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Pipe lifeguard gives haole kooks a beat it order
- Thread starter Mr Pecker
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Yep, no matter how much you train or how good of shape you're in, swimming in to the impact zone at Pipe is risky for all involved. And like someone else said the kook you are now rescuing after you told him to stay out of the water could be distracting you from another situation that needs attention. Could be a pro surfer who needs help, could be a kid getting pulled off the beach. I do not envy the NS lifeguard's job when it's big and dangerous.
Although from what I have been told the most stressful place to guard is Hanauma Bay. Just a bunch of visitors floating face down staring at the reef. The lifeguards watch people to make sure they move, but sometime people are so still the lifeguards run down to check on them and end up scaring the sh!t out of some poor tourist mesmerized by view. Makes for a long day.
I was referring to the pervasive level of recalcitrance.
I would think the rescue aspect of the job would be the fun part.
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Until it isn’t. Then you’re betting lives. Adrenaline rush for sure, but like lots of stuff at that particular place plenty can go wrong in seconds.
He could have said nothing, pointed to a couple of brahs on da beach for an attitude adjustment assignment, and for sure they’d have learned their lesson and moved to Arizona.
Pretty much..........but I also have a conscience.
And I took a job knowing there are inherent risks.
Do you always keep an even temper? Even when a student is acting like a punk ass?
But the high stakes makes the excitement of the work?
Yes, rules are different in Hawaii.
I get that.
Unless Mussels is a professional neighborhood dog cop and employed in that capacity as a public servant, he's not being hypocritical.
Obviously, cops can be huge assholes, but they can afford to be because they have real power. A lifeguard doesn't have any power at all, and to pose as though they do is kinda stupid and overly self-aggrandizing.
My first semester teaching, a student threatened to kick my ass in the hallway after class if I didn't give him a handout.
I was really sick of his sh!t, so I threw down my briefcase and said, "Ok, kick my ass, you motherfooker." I was going to let him hit me and then I was going to fight.
He backed down and dropped the class.
But if we would have fought I would have got fired.
But I didn't care. I just wanted to beat the sh!t out of the kid.
Now I would just give him the handout.
I was much more of a hot head when I was younger.
I use to gaze out at my students and think, I'm pretty sure I could kick everyone's ass.
Now most of my students could probably kick my ass.
It's Hawaii, Karen. Different set of rules than the cove at C Street.
The stern part is fine.
It was the lifeguard taking the tough guy attitude after about 20 seconds that most people have issues with. And I'm certainly not the only one who thinks so because a lot of professional lifeguards agree.
Gotcha. well, I'm sure the guys in that vid googled Pipe extensively before they attempted to paddle out. they probably should have mentioned that to the lifeguard, to ease his concerns.
Misogynist insults don’t work on men, numbnuts. Save them for when you want to silence a woman.
I’ve spent many years in Hawaii and the only difference between lifeguards there and California is that ours are hotter.
I know the type of dude the lifeguard is.
The guys were easy targets to bully. Skinny fat haoles from the mainland.
I would bet my house if it was some 6’3 250 lb moke covered in tattoos he wouldn’t have started lipping.
Remember- it’s the part after many people are saying is wrong.
Telling them sternly to not go out is fine. After the stop and then yelling at them how you’re a lifeguard and they gotta listen is wrong and incorrect no matter how you look.
The guys were easy targets to bully. Skinny fat haoles from the mainland.
I would bet my house if it was some 6’3 250 lb moke covered in tattoos he wouldn’t have started lipping.
Remember- it’s the part after many people are saying is wrong.
Telling them sternly to not go out is fine. After the stop and then yelling at them how you’re a lifeguard and they gotta listen is wrong and incorrect no matter how you look.
Why? If I wasn’t expected to save the dudes I’d have just watched the show. I’m assuming it was big that day.
When I look at this stuff, I think about outcomes and methods.
Was he effective? Yes. The guys didn't go in the water.
Could he have been more efficient and still be effective? Yes.
Efficiency is important for longetivty.
In the short term, it don't matter.
Was he effective? Yes. The guys didn't go in the water.
Could he have been more efficient and still be effective? Yes.
Efficiency is important for longetivty.
In the short term, it don't matter.