For fuck’s sake. As Rando said, she wasn’t talking about anything to do with reproduction. It’s exactly the same as saying the name of ANY OTHER BODY PART BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT IS CALLED. Good for her for refusing to use some stupid euphamism.

We live in a society where someone can lose their job for saying the proper name of a body part that at least half the population has.

“Everybody knows, though, that a crone is the most powerful witch of all..”

Retired USCG Helicopter Rescue Swimmer here. 17+ years doing that job. RS’s were and still are trained to NEVER enter a submerged ANYTHING, under any circumstances, even the best of circumstances. One guy who did recently was nearly killed, and it turns out he went in for a corpse. No reason to die. There’s an old…

They attempted a rescue as far as some of the officers took off their gear (as you could see in the video), got into the water and started to sink into the mud while wading in. I think asking police officers, not necessarily experienced rescue swimmers, to do much more than that at 4am when you can’t see anything at…

I like your posts BobbySerious, but you’re wrong on this one. How did the cops know the occupants in the car were black? It was 4 am....

Oh well hey, I mean I didn’t know you FISH. That certainly would make you an expert on how this situation, in a swamp, at night was a completely viable rescue and was only not attempted because the cops were racist.

Yes it was a still pond... in the dark, in florida. Have you ever stepped into one of these ponds? The massive amounts of muck make movement extremely difficult. You also have to consider that the massive disturbance in the water would also attract gators and with it being dark they’d never see them coming. Without…

I can’t watch the video right now but I don’t see what the issue is. In the military their’s a saying “You can’t help a casualty if your a causualty” pulling panicking people out of a sinking car in water you can’t stand in without a floatation device is suicide. As a former lifeguard drowning people tend to grab on…

That’s the thing about this story. It honestly doesn’t matter if these girls had been coming from bible study and drove in completely without fault - the conditions of the crash were such that the police didn’t have the equipment or ability to get them out, and any attempts were just too dangerous (my friend is an EMT…

We’re required to act (or not act) within the scope of our training. Firefighters don’t respond to bank robberies and attempt to arrest suspects, paramedics don’t write parking tickets, and the average patrol officer is not trained in water rescues. Even without the gunbelt on, body armor becomes a torso-shaped boat…

Everything safely within their power.

Gonna have to disagree with you on this one. I don’t care who you are or how strong, you drive your car into one of these ponds at night you’re probably done for. Snakes, gators. Add to that its muddy enough to partially swallow your car so that you may not be able to open your doors, rescuers can’t walk in it. If you…

They covered this - escape from a submerged car - on MythBusters. They’re all trained stunt guys with decades of experience and this was the stunt that legitimately terrified Adam. TV and movies make it seem like escaping a submerged car is a simple procedure - it’s not.

How’s that? The cops would magically acquire superpowers if the kids were white? Come on, there are more than enough problems with the police without going and making shit up.

You try to rescue them with no training, lighting or equipment. It could have been America’s Sweetheart, Jodi Sweetin down there, and she would still be dead.

If Susie, Kateland, and Madison were in that car and it hit the bottom of that pond, they’d be in the morgue just as certainly.

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.

I guess it’s only a matter of time before an actual one in a million case comes up...

Want to bring up to everyone that this is in Florida, in a murky pond, at night, right after a big water-disturbing commotion.