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Personal responsibility in proximity to water.

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  • #32
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    They've changed the system in DL all day parking near the marina varies from €4 to €8 at the weekends now


  • #33
    alexlyons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    Stheno wrote: »
    They've changed the system in DL all day parking near the marina varies from €4 to €8 at the weekends now

    They have. Primarily to compete with the likes of the council area behind the west pier which is €3.10 for the day and has been for quite some time.
    Reasonably safe for occasional parking, but not ideal for consistent daily parking that can be easily watched be the "locals".

    The big issue at the minute in the harbour in relation to parking is the minimum spend of €2. Absolute pain.
    They've brought in paying by text etc in the harbour now as well.


  • #34
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Let people go and get themselves killed if they want.

    I cant get over the moral outrage and the extent to which people are willing to give up their own freedom and money to the authorities just because of a small few muppets


  • #35
    alexlyons
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    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Let people go and get themselves killed if they want

    You try telling the families/friends/relatives. Or being them.


  • #36
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    alexlyons wrote: »
    You try telling the families/friends/relatives. Or being them.

    Maybe the family and friends should be telling them to stay inside. Whats next? Fines for walking near the top of a mountain with a golf club during a lightning storm?


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  • #37
    alexlyons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Maybe the family and friends should be telling them to stay inside. Whats next? Fines for walking near the top of a mountain with a golf club during a lightning storm?

    Maybe they should, but that's not always the case. I'm sure for every person making a stupid decision, there are 10 more still inside who were advised not to go out.
    You'd also be surprised at the amount of people who don't realise they're making a stupid decision until it's to late.
    Your example is quite an obvious thing not to do, where as generally these situations are a bit more ambiguous.


  • #38
    fergal.b
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 6,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭fergal.b


    Here is a nice link you can go through with the kids to help them understand the dangers around water with the help of Dopper Dolphin http://www.aquaattack.ie


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  • #39
    miss no stars
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭miss no stars


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Maybe the family and friends should be telling them to stay inside. Whats next? Fines for walking near the top of a mountain with a golf club during a lightning storm?

    The part you're missing is where other people have to put themselves at risk to help people who ignored the risk and got themselves all fecked up. It's the sheer numbers who are doing it. Go look at the pictures of the adult with 2 small kids on the pier in Dalkey and tell me you think it was right that in those conditions, with those small children, nobody could penalize him for putting their lives at risk. Deliberately putting children's lives at risk is neglect at best. The trouble is, people don't seem to understand the power and danger of the sea. There's genuine ignorance. Hence, it would be appropriate to just close the piers. It's dangerous, if anything happens you can die and someone WILL come and try to rescue you, hence putting themselves at risk. Kids can be put in life threatening situations by their parents who know no better and they've no way of objecting or removing themselves from the situation. Nobody, and I stress nobody, from the general public has ANY cause to be on piers and exposed locations in conditions like the storms at the start of the year. No cause whatsoever. So just close them.


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