John, less than 3 years ago I was paddlling in the softened surf at the
mouth of a nearby river - I'm too old for real-surf kayaking - when I
saw a commotion on the other side, lifeguards running and jumping in the
water. As I came closer, they started pulling kids out of the water, and
taking off to revive them. Got downstream from them, fast as I could, as
they were still at least one kid short. Muddy water, surf, time went on
and no sign of the last kid - who turned up already ashore, safe. We had
the wrong number of missing kids. As I understood from the papers,
another youngster drowned almost at the same time, less than a mile from
us - the lifeguards had piled up on a 4-kids missing call. Sometimes
it's a win-some lose-others game.
LF
John Francis escreveu:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:50:48PM +0000, Cotty wrote:
Shit happens. I've never been attacked, but then again I tend not to
film road accidents until well after they have happened, when police and
CSI are on scene and the area is closed to the public. This is because I
am sent there by the newsdesk after they have found out about them.
These incidents are always fatal and unpleasant.
It's not a lot of fun if you get there before the police arrive, either.
Many years ago I was driving up the M6 with some friends when we spotted
a group of cars pulled off at the side of the road. We found that an old
car (a gift to the young couple in it from the father of one of them, who
was one of the other drivers present at the scene) had gone off the road
and overturned. When I got there everybody was trying to lift the car up
so they could free the young woman passenger - she hadn't been wearing a
seat belt, and had gone through the windscreen. I could see this wasn't
going to do any good, but at least they weren't going to do her any more
harm; she was beyond help. I got what details I could, and sent somebody
off to call the police. It was only when I started asking more questions
that I got to the important one - how many people had been in the car?
Until then nobody had even thought about that. There was a three-year-old
boy in the back of the car, basically unharmed except for minor scratches.
I got him out and sat him in the back of my car to keep him warm. One of
my passengers was a primary school teacher, so she knew how to deal with
children, which was more than I did!
Eventually the police arrived and dealt with everything. When I eventually
got to leave around an hour later I didn't quite make it to the filling
station - I'd used up just a little too much fuel running the car on idle
to keep the heater going while we were looking after the youngster, so I
had to walk the last half mile carrying a petrol can.
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