What the hell is wrong with this country?

[suesjools]

Wow, this is really sad, don't know what else to say except what a sad waste of life.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[shezz]

I just searched the Portsmouth News site for 'Simon Burgess' and found a whole bunch of background to this story if anyone wants to read up on the developments

You can find the stories here

Yup read it, still think more could of be done, you said that she was the only one there, but this statement from the firefigher seems to suggest different

He said: ‘At first I could not see anyone in the water and I had to ask members of the public to point him out to me.

So what was these public doing

[moonwitch]

Yup read it, still think more could of be done, you said that she was the only one there, but this statement from the firefigher seems to suggest different

So what was these public doing

When the woman called the emergency services she and the young child were the only ones there. Any other people must have either turned up later, but before the firefighters turned up...or they were some distance away and the woman didn't notice them.

I wasn't actually there so I am deducing this by working from the available evidence.

There is a cafe at a higher point where people could have come from and a busy road running alongside not many yards from the lake ...also a path running alongside....a car park and also a row of houses. Any number of people could have been within sight of the incident and some of the people anywhere nearby could have turned up between the woman being there and then the emergency services.

[Pink_Panther]

I would have thought that the local fire brigade at least would have already had information and risk assessments done on local amenities.

(Wade in lads. it's only 3ft deep.)

They should have known and responded even if they didn't know!

[PATRIOT73]

cud giv u a trillon reasons