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Boy, 7, swims for an hour to save family after boating mishap
I don’t think I would swim in that. The current can be quite strong and when I was a kid I caught more freaky looking fish in that river than any river I ever fished.
Amazing story, glad it had a good outcome. Hopefully some lessons were learned.
Great story.
But, how huge does a River have to be to swim for an hour....even accounting for upstream and child tiredness?
Is this the Mississippi or Atlantic Ocean?
When your kid does something stupid, you’re so thankful
they are okay, that you forget the thing they did, and may
or may not mention it later.
I kind of feel the same way here. I don’t like that they
got into this situation, but I am thankful they are all
okay.
Going by my own experience, and fessing up, I think we all
do utterly stupid things at times. I’m glad not all mine
became public, and I’ll cut this guy some slack for his
infraction here.
At least there’s ONE ‘Florida Kid’ that WON’T grow up to become, ‘Florida Man!’ ;)
My only comment: If you have kids, then teach them to swim as early as possible.
Looks like the girl is holding a rubber chicken.
A future SEAL is spawned. The boy did good and I hope he feels 10 feet tall all summer.
Now THERE’S a real hero and a real man.
+1 for Florida Boy.
God wants these three people alive to do something wonderful.