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  • chollagardens
    jwb267 said "did any of you critics stop and THINK that maybe the medics just could not swim..."

    Yeah I wondered about that. I also wondered if it had to do with a politician (mabe a Senator) and his female staff member. That would explain why she ran away.[:D][:D]
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  • Txs
    Funny that the people complaining about the medics inaction were actually inactive the longest. Why didn't they start getting them out immediately instead of gluing a cell phone to their ear and giving a play-by-play? Evidently they also felt going in was unwise.

    Too bad they didn't think to start panning the sky with the ol' kyplumber-light. He'd have shown up and handled everything in a flash. [:D]
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  • tr fox
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    In the call that I described above, there were about 50 adults on the shore who watched that car roll into the pond, and then slowly drift out while it sank. These people saw the little boy pounding on the rear windshield, screaming. None of them did a thing.
    All of the car doors were unlocked. Someone could have waded out into 4 feet of water, and opened the door and let the kid out, had they acted quickly.
    How could you watch that little boy dying in that window and do nothing?
    When the "paid rescuers" got there, I was the only one who went into the water. The 8 cops, and my partner, had the idea that since it was in the water, it was none of their business, it was the work of the fire dept. dive team.
    Well that is fine, but waiting on the dive team meant certain death for that little boy. Of course he might have been dead already when we got there. Or, when we got there, he might have been clutching onto that cloth ceiling, gasping for air in that small air pocket, hoping someone would save him.
    Hard to think about that call without crying.


    You earned the right to cry; the hard way. And I salute you for it.
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  • whiteclouder
    Hey, maybe dropping a puppy once in awhile will make you more careful with the next batch.

    Clouder..
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  • mlincoln
    When I first read this story I thought, like many others, that this was a clear-cut case of cowardice and dereliction of duty. I wondered how those people slept at night.

    And then, just two hours later, I read a story in the paper abou how four construction workers had died from toxic fumes. One fellow went down into a pipe to do some work, and he was overcome and collapsed. His buddy went after him and collapsed, and then another guy went down after him, collapsed, and finally the fourth went down to pull them out, and he collapsed and died as well.

    Several years ago there was a story in the paper about how six Israeli reservists had been killed by a sniper. The first fellow was shot and went down, and one by one his buddies went out in the open to get him and were killed.

    I have trouble accepting the fact that anyone, especially someone whose job it is to rescue people, could stand by and watch people die, but the above two examples surely demonstrate that sometimes rushing into a grave situation can just cause more deaths.
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  • tobefree
    People are just stupid in an emergency..
    I think I was about sixteen... A girl in front of me collapsed on the stairs. She was with two other girls... It took about 5 seconds to determine that none of us knew what to do.. so I beat feet to the nearest adults I could find.. One was the Principal who knew her situation (Diabetic) (1st I'd ever seen...)
    That afternoon a half dozen of her friends beat the Hell out on me for leaving the scene... Go figure!!!
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  • longhunter
    there had to b someone there that new how to swim,and for the record,we were taughtmto reach,throw.row,go,in that order......
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