Like trying to carry a boulder out of a lake
edit: corrected to man, credit to @ManyAccounts for the backstory vid!
Sources from YT video:
https://buffalonews.com/2018/06/26/po...
https://paddling.com/learn/river-haza...
Like trying to carry a boulder out of a lake
edit: corrected to man, credit to @ManyAccounts for the backstory vid!
Sources from YT video:
https://buffalonews.com/2018/06/26/po...
https://paddling.com/learn/river-haza...
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This video fills me with rage, especially if you see the bottom one with audio. All the spectators filming and screaming he gon drown ! Get in there! He gon die! You better get in there! Etc. Now there's 2 dead people and they did fuck all to help. But if he didn't try they'd be calling him a coward and murderer smh.
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To rescue drowning people you need lessons first. Always approach a drowning victim from behind, you don't want their hands on you no matter what. I find drownings fascinating. I am a very good swimmer and know my limitations. Had a moment on the Big Island I thought I was going to die once, somebody else did in the same seat of waves, it was their honeymoon and feb.14, very sad seeing her fall to the sand as she got the news from the fireman at there beach he husband drowned, surf picked up fast on Hapuna Beach that day. I have a scar from reef. Went from 5 foot sets to 20 feet in an half hour.
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Tf u mean by "if he didnt try" bro theres many people there that can help
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And amazingly not a single one did is the point.
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Then they are the cowards and murderers. They had him jump in and stood and filmed.
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"Rage"? I have no duty to do jack shit if I see you drowning. Maybe I piss in the river beside you or something, but help you? Fuck that, your problem Dogg.
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Stfu u prolly one of them so called white people yall pink monkeys talk so much shit online but have yall head down in public. Go fuck your sister all yall are born pedos
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Does your abuelita know you snuck out of the cocina to post here when you're supposed to be making churros?
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U really need to get educated
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It's ok mijo. Scurry back to the cocina now.
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Why "rage"? Maybe cameraman didn't know how to swim but he had the presence of mind to alert others that the guy was drowning and immediate action was needed.
And I don't fault anyone else for not wanting to drown. That guy was huge and I doubt anyone there had rescue training.
I just don't see why it would fill anyone with "rage". There was really very little that anyone could do.
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if you're ever in a situation where you're near people who can't swim, swim downwards if they latch on to you, they will surely let go. as messed up as it is, they'll drown you to keep themselves alive for another minute
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Watch the documentary video. There was likely a strong undertow here, and swimming downward is a death sentence.
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i guess it didn't matter in this situation then
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A perfect analogy for our society.
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For a second I thought you were making a comment on good people dying needlessly but then I realized you're just saying black people are bad.
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Hahaha this is too good
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I thought fat helped you float
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I keep forgetting, do titties float!?
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I wouldn't know I'm part of the itty bitty titty committee
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If heard alot of people say the best thing to do when you come to save a person who's drowning is to punch them in the face, to either knock them out or disorient them so they can't drown you too
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Next time someone's getting on my nerves at the beach I'll just hit them and say it was to save their life! Thanks!
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Former lifeguard here and can confirm lots of face punching. I prolly could have rescued those kids and that baby without that but the constant refresher training really builds muscle memory.
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Either that, or we have just stumbled upon a former lifeguard that just liked to punch people in the face.
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Hahaha, I don't suppose that has anything to do with the "former" qualifier.
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Look where empathy gets ya.
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Should've let the fatty drown. Fats can't control themselves so they sure as shit won't control their instinct to grab you even though it means you drown too.
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I cannot stress this enough: HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT LIFE PRESERVERS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF FLOATING UTENSIL. Drowning people are in a state of panic and they automatically assume you came to be their personal buoy. Should have tossed something towards him. Good deeds, man.
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Everyone should remember the old "reach, throw, row, go". Seems to me jumping in and swimming to them is basically a suicide mission unless you are Michael Phelps or a very highly experienced lifeguard bringing some kind of rescue float with you when you go.
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And this boys and girls why you never should try to save someone who is not your family or close friend.
Drowning people are in panic, they can't think and won't hear you, they will happily drag you down if it will boost their chances to survive.
Even 6'5 guy who is experienced swimmer can be drowned by a small woman this way.
If there's nothing that floats to help you but you still want to play a hero then don't be surprised when instead of one there will be two corpses.
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You say this assuming your family or close friend wouldn't act in a similar manner to a stranger drowning
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That's something ppl don't t realize panicking people are gonna grab you
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Yo, the narrator saw it all before homeboy even went for the piece of wood.
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Should've just left him no point in trying to save a whale just trying to go back to its natural habitat
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This comment got me 💀☠️
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omg turkey tom hiiiii
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edutainment
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First, I can't believe this was all about a log in the water. Second, if you don't want to die rescuing someone like this, be prepared to have them pull you under to get themselves above the surface. When this happens do not try to swim back up, swim away first while under water and then come back up otherwise you'll keep getting pushed down before you can take a breath.
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Fuck remembering all that.
Just let them drown.
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What if it's that girl that keeps sucking when you start nutting!?
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so who called me?
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IT'S CALLED DIFT WOOD, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LET THAT FUCKING SHIT JUST DIFT AWAY! NOW LOOK WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED...TERRIBLE!
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Lean English
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bahahahahahzzh
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Wow, your a little shit bag huh?
People on here are not going to like you being this way to others over a typo.
It Obviously was a typo. English is my first language. Why are you being such a fucking piece of shit to a random 37yr old female, who is extremely educated, a licensed optician, who happens to have been born and raised and STILL lives in the very rich comfy suburbs of America?
All over a typo?
You're a sad person. I feel sorry for you.
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I dont fucking care. Learn english.
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I don't believe any of your shit. Everyone's something here. If i were to believe you, then everyone here is a cop, gangster, politician, Navy Seal, a spy, BLA BLA FUCKING BLA. You being an optician is irrelevant.
This is something i noticed. People that rattle off shit like you? It's as if you have something to prove. You're probably black or a Trumper redneck.
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Sorry you feel that way kid.
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☝️🤓
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this is why you should never try to save a drowning man
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i would bite her tbh
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whos recording bruh
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NAHH HE WAS ABSOLUTELY SHOVING HIS HEAD INTO THE WATER LMAO
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dang respect for the white man tryna help
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Get away from the asshole. Save yourself! Lol
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personally, after going into the water I would have given the choccy man the wood back so he can hold onto it, then talk to him to relax and only then make the way together out of the water
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now I wanna drown so u can rescue me
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Reminds me of a similar situation.
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ooh that's this exact situation, thank you for posting and backstory! this was an old webm ive had in my "drowning idiots" folder for a while
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enderman = blacks
villagers = jews
creepers = Arab
is minecraft raacist guys?
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A stereotype proven blacks can't swim
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Fat people actually float if they don't do all that panicking ffs.
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I'm thin and I float too, I believe anyone floats when they just relax. Watching the end though, I believe there was some kind of current or something because their bodies sunk like rocks when they stopped struggling. That's weird, usually a dead body will float, or at least if it sinks it's not that quick, right...?
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Yes - the end is very weird how they go down .
I always struggled to float because I wasn't taught properly.
You have to learn how to float before learning to swim if I remember correctly. I took lessons later !
Floating is easier if you get on your back so you can breathe and shout for help- very obvious but not to everyone is taught this and it's a real lifesaver.
Just watched this about floating
In my town an old woman with dementia was once rescued by the police from a river. She had entered the water and had floated for a few miles when someone noticed her!
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