Some protection is better than no protection, but sooner or later, someone will have to take personal responsibility to put appropriate protection in place.
It\’s wondered by many why other beaches around the country have lifeguards, and not SPI.
Not wanting to be considered liable for others safety, does not mean you are not truly, and morally, responsible.
People should not enrich themselves while others are endangered unnessasarily, especially when ones can well afford to take a safer course of action, for the life saving, and overall well being, benefit of others.
Doesn\’t minimal effort reduce the value of neighbors lives to…practically nothing?
Although very unfortunate and I feel for the mother, I hate to see people jump through hoops and waste everyone\’s time changing laws when a very small percentage of the public will be affected. Would a life saving ring have saved her son? How do we know? Sometimes accidents happen but you have to move on and quit blaming others. I would love to see them try to prosecute anyone with a stolen life ring and try to prove it was the one that should have been there at that point in time. No way. Just like the one boy who died trying to fly across the country. They jumped up and enacted all these laws that won\’t affect anyone else just to get some press.
Incidentally, looks to me like the real issue here is the plaintiff\’s lawyers filing bogus claims that is causing this whole fiasco. If not for them, there would be life saving rings for every citizen without fear of liability and/or being sued for an unfortunate accident. Sue those bastards!
I believe that theft of these flotation devices should bring a penalty of $10,000, whether or not a fatality occurs. I do not feel as though this mother is blaming anyone, merely trying to create a positive out of this tragic circumstance. Lighten up, DA…!
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4-24-2006
Rip tides are very tricky, and sometimes zero warning, events.
Sadly, even the best of swimmmers can be endangered by them, or die by them.
Millions of dollars are made by South Padre Island businesses every year, via tourists financial support.
A ripe tide / various colored flag warning system is what they have in place to protect the public there.
http://www.spadre.com/watersafety.htm
Some protection is better than no protection, but sooner or later, someone will have to take personal responsibility to put appropriate protection in place.
It\’s wondered by many why other beaches around the country have lifeguards, and not SPI.
Not wanting to be considered liable for others safety, does not mean you are not truly, and morally, responsible.
People should not enrich themselves while others are endangered unnessasarily, especially when ones can well afford to take a safer course of action, for the life saving, and overall well being, benefit of others.
Doesn\’t minimal effort reduce the value of neighbors lives to…practically nothing?
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2002/08/06/Opinion/Texas.Beaches.Unsafe-500698.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
rogerpoegc@yahoo.com
Maybe she should have spent as much time teaching her son to swim in safer areas as she has spent trying to blame everyone else for his death.
What are the odds of actually spending police resources chasing down the theft of a flotation device?
Look at all the money being wasted so she can justify that it was not her poor parenting that led to her son\’s death.
Although very unfortunate and I feel for the mother, I hate to see people jump through hoops and waste everyone\’s time changing laws when a very small percentage of the public will be affected. Would a life saving ring have saved her son? How do we know? Sometimes accidents happen but you have to move on and quit blaming others. I would love to see them try to prosecute anyone with a stolen life ring and try to prove it was the one that should have been there at that point in time. No way. Just like the one boy who died trying to fly across the country. They jumped up and enacted all these laws that won\’t affect anyone else just to get some press.
Incidentally, looks to me like the real issue here is the plaintiff\’s lawyers filing bogus claims that is causing this whole fiasco. If not for them, there would be life saving rings for every citizen without fear of liability and/or being sued for an unfortunate accident. Sue those bastards!
I believe that theft of these flotation devices should bring a penalty of $10,000, whether or not a fatality occurs. I do not feel as though this mother is blaming anyone, merely trying to create a positive out of this tragic circumstance. Lighten up, DA…!