Lifeguard Fired After Swimmer Rescue

"Lifeguard Tomas Lopez helped save a drowning man and got fired for it. The reason: He left the section of a south Florida beach his company is paid to patrol. The Orlando-based company, Jeff Ellis and Associates, says Lopez broke a company rule and could have put beachgoers in his section in jeopardy...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

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[metroidmen]

My question is, where was the guy who was supposed to be watching the area that the man was drowning in?

[TheMauso88]

Never a better case for the phrase, ''No good deed goes unpunished.''

[hova dizzle]

Policy can b a bitch but you gotta follow that shit these days

[hova dizzle]

there had to be protocol if they have a rule like that, im sure they got trained for this sorta situation

[Harnas31]

that part of beach was unlifeguarding, nobody was supposed to swim in there.

[akoolman1]

what did you say, you STUPID SHIT, fucking CORPORATE DRONE?????!!!!

[Monteqzuma]

A la carte services, coming soon to you.

[Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht]

too bad sarcasm pretty much only works with voice change.

i mean, typing sarcasm would include something to make it obvious. which is hard. especially on the internet.

[MalzraAirwynn]

I certainly read it as sarcasm, I don't think he was being serious at all. 

[Bill Moir]

i was wondering what kind of fucking toolbag wouldn't get that as sarcasm. i would have to assume then that you take your title seriously. have a nice day

[Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht]

sarcasm.

is not what you were doing.

end of this discussion.

[Bill Moir]

you joking?