Boston police officer saves man about to jump off of a train platform BUT.....

[Vitamin]

I called the lady to tell her that you said so. She paused for a moment, considered sitting at home worrrying 24/7, but then figured the State licensed her to drive, so it must be normally safe enough.

Oh, and then she said "fuck you!"

Go figure, Pat.

I always knew our Pat was a lesbian. You would have to be a chick to want that cunt.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Smart-ass high schoolers. Little kids I just picked up and relocated -- when possible, to their parents.

They thought it was over the top, too, but when you have a pool and deck packed with mostly kids, we went for a no-nonsense environment.

One of my favorite moments was when one guy was almost in a fight on the ten-meter platform, and a fellow guard got in between him and his intended target, and said something like, "You want to push somebody? Go ahead!" And the guy fell for it, not realizing what was coming: he pushed, the guard grabbed, pulled, twisted, and they both hit the water with the guard in control, having implemented a control carry on the way down. For a while after that, the whole place was really well-behaved!

If I'm more honest, if I saw a lifeguard take down a kid like that for potentially pushing someone into a pool, I think I'd probably smack the lifeguard.

-d-

 

[Kulindahr]

If I'm more honest, if I saw a lifeguard take down a kid like that for potentially pushing someone into a pool, I think I'd probably smack the lifeguard.

-d-

Given that there'd been a neck injury because someone got pushed into the pool, you'd then be banned for the season.

The neck injury happened because someone who got pushed into the pool landed on someone who was coming up to the surface after swimming under water.

If you're at your own pool, and there's hardly anyone in it, go ahead and push people. But at a public pool where there's only room to dive in because the rules say to get out of the diving zone as fast as possible, you don't play games with people's safety.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

So to teach people a lesson about not pushing people in the pool, he pushes them into the pool?

 

[bankside]

Inviting an unruly patron to escalate any obnoxious behaviour seems unprofessional. If it was an effort to diffuse the situation then clearly the lifeguard's objective was not met. If it was not an effort to diffuse the situation it should have been.

 

[blackbeltninja]

If you're at your own pool, and there's hardly anyone in it, go ahead and push people. But at a public pool where there's only room to dive in because the rules say to get out of the diving zone as fast as possible, you don't play games with people's safety.

I think you'd be hard pressed to explain to anyone why you WWF'd some teenager who was threatening to push someone into a pool.

Grabbing him, frog-marching him out of there, maybe even a little force through the wrist and elbow to get him under control if he is hell-bent on getting away from you, sure. Smashing him into the concrete and rolling over him? ...no.

-d-

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

^WWE'd. The people that protect pandas took the WWF initials back.

 

[blackbeltninja]

^Fuck them, I'm old-skool.

-d-

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

I happen to agree with that sentiment since I've been watching since I was 4.

 

[pat grimshaw]

So to teach people a lesson about not pushing people in the pool, he pushes them into the pool?

Schoolteachers will tell you that pupils learn more when their mistakes are corrected rather than ignored. You have to be cruel to be kind.

 

[bankside]

^WWE'd. The people that protect pandas took the WWF initials back.

I'm pretty sure a panda would throw someone off a diving board for being surly.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

light as feathur
-skippyskippydoo-
vegges ans coal
-ans tippy toe roll-
dat swam lake?
_ wot?_
nothin

anyway pandas was no star wars save universe?

thankyou

 

[Kulindahr]

I think you'd be hard pressed to explain to anyone why you WWF'd some teenager who was threatening to push someone into a pool.

Grabbing him, frog-marching him out of there, maybe even a little force through the wrist and elbow to get him under control if he is hell-bent on getting away from you, sure. Smashing him into the concrete and rolling over him? ...no.

-d-

You must be talking about something else -- I just watched the video again to be sure, and there was no "smashing", and very little body contact.

Grabbing a wrist and elbow means allowing the subject to go ahead and push the intended victim, or to turn and fight back. Any time a lifeguard makes contact with a swimmer, in or out of the water, drowning or misbehaving, the first goal is to be totally in control. In the water, there's a number of ways to do that; on the deck, not so much. The move this cop used is generally the best there is -- one reason being that it is not an attack, but it puts the subject into a very obviously inferior position.

Lifeguard training taught us to be nice to people who are behaving. When they misbehave, niceness gets demoted to second place -- first place being the safety of everyone at the pool.

BTW, the only person I ever concerned myself with explaining my actions to was the facility director, who was also the head lifeguard.

 

[Kulindahr]

^WWE'd. The people that protect pandas took the WWF initials back.

I have no clue what either set of initials mean, and urban dictionary was no help, either.

 

[Kulindahr]

So to teach people a lesson about not pushing people in the pool, he pushes them into the pool?

You mean my fellow lifeguard? He didn't push anyone, he just took the guy with him -- which only seems fair. And he did it in a way that was safe, so no one got hurt.

I wouldn't have tried it; I wouldn't have thought about performing a control maneuver while falling.

 

[johaninsc]

I have no clue what either set of initials mean, and urban dictionary was no help, either.

WWE is World Wrestling Entertainment

WWF is World Wrestling Federation


took about 3 seconds to find it

 

[Kulindahr]

Inviting an unruly patron to escalate any obnoxious behaviour seems unprofessional. If it was an effort to diffuse the situation then clearly the lifeguard's objective was not met. If it was not an effort to diffuse the situation it should have been.

My fellow lifeguard judged that the guy was going to push or hit someone, and made the instant decision to make himself the target instead of any pool patron. In discussion afterward, we all agreed that it was a good decision. You don't try to defuse situations, you enforce safety.

The only call that ever got seriously questioned and led to a hearing was when a college football linebacker type was in trouble, but the lifeguard couldn't get him under control to bring him to safety; the guy kept trying to climb on top of the lifeguard, which just endangered them both. Frustrated, the guard punched the guy, which sent hands to nose instead of grabbing the guard, which allowed the guard to get him under control and bring him to safety. The hearing decided the guard had to make an official, public apology to the guy, and since it was accepted no other action was taken.

Not even two weeks later, another big guy was in trouble, and it gave my fellow guard a chance to show he'd learned his lesson: this time, he swam close but just out of reach, and the guy lunged for him, which got him closer to the side; the guard repeated this about six times until they were close enough he just grabbed one of the lunging hands and set it on the pool lip. It was very creative; usually if someone is too big and too out of control to get into a carry and bring to shore, you wait until they're out of energy and then move in.

 

[Kulindahr]

I'm pretty sure a panda would throw someone off a diving board for being surly.

I'm trying to picture a panda getting on a diving board, or diving platform.

 

[Kulindahr]

WWE is World Wrestling Entertainment

WWF is World Wrestling Federation


took about 3 seconds to find it

Yes, but I don't get how that fits the sentence the initials were used in.

 

[Willie Boy]

Yes, but I don't get how that fits the sentence the initials were used in.

Because the World Wildlife Foundation refused to let the World Wrestling Federation abscond with their initials. No matter how much those fake wrestlers tried to bully them, the wild animals were far more than was bargained for and won out in the end. Real wild animals vs fake wrestlers...... The furry critters will win every time.