Parents bill RNLI for £7 lilo after child rescued

[beanaseireann]

Absolutely unbelievable !!!
Parents are billing the RNLI £7 for the lilo they had to leave behind in the water after the safe rescue of their child. The rescue costs were £7000 - not to mention the emotional cost to and time costs of the rescuers.

The sheer audacity of them.
Their child's life saved.

You couldn't make it up.

They should be named and shamed.

It’s not true.
Sorry to piss on your chips but it’s made up.

Link? Sounds far fetched.

Im so glad that it's not true.
I read about it in two newspapers- one being The Independent (definitely) and the other the Daily Mail (I think).

May not be entirely accurate

www.kentlive.news/news/uk-world-news/truth-behind-rnli-lilo-story-3206927

It is quite interesting how widely it has been reported though seemingly without any further independent verification or fact-checking by each media outlet

Interesting demonstration of media outlets that accurately fact check their stories...

Or, exactly what Tynetees just said!

There are better decades-old RNLI rescue cost stories.

I expect being the teen whose recuse had cost around £30k (figure may have enlarged in the years of telling!) who was determined to findraise to pay it all back. There was a news item because he reached quite a hefty target (whatever the actual figure was)

He hadn't been doing anything insanely risky, but had got into trouble, and was just humbled that volunteers are there, ready to run risks themselves, to fish him out from the consequences of his leisure choices.

What a surprise that the Daily Mail heavily featured this piece of fiction.

A very few minutes of googling will tell you that this story is old and possibly not even entirely true when it was reported originally.

it is weird how it popped up on all the national newspapers, as if it was a recent event... when it clearly wasn't true...or recent...

I read this yesterday and thought it sounded like fake news.

You couldn't make it up, you say?