Man taking kids to walk on bullock harbour yesterday

whomitconcerns

Pictures From the indo

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-facing-a-fortnight-flooding-due-to-atlantic-storm-factory-29976498.html

He brings his small kids for a walk there and nearly loses them to the waves...even though warnings are out for the last fortnight to be careful and stay away...

What sort of idiot is he? Could he not be charged with child endangerment?

Ghost Buster

I regularly watch idiot parents on our beaches ignore warnings about sand dune collapse lift the barrier tape and send their kids up the dunes to play.
The Darwin Awards are the only beneficeries (hows that spelt?)

whomitconcerns

whomitconcerns wrote: »

Pictures From the indo

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-facing-a-fortnight-flooding-due-to-atlantic-storm-factory-29976498.html

He brings his small kids for a walk there and nearly loses them to the waves...even though warnings are out for the last fortnight to be careful and stay away...

What sort of idiot is he? Could he not be charged with child endangerment?

Is there a crime of child endangerment? There probably should be.

If only you could prosecute people for stupidity.

monflat

Bloddy fool the intelligence of some people is just beyond me
Back in the big freeze in 2010 i was walkin near where i live there is a small lake no bigger than a football pitch and there was a man with 2 children jumping up and down as hard as they could on the ice.....
Ah......when the ice breaks and ye all fall in what do ye do.
Similar to this fella.....
Gob****e

SpaceTime

Common sense isn't as common as they'd have you believe!

biko

Rabble rabble outrage.

Ghost Buster

biko wrote: »

outrage. Two kids came close to death due to an adults stupidity.

There...Thats better.

Gatling

Too bad the stupid prick didn't get swept out to sea ,
Endangering his kids like that ,

Stupid ,stupid ,stupid

RayCon

That man is an obvious spanner.

anncoates

/tedious child and dog licence analogy

whomitconcerns

biko wrote: »

Rabble rabble outrage.

Harumph! but still..."someone think of the children"

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the... oh.

anncoates

monflat wrote: »

and there was a man with 2 children jumping up and down as hard as they could on the ice.....
Ah......when the ice breaks and ye all fall in what do ye do.

Drown?

c68zapdsm5i1ru

It's the same anytime there's a weather warning. There's always someone who will still decide to go sailing, mountaineering, take the kids for a walk on the beach or the dog for a walk down the pier. Then other people have to put their lives at risk to to go out and rescue them.

SpaceTime

anncoates wrote: »

/tedious child and dog licence analogy

They should call it dog tax. There is no qualification to prove you're a good dog owner either.

Larbre34

Gobsh1t3ry of the highest order, if you endangered livestock like that youd be done for it. The Indo doesnt show it but theres a great pic on the Irish Sun website of a huge man, a worker from the harbour, telling him what he thinks of him. I do hope he cr@pped himself but it was a pity the kids had to hear it.

However his other foul almost as bad, is the wearing of the flat cap backwards. Only Samuel L Jackson on this planet can pull that one off, and sir, you aint no Samuel L Jackson.

Plazaman

Don't worry, as he is front page of a lot of the papers todays, he'll get quite the bollícking from his wife, a harsh enough sentence I'm sure.

He's not the only dope in that report. What the hell was THIS woman thinking driving her car into the flood, risking a Gardas life so she can be pulled out the stupid woman. "Distressed driver" my hole, she wasn't distressed when she said, oh look a lake, I'll drive into it.

rainbowdrop

monflat wrote: »

Bloddy fool the intelligence of some people is just beyond me
Back in the big freeze in 2010 i was walkin near where i live there is a small lake no bigger than a football pitch and there was a man with 2 children jumping up and down as hard as they could on the ice.....
Ah......when the ice breaks and ye all fall in what do ye do.
Similar to this fella.....
Gob****e

I remember during the big freeze, a lake near me was frozen (Lough Gur in Co Limerick, for those that know it) and there were people out on the ice in the middle of the lake pushing a small child in a buggy. Probably the most retarded thing I'v ever seen.

Stupid people think danger warnings just add to the excitement!

Larbre34

Larbre34 wrote: »

Gobsh1t3ry of the highest order, if you endangered livestock like that youd be done for it. The Indo doesnt show it but theres a great pic on the Irish Sun website of a huge man, a worker from the harbour, telling him what he thinks of him. I do hope he cr@pped himself but it was a pity the kids had to hear it.

The big guy looks intimidating alright but I'd say he's going to face worse at home. If I was those kids mother I'd go ballistic seeing those pics.

The dad (or uncle or whatever) is no kid either, definitely old enough to know better with all that grey hair.

The Narrator

Thankfully they were alright.
This will be a strong life lessen for the father (and hopefully other likewise gobshytes).

whomitconcerns

wow..that pic of the worker "speaking to him". The sun has some good ones alright http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/5421477/Floody-moron-Toddlers-close-call-on-reckless-day-out.html


Takes a special class of idiot...

120_Minutes

I bet that childs name is Fintan. I just know it.

jethro081

Ghost Buster wrote: »

I regularly watch idiot parents on our beaches ignore warnings about sand dune collapse lift the barrier tape and send their kids up the dunes to play.
The Darwin Awards are the only beneficeries (hows that spelt?)

innocent kids endangered by parental negligence helps the gene pool now does it?

prick.

cletus van damme

biko wrote: »

Rabble rabble outrage.

indeed.

It's like they lost interest in team panti or demonising neknomination.

SamAK

biko wrote: »

Rabble rabble outrage.

cletus van damme wrote: »

indeed.

It's like they lost interest in team panti or demonising neknomination.

Or 'Find Kony 2012'

Remember that one? All the self righteous tits all over social media hammering away on keyboards and feeling smug about it.

Ha ha ha.

c68zapdsm5i1ru

Nothing self righteous about wondering why someone would put their children in danger despite warnings all over the media about treacherous weather conditions. Supposing someone had to jump in to rescue the child and lost their own life? It does happen, you know. Or what about rescue workers being called out for totally avoidable accidents concerning people who ignore all warnings and put their own and other people's lives in danger?

SEPT 23 1989

the best craic we had growing up was when a sometimes reckless father took over minding the kids:D

IvyTheTerrible

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the best craic we had growing up was when a sometimes reckless father took over minding the kids:D

Yep. Thank goodness there were no camera phones in those days!

castletownman

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

the best craic we had growing up was when a sometimes reckless father took over minding the kids:D

Driving to the shop either on the father's knee "controlling the steering wheel" or sitting in the passenger seat with him throwing his arm across me whenever there was a bend or a sudden change in speed

Santa Cruz

Ah Jaysus Joe. T'was a disgrace. Shouldn't be allowed

Paddy Cow

I hope they didn't live too far away. The child would be freezing cold and wet. Might have even got sick after this.

Neyite

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I hope they didn't live too far away. The child would be freezing cold and wet. Might have even got sick after this.

Exactly what I was thinking. The best thing to do would be to get them out of their freezing wet clothes and wrapped up in a blanket/adults jacket and straight home.

But the child is tucked under his dad's arm like a sopping wet rag doll. Cultivating pneumonia no doubt.

whomitconcerns

you got to imagine he got home and told the other half the kid had slipped in a puddle and was grand and that was the end of it.


THEN SHE PICKED UP TODAYS PAPER!!!!!!


oh to be a fly on the wall in that room this morning :D:D:D:D:D

Alf Veedersane

It looks like the kid was nominated to down a pint at Bullock Harbour in that weather.

So what's the problem?

emmabrighton

Candie wrote: »

The big guy looks intimidating alright but I'd say he's going to face worse at home. If I was those kids mother I'd go ballistic seeing those pics.

The dad (or uncle or whatever) is no kid either, definitely old enough to know better with all that grey hair.

Fair play to that guy giving the dad a piece of his mind. Id like to shake his hand. The dad was probably saying something like "my kids are none of your business" or some such... Not even thinking of the INLI volunteers who risk their lives for the likes of him..

On the other hand, I remember doing something quite similar with my dad when hurricane charlie was in town in the 80s... got bloody soaked... but that is one of the few memories I actually recall with my dad. Fantastic fun for a 6 year old in the 80s

Alf Veedersane

Neyite wrote: »

But the child is tucked under his dad's arm like a sopping wet rag doll.

Are we positive that it was a child and not a rag doll?

Guy:Incognito

castletownman wrote: »

Driving to the shop either on the father's knee "controlling the steering wheel" or sitting in the passenger seat with him throwing his arm across me whenever there was a bend or a sudden change in speed

Yes, clearly we should have stopped learning somewhere around 1985, sure we knew everything at that stage.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Are we positive that it was a child and not a rag doll?

It's the sun and the indo, we#re not positive of anything. Could have been hired actors for all we know

Stavros Murphy

I'm gonna hold my hands up now and admit that on a scale of "one to ten of even dodgier things you've done with your kids" that's about a 3 on the scale. "Ohh that looks dangerous" was usually the starting point. Happily.