Bad spot to be in...
And I hope none of you have to either...
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I Hope To Never Have To Make A Choice Like This...
Started by Mercury69, Dec 02 2009 02:01 PM
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 02:01 PM
“We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” —Raoul Duke, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 02:04 PM
QUOTE (Mercury69 @ Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009, 2:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Your link isn't working for me.
But based on the url, I'm not sure I want to read it.
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 02:41 PM
If the wife was at the surface screaming for help, I would probably go for the son first and pray that the wife was still at the surface once I pulled the son out of the car or I decided that it was impossible to get the son out. I'm saying this without knowing all the details though.
Obviously it is a shitty situation and you can't fault the guy for the way he handled it.
Obviously it is a shitty situation and you can't fault the guy for the way he handled it.
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 04:19 PM
This story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Was the kid retar mentally challeng developmentally disabled?
I just don't understand how someone doesn't have the self preservation instinct to get out of a car rolling toward a river. Hell, even the dog made it out.
That must've been a really nice mailbox.
I just don't understand how someone doesn't have the self preservation instinct to get out of a car rolling toward a river. Hell, even the dog made it out.
That must've been a really nice mailbox.
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 05:12 PM
QUOTE (JoeyJoJo @ Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009, 2:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Your link isn't working for me.
But based on the url, I'm not sure I want to read it.
But based on the url, I'm not sure I want to read it.
Father's agony as he is forced to choose between saving wife or son from drowning after car plunges into river
By Richard Shears
Last updated at 1:20 AM on 01st December 2009
After his wife's car plunged into a river, Stacy Horton had an agonising decision to make: rescue her or their teenage son.
His wife Vanessa had escaped from the car but was crying for help as she struggled to keep her head above water, while their son Silva, 13, was still trapped inside the sinking vehicle.
With time to save only one, Mr Horton dived into the river.
In the evening darkness, he could only just still see the Mazda station wagon, which was already three feet below the water and sinking fast nose first, with the glow of the tail-lights fading into the darkness.
'I tried to get down and get him [Silva] but I couldn't - it was just too deep,' said Mr Horton yesterday. 'And Vanessa was going under.
'I made a call to pull my wife to safety. I looked back and I could see the tail-lights, but it was too far and I couldn't get him.
Horror: Stacy Horton saved the life of his wife Vanessa, but their son Silva, drowned in the accident
'I just had to accept the fact that he had gone.
'Instead of going down and risking my life as well as my wife and son's, I chose to take Vanessa back and sat on the shore praying. It was all I could do.'
Silva's friend and the family dog, who had also been in the car, had managed to scramble to safety by the time Mr Horton arrived at the scene, two minutes after the car had entered the Whanganui River, north of Wellington, New Zealand.
The tragedy began when a group of children broke the Hortons' letterbox at their home in Whanganui before running off.
Mrs Horton, 35, clambered into the station wagon with Silva and his friend to give chase, while her husband followed in another car.
He caught up with his wife's car not far from their home. It is thought she had found the group of children and stopped to confront them when the car rolled down the bank into the river.
Tragedy: The accident happened on Saturday night at Whanganui River on New Zealand's North Island
After Mr Horton had made his heartbreaking decision to drag his wife to safety, police and firefighters, summoned by passers-by, dived into the murky water to try to free Silva. However, by then, even reaching the vehicle proved impossible in the darkness.
'We tried everything but to no avail,' said senior fire officer Gary Wilson. 'It was a long shot but it was worth the risk to try and save him.'
Police spokesman Kim Perks said: 'It was a very tough call for Mr Horton. I certainly would not have wanted to be in his shoes.'
Their son: 13-year-old Silva Horton was trapped inside the sinking car - his father Stacy could only watch as it sank into the Whanganui River
Divers managed to recover Silva's body on Sunday. Mrs Horton said she was comforted by her belief that Silva, a committed Christian, was now in a better place.
'He'll be having a party at the moment,' she said.
Mr Horton said: 'He was outgoing and anyone who he came across he made friends with.
'Even anyone he didn't like, if he saw they were in trouble he would go and help them.
'He rammed as much into his life as anyone could possibly do.
'It's just a freak accident. We can't blame anyone. I've forgiven the kids who were wrecking our letterbox.'
'I love those kids and I know how they will be feeling,' said Mrs Horton. 'I don't hold them responsible.'
The couple said Silva's funeral on Thursday would be a celebration of his life and they planned to release 13 balloons, one for each year they spent with him.
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 05:56 PM
I wonder what Tiger Woods would have done.
I know what Bill Clinton would have done.
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"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterson 1900
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Posted 02 December 2009 - 06:31 PM
QUOTE (hank213 @ Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009, 6:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
That must've been a really nice mailbox.
Sometimes the most tragic circumstances originate in really stupid ways.
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 07:50 AM
Moral of the story: don't call yourself a committed Christian and be hot-headed, property-obsessed, and off on a mad tear to kick the asses of some children.
When it came down to the end, though, he made the right decision -- he tried his best to save his kid, but when it was impossible he saved the life that he could. I'm sure the kid's mom wanted her husband to go for the child first, too, even if she wound up dying. That's what I would want as a mother.
When it came down to the end, though, he made the right decision -- he tried his best to save his kid, but when it was impossible he saved the life that he could. I'm sure the kid's mom wanted her husband to go for the child first, too, even if she wound up dying. That's what I would want as a mother.
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 10:15 AM
QUOTE (Southern Buddhist @ Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, 10:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Moral of the story: don't call yourself a committed Christian and be hot-headed, property-obsessed, and off on a mad tear to kick the asses of some children.
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It doesn't matter who you start because you have a horse shoe up your ass so far I'm not really sure how you get through the day. You must be gay.
It doesn't matter who you start because you have a horse shoe up your ass so far I'm not really sure how you get through the day. You must be gay.
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