decisions going forward.

Give it up, you can’t fix stupid! With all this rain and flooding the currents are crazy fast.

They acted like dumb teens – hell, don’t tell me you never were stupid in your youth people. It flows thru the veins to varying degrees in all of us.
They should get tagged for no life jackets and maybe get a fine that they can work off a a day or so. I can’t see laying it on the parents. Sheesh – we should be celebrating the fact they were outside and doing something ___ and not sitting watching the tube or putzing around on the ‘net. Why punish them for doing healthy things?

give them a medal for getting off their butts and getting some exercise and enjoying nature instead of having mommy and daddy hover over them like most parents do today. The majority of kids today couldn’t even tell you how to paddle a canoe
no way can one EVER know for certain if they can handle the water unless the river bed is dry. lol
they got in over their heads – it happens to all of us at some point in life on something. I give them an A for the idea and effort and even credit for the fact they realized they in trouble and made the call instaed of playing macho man and now we combing the waters looking for them.
for you who say punish – may I toss a rock at your glass house and see if it shatters?