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Boy 2 falls down 110 metre well in Malaga

  • 14-01-2019 9:10pm
    #1
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭


    https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2019/0114/1023158-spain-boy-well/


    Having a child around this age this is just an absolute horror story to read, heartbreaking for the family of the young lad who had recently lost another child in tragic circumstances.

    The well was just 25cm in diameter. Having been in Spain before I think there health and safety with big drops is absolutely appalling ie little or no fencing to stop people falling to what could be a fatal injury.


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  • #2
    Sonic Youth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭Sonic Youth


    Glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Simpsons when they heard of this.


  • #3
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    Glad I'm not the only who thought of the Simpsons when I heard of this.

    I thought of the parents and what absolute horror they must be going thru. You have to be a right heartless or thick **** to joke about something like this.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Anyone joking about that is one sick puppy.

    Hope the kid is ok, doesn’t sound good.


  • #5
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Could happen to anyone. Have had geologists bore on land of mine before and areas were always secured off well. To think an aul metal cap thrown on top of a hazard as lethal as that boggles the mind!


  • #6
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    There's some serious bellend's on this forum.


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  • #7
    Sonic Youth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭Sonic Youth


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    I thought of the parents and what absolute horror they must be going thru. You have to be a right heartless or thick **** to joke about something like this.

    Nope, this episode was the first thing that came to mind. Merely shows the influence the Simpsons has had on people my age.

    No need to be mad, friend.


  • #8
    Ciaran_B
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    The edgelords in already? Boards.ie truly is a sewer these days.


  • #9
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Quick call Sting


  • #10
    facehugger99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,376 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    I've lived in Spain for a bit. There are places with unprotected 5m drops adjacent to a public footpath.

    I used to pass a couple on my way home from work thinking a small child or even someone with a few drinks just needs to make a small misjudgment to be killed.

    It's ridiculous.


  • #11
    Sonic Youth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭Sonic Youth


    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    Quick call Sting

    Dig up idiots!









    Wait that was a different episode.


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  • #12
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »
    Anyone joking about that is one sick puppy.

    Hope the kid is ok, doesn’t sound good.

    The bit about screaming and then silence is heartbreaking


  • #13
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    lawred2 wrote: »
    The bit about screaming and then silence is heartbreaking

    The bag of sweets been found really hit me.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    lawred2 wrote: »
    The bit about screaming and then silence is heartbreaking

    It’s hard to imagine the feelings that would initially cause


  • #15
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    Glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Simpsons when they heard of this.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking only p--cks would think of the Simpsons.


  • #16
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Jesus

    That's in bad taste

    How exactly?

    Boy falls down well. Link posted of cartoon where a boy supposedly falls down well.


  • #17
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    saintsaltynuts wrote: »
    There's some serious bellend's on this forum.

    To them it's only some foreign kid. Different matter if it happened here, the Mods would actually bother to put manners on them.


  • #18
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    riemann wrote: »
    How exactly?

    Boy falls down well. Link posted of cartoon where a boy supposedly falls down well.

    Because cartoons aren't real life you dullard..


  • #19
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,804 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Better show my outrage at the Simpsons link so everyone can see how outraged I am.


  • #20
    Sonic Youth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭Sonic Youth


    lertsnim wrote: »
    Better show my outrage at the Simpsons link so everyone can see how outraged I am.

    People virtue signalling on an obscure irish web forum will definitely help some poor kid stuck in a well in Spain


  • #21
    Sonic Youth
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭Sonic Youth


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    If you dont know how it just goes to show your morally bankrupt.

    What did you expect to achieve with this thread? It's a terrible thing and I hope he's found ok but you can't really expect solemn reverence when you post something online.


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  • #22
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,716 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Holy fcuk that's a horrible story. Can only imagine what the parents are going through. Losing a kid like that would probably break me. Hope there's a happy ending to this story, but not looking likely :(

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #23
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Those poor parents, their other son already died of a heart attack aged 3 according to the article.


  • #24
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I immediately thought of the Simpsons.

    I suppose I am a heartless monster for remembering a classic episode of a popular show.


  • #25
    Red Lightning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭Red Lightning


    I feel sick reading the article. And anyone joking about it are f**king off in the head.


  • #26
    Patrick2010
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    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    What did you expect to achieve with this thread? It's a terrible thing and I hope he's found ok but you can't really expect solemn reverence when you post something online.

    No, but maybe a little human decency?


  • #27
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    I immediately thought of the Simpsons.

    I suppose I am a heartless monster for remembering a classic episode of a popular show.

    Funny how people are different. I immediately thought of the parents.


  • #28
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    lawred2 wrote: »
    Because cartoons aren't real life you dullard..

    One could do with thinking before speaking, lest one put one puts one's foot in one's mouth.

    One.


  • #29
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    Red Lightning wrote: »
    I feel sick reading the article. And anyone joking about it are f**king off in the head.

    Who's joking about it?

    Are you talking about a link to clips from a cartoon where there are some similarities?


  • #30
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    Glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Simpsons when they heard of this.

    To be fair any article I've seen about this has had The Simpsons underneath it. So your not that special.


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  • #31
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    What did you expect to achieve with this thread? It's a terrible thing and I hope he's found ok but you can't really expect solemn reverence when you post something online.

    I'm wondering how you're going to work your white supremacy crap into this thread.


  • #32
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head


  • #33
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    It's a horrible tragedy, but that's life and we all have our own **** to deal with. Some deal with it through gallows humour.


  • #34
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head

    Correct but outrage is easier these days. I doubt the parents will reference Boards After Hours for updates.
    I am a firm believer that nothing is beyond humour.
    Maybe there should be a Boards forum for hard stories where only serious replies are mandatory?


  • #35
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    Correct but outrage is easier these days. I doubt the parents will reference Boards After Hours for updates.
    I am a firm believer that nothing is beyond humour.
    Maybe there should be a Boards forum for hard stories where only serious replies are mandatory?

    How about if one of your family died tragically, we could have a good old laugh about that? It'd be 'gallows humour' so that'd make it ok...


  • #36
    bilbot79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    My heart bleeds for them. Their other child died on them. Poor souls.


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  • #37
    joe40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭joe40


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Would like the kid to be ok but 110metres is a long way to fall.

    The outrage at the Simpsons clip is the usual over sensitive shyte we have to endure of late.

    Some people use humour as a mechanism to deal with situations.

    I know as I read the article and how awful a tragedy it is but I was singing 'We are sending our love down the well' in my head
    No You're wrong, the problem isn't the "over senstive shyte" we have to endure it is the complete lack of common decency some people display. Linking this tragedy to a simpsons clip is not "gallows humor", just crass shyte.


  • #38
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Sonic Youth wrote: »
    People virtue signalling on an obscure irish web forum will definitely help some poor kid stuck in a well in Spain

    Not being a unnecessarily crass kunt doesn't have to be conflated with virtue signaling..


  • #39
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    riemann wrote: »
    Who's joking about it?

    Are you talking about a link to clips from a cartoon where there are some similarities?

    Talk about acting dumb.


  • #40
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    How about if one of your family died tragically, we could have a good old laugh about that? It'd be 'gallows humour' so that'd make it ok...

    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.


  • #41
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    joe40 wrote: »
    No You're wrong, the problem isn't the "over senstive shyte" we have to endure it is the complete lack of common decency some people display. Linking this tragedy to a simpsons clip is not "gallows humor", just crass shyte.

    No Im not wrong but I may not be right either. And you are neither right or wrong.

    What we have is a difference of opinion


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  • #42
    malinheader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭malinheader


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Talk about acting dumb.

    Who says there acting


  • #43
    gooseygander
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.


  • #44
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,205 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.

    Well said.


  • #45
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Ill bet that any knob who is posting jokes or any humour about this article has no children of their own. I do have children and it’s a fu— king heartbreaking story that disturbs me to even read.

    I have kids so there goes your theory.


  • #46
    gooseygander
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭gooseygander


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.

    Little bit different when we speak about a 2 year old baby and a family that lost a 3 year old also tragically. Humour and this story don’t go together AT ALL in my opinion


  • #47
    SEPT 23 1989
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    300ft drop poor kid hadn't a hope

    the parents will be tortured for the rest of their lives


  • #48
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    gooseygander wrote: »
    Little bit different when we speak about a 2 year old baby and a family that lost a 3 year old also tragically. Humour and this story don’t go together AT ALL in my opinion

    No denying it is horrendously tragic and to prevent myself lying awake imagining it happen to one of my own or how I would react I suppress that thought decompartmentalise it and use humour/light heartedness as a coping mechanism

    Im no monster just human


  • #49
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    malinheader wrote: »
    Who says there acting

    Do you have any self-awareness?


  • #50
    rgodard80a
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    Bam Bam Mickey wrote: »
    Anyone joking about that is one sick puppy.

    Unfortunately they're just emotionally immature and obviously not a parent themselves. They'll be sending a valentine card to their playstation next month.


  • #51
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    If i die tragically I consent for everyone to have a good laugh at it. The darker the humour the better and a few puns would be a nice tribute too.

    That's not what I asked....


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