What is this world coming to?

[DuckYou]

What is this world coming to when the police and firefighters do not rescue a man drowning. A crowd of 75 gathers to watch, and a volunteer goes out to get the body after he dies.

I have seen more done to rescue animals!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...-policy-fire-and-police-crews-watch-man-drown


The guy was trying to commit suicide, but it is still unbelievable.

 

[Emperor]

San Francisco is too concerned with the whims and desires of repugnant liberal causes, and much of their money is squandered in that manner. Their state is broke, their city is broke, and their electorate is the most far left liberal douchebags on the planet.

F them! F their policies, and F that idiot.

 

[Hitman]

Wait where was this at?

Oh! San Francisco, CA!

Now all is understood.

 

[jimdana1942]

Anyone who fails to attempt to rescue an individual because of any policy should be stripped of their rescue credentials.

The only policy should be to make a viable attempt to rescue someone by all reasonable means.

 

[JBE]

Mike D'Orazi of the Alameda Fire Department said that, due to 2009 budget cuts, his crews lacked the training and gear to enter the water. And a Coast Guard boat couldn't access the area because the water was too shallow.

This is why there was no rescue...you DO NOT send in UNTRAINED people to effect a water rescue...all you'll wind up with is MORE victims...And that applies in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter...Location had nothing to do with it...

 

[Emperor]

This is why there was no rescue...you DO NOT send in UNTRAINED people to effect a water rescue...all you'll wind up with is MORE victims...And that applies in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter...Location had nothing to do with it...

Agree on this^

But I would submit the place is pertinent only to the extent that your locations' prevailing majority ideology probably may very well support a person's right to commit suicide at tax payer expense.

 

[Suburbazine]

When the average person doesn't know how to swim and to carry a resisting person out of the water, this world is doomed.

 

[Emperor]

When the average person doesn't know how to swim and to carry a resisting person out of the water, this world is doomed.

Most blacks in the US, particularly those in inner cities, do not know how to swim at all. Kaboom?

 

[JBE]

When the average person doesn't know how to swim and to carry a resisting person out of the water, this world is doomed.

How many have you carried??

 

[f350drvr]

Call me crazy, but I am not going into 54 degree water to save some guy that is trying to kill himself. It is very easy for a drowning person to pull you under.

As far as the first responders, why should they put themselves at serious risk of losing their lives or jobs because of this guy. It would be different had it been an accident, but this guy deliberately went into the water to kill himself.

 

[Emperor]

why should they put themselves at serious risk of losing their lives or jobs because of this guy.

They didn't!

 

[James Cannon]

Most blacks in the US, particularly those in inner cities, do not know how to swim at all. Kaboom?

Kaboom, what?

also,
[citation needed]

 

[Hitman]

How many have you carried??

That was my question.

I've qualified up to CWSQ in the Marine Corps and assisting a victim/distressed swimmer to safety is NO EASY TASK! It's not easy, it's not fun and it can be VERY violent.

Think cat in the water.
When you get near it, it’ll jump all over your head and WILL NOT let go!
Add a couple hundred pounds to the cat and you get the picture.

However this dude was trying to kill himself. NO TELLING what the heck he could have tried. Might have tried taken you with him. What's he got to lose?

 

[Emperor]

Kaboom, what?

also,
[citation needed]

The world would be doomed based on his stated observation.

My reference to his prophecy may have been more atomic than needed.

 

[Skiney]

ATOMIC ??????

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[Knave]

 

[Ritten]

F them! F their policies, and F that idiot.

This +100.

The only thing about that situation that strikes me as wrong is that 75 considered it entertainment to sit and watch. I'd have tossed him a brick to carry out into the water with him and went on my merry way. Sorry, but my heart doesn't bleed for those who can make the decision between life and death. I'd probably have thanked him for not taking anyone with him and wished him luck on his departure too.

 

[oleheat]

Most blacks in the US, particularly those in inner cities, do not know how to swim at all. Kaboom?

Kaboom, what?

also,
[citation needed]

He may be correct.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24411271/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/t/nearly-percent-black-children-cant-swim/