Police watch a kid drown and do nothing!

[canarlee]

they are ACPO


Assitant Community POLICE OFFICERS


*edit; they are PCSOs, POLICE CONSTABLE SPECIAL OFFICERS-------------see the word police there? i do........

ok not "real police", but they are police none the less.


also, i do agree with other posters here, what has being a woman got to do with it?


why any person male or female, would not try to help them i dont know.

[Donor]

they are ACPO


Assitant Community POLICE OFFICERS

Actually, the article says

...two community support officers (PCSOs)

Jesus, you really ought to write for the Herald with your factual statements...

ok not "real police", but they are police none the less.

So are they or aren't they??
Bugger me, I'm getting a headache, forget reporting, you need to move into politics with the bollocks and flip flops!

[arsnik]

Im a trained lifeguard and was one for years to pay for uni- and having faced the space in which you are deciding whether a situation is a rescue many times and then done the rescues-key to water rescue is keeping the victim IN-SIGHT - its why surf rescue involves masses of freestyle-type-swimming

So much for KIWI life saving, by professional life savers.

When on holiday in NZ - Taranaki - Opunaki surfing at 10am. An old white woman (~30 years) dragged out a in rip on her plastic malibu, swell heading into rocks, rip going to australia, lots of LIFE SAVERS on the beach, on look out towers with binos, but all talking to hot women, or looking at woman. No one come out to get her when she was waving. I paddle across half the bay over into the channel and helped her stop PANICing whilst being sucked out and decided she wouldnt make the long paddle back round to shore. So told her to ditch her board jump on mine and Id try slow us down as we got slammed int othe rocks. Snapped my beautiful $900 fish. But she got out, cried for a few minutes, hubby came running around the coast. Took over. I left. Walking back to my campervan, Snapped board, THIRD ONE! I saw a life guard, talking to some horrid horse faced blonde in a bikini with no tits.

I asked him, Did you see that women? Him, Which one?
The one being sucked out the channel down there. Him, Yep saw her, haha, old people trying to surf eh
Is your boat not going? Him, Nah she goes mate, been out this morning at dawn. Got a few incase it breaks down.
Were you about to do anything about the woman you had seen, thats now traumatised with broken bones and full of salt water?Him, Look, I dont start til 12, piss off.

The rage came on quicker than electricity, I fought it for a second, then let it get to me, embraced it, and let a few fists loose.

KIWI LIFE SAVERS. WHAT A JOKE. HE WAS ONE OF 9 COUNTED PRESENT AT 11.50AM

[canarlee]

Actually, the article says

Jesus, you really ought to write for the Herald with your factual statements...

read up, i just edited.

[Donor]

read up, i just edited.

So did I... what a team...

Actually, I know a woman, she cleans at the local station and is on the police payroll for it...

...does that make HER a police officer? Her contract has the logo on it after all...

[Katman]

Fuck I'm sick of cop-bashing know-it-alls that have all the opinions in the world, but have no fucking idea of reality, nor do they have the balls to actually join up and make a difference.

Wankers.

Boo fucking hoo.

[canarlee]

So did I... what a team...

Actually, I know a woman, she cleans at the local station and is on the police payroll for it...

...does that make HER a police officer? Her contract has the logo on it after all...

and now you are being petty and pathetic.



their title is PCSO, which means POLICE CONSTABLE SPECIAL OFFICERS. see that word "police"?


the woman you know probably has the title "office cleaner"? oh so slightly different eh?

[peasea]

Had a quick flick through the story, couldn'tr find a mention of the parent's whereabouts.

Why, when things like this happen (tragedy, for sure) the blame falls on someone else? If mum, dad or both had been there........

However; I think anyone with half a brain would have jumped in unless they couldn't swim. It's not like it was Piha with rips or anything so you do have to wonder.

Police assistants or whatever, where's their humanity?

[Donor]

their title is PCSO, which means POLICE CONSTABLE SPECIAL OFFICERS. see that word "police"?

Try "Police Community Support Officer"

It's in the article - you really ought to refrain from arguing heated opinions unless you can be factual and consistent bud...

[Luckylegs]

So did I... what a team...

Actually, I know a woman, she cleans at the local station and is on the police payroll for it...

...does that make HER a police officer? Her contract has the logo on it after all...

Title not important, but... If something is dropped in the Bog, She better know we expect her in there without delay whether the item is bobbing around the surface or sunk behind the s bend......

[puddy]

What, one less Pom? Yep, I blame the Mother!

[puddy]

Another one of the 101 reasons why you should n't read the BBC News!

[surfchick]

So much for KIWI life saving, by professional life savers.

When on holiday in NZ - Taranaki - Opunaki surfing at 10am. An old white woman (~30 years) dragged out a in rip on her plastic malibu, swell heading into rocks, rip going to australia, lots of LIFE SAVERS on the beach, on look out towers with binos, but all talking to hot women, or looking at woman. No one come out to get her when she was waving. I paddle across half the bay over into the channel and helped her stop PANICing whilst being sucked out and decided she wouldnt make the long paddle back round to shore. So told her to ditch her board jump on mine and Id try slow us down as we got slammed int othe rocks. Snapped my beautiful $900 fish. But she got out, cried for a few minutes, hubby came running around the coast. Took over. I left. Walking back to my campervan, Snapped board, THIRD ONE! I saw a life guard, talking to some horrid horse faced blonde in a bikini with no tits.

I asked him, Did you see that women? Him, Which one?
The one being sucked out the channel down there. Him, Yep saw her, haha, old people trying to surf eh
Is your boat not going? Him, Nah she goes mate, been out this morning at dawn. Got a few incase it breaks down.
Were you about to do anything about the woman you had seen, thats now traumatised with broken bones and full of salt water?Him, Look, I dont start til 12, piss off.

The rage came on quicker than electricity, I fought it for a second, then let it get to me, embraced it, and let a few fists loose.

KIWI LIFE SAVERS. WHAT A JOKE. HE WAS ONE OF 9 COUNTED PRESENT AT 11.50AM

Yup there;s a mix of lifeguards that concentrate and one's that tootle on the quadbikes checking and nodding at babes. gotta say gutted gutted you lost your board - two things- you did the right thing AND she should have had hubby or herself hook you up for it. however I have to say alot of lifeguards,myself included swim out and drag people out of the surf semi-regular.

surfers do alot of rescuing too as they are usually fit ah hem and can travel faster than a swimmer-two good friends of mine were surfing a summer cyclone swell at hot water beach but had come out of the water. they heard two japanese tourists calling getting sucked out and both boys blasted out the back on the mals picking up one swimmer each. they gave both CPR and the man lived and woman died

[puddy]

Is this genuine 'outrage', or 'talkback.........long time listener, daily caller' outrage?

[Luckylegs]

Is this genuine 'outrage', or 'talkback.........long time listener, daily caller' outrage?

Outrage is specifically reserved for two subjects around here... They are (in no particular order...) Speeding Fines and A certain KB'r (who rides too fast, dangerously and needs to get a job)...