CARIBOU - A man from Worcester, Mass., faces charges of operating to endanger and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants after a Friday afternoon snowmobile accident.Alex Panarelli, 51, suffered minor leg injuries in the 3 p.m. accident, his second within 24 hours. He was treated at Cary Medical Center at Caribou and released.


Panarelli, according to Game Warden Edward Christie, had missed a turn off ITS 83 just before the accident. After missing the turnoff, Panarelli went along a water controlling berm when he tipped the sled over against a fence post.

In the process, Christie said, Panarelli blocked off the snowmobile trail, creating a dangerous situation.

Panarelli caused about $2,000 damage to the snowmobile rented from the Presque Isle Sled Shop.

The previous night, Christie said, Panarelli crashed another rented sled, causing about $2,500 damage to that snowmobile. No charges are pending as a result of that accident and Panarelli was uninjured.

Christie did not say whether the two snowmobiles were rented from the same dealer. It could not be determined whether Panarelli will have to pay for the damage to the sleds.

Christie said the operating while under the influence charge is pending the results of Intoxilyzer testing done by game wardens.

HOW DUMB CAN YOU BE ??? :angry:

:angry: :( Just another nail in our coffin.....it the same thing year after year....and we wonder why we get such a bad rap!! :(

The reason for this is the majority of the people heading out to sled right now in these marginal conditions are morons who are so drunk they don't care about their sled or people they may injure.

he's an A-Hole,plain and simple :cussing:

Well it was on this mornings news that there have been 4 deaths in the area already this year and there was a total of 7 all of last year. So it is not looking good. I hear of one guy New Years am like just after midnight lost control on a lake and hit a rock cut on shore and died. Of coarse he was not wearing a helmet so that might have played a factor. I did not hear if he was drinking or not.

Those 4 are happened near Sudbury

1 hit a ice wall on Onaping :(

2 died at 12:10am Jan 1st(gee I wonder) on Neppawasi with no helmets,they hit a rock face the driver died that night while the passenger died a few days later

1 drowned on Fairbanks when he and his passenger fell through the ice,but only one made it out of the ice :(



The post above on the drunk was in maine they have lots of snow there btw

It seems the same everywhere, a few bad apples giving everyone a bad name. Same thing in my town, people tear up lawns so the town people hate us. I wish there was something we could do to stop these idiots! :cussing: I'd like to take a monster truck and run all their sleds over!! But that wouldn't work because they rented them or their parents paid for them so its no loss to them.

Mooooo(frickin)rrrrooooooonnnnnnnn!

THat guy needs to go to sled safetey and AA meetings, ASAP

It must be something to do with Massachusetts residents. Some idiot around here (western MA) hit a groomer... not on the trails, but on a fricking ski slope! That's right, this dolt was riding his sled on downhill ski slopes. He hit the back of the thingie that the groomer tows so hard that him and his sled shot UP AND OVER the groomer and landed in front of it.

Its great fun for us in NewHampshire to poke fun at the Mass folks that come up and act like total idiots on sleds but we have home grown ones also. I have two friends that are pretty good guys sober and are fun to drink with also.....but they both cannot get on a sled sober. I am a big time anti drink and drive or ride when it comes to any vehicle. I refuse to ride with these two because of there habit of including a bottle of Jack or 12pack of Bud. Whats even sadder about both of these guys is that both of them have family and freinds that have been killed on sleds while drunk. One of the two actually found his own cousin frozzen solid up to his armpits in ice after he went for a late drunk ride after everyone else either passed out or was to drunk to notice him leave. He went through the ice in a pond afew miles away and they didnt find him till about 11am the next day. I cant imagine seeing something like that and it not make me change my ways.

Believe me, I'm all for having a few beers, but you have to know your limits. It 8 beers is your limit, then don't have nine. It is possible to have beers, ride, and still be safe and in control. Everyone just be smart and careful.

Brandon

It's so simple that I can't believe that there are still people out there that don't get it.Don't drink and ride.Can it be more simple? :cussing:

I uou drink 8 beers around me... I'll be on the cell phone and get you busted right quick! Unacceptable!

1 beer... ok, 2... maybe... 2+ forget it!

Regardless of the areayou are in, there will always be a few who do not appreciate the massive efforts required to create and maintian the trails network, or appreciate just how easily we could "lose it all."

Those of us on the inside have a responsibility to those on the outside. Lead by example.

One thing you can count on. If nobody would drink and ride, there would be almost no one on the trails. Everyone I know will have a few beer when they're out riding. Everyone. And I know alot of people who ride.
Glad that people around here aren't Nazi's like some people on the forum.

Please, not the beer thing again!!!!!!!! I just can't take it again. !!!

Joe

Instead of taking this to the Beer/No Beer discussion,,, why not address the ##S H##e riders that run people off trails, and cause accidents on Diet Pepsi?

we dont even have any snow here in nothhern lower michigan and already a fatality. A guy skidded 240 feet into the trees beside the frozen lake.

Originally posted by Troll@Jan 9 2003, 12:23 AM
Instead of taking this to the Beer/No Beer discussion,,, why not address the ##S H##e riders that run people off trails, and cause accidents on Diet Pepsi?
What about dem Diet Coke drinkers :D :doh:


The point of this thread was the guy wrecked a sled the night before then the next day he does the same :cussing: Why are some so :cussing: ignorant.

To me he is not a real sledder part just a thrill seekerout to have fun without care for anyones safety!!!!!!!!

I cant beleive he was able to rent another sled. I hope he didnt rent both the sleds he wrecked from the same dealer if so they are dumb, and I cant imagine that if you wreck one sled in the the area your riding that the other rental places wouldnt have black flaged this guy and made sure he had hella insurance coverage for the rental sleds. Damn those M#######s....cant they leave us maine-I-ACS alone. Its bad enough when they come up and drive on the two lane highways like they are on a 4 lane raod back home, now we got them riding crazy on the trails...

BTW I was a M####### at one point so I know! ;)

My brother emailed this to me tonight:

On the 6:00 news on VR (Channel 3 in Barrie Ontario) there was a story on a 61 yr old drowning on Blackstone Lake. He and one other guy had left Crane Lake House after lunch and decide to run Blackstone L. because the trails were rough.

I guess rough trails are still better than little or no ice. (his comment)

Note: This is the "bad motel" that Paul Yarek & I discussed back in the spring under that topic. It's also the same one that Brett Lindros had left when he had that snowmobile accident.

Yes i saw the report on the 61yr old guy on the MCTV news

They say he was travelling with a 72 yr old friend and both were familiar with the lake