Roscoe Borges

Roscoe Borges (b. 1938) was an engineer who was a central figure in the independence of Bump Island. His father and grandfather were both carousel technicians at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut. He took the job of a magnetic track technician and quickly worked his way up to supervising the entire bumper car engineering team. Upon McIntire's death, he felt disillusioned by the lack of purpose in the island and its workers and vowed to strengthen their sense of community by penning the Bump Island Declaration of Independence in 1980. Although he was seen as a freedom fighter and a hero, he vanished while visiting the beach with his family in 1987.

Borges was the father of MLBC driver Milo Borges.