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Wake Up, People!
Two guys recently drowned in the Kern River, one of whom apparently left home without his brain that day and decided that a child's plastic inflatable pool toy would keep him afloat; the fact that he could not swim must have slipped his mind. Rescue workers are currently working on finding another two unlucky souls who disappeared over the holiday weekend. In other news, someone put his eye out, and someone else set fire to a home, using illegal fireworks. What is it going to take for people to wake up and smell their own mortality?! I have lived in this area for twelve years, and every year, the headlines are the same. Every summer, we cry over someone's child who has drowned, or we sympathize with someone who has been permanently maimed by fireworks. Use your head, folks! The people who warn against swimming in the Kern River are not doing so just to have the place all to themselves! The river is an annual deathtrap, pure and simple. Likewise for those fun, illegal fireworks. You don't know where they came from or just how long you have after lighting that fuse before it goes BOOM, taking your hands or eyes with it to the wild blue yonder.. If you want to go swimming, there are plenty of options here in SoCal where there is no undertow just waiting for an unsuspecting idiot or a helpless child. If you want fireworks, the ones that are legally sold every July are just as fun, but if you don't think so, the professionals are still setting off the big ones. Go watch them instead of playing Russian Roulette with your appendages. PLEEEEEZ, Bakersfield, when you go out to have fun this summer, make sure your brain is with you ALL DAY...and don't forget to use it. No, you are not immune to misfortune, and YES, it can happen to you! 5 comments from 5 users
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posted by
tchudilowsky
on Jul 7, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Never ceases to amaze me how many people just don't think it will ever happen to them. We live on the Platte river and people swim it all summer. It is nowhere near as dangerous as the Kern river but it still claims lives every summer :-( What a way to end your life and make your family suffer huh? Sad sad sad! posted by
foodjunkie
on Jul 7, 2008 at 11:21 AM
I agree !! i have lived in Bakersfield for 29 Years and EVERY summer i have heard of the deaths in the Kern River. I really feel bad for the kids ... they dont know any better and are left to be cared for by idiots that let them swim there. The adults ... you should know better. posted by
catpaw
on Jul 7, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Had someone told these victims to stay out of the river, they would have told you to mind your own business; they know what they're doing. If one wants to commit suicide, the Killer Kern will oblige. posted by
NancyII
on Jul 7, 2008 at 11:44 AM
As someone who went through the tragedy of wating for bodies to be found I can verify the agony a family feels. I was just 13 when it took 3 days to find all 3 of the young men drowned in a boating accident in Lake Isabella but I still remember my parents heartbreak as well as my sister who lost her brother and her husband that tragic time. I don't wish that off on any of the families. I get as angry at the stupidity of people swimming in the river as anyone, especially when there are signs posted at the entrance of the canyon, but I don't want to see anyone die. My biggest complaint is the devastation they leave behind and the huge expense to us as taxpayers. They don't even live here for petes sake. They don't pay any taxes here so the burden is on us and our great search and rescue teams. What got me steamed last week was the father of the victim criticizing US because we didn't have enough people to search for his son AND the one who went missing up by the dam. posted by
ghostriter
on Jul 7, 2008 at 12:36 PM
That's the point of this post. I don't want to see any more people die because they choose to thumb their noses at the signs and warnings.
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