I'm quite literally speechless...

[ilovepiano]

Officers 'not trained' to rescue drowning boy - Telegraph


What planet do these fuckwits live on?

[Shooms]

Originally Posted by ilovepiano

Officers 'not trained' to rescue drowning boy - Telegraph


What planet do these fuckwits live on?

I read that too Tim.... fuckin incensed

You see summat like that yer thought process is bypassed - you act.... it's someone's life at risk....

[ilovepiano]

Originally Posted by Shooms

You see summat like that yer thought process is bypassed - you act.... it's someone's life at risk....

Exactly. What kind of person justs stands there and watches someone drown? It was a pond for fucks sake. And what kind of person would defend the pricks?

[mrshifter]

Just been reading about this, it's absolutely scandalous.

At the very least the officers involved should be named. How do they sleep at night.

PCSO's are a joke. I had a bump in the motor last week hitting an oncoming car...no real damage luckliy. Two PCSO's turned up on the scene and one of them very carefully wrote my name and address down in his little book.

'What happens now?' I asked.

'I'll have to radio through for a police officer to come and sort it out'.

I just grinned at him and he walked off sheepishly. Useless.

[Presuming Ed]

I guess if you couldn't swim youd maybe not go in..but other than that i think its instinct to try and save someone..although it does take a certain amount of bravery...horrendous to see someone so young die..doesn't bare thinking about

[Amelie]

Originally Posted by presuminged

I guess if you couldn't swim youd maybe not go in..but other than that i think its instinct to try and save someone..although it does take a certain amount of bravery...horrendous to see someone so young die..doesn't bare thinking about

My grandad once found a kids body washed up on a sand dune whilst out cockleing at Lytham. How shit is that , he had gone missing a few weeks back on a lilo.

[Shooms]

Originally Posted by Amelie

My grandad once found a kids body washed up on a sand dune whilst out cockleing at Lytham. How shit is that , he had gone missing a few weeks back on a lilo.

That's grim

Was he Chinese ?

[Amelie]

Originally Posted by Shooms

That's grim

Was he Chinese ?

Owww, you going straight to hell you know!

[Miss C]

Well, in Ibiza the same thing happened to Eddy & I!!

Sat minding our own business on the harbour bit of the beach and what should float along but a dead body!!!!!! A man, fully clothed.

I was, and still am fking mortified, my head wasn't ready to see that shit I didn't sleep for days.

Back on the topic, obviously morally they should have intervened, but in this country theres no duty of care to help a stranger under any circumstances unless your occupation specifically requires that you do & you're on duty, there is an obligation in loads of other countries though....you'd have been under a legal duty to help the boy.

Its a hard one, haven't they said there was no sign of the boy when they got there? Still though...

[tricky nicky]

you would do your damndest to try and help out in that and any other emergency situation.
they have to live with their decision for the rest of their sorry lives!!!!

[ilovepiano]

Originally Posted by Miss C

Well, in Ibiza the same thing happened to Eddy & I!!

Sat minding our own business on the harbour bit of the beach and what should float along but a dead body!!!!!! A man, fully clothed.

I was, and still am fking mortified, my head wasn't ready to see that shit I didn't sleep for days.

It's not good is it Miss C...

Last year I was in the wagon on the St Helens Linkway just near the M62 when something caught my eye on the other side of the road. There was a car that was up the kirb on the grass and there was just something totally wrong about how the driver looked. So I told the guy I was with to spin round at the motorway junction and go back to have a look.

Pulled up, jumped out and ran straight over. Thought at first he'd passed out or something, but he was gone. Tell you what though - the feeling that came over me after grabbing hold of his wrist and neck and feeling no pulse will never leave me. We did what we could till the ambulance arrived, and then they tried to get him going as well in the back of the ambulance for what seemed like forever, but with no luck, sadly.

What really cut me up though was seeing his wedding ring as we lifted him out of the car, and thinking about his missus getting a knock on the door. Still gets to me now, and it was 15 months ago...

[Miss C]

Originally Posted by ilovepiano

It's not good is it Miss C...

Last year I was in the wagon on the St Helens Linkway just near the M62 when something caught my eye on the other side of the road. There was a car that was up the kirb on the grass and there was just something totally wrong about how the driver looked. So I told the guy I was with to spin round at the motorway junction and go back to have a look.

Pulled up, jumped out and ran straight over. Thought at first he'd passed out or something, but he was gone. Tell you what though - the feeling that came over me after grabbing hold of his wrist and neck and feeling no pulse will never leave me. We did what we could till the ambulance arrived, and then they tried to get him going as well in the back of the ambulance for what seemed like forever, but with no luck, sadly.

What really cut me up though was seeing his wedding ring as we lifted him out of the car, and thinking about his missus getting a knock on the door. Still gets to me now, and it was 15 months ago...

Gosh Good on you for going back to check....thats weird that noticed something looked wrong about him at a glance.

Same thing with this guy, some crazy old guy was tryna ressuscitate him on the beach, he was dark blue & rubberry & his body kept jutting around when he pumped his chest, I was practically hyperventilating begging god to make him come back to life, but he was completely dead...it was horriffic, they left him lying on the beach for hours & hours & covered him in foil eventually...paramedics & police took forever to come, it was mad we were the first people to find him, like you were.

& like you said its the thought of there being no life in the shell...& yeah, what on earth are the families gonna be like when they find out....'i'm sorry, your husband went to the beach on holiday one day & drowned....happy holidays'.

Its the visions of it I can't bare. Wish I handn't seen it, but who knows maybe there was a reason.