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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Numerous people have drowned as a result of "a little wade out".
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and many more numerous haven't, imo the risk of sliding into a pond whilst holding on to the bank would have been worth it.
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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.
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That's you and I hope the same can be said of the two PCSO's that day, there's no point in them feeling bad about it, they made the decision they thought right and no amount of guilty consciences will chnage that.
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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.
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What's a hard concept for me to understand is it could have been one of my children or yours for that matter, that's what concerns me, the fact that lifesaving training is no longer compulsory kind of makes me wonder what is classed as an emergency these days.