Pig in drain saved

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/6272532.stm

Ta...it actually makes the end result more appalling - like the article says they could have rigged a harness up to a landie and hauled him out

[xoggoth]

It does seem to me that the emergency services are very dim. There was no way of keeping this chap warm or supplying him with oxygen? Hard to believe.

Stupidity and lack of initiative seems to be the standard state of the average UK citizen and nowhere was this more apparent than in some of the recent flooding. If you live in a small terrace or flat or are faced with several feet of water you may be stuffed but some of these people who were faced with just a couple of feet of water could have made better provision to protect their homes than they did. Thick polythene, plywood, bituminous gutter tape. Morons.

PS Good about the NICE little piggy. Pigs are grooovy.

[Gibbon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/6272532.stm

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He died of hypotherma, his head was still out of the water. The Emergency services prevaricated around not wanting to cut his foot off and ended up losing him.

If that was me I've have told the tw@ts to get my foot off.

Where did you read that - most stories are similar to the below, which suggest drowning :

Firefighters and divers battled for three hours to rescue the man, thought to be in his twenties, as water rose above his head in the Hessle area of Hull. He died shortly before 3pm.

[Gibbon]

I wonder why in that situation why nobody thought of using a hose pipe as a breathing tube until they could get him out...

He died of hypotherma, his head was still out of the water. The Emergency services prevaricated around not wanting to cut his foot off and ended up losing him.

If that was me I've have told the tw@ts to get my foot off.

[Diver]

Hosepipe ban?

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I wonder why in that situation why nobody thought of using a hose pipe as a breathing tube until they could get him out...

Hosepipe ban?

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I think it is safe to say it was just that mans time, i mean how unlucky do you have to be to
a) get your foot stuck in a drain in the first place.. and
b) to get it stuck in a place where there water is going to get fatally high!?

I wonder why in that situation why nobody thought of using a hose pipe as a breathing tube until they could get him out...

[daviejones]

Is this story offensive to Muslims?

Not sure, but don't really care...

[tootie]

it could be..it mentions pigs..

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Is this story offensive to Muslims?

[tootie]

I think it is safe to say it was just that mans time, i mean how unlucky do you have to be to
a) get your foot stuck in a drain in the first place.. and
b) to get it stuck in a place where there water is going to get fatally high!?

[Moose423956]

Linky

There's a certain irony to the fact that emergency services were able to save a pig trapped in a drain, but were unable to save a man trapped in a drain during the floods.