Your government at work...firemen being paid SIX FIGURES for LIFE with CPI/COLA increases, with LIFETIME HEALTH PLANS...stand on the beach while someone drowns, 50 yards away.
sick freaks
And they get to retire at 50. Sickening.
Clearly, this calls for a federal program. A trillion dollars should fix it.
The SanFranSickos needed something titillating to pump them up for their carnal carnival that evening. What better than to watch, with glee, a human being die before their very eyes.
This is pretty heartless. I am a vol ff we would have tried something. Fast water and cold water rescues present challenges but it sounds like this victim was not in either circumstance.
Unionized “Not My Job” Losers !!
Sack everyone at the scene and their Chief as well.
This is disgraceful.
This is so foul it is beyond words.
I wonder if God is “certified” to forgive such evil?
And it is evil - nothing less.
You can walk out almost 100 yards almost before it gets waist deep to fish for shells. They could have driven a firetruck out 100 yards to get him. There are parts of the bottom that are paved from roads leading out into the bay along there in the 1920s which were abandoned coz they sank. There have never been any lifeguards nor lifeguard tower chairs there since 1965 when I lived there near the beach. This guy had to walk a long way in a mucky bottom to drown. He probably had to sit down to drown.
Ultimate Beauracracy at work.
“Won’t someone do something.. I can’t because my hands are tied by city hall!”
Just save the guy and worry about it later idiots!
Foreshadowing Obamacare.
This is a sterling example on why American leftists will never go door-to-door and disarm Americans.
They’re bloody cowards. That includes Marxist, gutless cops.
If these San Fran leftists can’t bear to get their tootsies wet, imagine them trying to round up armed Americans.
Good grief! The man’s dead body was pulled in by a nurse. God bless her.
If these wimps want war, they’ll be hanged from sea to shining sea.
“’ealth & safety, mate, ‘ealth & safety” has crossed the pond
Wait until they're running healthcare
I used to run on that beach.
A pussycat up a telephone pole would have inspired more effort.
Hey, with that kind of guaranteed income for life - you don’t want to risk it on saving someone!
Sad part is - if it was policy, I imagine some folks may have wanted to go help, but were held back based on the policy. In the movies it sure works (”screw the policy!”), but today it might be a lawsuit, loss of a job in a terrible economy, fines, arrest - who knows.
And - if the guy really was too far out to be able to help without the proper gear - it doesn’t help anyone to have two victims out in the surf. Although the nurse was able to recover the body. (Hope they don’t get imprisoned, fined or lose their job.)
If this suicidal man had caused the death of an untrained and unprepared employee of the city, the lawsuits would bankrupt San Fran.
I don’t know that I’d use the term “tragedy”. The guy wanted to kill himself and got his wish. If he’d managed to drag two rescuers down with him, that’d be a tragedy.
There’s a classic incident from the Bay Area in the late 50’s, though, that offers a solution to this kind of quandry. A suicidal guy jumped off a bridge from a height that was insufficient for his intended purpose. He was splashing around in the water under the bridge. Police arrived on scene and attempted to talk the guy out. He wouldn’t listen to them, just kept telling them to go away so he could die. Getting fed up with the idiot, one of the officers drew down on him and said, “come out of there or I’ll shoot you”. The guy came out. It seems he wanted to kill himself on his own terms, and having someone else do it would have spoiled everything.
Most people who try to save drowning people are drowned by the person they’re trying to rescue.
Dragging in a body is easy.