6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do'

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

I thought Mizzou just forgot the blue font ... or didn't know how to use it.

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

The kid can swim, save a life and knows how to use unconscious. Great story.

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

The quote that CI put in the headline really sums it up.

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

If your going to use sarcasm at least make it a wee bit funny

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

And, of course, TV buried it.

 

Re: 6-year-old saves drowning 5-year-old: 'That's what friends do"

The 5-year-old is a lot smaller than the 6-year-old judging from the picture that ran with the story.

The thing that struck me was how Josiah was repeatedly referred to as "a shadow on the bottom of the pool."

Shadow?

In that town, the kid probably told the writer how to spell it. Buncha pilots kids there.

 

Yeah. Deep end of the pool that's how you'd describe something at the bottom. That's what a big fish in the water looks like.

Some lifeguard needs to get fired for sure.

 

Somebody dig up the drowning raccoon.

 

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I think he's funny, and you're a downer.

 

Glad to know my sick humor wasn't lost on everyone...

 

I ran a waterfront for a private rich kids camp for nine summers. About 500 kids were at the camp, and in those nine summers we had about seven or eight saves where if we did not get the person, they were going to drown. About half of those saves were college counselors.

So we were doing about one save a summer.

A young man who worked for me went on to work at a public lake just north of New York City that was used by a lot of the Bronx and Brooklyn residents.

They did 15-20 saves a day or over 1,000 a summer.

Some people do not give their kids swimming lessons. Many times these people do not realize that they cannot swim until they jump into the water. I am not kidding.

The two things you look for: people who look like they have never had a swimming lesson in their life and kids with Downs Syndrome.

I would rather rescue a 400-pound slob than a 115-pound kid with Downs.

Fat floats and a Downs kid is all muscle. They also bear hug you when they panic, so they can take you down as well.

To sum it up: have your walking child take (and pass) swim lessons before you ever, ever take them to a pool or lake or ocean for fun.