This comment is so late I’m sure I will be permanently gray and nobody will ever read it, but I’m just going to put this out there anyway. I happen to live in Pinellas County, probably less than 15 minutes drive from the pond these girls died in.

If you were SAR you understand that first responders/rescuers lives come first. I can’t save anyone if I am dead, and just become more of a burden on the situation if I do get hurt of die. If it is unsafe to make a rescue you don’t do it because you didn’t put them in harms way they did, and that holds true in this…

USAR, EMT, water rescue, fire, trench rescue, hazmat, high angle rope rescue, confined space rescue, etc, etc,etc. in Louisiana.....I know it is a bit different with the landscape here, but I am around New Orleans so we have lots of swamps and alligators. Pretty sure I would not have gone in there especially without…

I read a Facebook comment from a woman who was a firefighter with search & rescue as well as high water rescue experience. She said she wouldn’t have been comfortable going in the pond either.

She did call the police, you stupid fuck. The very next day.

75 studies reguting Wakefields research:

You know it’s something you need to see when so much is done to stop you seeing it.

This. I don’t understand why parents have convinced themselves that autism is worse than measles, whooping cough, fucking meningitis, etc. To me, that is a horrible insult to anyone who has ever had to deal with autism in their life. I just want to shake these people and say that autism is not a death sentence. Not…

The guy that runs Fark, wrote a book called; It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News. It includes a chapter titled, “Equal Time for Nutjobs,” about how the media likes to give the opposite side of a story, even when it’s proven to be untrue for “the conversation,” when really they’re…