Sunday, September 04, 2005
Death Beach
Another death this weekend at the local Lawrencetown beach. All from another effort to rescue children.
What the h@## is wrong with the adults. Where is responsible parenting? The place is well known to the people involved. Signs are posted all over the place not to swim there. Yet every time you turn around someone’s children have to be rescued because they got too far out.
Same thing happens often at Peggy’s Cove where signs say to stay away from the cliffs, that the surge of the sea may get you. Yet you can go there anytime and see adults and families prowling around the edge.
This sort of thing puts other people at risk as well. There always seems to be someone present on surf boards or on shore that is willing to take a risk to save someone from their stupidity or save children from their guardians stupidity.
There is only one solution at Lawrencetown. Close that portion of the beach forever. Do whatever has to be done, fence it in, bulldoze it in, destroy it. Costly yes, but so are all these rescue responses. And when a life is involved, especially a child’s life, the expense can never be calculated.
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What the h@## is wrong with the adults. Where is responsible parenting? The place is well known to the people involved. Signs are posted all over the place not to swim there. Yet every time you turn around someone’s children have to be rescued because they got too far out.
Same thing happens often at Peggy’s Cove where signs say to stay away from the cliffs, that the surge of the sea may get you. Yet you can go there anytime and see adults and families prowling around the edge.
This sort of thing puts other people at risk as well. There always seems to be someone present on surf boards or on shore that is willing to take a risk to save someone from their stupidity or save children from their guardians stupidity.
There is only one solution at Lawrencetown. Close that portion of the beach forever. Do whatever has to be done, fence it in, bulldoze it in, destroy it. Costly yes, but so are all these rescue responses. And when a life is involved, especially a child’s life, the expense can never be calculated.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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