Posted on 10/16/2009 11:05:51 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Dear lord. : (
Prayers.
An adult who can’t swim has no business taking children to a pool. Another senseless tragedy. Prayers for all concerned.
FReepers, please take your children for swim lessons at an early age! So many children drown every year this way, and this kind of tragedy is easily avoided. Prayers for the family!
That. Totally. Sucks...Prayers.
K-9 deputy...
Wish they’d cut out the BS and just tell us that it’s the POLICE DOG!
This is extremely bizarre, as well as sad. All non swimmers, the child fall in the deep end, and then both parents perish trying to rescue?
The deputy in charge of the police dog jumped in, not the dog.
That's not what a gathered from the story.
Teaching children to swim will just make them not fear water, and cause more death. Water is full of dihydrogen monoxide, a known cause of numerous deaths. Kids, when you see water, 1) leave it alone, and 2) call an adult.
Oh, wait.....
True. You also have to be very careful when you try to aid a drowning person who is still struggling. It’s dangerous because their adrenaline-driven fear can cause them to pull you under in the process and I wouldn’t doubt that’s exactly what happened here. It’s best to grab something to reach out to where they are and pull them into shallow water.
“This is extremely bizarre”
Ya my brain was...wth.. wth reading the details...it just short circuited and ended up : ( ‘ing...tinfoil was creeping in...
The person with the key...what a cross to bear.
I was trained to swim under them, pull them under water and grab them there, under the arms and around the neck so they can not grab you. Return to the surface and swim them back to safety. We had to do this in a matter of seconds.
Dreadful. RIP.
I have a serious question...AND NO IT’S NOT A RACIST ONE. But...this family was black...why is it that historically most blacks can’t swim well and they tend to drown the most? Is there a specific reason for this? Is it a city thing? No pools so they never learn?
You mean put them in a full nelson?
Zero tolerance for possession of dihydrogen monoxide.
LMAO...wtf?!!? I don’t even want to ask how you knew this was on YouTube...
Whew.
Nearly incompehensible.
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