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Old 18th Mar 2004, 21:09
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Robbo Jock
 
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Crab, I don't think they do. Life is expected to be risk free, and if it isn't then someone should have done something to make it so.

It's not such a modern phenomenon, I remember reading a Fleet Air Arm mag in the mid 80's where a SAR crew was called out to rescue a lad blown out to sea on an inflatable raft of some sort. Apparently, when the crew tried telling the parents that it wasn't such a good idea to allow their son out on an inflatable in those conditions, they got a right mouthful. The following day they were called out to the same beach where the same lad had been blown out to sea on his new inflatable. Some people are just too stupid for words.

(The programme is national; I'm in the Midlands and watched part of it - the dropping off of the casualties at the hospital - it looked very harrowing for all concerned).
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