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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Funnily enough Derek the first proper policeman on the scene did jump in and get the kid out, no ones saying they want people to put themselves in genuine life or death danger but what was the real risk of having a little wade out or even probing the water with a branch, catching a cold, splinters, I know I couldn't live with myself if I did nothing in a similar situation and what we certainly don't want is anymore of this
A grandfather died of a heart attack while an emergency paramedic stood outside his home for 16 minutes, making a risk assessment.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6652450.ece |
Numerous people have drowned as a result of "a little wade out".
Speaking as someone who has actually saved / rescued someone from drowning I can tell you, categorically, that I would think - long and hard - before doing it again.
In fact I'm pretty sure that I could, with clear conscience, happlily live (that being the operative word) with myself were I not to do anything and leave it to those who are charged with that responsibility to do so.
Don't get me wrong - it's not that I would be concerned with - as you so glibly put it in juvenile terms - "catching a cold" or "splinters" but rather more important things like risking my life and the very real potential that my wife and (now three) children might, through no fault of theirs, be left fatherless.
I appreciate that may be a hard concept for you and others to grasp.