Beggars belief

[imamartian]

Flirtation will get you nowhere fat boy..

i thought insults were against the rules on this site?!!! maybe i follow the rules and yet you lot don't !!!

Me personally, i would've waded in and tried to get to the body... you haven't asked anybody there why they did what they did... that makes you reactionary rather than factual. Please don't insult my weight any more !

 

[LastMagicBean]

this is a dead body retreaval situation not a life or death situation a decided by several professional people.

It may not have been, had people given a monkeys in the first place.

i do not for one second think any off the services would hesitate and go for a rescue if there was even one percent chance he was alive

He can't be pronounced dead by ANYONE until he's fished out.

 

[sooey]

eone face down in water will survive perhaps 2 mins if healthy [just my guess]
i will leave this pointless exercise until the facts are made available as common sense apparently is not enough to go on

I think you've been on too many health and safety courses myself. Or paralysis by analysis courses as they would sometimes better be called.
It was a boating lake, no one knows whether the man could have been helped. The only way to find that out would have been to drag him out ASAP then worry about it. There is NO excuse for a gang of so called emergency services personel to stand around like gawps in that situation whatever you may say. Not even for one minute, not even if they would have got a bit wet, not even if there might have been toxic mud, or aggresive ducks, or reckless canoeists, or if they had a bit of a headache.
Is that clear.

 

[imamartian]

eone face down in water will survive perhaps 2 mins if healthy [just my guess]
i will leave this pointless exercise until the facts are made available as common sense apparently is not enough to go on

I think you've been on too many health and safety courses myself. Or paralysis by analysis courses as they would sometimes better be called.
It was a boating lake, no one knows whether the man could have been helped. The only way to find that out would have been to drag him out ASAP then worry about it. There is NO excuse for a gang of so called emergency services personel to stand around like gawps in that situation whatever you may say. Not even for one minute, not even if they would have got a bit wet, not even if there might have been toxic mud, or aggresive ducks, or reckless canoeists, or if they had a bit of a headache.
Is that clear.

The guy was dead before got there superhero?!!!! wasn't he?

 

[sooey]

The guy was dead before got there superhero?!!!! wasn't he?

The point is it doesn't take a superhero to wade into a boating lake to pull somebody out. Just somebody with two arms and two legs.
Some things are indefensible, people like you who try to defend this kind of behaviour are only fit to have the pizz taken out of them.
You can tell the mods I said that if you like.

 

[imamartian]

funny sooey... !!

i maintain that we don't know the facts!! therefore, an intelligent person can't really form an opinon!

 

[sooey]

i maintain that we don't know the facts!! therefore, an intelligent person can't really form an opinon!

Man floating face down in BOATING lake. POLICE turn up. Police LEAVE him there. YOU'RE not very intelligent are you.

 

[LastMagicBean]

And you haven't given me the respect of asking me my opinion

Then .........

an intelligent person can't really form an opinon

Make your mind up FFS.

 

[joinerjohn]

I honestly have to agree with Sooey. What the "Emergency Services"
did was (and should be) indefensible. There can be no excuse , even under H&S legislation , for failing to consider that this chap could have been alive when they first arrived on scene. To wait 26 minutes , can't be defended at all.

 

[raebhoop]

i maintain that we don't know the facts!! therefore, an intelligent person can't really form an opinon!

Man floating face down in BOATING lake. POLICE turn up. Police LEAVE him there. YOU'RE not very intelligent are you.

75 feet out in 3 feet water...very very dangerous.

 

[sooey]

For a midget?

 

[Biguns]

funny sooey... !!

i maintain that we don't know the facts!! therefore, an intelligent person can't really form an opinon!

The only fact we do know is :- We do not know when this wretched mans life expired.
Therefore anyone on the scene with any sense of human feeling would have wanted to do something in the hope of preventing any further human stress/ torment.
I say again I would have.

 

[Nige F]

funny sooey... !!

i maintain that we don't know the facts!! therefore, an intelligent person can't really form an opinon!

Therefore I have no opinion

 

[holmslaw]

Anyone wading into a 3 feet deep lake is at risk of being sucked into quicksand. I used to fish in such a lake, 3 feet of water above 4 feet of silt, you wade into that and you will drown.

 

[cumbriahandyman]

Anyone wading into a 3 feet deep lake is at risk of being sucked into quicksand. I used to fish in such a lake, 3 feet of water above 4 feet of silt, you wade into that and you will drown.

It was a manmade boating lake, concrete base, a few leaves at the bottom.