Yeah this isn’t like a car just driving into a ditch or swimming pool during the middle of the day. It’s very sad that they died. It would have been just as sad if they slammed into a tree, drove into the path of a semi, or ran into a concrete wall. If the police know that they can’t safely rescue someone, it’s…

Everything safely within their power.

Yes, I’m thinking unless one of the girls could get a window open (or break one), there was no way for the police to get them out in the time available. That’s assuming they could get to the car in the first place.

First rule of rescue situations: if you can’t do it safely, don’t do it at all. This could easily have been 3 dead teens and 2 dead officers had they tried.

Not to mention the sick pressure differential between the car and the water. The death chamber comment isn’t hyperbole - it’s a sad fact.

So, I’m in the coast guard and this situation comes up rather frequently. In any kind of rescue situation your crews safety is generally the #1 priority. I’m sure police officers, fire departments, etc...operate in the same way. The video doesn’t appear to show them doing anything wrong.

I’m sorry to say, but I don’t see anything wrong here on the police end. It was night time and going into water that you aren’t familiar with is really not a good idea. They did try, and if they feel like it was a risk to their lives to go further, then who are we to judge their instinct? It’s not like this was a…

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.

And, bingo. All aboard the nope train.

My uncle was murdered a few years ago and it still hasn’t been solved. I play Clue with my kids and watch murder mysteries on tv and it’s honestly never bothered me. I never even connected them mentally. The game, especially, just feels so abstract, to me it’s more like a logic puzzle. But I’m not you. It sounds like…

That is not at all a universal truth. Two of my family members have been murdered. I enjoy fictional murder mysteries and parlor games.

Those parties are just a live version of Clue which is a fun board game.

Those parties are just a live version of Clue which is a fun board game. I'm not really seeing the problem.

That would be the solution, but the issue isn’t being promoted freely, the issue is ‘this piece of shit Dodge\Audi\BMW\Trabant cover cracked in 3 weeks’ with a pic of the logo and part posted to some forum, you know, say like, hmmmm, Jalopnik, and then that ‘free promotion’ just became a PR nightmare.

You mean places without fully developed social safety nets and economic systems? Not sure how those are a relevant comparison.

Fresh shipment arrives from China, distributor opens pallet to find 500 billet aluminum valve covers embellished with the word “DOGE”....

This feels like a family annihilator, but they usually don't leave the kids alive.

This seems like some Hatfield and McCoy type of thing. It’s just heartbreaking. A mother next to her 4 day old baby. Fuck.

Eh if you watch the moment of the catch you can see he’s reaching way above his head to make it and isn’t really exerting himself beyond a stretch, so it’s not like he’s at risk of either the baby being hit by the ball or dropping the baby to make the catch. I was prepared to react this same way but he has literally…

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