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the bourgeois would rather spend $20,000 on police wages and helicopter fuel than pay a lifeguard $200 to sit around
It costs like $400 per hour to keep that helicopter flying plus whatever wages you have to pay the flying :cop:s on board. You could probably just pay for the lifeguards at that point.
Edit: Thanks to MolotovHalfEmpty, I did some research. Looks like it might be a Eurocopter EC120, so it's closer to $800.
1 hour flying that helicopter amounts to 2 lifeguards pay for the entire day, not including pig wages.
Only $400? Don't get me wrong it's still a dreadful waste but every take off + hour of flight of our local air ambulance costs almost £1000
Yeah, I googled average helicopter hourly operating cost like a dumb dumb.
Yes but you see it'd be unproductive to pay lifeguard to simply sit around like a lazy bum. Unlike these cool piglets in the sky doing good godly work
Wait until we're living under GOP fascism.
"Exit the pool. You must exit the pool immediately. You have 10 seconds to comply..."
And then all the kids in the pool and a few unlucky people who live near by are killed in a rain of gunfire. There's an official review but the police, prosecutors, and the judge decide it's entirely justified that the Baltimore City Police Department Blackhawk took out some hajis. The people killed in their own homes are given some money and their family members are given official apologies. The law has been changed. The police can never be sued for any reason whatsoever.
Controversy beaks out that law enforcement and criminal prosecution people routinely use the term hajis - even in writing. Everybody makes official statements they will use "lawbreakers" instead from that point on. But they keep using hajis in speech anyway.
With how often helicopters crash I feel like the dudes in the helicopter are at more risk of dying than the people swimming
Holy SHIT this one got to me
what the fuck lmao
absolutely batshit country
Stupid question but why can't Americans swim without being supervised by a lifeguard?
American here, and it’s pretty rare I even see lifeguards at all except at really crowded beaches and springs. Most pools just have signs that say “no lifeguard on duty swim at own risk”
If someone drowns at a pool and there's no lifeguard on duty, family can sue the pool
this is what people mean when they say the American police are overfunded
So is this a new thing or is this routine for them? Either way it's excessive.
It happens enough they've been asked by local politicians to stop.
Classic Simpsons bits continue to be manifested into the real world
