What a pro-pain.
The Itaeweon Halloween disaster was mentioned in Part 1 of this thread. The incident has claimed another victim.
A firefighter who suffered from depression after being dispatched to the 2022 deadly crowd crush was found dead Wednesday after going missing for 10 days, officials said.
The 30-year-old firefighter had been missing for over a week and, according to his family, had been struggling with depression since the Itaewon disaster, reports said.
At around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, the missing firefighter was found dead in Geumi-dong, Siheung, Gyeonggi Province.
That sounds like a sad story. Where is the stupidity?
Lack of prep by the authorities, presumably, for the Halloween incident. I never have that much luck searching this site, and that post was the only relevant one I got.
Jeez, can’t they give this poor guy just one more chance?
Who is Trump’s Secretary of Police?
It’s a Secret.
Father charged after abandoning 4-year-old on Puyallup freeway
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash — A 34-year-old man faces felony child abandonment charges after authorities say he left his 4-year-old daughter on the side of a busy Pierce County freeway over the weekend because she was being “disruptive and loud.”
‘Don’t make me pull over!’
I hope that makes the national news; it’s always fun hearing people try to pronounce “Puyallup”.
They obviously have lived their entire lives (and quite possibly consider themselves sufficiently worldly) without ever once hearing a commercial for the Washington State Fair.
[Clap. Clap Clap.]
The article states that he was stressed out due to taking care of 5 children while his wife was deployed in the army. Then it states
So he’s free to go back home and “parent” the other 4 kids? Good grief!
I expect the child services agency will be involved further.
Wear your life jacket, canoes tip.
This is tragic, and I am sure the two survivors will never live this down. But this was a stupid and foolish thing to do.
This is a deep, high mountain lake, fed with snow melt and glacier run off. It never gets warm. Away from shore that water temperature is going to be low single digit celcius. Even with life jackets and not drowning, hypothermia alone is dangerous.
Canoes tip, and each additional inexperienced passenger makes tipping more likely. Maybe this was a bigger canoe but I am guessing it wasn’t.
I get it there are times I don’t feel like wearing a life jacket, shallow lakes and slow rivers where I can stand up, I am not too worried. Upper Kananaskis Lake? No way.
The recent problems at Lake Tahoe also had more deaths from hypothermia than drowning IIRC.
My mom grew up around boats and, as such, I spent some time on them as well since my grandfather was still boating when I was younger. My mom drilled it into us that if you’re on a boat or on the pier, you wear a life jacket, period. When I said ‘but I can swim’ she countered that with something that, to this day, still pops into my head in those situations, “what if you hit your head and fall in the water”. Yup, good enough.
My grandmother actually fell between the boat and the dock. Her femur was crushed, she’s lucky she kept her leg and was able to use it after all the surgeries. Interestingly, when she was in the hospital she kept complaining about her arm hurting as well. Turned out whoever pulled her out of the water, dislocated her shoulder in the process.
No idea if she was wearing a life vest though. But if she wasn’t who knows if she’d have made it out if there wasn’t someone there to grab her.
People also often don’t realize how cold Seneca Lake is, even on a hot day. The surface water warms up; but only the surface. And in many places the bottom drops off abruptly, so it’s easy to wind up in deep cold water by accident if you’re not careful.
When I fell down a flight of stairs years ago and broke my wrist, I didn’t realize until weeks (maybe months) later that my shoulder was also sore. It felt weird like something was slightly disconnected. By that time it really didn’t bother me that much, so I never had it checked out. Now, when I’m walking for exercise and I’m swinging my arms, I can feel/hear a little clicking.
Just learned of the Angel of Death Challenge.
Who starts these dumbass “challenges”?