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发帖数: 438 | 1 ‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown
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An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up
to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others
watched idly from the shore.
Why? Officials blamed a departmental policy, stemming from budget cuts, that
prevented them from jumping in to save him.
Fifty-year-old Raymond Zack spent nearly an hour in the water before
drowning. A crowd of about 75 people, in addition to first responders,
watched from the beach in Alameda across the bay from San Francisco as Zack
inched farther and farther away, sometimes glancing back, a witness told the
San Jose Mercury News. "The next thing he was floating face down."
A volunteer eventually pulled Zack's lifeless body from the Bay.
Mike D'Orazi of the Alameda Fire Department said that, due to 2009 budget
cuts, his crews lacked the training and gear to enter the water. And a Coast
Guard boat couldn't access the area because the water was too shallow.
"The incident yesterday was deeply regrettable," D'Orazi said Tuesday. "But
I can also see it from our firefighters' perspective. They're standing there
wanting to do something, but they are handcuffed by policy at that point."
Alameda Police Lt. Sean Lynch also suggested his men did the right thing. "
He was engaged in a deliberate act of taking his own life," Lynch told the
Mercury News. "We did not know whether he was violent, whether drugs were
involved. It's not a situation of a typical rescue."
But at a City Council hearing Tuesday night, some locals expressed outrage
that Zack was left to die. "This just strikes me as not just a problem with
funding, but a problem with the culture of what's going on in our city, that
no one would take the time and help this drowning man," said one resident,
Adam Gillitt.
The city said it would spend up to $40,000 to certify 16 firefighters in
land-based water rescues.
One witness to the event told a local news station that Zack was looking at
people on the shore. "We expected to see at some point that there would be a
concern for him," said another. | z******0
发帖数: 1014 | 2 按照坛子里的pussy人士的话：
要多大冤屈才不得不含恨自杀来谢罪民主大神啊 | t****z
发帖数: 8931 | | c****h
发帖数: 4968 | 4 "because of buget cut"... | m**********n
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发帖数: 7037 | 7 前一段还有消防队看房子烧掉的呢。等别人救的有福了。民主不民主都是浮云，该买枪
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: ‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown
: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110601/ts_yblog_thel
: An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up
: to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others
: watched idly from the shore.
: Why? Officials blamed a departmental policy, stemming from budget cuts, that
: prevented them from jumping in to save him.
: Fifty-year-old Raymond Zack spent nearly an hour in the water before
: drowning. A crowd of about 75 people, in addition to first responders,
: watched from the beach in Alameda across the bay from San Francisco as Zack
| T**********t
发帖数: 449 | 8 这是法律条款在美国被abuse的体现。
社会中，法律，人情，如何平衡，确实是个难题。 | d***y
发帖数: 8536 | 9 Sad.大家弄个舢板，也能把人弄回来吧。直升机也能上，把人吊下去，拉上来。这些人
太冷漠了。 | c******k
发帖数: 8998 | 10 靠
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【在 B*****t 的大作中提到】
: ‘Handcuffed by policy,’ fire and police crews watch man drown
: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110601/ts_yblog_thel
: An apparently suicidal man waded into San Francisco Bay on Monday, stood up
: to his neck, and waited. As the man drowned, police, fire crews, and others
: watched idly from the shore.
: Why? Officials blamed a departmental policy, stemming from budget cuts, that
: prevented them from jumping in to save him.
: Fifty-year-old Raymond Zack spent nearly an hour in the water before
: drowning. A crowd of about 75 people, in addition to first responders,
: watched from the beach in Alameda across the bay from San Francisco as Zack
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