Author Topic: Someboy's Gonna Get Fired, Somebody's Gonna Get Sued (Read 693 times)

rpm · « **on:** May 19, 2005, 02:03:29 PM »

One of the local schools was having an end of the year picnic / pool party at the local city park. During the party, a 13 year old boy was pushed into the pool. The boy could not swim. The lifeguard wasn't paying attention and students had to pull the boy out after he was on the bottom of the pool for several minutes. The lifeguard did not know CPR and students had to give him CPR. The school officials lied to police and said the lifeguard and teachers pulled the boy out and started CPR. The boy is in critical condition.

AWMac · « **Reply #1 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:09:00 PM »

Yup

Someone will burn for this. Hope the kid turns out okay.

Mac

Thrawn · « **Reply #2 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:11:40 PM »

Oh I hope someone gets arrested.

Steve · « **Reply #3 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:13:34 PM »

Here in Az there are many near drownings each year. The news will say that the child was pulled out of the pool after sveral minutes or an unknown amount of time but that the child survived. What they fail to mention is that these kids that have spent several minutes underweater almost always have severe brain damage and they are not "OK". Yes it is good the child survived but the family is still faced w/ a horrible tragedy.

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:15:14 PM »

Start with the divit that pushed the non-swimmer in, and then didn't take action for 4 minutes.

Next, I'd enquire as to how a non-swimmer got into a school organized pool trip.

THEN I'd look at the pool operators and and the lifeguard.

Sounds like a morass of liabilty issues to me.. and a healthy dose of stupidity.

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:23:20 PM »

How on earth do you get to be a life guard and not know CPR?!!

Thrawn · « **Reply #6 on:** May 19, 2005, 02:24:42 PM »

"The school officials lied to police and said the lifeguard and teachers pulled the boy out and started CPR."

This makes believe that their is also criminality. Obstruction of justice perhaps?

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2005, 03:11:04 PM »

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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
How on earth do you get to be a life guard and not know CPR?!!

That was kinda my question too. Most places not only require it, if they are going to pay you for the job, but they also have classes to attend.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 19, 2005, 03:13:47 PM »

When I was 8 my mom took us to the base pool for afterschool swim party, it was cloudy and the turnout wasnt so good. Anyways my little brother who was 5 jumped into the deep end then got into trouble, meanwhile the teacher went into the shower room for some reason and the lifeguard took this oppurtunity to flirt with this slut. So meanwhile my little brother is in trouble, me and my friend swim over as fast as we can, we get over as my brother goes down once and then we manage to pull him out. I look over and the lifeguard is still flirting. About this time my mom and her friend come to take us home, we tell them what happened, and my mom had to stop me from hitting the lifeguard in the head with a metal pool chair, because he is still flirting.

Sucks what happened to that kid.

john9001 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 19, 2005, 03:37:16 PM »

when i was a little kid i fell into a fish pond, on that day i learned how to "swim".

Tuomio · « **Reply #10 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:01:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Steve
Here in Az there are many near drownings each year. The news will say that the child was pulled out of the pool after sveral minutes or an unknown amount of time but that the child survived. What they fail to mention is that these kids that have spent several minutes underweater almost always have severe brain damage and they are not "OK". Yes it is good the child survived but the family is still faced w/ a horrible tragedy.

Kids brain often survive multiple minutes without oxygen leaving no brain damage. Even if they get some disability, they might recover from it. Especially if the water is cold. There has been cases of kids surviving 10 minutes under cold water without any damage to brains.

rpm · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:32:37 PM »

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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
How on earth do you get to be a life guard and not know CPR?!!

You don't. Not a certified one, anyway.

weaselsan · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2005, 04:47:36 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
when i was a little kid i fell into a fish pond, on that day i learned how to "swim".

My father taught me how to swim. He took me out in a boat and threw me overboard, It was remarkedly easy to swim...the hard part was getting out of that burlap bag.

Steve · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2005, 08:48:09 PM »

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There has been cases of kids surviving 10 minutes under cold water without any damage to brains.

Uhh like I said "In AZ" .There's not a lot of cold water in AZ.

I'll make sure that my wife, who is a nurse at a hospital here in the PHX area, relays your extensive knowledge to all the parents who bring their permanently disabled kids into the hospital for their assortment of associated medical problems.

Vudak · « **Reply #14 on:** May 20, 2005, 01:04:32 AM »

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Originally posted by weaselsan
My father taught me how to swim. He took me out in a boat and threw me overboard, It was remarkedly easy to swim...the hard part was getting out of that burlap bag.