Please please make sure your children are aware............

[swiperfox]

...of the dangers of swimming in lakes and rivers. My 14 year old sister lost one of her best friends on Friday when he went for a swim in a lake. Halfway across he got so cold he couldn't feel or move his arms and legs. He was only 16. here

[hunkermunker]

[Hulababy]

[fqueenzebra]

AS a teenager, my cousin was swimming in a gravel pit in Alaska ... very dangerous, one of her mates swimming with her drowned in the same sort of way.

[Janh]

Under this thread can I please also mention the dangers of sand? There may already be a thread about the 3-yr-old who died on the beach when her hole collapsed - it happens somewhere every year - sand is seen as such a nice toy but it's deadly in quantity (if you just bury your legs on the beach you know how heavy it is).

[fqueenzebra]

That story is so sad, Janh, even DH was shocked by it. I remember my kids finding a really deep hole to play in on Bournemouth beach 2 months ago... I never thought of the risk it might collapse on them.

[MistressMary]

[Mytwopenceworth]

Is the news article complaining about his friends? Mentioning grafiti a lot, are they saying something? - Bit off of them (news people I mean) Time and place and all that!

[biglips]

[swiperfox]

yes definately mention sand. I was saying to dpyesterday i would never imagine that a hole dug on the beach would collapse like that

MTPW - I was really surprised about the grafitti bit too - not the time or the place really

[swiperfox]

I'm amazed at what my sister and all her friends have done......

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Never seen anything like it

[sparklymieow]

Swiperfox, I am sadden by this sudden lost of such a young life, but what the teenagers are doing is amazing, makes you think really, not all teenagers are bad....

[swiperfox]

its mad isn't it? Makes you reliase they are just kids after all

[swiperfox]

Bet they wouldn't be complaining so much if it had been their Son?

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