I'm glad you know so much about the courage of FReepers. I'm not a "professional" rescue worker, but if I stood and watched somebody drown, I hope someone would just shoot me.
There's regulations and there is humanity, let alone the concept of being a man. These "males" were long on the former, short on the latter.
Im sure you wold have swam out alone with no floatation devices and wrestled with him till he gave out and let you drag him to shore. (/snort-at-the-dumbass)
If the guy weighed 300 lbs, there wouldn’t have been anythinf I could have done for him.
The most that I could do for the guy was coax him ashour with a bucket of KFC or something.