Human chain saves family from riptide

| July 11, 2017

The Washington Post reports about a daring rescue on a Panama City, Florida beach. An entire family was swept out in the water by a riptide and that’s when scores of people formed a human chain to bring the eight adults and two boys back to shore in a rescue that took more than an hour.

“It actually showed me there are good people in this world,” Ursrey told The Post.

In a Facebook post, Jessica Simmons expressed a similar sentiment: “To see people from different races and genders come into action to help TOTAL strangers is absolutely amazing to see!! People who didn’t even know each other went HAND IN HAND IN A LINE, into the water to try and reach them. Pause and just IMAGINE that.”

You should click over and read the whole well-written story.

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ChipNASA

All in all this restores my faith in humanity.
I read this earlier this morning.
I was fine until this part..

Nearly an hour after they first started struggling, just as the sun prepared to set, all 10 of the stranded swimmers were safely back on shore.
The entire beach began to applaud.

/and I lost my shiat. Gimmie a farking Kleenex got-damn miniature invisible onion cutting cubicle ninjas.

Graybeard

Yep. Right there with you.

And looking at the video it is clear that the rescuers were of multiple ethnicities, the rescued were Caucasian.

Real Americans will jump in to help anyone. All the political wedge-driving has not changed that.

Kudos to all.

David

and two of the rescued were a married lesbian couple that were trying to rescue the original family. Truly a ‘melting pot’ story.

Fjardeson

Wow.

AW1Ed

The trick to escaping a rip current is first Don’t Panic! Second, swim parallel to the shore- rips are usually only 20 to 100 feet in width. Once free of the rip, swim at an angle away from the rip and back to shore.

1610desig

Even more impressive if William Derek Church (aka round ranger) was at the distant end of that human chain…the sound of dislocating shoulders would be heard as far as the windward passage…it would be one for the history books known as “Operation Manatee”

Frankie Cee

On the other hand, if someone had told William Derek Church to just sit his fat ass on the beach, he would have been the proverbial “immovable object”. an anchor for the human chain to secure themselves to. Nothing could have pulled him in.

1610desig

And all you would have to do is hit the music on a passing ice cream truck and he’d haul that human chain in like water skiers

AW1Ed

OK, that cracked me up. Thanks!

1610desig

I’ll help that mental image…the human chain has formed a pyramid and is heading ashore (and perhaps overland all the way to Pensacola) at 30 knots….that would totally spank twin 100hp Evinrudes…

A Proud Infidel®™

I’ve hear rumor that WILLIAM DEREK CHURCH still has scars from his last visit to a beach. You see, Greenpeace showed up and towed him so far out to sea he got harpooned by a boat load of Japanese tourists!

1610desig

And they were arrested and deported through a federal EPA warrant for interfering with an artificial reef…dude had an entire sustainable marine ecosystem embarked

AW1Ed

If by sustainable marine ecosystem you mean spores, mold, and fungus…

And a Sea Pig!

Caution, spew alert. You have been warned.

A Proud Infidel®™

CLASSIC!! 😆 :XD:

OldManchu

Fuck all the race baiting politicians (liberals)…. this is “We The People” at our finest!

Commissar

I agree, “We the People’…

and this act of cooperation and unity is great.

Perhaps some of you can take a moment consider that most of you oppose people like this politically;

“Tabatha Monroe and her wife, Brittany, in Panama City for a birthday getaway, were the first two to hear the boys’ panicked cries for help. The couple had just gone into the water when they saw the boys far from shore. They swam over and grabbed hold of their boogie boards.”….

You oppose their right to love, their right to marry, and if they had choose to do so; their right to serve.

A Proud Infidel®™

FUCK YOU AND your injection of politics into this, Babbles McButthead! If someone’s life is on the line I say fuck politics and I’ll do what’s right.

Combat3c0

Amen! Heroism doesn’t see anything but action. Political correctness be damned!

Commissar

Bullshit!

I am not injecting politics into this. The whole controversy about LGBT rights is YOU INJECTING YOUR POLITICS INTO THEIR LIVES!

I am pointing out that they should be judged by their actions.

Something YOU ARE NOT DOING.

Hondo

Actually, dipstick, you did exactly that. Your comment above was the first mention of any political subject in the comments to this article, or in the article itself.

There was no mention by anyone of any political topic whatsoever until you opened your pie-hole above. Read the comments and Jonn’s article – or have someone read them to you, if necessary, and explain them as required – if you doubt that.

Oh, wait – you’re infallible, and won’t bother to check facts. Never mind.

Injecting the “Progressive” POV into commentary here is what you do; we “get” that. Do so if you like, but own it rather than baldfaced lying about that fact.

SFC D

Lars, every day I pray fervently that you are the last of your line and that you don’t reproduce.

OldManchu

Did you hear that? Did someone just flush the commode?

Oh never mind it’s just Lars talking shit.

OldManchu

Speaking of race baiting….

11B-mailclerk

Commisar,

Your ego must be a small, broken, and malnourished thing if this is how you have to act to get a warm fuzzy for the day.

There are better ways, both in persuasion and in self esteem. Your current path seldom ends well. Perhaps change it? it is not too late.

SFC D

If you actually read and could comprehend what the residents of TAH post, you’d see that no one is against equal rights and treatment under the law for anyone. The problems arise when “protected classes” throw tantrums and demand special treatment. Putz.

Silentium Est Aureum

Only you, Lars.

Only. Fucking. YOU.

gitarcarver

Perhaps some of you can take a moment consider that most of you oppose people like this politically;

Which has about as much to do with this story as the price of tea in Upper Mongolia.

You oppose their right to love, their right to marry, and if they had choose to do so; their right to serve.

Are you really saying that someone should have said “excuse me, what are your political beliefs?” Before latching onto the person next to them in this human chain? Is think could have or should have happened?

What in the heck does your list have to do with the rescue of these people?

Sorry Lars, your post is really a poor attempt at trolling on this topic.

Commissar

Nothing I said indicated I am arguing people should check political beliefs before saving someone.

Quite the opposite, these two women acted to save a lives without regard for themselves or any identity politics.

I have seen constant attacks on the LGBT community, LGBT soldiers, and on same sex marriage on this board.

Just pointing out members of this community should be individually judged by their ACTIONS and treated equally under the law.

Not persecuted like the members of this board choose to do.

gitarcarver

Do you really want to go there?

I’ll play along just to show the stupidity of your point.

First, you were the one that interjected politics into this thread. No one else had.

Secondly, no one either joined hands or didn’t join hands based on politics so the premise of your post is deeply flawed. In fact, it has no premise at all.

I agree that people should be judged by their actions. But of course based on the idea that “everything moral is not legal and everything legal is not moral,” you seem to think that disagreeing with a lifestyle choice is somehow political. (And if there is political disagreement, it is clear that there is political disagreement emanating from the LGBT community as well.)

It is possible to disagree with someone and yet understand their actions are legal. Apparently you haven’t learned that.

Finally, you seem to advocate “live and let live,” and that’s fine. I suspect, however, that you are against the right of association where a group may not want people of different moral beliefs in it. I suspect that you think that religious beliefs should not matter when it comes to a business. I further suspect that you believe that people should be forced into contracts. Even further, I suspect you believe that people should be forced by the government to espouse ideas with which they disagree on moral, religious or ideological reasons.

In other words Lars, your stance is hypocritical in the extreme.

You want people to be left alone and yet those same people advocate taking over the lives, the associations and the businesses of others.

That’s nothing but hypocrisy from you.

Hondo

Der Commissar is all in favor of free speech, gitarcarver.

So long as the content of that speech is “correct”, that is. Otherwise, not so much.

gitarcarver

Yeah, I know and agree with that Hondo.

Lars’ post was not only a case of trolling, it is a case where his hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty is on full display for all to see.

Hondo

Agreed.

Perhaps one day Der Commissar will finally realize that the term “tolerance” does not equate to “acceptance as desirable, normal, or proper”.

But I’m not holding my breath.

OldManchu

Commissar wants other people to pick up turds.

He insists this can be done by YOU, not him, if YOU grab the clean end.

Inbred Redneck

Okay, Commissar Dipstick. Who here would’ve known the orientation of the couple mentioned if they hadn’t brought it up themselves? In many conversations, I mention my wife by name and don’t feel the need to bring up marital status.
Now, if you want to bring up whether they’re married, I can’t see it even bein’ a possibility. Marriage has been between a man and a woman. Period. If two guys or two women want a domestic partnership, that’s an entirely different thing. Just ’cause they choose to call it marriage, that don’t make it so. Those who try to re-make society into something new are willin’ to try to use law to beat the rest of us over the head and make us accept their “new” definitions.
If I don’t like cats (sorry, Ex-PH2) and decide I want them leashed when outdoors, just like dogs, I get my local authorities to be declare cats to be dogs and therefore falling under leash laws. Cats are now legally dogs. You, I and everyone else know that a cat ain’t a dog, and we all look stupid if we call Fluffy by Fido. Law be damned, a cat is still a cat.
If you want to say we need to get the government’s nose out of the whole marriage business, you and I might have some common ground.
Remember the story attributed to Mark Twain. A dog has 4 legs. If you call his tail a leg, how many legs does the dog have? He still only has 4 legs, ’cause just because you call his tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

jonp

Because as a kid my only thought was “paying it forward”…
Great story of people not watching something but doing something

11B-mailclerk

Americans, being themselves.

We have our differences. But when the stuff hits the fan, Americans put all that aside and do what needs done.