Comments by "Bacon Overlord" (@baconoverlord7982) on "ABC News" channel.

  1. Nope. He wasn't involved nor was it his responsibility.
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  2. No chance in hell. Do you have any idea how much the insurance would be to allow unqualified lifeguards to "save lives" on a private beach? Stop... really...
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  3. Same. We got lucky since we are near Orlando and the storm passed us by instead of directly hitting us like it was supposed to.
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  4.  @notrather5514  No, sorry. That's not how it works. If you're standing there when someone is drowning and you don't jump in to help, you're not liable. At all. Not culpable either. That's not your fault nor was it your doing. Why would you be responsible? That's rhetoric.. you can't be.
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  5.  @notrather5514  Wrong. You are under NO obligation to help someone that's dying. Zero. Zilch. None. Nada. Unless you are someone that's taken the Hippocratic oath, you are NOT REQUIRED by any laws out there to take any action whatsoever.
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  6.  @RandyMarsh..  Ugh.. got me.
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  7.  @notrather5514  You're nuts if you think not helping someone that you even KNEW was dying (which he had no idea.. he ran over there because people were yelling) would get you anything in a world where you can be hit with a lawsuit for trying to do CPR.
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  8.  @notrather5514  Maybe you should stick to your own country and the "Rules" that don't apply here. Thank you. Maybe you should also go to law university so you can be an EXPERT at things that are inapplicable in another country. How about that?
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  9.  @dragskcinnay3184  Why would it be? I'm curious why your gov't holds you somehow responsible for this person and their choices... are you their legal guardian? Did you throw them in the water? It doesn't even come down to what you COULD have done and WHY you didn't. It's just a matter of the fact that: It's not your issue. Granted, if there is something you can do to help another human being without putting yourself in too much risk, then that's always something people are going to try to do because we are social animals. But, at the end of the day if they end up dying that has NOTHING to do with you just because you happened to be nearby.
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  10.  @dragskcinnay3184  Ummm... are you reallying trying to say that a pilot that was hired to fly the plane, whose job it it to fly the plane, who is there for the SOLE PURPOSE of FLYING THE PLANE wouldn't be charged if he... didn't fly the plane and people died? That's... the smartest thing I've seen a Democrat say in a long time.... hilariously false and not even close to being comparable to what we were discussing, but still... hilarious.
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  11. @mariaj4883 And, they didn't come up saying someone was drowning. There were people yelling and screaming on another beach in the distance. Get your facts straight.
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  12.  @ItalianOrlando  He really didn't. It MISTAKENLY ended up a decision that saved someone's life. That doesn't mean it had anything to do with morals if the situation just happened to pan out for someone. What if someone on his beach drowned while he was over there? What if it turned out to be just some kid that stepped on a jellyfish? You're putting far too much weight on your morality scale when that wasn't even a factor in his decision to leave his post where he had a trusted duty. He definitely should have been fired. Lauded for his actions also. But, two different things here.
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  13. Fired him... because, he wasn't following the rules. That's... how rules work. If you don't like the rules, then get them changed before you break them. Liability is no joke for a business...
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  14.  @RandyMarsh..  In the area he's been assigned to safeguard... He basically said "F-off" to the people on the beach he was assigned to in order to go do something he wasn't supposed to do.
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  15.  @RandyMarsh..  It's... a word. It means to take care of...........
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  16.  @RandyMarsh..  🤦‍♂
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  17.  @TCBSkiing  He could have done his job and not been fired.
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  18.  @Bharatwasi7  Why, because I can calculate the outcome of a simple situation involving two possible variables?
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  19.  @notrather5514  Uhhh... what? What orifice did you pull that out of? His options were: Do his job or run off to another beach because people were yelling about something. Those were his choices. Stop being dramatic.
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  20.  @notrather5514  If you don't know what I said then I recommend trying English classes... it's easy! It goes left to right, top to bottom. Sound out the big words and use a dictionary if you need to. You can get it.
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  21.  @notrather5514  "I didn't understand".... I found the problem.
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  22.  @dragskcinnay3184  I didn't say "should". I said most likely would. LoL.. you think not doing something results in being charged with something? Hey, I didn't rob a bank today... are you saying the cops are going to show up and arrest me for it? Think...
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  23.  @dragskcinnay3184  You don't get it. You won't get it. IQ lacking or just obtuse. Pick one, but I don't care. You honestly tried to compare a pilot purposely not flying a plane and causing casualties to someone possibly not even KNOWING someone is drowning or dying from a heart attack on the street and doing nothing. You may go now.
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  24.  @dragskcinnay3184  Oh, I dug a little deeper and there actually is a state that has a "duty to help" law and it's Minnesota. Any OTHER state (unless it's a sex-related crime) and you don't have any duty to help someone in any situation, much less one where they are dying. So, my bad. If you live in backwards Minnesota you can be charged for not knowing someone is dying apparently. I'm sure they issue nearly 100% acquittals on that too though.
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  25.  @deborahminter6231  Oh, so the news was wrong, the guy was lying to the news and you were there to see the real story?
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  26.  @deborahminter6231  Yet you're saying it's not true.
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  27. It's funny how there are marked differences in how white people shoplift vs. black people.
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  28. Except... no. Homosexuality is covered pretty well in the bible, lol.
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  29.  @spectralight8412  most ignorant sayings should be on a shirt. It helps us see who the idiots are before we even have to interact with them.
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  30. Both are different things. Saving a life was right, but breaking the rules was not. There's a reason those rules were in-place. Had that person died the company would have gone under from the lawsuits. There's more to a situation than your emotional knee-jerk reaction.
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  31. @mariaj4883 Who said anything about a life being more important? Someone ran up to him and told him about something going on in a neighboring beach. It's not like he saw them drowning. He had to run for how long until he even got to the beach, much less to the person... so he left the beach he was supposed to be watching and the people that were relying on him to do his job to chase a rumor on another beach. Yes, that's why he was fired.
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  32.  @skaynne54  I'm not sure what you were trying to type there, but he wasn't told someone was drowning, he just ran off after people that were yelling. Leaving the people he was SUPPOSED to be watching to drown. That's why he got fired.
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  33. If the guy he tried to save had died... the family could have sued the pants off the lifeguard and the business that employs him. People don't understand how insurance and liability works... those people probably shouldn't comment.
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  34.  @ItalianOrlando  What are you talking about?! The kid LEFT his POST. He left the people he was paid to watch over and protect to run over to some other portion of the beach for something else that he didn't even know what was going on there, but even if he did... that was NOT why he was being paid and that was NOT his responsibility. He had a life-and-death responsibility to the people ON THAT BEACH. Should I say it... YET AGAIN?
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  35.  @ItalianOrlando  it's not about if what he did was right or wrong. He definitely should have been fired.
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  36.  @ladyriethegoldendelmo5441  Not if he wanted to keep his job. He left the people he was SUPPOSED to be watching and guarding ... to run over to see why people were yelling. Yeah, it ended up ok, but it was really, really irresponsible to leave his post and his job.
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  37.  @ladyriethegoldendelmo5441  Which part of doing your job are you not familiar with? You aren't hired to be beach patrol. You're hired to guard and protect the people in a specific part of the beach. He left his post, the people he was supposed to be protecting to run over to a whole other section of beach on the off-chance maybe someone needed saving? That's not just irresponsible, it could have cost someone their life that he was SUPPOSED to be guarding.
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  38. @mariaj4883 My job if I wanted to keep it.
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  39.  @ItalianOrlando  I'm not going into morality of anything. I'm saying the FACT that he left the people he was supposed to be defending/helping.
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