5 dead in Camber Sands today

[ashleyman]

carinaman said:

I'm usually immune to the outrage directed at Katie Hopkins, but I think she was out of order with her Tweet about it, the 'promising footballer' bit reminded me of PH.

She is a vile lady.

[truck71]

ashleyman said:

She is a vile lady.

If everyone just ignored her she'd disappear overnight. People struggle with this though.

[PoleDriver]

carinaman said:

I'm usually immune to the outrage directed at Katie Hopkins, but I think she was out of order with her Tweet about it, the 'promising footballer' bit reminded me of PH.

I wonder what her PH login name is?

[anonymous-user]

J4CKO said:

Hopkins has been spreading the love...


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/katie-hopkins...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hop...


Jesus woman, enough, please fade into obscurity and have a nice, but not too nice life.

It seems the professionally offended have taken the bait yet again and Facebook and twitter are full angry people being er overly angry.

[superkartracer]

Throw her in the sea , see if it floats.

[Thankyou4calling]

How long until we see a compensation claim from the familys?

[guards red]

Thankyou4calling said:

How long until we see a compensation claim from the familys?

You're probably right. They're not mourning their dead, they are probably already figuring out how they can make some cash from their deaths. No doubt filling in the forms as we speak...

Tell me, would you be saying that if it was five members of the Jones family?

[anonymous-user]

Thankyou4calling said:

How long until we see a compensation claim from the familys?

dunno - how long do you think?

[944fan]

Who are they going to claim compo from?

There were no lifeguards because there never are. Its not like there should have been but they were removed.

Use it at your own risk surely? Someone has to be liable for something for there to be a claim?

[s3fella]

guards red said:

Thankyou4calling said:

How long until we see a compensation claim from the familys?

You're probably right. They're not mourning their dead, they are probably already figuring out how they can make some cash from their deaths. No doubt filling in the forms as we speak...

Tell me, would you be saying that if it was five members of the Jones family?

Hate to say that I find the comments attributed in the press to the brother rather troubling. I hope it is merely his way of dealing with it, but it sounds very "compo claim" I am sad to say. He seems to be providing some insight into what went wrong, and yet how doe she know what happened, he wasn't there was he? Unless perhaps someone there texted him or called him, but he doesn't say that. Just seems to be blaming the lack of lifeguards.
As I say, I hope it is just some anger aimed at trying to find some solice in the whole incident, who knows.

Edited by s3fella on Friday 26th August 15:21

[Europa1]

PoleDriver said:

carinaman said:

I'm usually immune to the outrage directed at Katie Hopkins, but I think she was out of order with her Tweet about it, the 'promising footballer' bit reminded me of PH.

I wonder what her PH login name is?

Indeed; she managed to get a couple of PH favourites in there.

[Thankyou4calling]

Let's see.

I think they will find an ambulance chaser to take the case on.

There will have been requests in previous years for life guards and that will be brought up and yes, I would be saying this irrespective of the people involved.

Seen it far too often.

Someone has terrible accident and their nearest and dearest are straight away looking for someone to blame.

I'd be surprised if anyone was surprised.

[anonymous-user]

does this apply to all of the numerous people who died at the coast in the last week or just this bunch?

[Mr_B]

J4CKO said:

Hopkins has been spreading the love...


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/katie-hopkins...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hop...


Jesus woman, enough, please fade into obscurity and have a nice, but not too nice life.

I can't say it really bothers me that much, the stupid part seems to be the Police taking to Twitter to say they had reported her to Twitter and encouraging others to do so. Stick to crimes please, PC Plod.

[jmorgan]

Hopkins mo seems to be keeping her mentioned in social meeja.

Sooner people ignore her and stop quoting her the better.

[Randy Winkman]

Europa1 said:

PoleDriver said:

carinaman said:

I'm usually immune to the outrage directed at Katie Hopkins, but I think she was out of order with her Tweet about it, the 'promising footballer' bit reminded me of PH.

I wonder what her PH login name is?

Indeed; she managed to get a couple of PH favourites in there.

Exactly, I was just about to point out that the "mentally ill" phrase comes from this:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

For a while, it looked like taking over from "Aspiring footballer" as the PHers choice of sarcastic wit.

[Ayahuasca]

There are reports that the five dead were stuck in quicksand.. if so what a horrible way to go. RIP.

[SilverSpur]

Two of the dead were discovered when the tide went out later in the night. Perhaps they were still thigh deep in the sands?

Makes you shiver.

[TheExcession]

Interesting thread, not because of all the usual PH bickering and speculation but more because of the fact a few people have told stories of close encounters with death by ocean.

I had a similar experience on an island in Thailand. Bloke in the adjacent hut lent me flippers, snorkel and mask for a bit of a swim in the ocean.

It was so shallow it was almost boring so I paddled out a bit looking for something more interesting. Eventually got bored and decided it was time to swim back to shore.

I was barely out of my depth at this stage and I guess about 4/500 metres from shore. I swam for ages trying to get back to shore and made little to no progress.

I really started to panic then, I just didn't feel I was making any progress and went through the whole 'Oh fvck I'm going to die here now aren't I?'

A horrible horrible horrible experience, I remember swimming on my back and looking left and right to markers on each side of the bay and realising I wasn't getting any closer to shore.

This seemed to go on for ages and eventually I did make it back to land.

I've never swam in the sea since and sincerely hope I never have to again.

[Ayahuasca]

TheExcession said:

Interesting thread, not because of all the usual PH bickering and speculation but more because of the fact a few people have told stories of close encounters with death by ocean.

I had a similar experience on an island in Thailand. Bloke in the adjacent hut lent me flippers, snorkel and mask for a bit of a swim in the ocean.

It was so shallow it was almost boring so I paddled out a bit looking for something more interesting. Eventually got bored and decided it was time to swim back to shore.

I was barely out of my depth at this stage and I guess about 4/500 metres from shore. I swam for ages trying to get back to shore and made little to no progress.

I really started to panic then, I just didn't feel I was making any progress and went through the whole 'Oh fvck I'm going to die here now aren't I?'

A horrible horrible horrible experience, I remember swimming on my back and looking left and right to markers on each side of the bay and realising I wasn't getting any closer to shore.

This seemed to go on for ages and eventually I did make it back to land.

I've never swam in the sea since and sincerely hope I never have to again.

I have that T shirt too.

Snorkelling, when it was time to head back to the beach I realised that no matter how fast I swam, I was going backwards - further out. Obviously I know not to panic, but I panicked big style... ended up crawling to shore hand over hand over sharp coral, got cut to pieces.