By "mbrider" - 12/08/2017 16:00

Today, I saved a woman from drowning at a pool where I lifeguard, but when I got her out of the water she started screaming about sexual assault. Apparently I accidentally brushed her breasts when pulling her up and out of the water. She wants to sue me. FML
I agree, your life sucks 6 898
You deserved it 269

Same thing different taste

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sketckgamer13 8

man that is bad if a lifegaurd was saving me from drowning i would have the common sense to know that brushing my breast would be a accident and i would be worrying more about getting saved

Slightly off topic, and maybe I'm just being thick here, but I've never understood why people who can't swim well enough to not drown in a swimming pool go to swimming pools in the first place. Especially grown adults who should know better.

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What I would do at that point is shove her back in and let her drown.

coconutting101 6

Where I'm from you can't sue for that

Rootbeerbum 15

should have let her drown sorry she's up your ass being an airhead

Mattnuck 4

You should have let her drown

Isn't there some kind of law which specifically protects lifegards and other people involved in saving life of this kind of accusations while being in service (assuming they're just doing their job of course).

Used to be a lifeguard we where not trained to knock someone out, but there is a motion to gain control of a panicing victim that involves a punch like motion, that looks like you try to hit them on a yaw. But the idea is that you use that momentum to turn the victim and support them before they drown you. I can see how a untrained person (or a stupid and unfit lifeguard that misinterprets his training) might think that lifeguards are training to knock them out but it should not be required for a well trained lifeguard. It is offer arm, all victims go for it, quick punchlike motion forward, then up the arm, turning victim (most guards will go underwater to make next step easier) and rise up with victim turned on their back with your arm below their arms.. and yes if the victim has boobs contact with those is very likely to happen but a lifeguard is to busy saving you and keeping himself alive to care/enjoy it.

Maybe that's just a Florida thing then, because I've had several coast guards and life guards confirm that. I watched bits of some movie- "The Guardian"?- and it had that as a part of a mini plot. I was pretty baffled by it, so I basically asked every coast and life guard I saw. (I was a kid, prone to getting obsessed with certain facts, and had no concept of the idea that it wasn't exactly appropriate to ask that.) I suppose it could be a regional thing, or maybe it isn't done anymore, but as I've said, I've had it confirmed by several on duty coast and life guards.

Lifeguarding sucks sometimes, doesn't it Ashley

Some women just look for reasons to complain and scream about how horrible men are -.-

smarterthanyou804 5

This is actually becoming commonplace thanks to modern feminism.

Uh, no. This has nothing to do with feminism. This is someone being an asshole, which everyone is capable of, regardless of gender. It's also possible that she's over reacting because of some past trauma. Unless you mean that feminism encouraging women to speak out about being sexually assaulted, sexually battered, and molested instead of keeping quiet because of shame, SOMEHOW is related to someone being an asshole. Which, there really isn't a connection there.

Mrbuddyoldpal 2

That woman, my friends, DEFINITELY understands what sexual assault is.