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[Mammoth Jones]

That's just fucking evil. Fuck.

 

[Poppy]

oh lord

 

[g11]

At the very least someone should throw those kids in a lake and see how they fair.

 

[crazepharmacist]

If only they could release their names so this video and story will be associated with them forever. But they're just getting off entirely scott free. No repercussion whatsoever. makes my blood boil, especially as being an ex-lifeguard.

 

[zeemumu]

Laws governing assistance don't put a clause in it saying unless you think he's dead either way.

There are only a few exceptions were laymen are allowed to call the death of people over a professional and those are things like decapitation and similar.

EMD doesn't let people die either when they think it's hopeless a doctor has to make that call. This can differ in cases of emergency depending on available personnel.

No but that's probably the excuse you'd have to use to get out of it if you lived in a place that did require assistance. I've heard worse court-accepted excuses.

 

[Fox Mulder]

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[DoubleTake]

What do you think he was doing? Fishing?

The kids should of called emergency services and let them handle it but fuck you if you wanna drown yourself. I'm not going to stop you.

Example number x for why we're doomed.

 

[HStallion]

If that was my son i would be dismayed. Would probably give his inheritance to charity

If that was my son I'd beat the fuck out of him and I'm against hitting your kids as a punishment. However letting someone die and taunting them while it happened? Yeah fuck that, its an ass whooping.

 

[Jeels]

How the fuck do people turn out like this? What series of failings lead to disgusting humans like this?

This is a country that voted for Trump. Teenagers who grow up in such a society aren't going to be much better.

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

If only they could release their names so this video and story will be associated with them forever. But they're just getting off entirely scott free. No repercussion whatsoever. makes my blood boil, especially as being an ex-lifeguard.

Well seeing as how they don't seem to care they've probably told a bunch of their friends and since they're teens it'll spread quickly.

There's a bit of hope.

 

[DOWN]

Huh? I’m almost certain I’ve heard Florida has Good Samaritan laws

 

[Moobabe]

Well seeing as how they don't seem to care they've probably told a bunch of their friends and since they're teens it'll spread quickly.

There's a bit of hope.

Guaranteed - their names will be known within hours.

 

[Chainsawkitten]

Huh? I’m almost certain I’ve heard Florida has Good Samaritan laws

It does. But a Good Samaritan law doesn't mean what you think it does. Good Samaritan laws protect people who are helping others from liability. So if I break someone's ribs by performing CPR on them, they can't sue me for it. They don't require you to help anyone. That's duty to rescue.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

5 little sociopaths.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I don't know what pisses me off more, that these evil sociopathic little shitstains laughed and recorded a dying man screaming for help, or that Florida is such a shite state that it doesn't even have a law on the books to prevent something like that from happening again.

Horrible and infuriating all around.

Huh? I’m almost certain I’ve heard Florida has Good Samaritan laws

From what I understnad, Good Samaritan laws means you are not held liable if you try to help and something goes wrong, not that you are obligated to help.

 

[strafer]

This is making me furious.

 

[King_Moc]

I know you can't force people to help, but you may as well just put these kids in jail now as that's where they're going to end up anyway.

 

[Roo]

You see someone in trouble and you just laugh at them while filming it?.

I think this is what bothers me the most.

Doing nothing for someone in trouble, I get that since there was a risk involved (strictly talking about personally helping him) but not calling 911, recording, and making fun of him while he was drowning? That was fucking disgusting.

 

[Fox Mulder]

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[wenis]

That's some We Need to Talk About Kevin shit. I'm sure there will be an indie movie about this from the parents perspective in a few years.

 

[I H8 Memes]

The family is doing the right thing. Keep this video and their names out there and in the public knowledge. Would any of you want to work with any of these people 10 years from now? Would you want your daughter to marry any of these people?

 

[Crimson-Death]

Psychopaths are gonna psychopath.

 

[Camwi]

Wow. They might not be murderers for this, but let's be honest here, they're probably future murderers.

What.The.Fuck.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

There has to be some type of pathology to display this kind of behavior? Psychopath kids?

 

[Xe4]

That's a moral question, not a legal one. People post on here about committing suicide. If they did it, would you want to be held liable for not helping?

As someone who's dealt with stuff like that before, you can't just get sued, you can be in serious legal trouble if someone says they're going to kill themselves and you do nothing. you're supposed to get them to call a suicide hotline or call the police or something.

 

[Earthbound64]

What do you think he was doing? Fishing?

So you're basing thinking he was trying to drown himself on "What do you think he was doing?"

If I see someone in the water, drowning or otherwise, the thought of "Maybe they're trying to kill themselves" wouldn't even begin to enter my mind. That is so absurd.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

The state of Florida currently does not have a law where a citizen is obligated to render aid or call for help for anyone in distress.

God bless the United States of America.

 

[Compsiox]

Since theyre all minors...they're going to get away without any consequence at all.

What a world.

 

[Earthbound64]

That's a moral question, not a legal one. People post on here about committing suicide. If they did it, would you want to be held liable for not helping?

As someone who's dealt with stuff like that before, you can't just get sued, you can be in serious legal trouble if someone says they're going to kill themselves and you do nothing. you're supposed to get them to call a suicide hotline or call the police or something.

Yeah, as someone who has dealt with stuff like that before as well, it's a very serious matter - and one that companies and organizations are very aware of.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

 

[SummitAve]

Idk how any human regardless of age could act like that. Even animals have better instincts.

 

[Skinpop]

if a kid of mine did something like that I'd disown him.

 

[Abstrusity]

Idk how any human regardless of age could act like that. Even animals have better instincts.

Humans are animals.

I've been in the mindset of "These people need to be saved from themselves, but none of them are worth saving" for the last year now =.=

 

[TimeEffect]

They can't really be getting away with this?

Is there no consequence at all?

 

[Phoenixus]

I hope these kids get disowned by their families. No less than what they deserve.

 

[TalonJH]

The guy flailed in the water for 10 minutes man. People are horrible.

 

[Brian Griffin]

There has to be some type of pathology to display this kind of behavior? Psychopath kids?

At least one of them probably. The other's may have gone along with it because peer pressure and the general "not giving a shit about others" attitude many teens possess depending on maturity. I imagine later in life they will realize the gravity of what they did and hopefully be emotionally destroyed or they won't care because they are psychopaths.

 

[thiscoldblack]

Their lack of empathy is quite disturbing.

EDIT: I skimmed through the video... fuck...

 

[Roland1979]

Wouldn't surprise me if the kids end up being doxxed and receive countless threats, and probably end up in some real danger themselves.

 

[LordKasual]

They shouldn't have been charged, that's asinine.

They are under no obligation to save a drowning person, and me being someone who's actually (stupidly) done this before, it is REALLY fucking dangerous, unless you have something to pull someone out of the water with.

They are a bunch of cunts, however, and deserve to know how sick they are

 

[Earthbound64]

Wouldn't surprise me if the kids end up being doxxed and receive countless threats, and probably end up in some real danger themselves.

Most likely. Especially with all the people here already saying they want their names out there so they can "be punished."

They shouldn't have been charged, that's asinine.

They are under no obligation to save a drowning person, and me being someone who's actually (stupidly) done this before, it is REALLY fucking dangerous, unless you have something to pull someone out of the water with.

You do realize there's a difference between:

• Trying to save someone
• Calling 9-1-1 / calling for help
• Doing nothing
• Taping it
• Taping it and laughing

Right?...

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

Absolute pieces of shit. I don't blame them for not trying to save him, but taunting him and not calling the cops after they watched a man drown to report it? Fuck them

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

That's the first time I have been audibly disturbed. When he screams for help and they just laugh damn.

 

[Flo_Evans]

So you're basing thinking he was trying to drown himself on "What do you think he was doing?"

If I see someone in the water, drowning or otherwise, the thought of "Maybe they're trying to kill themselves" wouldn't even begin to enter my mind. That is so absurd.

They saw him walk out into he water and swim to the middle of the lake.

 

[tearsintherain]

I wonder if there is more to this story. How does a 31 year old guy who looks pretty fit drown? Did the kids know him and there was some beef between them? Did the drowned man suffer from something drug related (willingly or unknown) before he entered the pool? The article mentioned him telling his mom and fiancee to "leave the house", what triggered that and why did he decide to go into some sort of pool or lake afterwards?

Just a whole lot of weird things going on it seems like, from the headline you'd think its a guy swimming in the ocean and some teenagers laugh as he drowns but its not that at all, story just seems weird and bizarre.

 

[5taquitos]

I hope that every night, as these assholes lie in bed awaiting sleep, the screams of the drowning man seep in, filling the void of the darkness. Sleep refuses to come, and when it finally does the dreams that manifest are a twisted horror of guilt and regret, pulling them from sleep drenched in cold sweat and with a racing heart. Finally, as the years pass and the torment grows, they succumb to a slow death from substance abuse and self-harm.

But they're probably going to just go on with their lives, raise terrible kids, and further the downward spiral of this fucked up species.

 

[Earthbound64]

They saw him walk out into he water and swim to the middle of the lake.

Alright?
"He's trying to commit suicide by drowning" would never enter my mind.

Can you link to some instances of people committing suicide by drowning where:
They didn't jump off of a bridge
They didn't weight themselves down by something
There wasn't alcohol involved

"Suicide by drowning" - apart from those above conditions - isn't something that you really can do. Your body won't let you.

 

[ironmang]

The teens were interviewed by police, during which they admitted to being in the area "smoking weed," police said.

I don't know shit about drug laws but couldn't they at least do something with this? Just to at least have any kind of punishment.

 

[-Setsuna-]

what the fuck

Should be Florida's motto, really.

You can't sue someone for not helping; otherwise we'd all be fucked.

In that bizarro world of yours, maybe...

 

[Mechanized]

How did society even get this far with monsters like this just hanging around.