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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:27:43 PM EDT
http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2017/04/2_non-swimmers_tried_to_save_buffalo_teen_from_hotel_drowning_as_others_sat_arou.html#comments
Yeah it was a young black guy, but not knowing how to swim isn't the same thing as hopping into deep water 
Does sound like there were life rings and a rescue pole no one, including his idiot friends, bothered with. Some hotel guest did leap in and pull him out after it was too late. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:29:17 PM EDT
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A black man who can't swim?
That's surprising 
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:33:11 PM EDT
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Oh well.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:35:31 PM EDT
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At least it wasn't all the little children that the non-swimmers brought with them who died.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:36:23 PM EDT
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I was assuming he was either drinking or high, but sounds like he was just trying to impress a girl.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:36:52 PM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim.
I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? 
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:37:12 PM EDT
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It was 7' deep at max, just fucking walk out of it.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:38:02 PM EDT
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At least it wasn't all the little children that the non-swimmers brought with them who died. "I was like, yo he's drowning" 
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:38:10 PM EDT
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He won't do that again....
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:38:58 PM EDT
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For some people.......
pool = life guard Or, I'm gonna sue. Of course, pvt pools do not = life guards. But, you better have a high fence around it with a locked gate. Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:40:12 PM EDT
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Edited ~ medicmandan
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:41:11 PM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:42:18 PM EDT
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There is a near child-like ignorance in many stories like this.
Are their lives so sheltered that they don't even know the most basic elements of life? Water over your head = drowning. Maybe since the system takes care of so much of their lives, it's implied that this coverage is infinite??? Some lawyer will of course file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:42:30 PM EDT
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Coca Cola closed at 202 today.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:43:24 PM EDT
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I've witnessed certain people just panic and flap around in water that if they just stood up would go to their waist.
Very strange. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:48:36 PM EDT
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It was funny because in the Virgin Islands we had all this beautiful water that you could see down pretty deep and see big fish or sharks coming a mile away. There are very few attacks the water is so clear, but all of the locals would only walk in up to their knees, lmao. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 5:54:05 PM EDT
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We had a guy that couldn't swim think it would be a great idea to go to a public rock quarry swimming hole. Even better, he went to the 40' cliff that everyone jumps off of and thought it would be a good idea to take his shoes off and try jumping in.
We found him several days later 53" deep right below where he jumped in. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:01:22 PM EDT
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7' deep water?
Sheesh... pogo yourself off the bottom a few times towards shallower water then walk out. We go swimming to a big natural spring fed pool that is up to 30' deep (Balmorhea, Tx.). I'm amazed at the people who don't know how to swim but will float on a Wal-Mart plastic lounger in 30' deep water, they're literally one Chinese sealed toy failure away from death. It seems like every year there's at least one drowning (usually a drunk adult). |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:05:28 PM EDT
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There is a guy that goes to a gym I go to.
Guy is 35/45yr missing a leg from 1/2 femur down. And swims well. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:08:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:12:25 PM EDT
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That makes perfect sense.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:15:04 PM EDT
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There is a guy that goes to a gym I go to. Guy is 35/45yr missing a leg from 1/2 femur down. And swims well. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:15:29 PM EDT
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity.
People underestimate the likelihood of drowning. If you're going to be around people in a body of water, yous should be CPR certified. BTDT... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:19:00 PM EDT
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For the life of me, I don't understand the aversion that (Some? Most?) black people have about learning how to swim. I learned to swim when I was 3 years old. WTF?!? In Navy Boot Camp, we had to tread water for 10 minutes using our clothes as flotation. Most of the black guys went straight to the bottom. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:19:28 PM EDT
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity. People underestimate the likelihood of drowning. If you're going to be around people in a body of water, yous should be CPR certified. BTDT... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:20:19 PM EDT
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I can't fly. If I jump off the top of a hotel and splat on the concrete below is that the fault of the hotel?
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:20:53 PM EDT
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity. People underestimate the likelihood of drowning. If you're going to be around people in a body of water, yous should be CPR certified. BTDT... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:21:51 PM EDT
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Some lawyer will of course file a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:24:44 PM EDT
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sounds like the guy could swim circles around the kid in the story.... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There is a guy that goes to a gym I go to. Guy is 35/45yr missing a leg from 1/2 femur down. And swims well. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:26:27 PM EDT
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Darwin finally got one.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:28:27 PM EDT
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Something about looking before you leap.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:30:59 PM EDT
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If you live in an urban environment or are not exposed to aquatic environs learning to swim is not on your radar.
Your parents teach you to swim. That dude probably could survive in a metropolis while some of you guys panic about a bum giving you the stink eye in Midtown or trying to cross 5th Ave at 4pm That being said. WtF was he doing jumping in a pool with no skills. And the other idiots with no clue... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:43:02 PM EDT
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Poor choices were made.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:45:16 PM EDT
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity. E.g. Gamble Rogers, RIP ETA: apparently he *DID* try to drown the two who went in after him..... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:48:45 PM EDT
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I would throw him a flotation ring or try to snare him with the dog catcher pole, but no way in hell am I going to jump into the water for anyone but family.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:51:47 PM EDT
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I would throw him a flotation ring or try to snare him with the dog catcher pole, but no way in hell am I going to jump into the water for anyone but family. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 6:55:21 PM EDT
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Yeah I wouldn't have gone in after him but it's odd no one threw him a ring or used the rod |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:08:37 PM EDT
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Why would friends or family help him?
They just hit the jackpot! |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:12:56 PM EDT
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http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2017/04/2_non-swimmers_tried_to_save_buffalo_teen_from_hotel_drowning_as_others_sat_arou.html#comments Yeah it was a young black guy, but not knowing how to swim isn't the same thing as hopping into deep water
Does sound like there were life rings and a rescue pole no one, including his idiot friends, bothered with. Some hotel guest did leap in and pull him out after it was too late. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:17:25 PM EDT
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Stay Float.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:31:22 PM EDT
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity. People underestimate the likelihood of drowning. If you're going to be around people in a body of water, yous should be CPR certified. BTDT... |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:33:09 PM EDT
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Yeah I wouldn't have gone in after him but it's odd no one threw him a ring or used the rod |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 7:47:12 PM EDT
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I can't fly. If I jump off the top of a hotel and splat on the concrete below is that the fault of the hotel? |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:31:18 PM EDT
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In the70s you were taught to "surface" dive to keep a eye on the location of your "victim"
and swim up to them and then dive under water and surface behind them. Then you would come up behind them and put a type of cross the chest "wrestling" move on them to stop them from taking you with them. And while holding them in a wrestling position you would swim them in. Exhausting to say the least. It only made sense to come up with the extending a flotation device to drowning victims approach for lifeguards. If you watch old movies you won't see lifeguards with the red floatation devices in their laps while on watch. It seems like a no-brainer now, but back then you were expected to go and haul people out of the water on your own. We were taught to knock their asses out if we had to so they didn't try to use us as floatation devices. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:33:28 PM EDT
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Fuck that nonsense. That guy is liable to drown you as well panicking. Life preserver or metal rod best you get from me. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:36:14 PM EDT
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Former Ranger recently told me that there's not many blacks in the Rangers because many otherwise qualified black soldiers can't swim.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:36:41 PM EDT
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These women should have been arrested for child neglect putting small children in a pool without the ability to rescue them. I'd like to say I'd have a coke but I'd have grabbed a net or something with a pole. Only way I'd jump in is for a child or hot chick.
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:43:12 PM EDT
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Yeah I wouldn't have gone in after him but it's odd no one threw him a ring or used the rod Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I would throw him a flotation ring or try to snare him with the dog catcher pole, but no way in hell am I going to jump into the water for anyone but family. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:46:39 PM EDT
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I was about 3 also when I was swimming. Dad has a 8mm movie of me in a pool swimming away. In Navy Boot Camp, we had to tread water for 10 minutes using our clothes as flotation. Most of the black guys went straight to the bottom. I think the above in bold is proof that water is racist. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:50:30 PM EDT
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I would throw him a flotation ring or try to snare him with the dog catcher pole, but no way in hell am I going to jump into the water for anyone but family. |
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Posted: 4/14/2017 8:51:05 PM EDT
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Actually, Humanity does prevail the world over, just in some places, it does not, ever. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The fact that no one tried to help makes me really sad for humanity. People underestimate the likelihood of drowning. If you're going to be around people in a body of water, yous should be CPR certified. BTDT... |
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