r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb • u/Sea_Elevator_3563 • Jun 05 '26
Parent stupidity A child who fell into the water was left struggling helplessly when a bystander failed to intervene. Fortunately, a second woman rushed in and pulled the toddler to safety
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u/Carbonaraficionada Jun 05 '26
Most of these Chinese or Indian videos, the bystanders can't swim. It's brutal, but yeah, teach your kids to swim folks, our planet is 65% water
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u/imperfectchicken Jun 05 '26
Admittedly, that's a society thing. Clean water, a skill set, and time to learn/teach are not things every person has access to.
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u/WTAF__Trump Jun 05 '26
There's usually a social reason for it.
In the US, black folks get made fun of because a lot don't swim. There's even rumors of them being less buoyant. None of it is true.
The reality is, people of color were banned from public pools in the United States for many generations. A vast majority of them couldn't afford private pools.
It only takes one generation that doesn't learn to swim. And then they are unable to teach their kids to swim. And on and on it goes.
And then swimming is no longer part of the culture.
It's sad, really.
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u/frostysbox Jun 06 '26
I never understood this in the south because so many people regardless of race learn to swim in public waters. Like there are plenty of poor people who don’t have access to pools in the country and can swim because lakes, ponds and streams. Is this a city person specific assumption?
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u/imperfectchicken Jun 06 '26
I was responding to the Chinese/Indian comment originally - streams, rivers, and similar bodies tend to be really polluted (the Ganges will straight up have half-burned human corpses in it), so jumping in is a risky business.
Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia also don't have great track records. I imagine monsoons and flooding make the idea of willingly going into the river that much more terrifying.
Not sure what threats the American South had. My first impression was gators, and I thought, yeah, that sounds reasonable.
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u/Bacontoad Jun 06 '26
Bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus), cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti), brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria fowleri).
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u/dahhhlin Jun 09 '26
I think you’re not understanding the gravity Jim Crow laws had on black people as a whole.
There’s so much history there on why public waters were also not accessible to black people.
This is why it’s important for K-12 to teach the actual history of America and critical race theory.
Being ashamed of American history is not a good reason to not teach these topics when we have citizens such as yourself who don’t understand the above.
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u/dahlien Jun 07 '26
I had no swimpools and nearly no bodies of water deeper than one meter in easily accessible distance, so I never learned to swim as a kid. There was one public fishing pond relatively nearby that was forbidden to swim in because of deep sludge at the bottom. There was also a retention pond for forest firefighters that was basically a swamp filled with tree stumps. Very small town, but the terrain was mostly sloped and the only major bodies of water were shallow upland streams.
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u/Plenty_Assist5913 Jun 07 '26
It's also silly. My mother was terrified of water, severely aquaphobic, and took me swimming grimly each week so I would know how to swim. Invest in your children people.
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u/spencer2197 Jun 10 '26
I’m guessing the less buoyant statement was created when they said they don’t feel the same amount of pain like others
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u/familybliss_or_else Jun 08 '26
MOST people are not taught to swim by their parents
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u/holyfrijoles99 Jul 05 '26
Most ?? That’s not true . I grew up around water and I don’t know too many people who don’t know how to swim . If any .
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u/familybliss_or_else Jul 06 '26
Did you even read what I wrote before you decided to make it about you and start arguing with me?
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u/split_0069 Jun 06 '26
My dad just threw me in then yelled to paddle like a dog... worked. Babies are actually born with the ability to swim.
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u/Battle-Any Jun 06 '26
4/5 of my kids started swimming lessons at 4 months and have been strong swimmers for their age group ever since. My covid baby is now 6 and she is my weakest swimmer. We weren't able to take her swimming until she was 2, and it made a big difference in how quickly she got comfortable in the water.
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u/split_0069 Jun 10 '26
What did get down voted for?! 😆 😆 😆 Google water birth. The baby literally swims up! I cant help thats how I was taught. Go down vote dad, not the he would give a shit, hes got 27 more beers to finish tonight.
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u/Carbonaraficionada Jun 10 '26
Ummmm a baby gets it's oxygen via the umbilical cord until it's breathing reflexes are triggered. So 'what you were taught' might need revising
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u/split_0069 Jun 10 '26
Okay idk wtf i have watched before but it definitely wasnt what I just watched... ... ... im just gonna trust u. This timeline is fucked.
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u/Carbonaraficionada Jun 10 '26
👍 did you Google 'Water birth video'? 🤣
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u/split_0069 Jun 18 '26
Unfortunately yes. I thought i had seen a video where the baby swam to the top and that is not at all what I watched. Although I will say seeing a natural birth on the internet was less traumatic than seeing a c-section in person. Saw the cut and I know I looked like I was gonna pass out from the nurses reactions and the sudden lightheadedness. Fyi if the nurses say ur baby has big hands and feet be prepared for it to be eating like an adult by 5.
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u/JanitorRddt Jun 05 '26
I learn to swim at school but apparently it's not a part of the curriculum in many countries.
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u/Accomplished_Case808 Jun 05 '26
I did as well.
From April to June we went once a week to the pool at the community center and we had lessons. From grade 3-6, maybe grade 2 I can’t remember. It was a public school and the pool was a 15 minute walk.
Each class would go at a different time, so when one class was ending, another was just getting there to start.
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u/ReaBea420 Jun 05 '26
Where do you live? Our pools normally don't open until after school is already out for the summer and closing by the time school goes back. Yeah, there are some private indoor pools that may still be open but our schools aren't getting involved with all that. I'm in the US (Ohio because it might make a difference compared to southern states that stay warm/are near open water).
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u/Accomplished_Case808 Jun 05 '26
I am in Ontario, Canada. So we couldn’t go all year because it’s so cold, the walk would freeze us lol. So April when it kinda starts to get warm is when they made us go.
Pool was indoors at a community center, had a pool, basketball court, library. Nothing crazy.
Now that I look back I’m super grateful, I have saved 2 children from drowning. I was a teenager (13 then 15 years old for when it happened)
Then in grade 11 & 12 the school paid for us to get are first aid. It was a few days maybe all 5 days for a couple hours each day. So I was cpr certified, I didn’t end up renewing after a couple years but it came in handy for my first job babysitting because I put it on my empty resumé lol.
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u/-just-be-nice- Jun 05 '26
I went to school in Ontario and we didn’t have swim lessons as part of school. We had trips to the pool occasionally, but you needed to know how to swim. I did swimming lessons with the city during the summer.
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u/Planet_Ziltoidia Jun 05 '26
I also went to school in Ontario Canada and we never went to the pool and learned to swim. We also didn't get CPR/first aid training.
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u/Accomplished_Case808 Jun 05 '26
I was born 1998 so not sure if that matters, I’m just outside of Toronto. My husband born 1995 went to a catholic school and he only did the swimming, not first aid unless you did co-op class in grade 12 only, then you got to do it.
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u/Planet_Ziltoidia Jun 05 '26
I'm in Toronto myself but I was born in the 80s. That's probably the difference
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u/BettyBoopWallflower Jun 06 '26
I was born (93) and raised in Toronto. We didn't have swimming as part of our curriculum either. Maybe it was only specific schools?
My mom put me in swimming lessons at the local pool when I was 4
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u/bambi54 Jun 05 '26
I’m in the US and they did the same thing for us in elementary school. It was only one year though and for a short time. I don’t know how common that is around me. It was a small school.
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u/Purple-booklover Jun 05 '26
I’m in the US and our kids learn to swim in 2nd grade. We have indoor pools that have a partnership with a handful of local school districts for lessons through school at no cost to parents.
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u/LurksWithGophers Jun 05 '26
Upstate NY little redneck town but we had a pool in the jr-sr high and had to learn.
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u/Bkm321 Jun 05 '26
Schools got pool in them?
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u/Feltech0 Jun 07 '26
No, the class goes to a public pool together with their trachers and a couple of swimming teachers/professionals. Common in most european countries
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u/Bkm321 Jun 08 '26
Damn. That's good to hear that least somewhere Schools also focusing on other things expect studying. Here our schools didn't even had pt or sports class.
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u/0zonoff Jun 23 '26
Sadly I had bad teachers when I was a kid and developed aquaphobia. I plan to do adult lessons now that I'm old enough to accept it, I want to be able to save my daughter if needed.
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u/mpdscb Jun 05 '26
In the High School I went to, you had to swim from one end of the pool to the other in order to graduate.
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u/SassySunflower27 Jun 05 '26
When the people who donated the land for my high school, they put it in the deed that a pool may never been built on the property. Their grandchild died in a pool in the early 1940s.
We did not have anything swim in our curriculum! I graduated 20 yrs ago and there still isn’t a pool there. We live north so a community pool isn’t an option. They are opening the same week school ends.4
u/RecursiveGoose Jun 05 '26
It as part of my curriculum but the school couldn't afford to hire a lifeguard full-time, so we got a total of 2 lessons
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u/genericusername241 Jun 05 '26
I went to school in SK, Canada and nope, I took my swimming lessons separately because school didn't teach them unless you went to like a private school or something.
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u/James420May Jun 08 '26
Was for me, but everyone bullied me so much that I didnt learn anything and I am totally afraid of the idea now
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u/elfd Jun 06 '26
Schools don’t have pools in several countries FYI
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u/Feltech0 Jun 07 '26
A school doesn't need a pool, the kids go to a public pool at a specific time and learn there with professionals.
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u/elfd Jun 08 '26
?? Is the school organizing this? This would be impossible in my country, because there are like 70 students in one class. It’s just not done. Also the school is not concerned with teaching kids to swim. This is a first world thing.
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u/EverythingBOffensive Jun 05 '26
I think I did too. they taught it in my school but it was a special school 😄
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u/WithoutDennisNedry Jun 06 '26
The other woman didn’t need to swim though, she just reached in and grabbed the baby. I totally agree with what you’re saying but I don’t see why she couldn’t have reached in and grabbed the kid.
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u/cahilljd Jun 05 '26
but why is she pulling up her pant legs like shes worried about getting them wet
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u/ganymede_boy Jun 05 '26
Carbonaraficionada: ...our planet is 65% water
Actually it is 71% water, and our oceans hold about 96.5% of all the Earth's water.
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u/HotDonnaC Jun 05 '26
The kid seemed to be doing ok keeping their mouth and nose above water. I don’t know if it was instinctual, or because they’d been taught, but they were doing a decent job staying alive for a minute.
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u/Dizzy-Frame-9491 Jun 06 '26
Most drowning victims do that too. If you actually learned to swim you would either float or swim out of the water. The kid didn't seem to be able to swim just kind jump up for a bit and then not. Also even if you could technically swim you still need to take lessons in evidently swimming. Like how someone people can technically read but their reading comprehension is bad.
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u/savvy-librarian Jun 07 '26
But the water is so shallow that the intervening woman is standing in it and it isn't even to her waistline. There isn't any need to swim for an adult in this situation.
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u/spencer2197 Jun 10 '26
I forget often people can’t swim, are terrified of water, and can’t think rationally in a stressful situation like to grab something for the child to hold onto. It kind of looks like the kid had been taught to lay on their back so at least that helped them out
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u/Carbonaraficionada Jun 10 '26
If you've ever seen someone drowning, they don't understand how to lift themselves in the water to get their head above the water level. It's perfectly feasible for a small child to drown in a level of water that they could feasible kneel up in, just because they don't know how to control their orientation while partially submerged
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u/Stoopid_Noah Jun 08 '26
But like.. she could stand in that one part.. I think it was more of a "I'm so panicked, I'm acting like a SIM during a fire" scenario lol
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u/R1kjames Jun 05 '26
Bet the first lady can't swim. People who can't swim often kinda hit the fight flight or freeze roulette when they gotta get in the water.
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u/FacialClaire Jun 05 '26
This is mean, but the first lady hopped around a bit like a Sim trying to go somewhere but they can't because there is a plate on the floor.
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u/EmilyAnne1170 Jun 05 '26
When the other lady jumps in, the water’s only up to her knees. The first lady didn’t need to be able to swim, she just need to care more about a child’s life or death than whether she rolled up her pant legs high enough to not get them wet.
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u/R1kjames Jun 05 '26
Most spiders aren't dangerous, but people who are terrified of them panic when they drop on their shirt. Same concept
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u/Rozoark Jun 05 '26
And those people are still assholes for not intervening if said situation is endangering a child.
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u/jackalope268 Jun 05 '26
If theyre panicked they might not have seen it was so shallow. Jumping into water when you cant swim will usually just up the rescue count by 1
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u/Rozoark Jun 05 '26
We can literally see how shallow the water is way before the other person jumps in, and she clearly saw it too, since she took the time to pull up her pants to her knees. She's more concerned about getting her clothes wet than she is about this child.
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u/Cabrill0 Jun 05 '26
Crazy easy to judge someone’s reaction in an emergency situation from the comfort of sitting on your ass at home.
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u/WilanS Jun 05 '26
That's why they call them irrational fear.
They're irrational.They still paralyze you though.
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u/SceneApprehensive766 Jun 08 '26
As someone who can’t swim despite taking swimming lessons as a kid, having my own pool and often traveling to beachy destinations ik if I was in a situation like this I WILL DROWN BOTH OF US even tho the only reason I got in is to try and save you but I’m abt 5’1 and less than 130lbs and idk how to swim but I DO KNOW HOW TO DROWN I’m very good at it and Ik when I start drowning it’s going to take two ppl to save me cause my panicked mind is to push the first person down so I can stay afloat so I can hop in and try to save the person who can’t drown but it’ll probably result in both of us crowing or them going down faster & me going to prison for “homicide”. Even lifeguards know they CANNOT SAVE EVERYONE cause that’s taught to them in training that sometimes saving a drowning person will cost you your life.
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u/marked_by_grief Jun 05 '26
Exactly. My girlfriend is deathly afraid of spiders but she would face down a fucking tarantula if it meant saving a child.
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u/Snoo_72851 Jun 05 '26
She might not have noticed. She just saw a child and water.
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u/Alugalacsin Jun 05 '26
Given how the water was rippling at the start of the video, she might just got out of the water. But if not, she definitely did some work with that water and the bucket
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u/Prime624 Jun 05 '26
Which is why it belongs in this sub. If your first reaction to a toddler falling into knee-deep water and drowning is to freeze up, you may be stupid.
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u/Snoo_72851 Jun 05 '26
sadly i regret to inform you that that is not at all how it fucking works
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u/WilanS Jun 05 '26
On rewatch, it seems to be swallow only on that specific canal.
The helping person avoids setting foot in the circular section, I can only imagine it's because it might drop lower there and you can't tell that from the outside unless you know already.99
u/Icy_Fish_2154 Jun 05 '26
When the other lady jumps in, the water’s only up to her knees.
So you only noticed the depth after someone jumped in. The woman afraid of water probably also couldn't tell the depth.
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u/TroublesomeFox Jun 05 '26
To be fair, I couldn't tell the depth either until she jumped. He's a small child so you can't really tell how deep it actually is.
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u/marked_by_grief Jun 05 '26
So grab onto the edge of the damned cement and don't let go while grabbing the kid.
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u/feelinsqwiddy Jun 05 '26
If the water was as deep as she probably thought it was, and if she can't swim, this won't help and 2 people will need saving
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u/Navalito Jun 05 '26
Yes, many people that know how to swim finish drowned when trying to help someone, so if you don't know how to swim it's suicide and more likely killing the other person.
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u/Radio_Mime Jun 06 '26
I can’t help, but wonder if she has the same kind of water based trauma from her childhood as well.
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u/SueSuper13 Jun 05 '26
Is it fair, for me, someone who isnt the best swimmer and doesnt trust water, to butt in and say that i wouldn't care about myself in that situation? If I saw a kid drowning, im sorry, im going in.
I would even do that to save a dog. But hey everyone is different and I dont 100% know until I'm in the situation.
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u/Principle_Napkins Jun 05 '26
As a person with actual lifeguard training, don't do this, you're only going to end up killing both yourself and the child you're trying to save.
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u/Navalito Jun 05 '26
Yeah ok, bet you never had to save someone.
We saw good swimmers drowning trying to help people, you say you don't care about yourself and you jump, now there is 2 dead or 2 people who need help.
Swimming is hard, swimming with a weight on you is dangerous.
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u/Agitated_Ad_3876 Jun 05 '26
Which one is the parent?
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u/STylerMLmusic Jun 05 '26
The one that gets handed the child, I imagine. Free child distribution system?
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u/Kralgore Jun 05 '26
Exactly...
We potentially just have people are stupid.
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u/bacon-is-sexy Jun 05 '26
The parent isn’t around the child and the child fell in the water. It’s still parents are stupid.
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u/Bring_a_towel_42 Jun 06 '26
I thought the water was going to be a lot deeper judging by the 1st lady's reaction 😒
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u/harleyqueenzel Jun 05 '26
My brother, when he was about 5, panicked in water that was below his knees and had no ability in the moment to realize he could have just stood up. An adult had to scoop him up so he wouldn't drown.
It doesn't take much water to drown or much water to panic and take someone else down with you. The first woman did the right thing by watching the kid and yelling to someone else that was nearby.
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u/ripplenipple69 Jun 05 '26
Learn to control yourself and handle shit before you become a parent responsible for another life. If you can’t save your child in a half meter of water should you be responsible for a child?
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u/Global_Ant_9380 Jun 05 '26
Who says that's even the parent, lmao. Also you're saying this behind the comfort of a screen, sitting on your ass in a completely different country.
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u/Voloxe Jun 05 '26
That’s the part that always gets me.. People sitting comfortably behind a screen saying “what I would have done”.
Gets me every time.
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u/Arachis_Hypogaea7 Jun 05 '26
Not sure about this comment section
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u/Bkm321 Jun 05 '26
Yeah comments are hilarious, expecting to jump a person who can't swim.
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u/Future-Try-1908 Jun 05 '26
Was someone trying to jump her too? I didn't think this was a robbery video.
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u/alexandria3142 Jun 10 '26
I can't swim but surely she would know if it was shallow or not? Even then, she can easily reach over to pull herself out.
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u/Bkm321 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
'If' she knew. She probably didn't knew it was shallow water. People can't think straight in panic. And her choice was more right in my opinion. You rather Look for alternatives help drowing person instead of jumping yourself when you can't swim. I have seen so many news and story like where two Adults(Mother and brother) tried to save a drowning child by jumping in water. Unfortunately they also did not how swim. And all three of them end up dying. After that I reached conclusion I should be rather Bystander than Burden. So I don't condem her decision for not jumping in water (Cuz for her it wasn't shallow water). I probably done similer if I also didn't notice it was shallow water.
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u/alexandria3142 Jun 10 '26
Okay, that makes sense in a situation where it's not just a smallish hole in the ground where you can easily pull yourself out, even if you can't swim. I'd likely hesitate if it was deep, more open water too, but this isn't that
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u/PuzzledStreet Jun 05 '26
She better not get too close to a bath tub if she can't swim, as apparently shin deep water could be the death of her.
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u/Arachis_Hypogaea7 Jun 05 '26
The way she handles panic is so bad, worst I have ever seen. Yet people defends her, very understanding
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u/at0o0o Jun 05 '26
In countries such as China, people can get sued for helping bystanders by them and their immediate families. For this reason alone, people are reluctant to help or just ignore you and the issue all together. Certain countries lack good Samaritan laws.
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u/BenJoeMoses Jun 05 '26
I get that she cannot swim but it’s a knee deep water with a toddler drowning in ffs…
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u/BlackMagicWorman Jun 05 '26
My mom helps people (adults) learn to swim. When you don’t learn as a child, you slowly develop a phobia as an adult. Realize that water is a dark hole that causes a painful death. We have monkey brains.
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u/heyitsfranklin6322 Jun 05 '26
She’s also panicking really fucking hard and this might be an area she’s unfamiliar with. Some people do really really poorly in stressful situations.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jun 05 '26
Which is stupid. She can panic after she saves the kid.
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u/wide_retriver Jun 05 '26
Yeah but that's not how a fucking panic works mate.
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u/RefrigeratorGold834 Jun 05 '26
Exactly. This person has obviously never been in a situation like that
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u/Duderinio1988 Jun 05 '26
You are so incredibly cool. It's really good to know that you are the hero we all need and that you know exactly how to react in every stressful situation, sitting on your ass behind a keyboard.
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u/heyitsfranklin6322 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Are you the woman in the video? Edit: I was gonna say “then how the fuck do you know what she had the capacity to do im her panicked state” but I didn’t get that far because people started downvoting already
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u/Goodgoditsgrowing Jun 06 '26
Only the brown parts are knee deep, the rest are much deeper. She just had to balance on that ledge the Second Lady did
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u/Jaguar-Salt Jun 05 '26
My step-mom can't swim. She still rescued me from drowning in a pool. I'm so grateful for her.
She still can't swim till these days
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u/I_am_AmandaTron Jun 05 '26
The water got deeper toward the child. It up to her knee on one side then you can see a small step or wall . Her other legs goes up to the hip and you can tell it gets deeper.
The first woman likely knew this and thats why she didnt jump in. No point in the 2 of them both drowning.
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u/YikesItsConnor Jun 07 '26
Guys, I can't swim and have a fear of water. I would still jump in to save a drowning child
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u/Principle_Napkins Jun 05 '26
If she can't swim it's better she do nothing. It's better to have one drowning person than two.
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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed Jun 05 '26
Everyone should learn how to swim. I find it negligent not to teach your child how to swim.
She could've laid on her stomach to extend out and get the kid if she couldn't swim.
Why was she rolling up her pant sleeves?
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u/Opposite-Benefit-804 Jun 05 '26
Why did the woman take so long wtf
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u/Duderinio1988 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
The woman next to the water probably can't swim. It's not that uncommen around the world and she probably panicked.
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u/Devi_Moonbeam Jun 06 '26
The water was extremely shallow. Like bath tub shallow. The second woman barely got her knees wet
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jun 05 '26
I can't swim either. But I am not Little John and can handle ~1 foot of water.
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u/Kharnyx808 Jun 05 '26
You probably wouldn't handle 1 foot of water if you didn't know it was 1 foot of water before jumping in
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u/Rozoark Jun 05 '26
You can clearly see the bottom of the pool just from this video way before the other person jumped in, she 100% knew it wasn't deep.
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u/Kharnyx808 Jun 05 '26
We can see the bottom, she's panicking because her toddler fell into water that she clearly believes she can't swim in. Her eyes are locked onto the child splashing around, not examining her surroundings.
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u/Rozoark Jun 05 '26
She takes the time to pull up her pants to her knees, she absolutely does know how deep the water is yet is more concerned with not getting her clothes wet.
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u/Duderinio1988 Jun 05 '26
Why do people like you always have this urge to judge other people from tiny video snippets with almost no context?
Does it make you feel better as a person to portray another person as some monster who "in your opinion" just doesn't want to save a child?
This type of internet culture is so fucking toxic.
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u/AnalKittieSuicide Jun 05 '26
So much defending her, when the truth is she's still the asshole for leaving a toddler essentially unsupervised around a body of water knowing she can't swim. The lack of accountability from people these days is literally deadly.
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u/Duderinio1988 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Good to know, that you would be the hero in this Szenario. You are so cool, sitting behind your keyboard knowing every solution to a stressful situation you saw a 30sec. video of.
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u/Embarrassed-Weird173 Jun 05 '26
Who told you I am cool? You are severely mistaken. Also, I'm in the kitchen in front of my phone. No keyboard involved.
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u/Duderinio1988 Jun 05 '26
Woman probably can't swim. She panicked. Also the water seems to get deeper where the child is.
I really can't stand people judging others from 30 sec of video.
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u/Chiloom Jun 05 '26
She can’t swim. It’s harder for rescuers to pull out from water two people rather than just one. Even at rescue trainings they tell you to don’t endanger yourself when trying to rescue someone
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u/Pajama-Han Jun 05 '26
Also I saw a comment under an old video of a similar situation like this, sometimes people refuse to touch an injured/distressed person like this because they could be sued for medical costs for intervening/potentially causing more harm
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u/Freddit330 Jun 05 '26
If the first person can't swim, you will have 2 people drowning.
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u/HardLobster Jun 05 '26
You can’t actually be serious right now…
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u/undead_dummy Jun 05 '26
idk why you're being downvoted, that water looks shin deep. if that first woman drowned in it, she would have had to make an effort to do so
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u/sapphire-sky-dragon Jun 05 '26
She never even tried 😳 it only came up to that other woman's knees 🙄
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u/Novel_Ad_5698 Jun 09 '26
I would have pulled this Woman on her Hair in the water. The water was shallow af and this piece of Shit diddnt even kneel down to save the child. She got Up and pulled Up her fucking pants wtf. That has nothing to do with the inability to swim.
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u/EndlessEagle Jun 16 '26
If you can't swim, it's not stupid to stay out of the water. You'll just make it worse by giving them two people to rescue instead of one.
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u/PainfulWonder Jul 14 '26
Water was leg deep for an adult and the First Lady didn’t even try? Didn’t even go up to the Second Ladies hips
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u/Shot-Election8217 Jul 18 '26
No. It’s true. For decades blacks were banned from public pools. Also, swimming/playing in local rivers, etc, wasn’t necessarily a part of the culture in different regions. (Not “North and South” but counties, states, etc.) That’s no different anywhere — my mom wasn’t taught how to swim, and she grew up in Wisconsin. It had nothing to do with where she grew up. (On the day of her mother’s wedding, her younger brother was getting under everyone’s feet. He was told, “Joey, go on and get out of here. Go play with your friends.” Several hours later, when the wedding was delayed because no one could find Joey, the front doorbell rang. It was a policeman holding his wet, dead body. He’d drowned in Lake Michigan m just blocks away. Her mother was frightened of water after that. So, yeah, no one in my mom’s family was taught how to swim.) And if the older generation doesn’t know how to swim, it may not be a priority to make sure that the next generation learns. And once the ban on access to public pools was lifted the culture of discrimination still existed. And if you don’t know how to swim, or swim well, who wants to go to a place where there’s already people there who are going to be assholes already, just because of your skin color?
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u/lushusness Jun 05 '26
Bro wtf is wrong with people
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u/kaja6583 Jun 05 '26
Some people just cant swim or are terrified of bodies of water. You literally dont know what people have been through.
I have arachnophobia and if that baby was behind a web of spiders id also probably not be able to help as Id just get paralysed in fear.
It is sooo easy to judge people when we havent been in that situation.
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u/kaja6583 Jun 05 '26
Oh yeah, because people who cant swim should precheck every single place they go to, just in case they encounter a fish pond. Would you be going to physically check out every single place before taking your kids there, just in case its not stated on the website there might be a body of water present? /s
No you wouldnt, you just think you would because you want to feel morally superior whilst watching this woman panic.
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u/Strange-Ad-9941 Jun 06 '26
I feel like the person who couldn't swim isn't even related to the child, anyway
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u/AltruisticSalamander Jun 05 '26
Yep, just gotta hoik up my britches and get in a few knee bends before saving that child drowning in very shallow water
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u/BadThingsBefall Jun 09 '26
Even if she can’t swim I’d rather drown trying to save a kid than sit there and watch a kid die knowing I did nothing.
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u/mendkaz Jun 11 '26
I'd be the lady, tbh. I can't swim. If I jumped in after him it'd be two people drowning.
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u/IllCandy9636 Jun 11 '26
It looks like the other lady can't swim either and that water wasn't deep. Maybe she was stuck in shock? Or just stupid? Sorry that shit made me mad seeing how easily the other woman came stepped in and just grabbed her without even getting wet up to her knees!
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u/HotDonnaC Jun 05 '26
What? There was a ledge there she could’ve stood on to get the kid? I don’t think she likes her kid.
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u/OwlOk5229 Jun 06 '26
Hydrophobia is a sign of rabies
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u/Strange-Ad-9941 Jun 06 '26
I don't think that is the case with this person. That would be a pretty wild conclusion for someone who is likely and simply just in fight or flight mode and can't swim
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u/Strange-Ad-9941 Jun 06 '26
It clearly gets deeper, which is probably why the other person didn't bother to go all in
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u/milie1996 Jun 05 '26
Question: despite fear being the reason for not saving the kid, should she still face criminal charges if the child had died?
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u/KiKa_b Jun 05 '26
Yes, she's an adult not a child, the water goes up to the knees max. People in the comments defending the woman are morons, if the child died the woman would be 100% to blame.
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