r/extremelyinfuriating

It's the states you would most expect, by the way. School should be a place for kids to feel safe, not somewhere they get hit. It's obscene and backwards. I grew up in Florida where they would strike children in school and to this day I get a sinking feeling of despair when I catch a whiff of that elementary school smell. Luckily my kids are safe from that in the northeast where I live now.

>One day, about eight years ago, when Tessa Davis' son was in kindergarten, she got a call from his school outside Little Rock, Ark. She said the school told her he had grabbed a girl's jacket in the cafeteria and twisted it – they thought he was trying to choke her.

>Given his past misbehavior, Davis said, the school gave her two options: He could either be suspended for three days or a school administrator could paddle him. NPR is only identifying her son by his first initial, C, because this story details his behavioral struggles and how he's been disciplined in school.

>Davis said she couldn't afford to miss three days of work to stay home with C.

>"I was kind of at, just like my breaking point," Davis recalled. "I told my husband that he could decide what we would do. And he was like, 'Well, I was paddled, so give him the paddling.' So that's what we chose. And I just remember feeling like instant regret."

TLDR: 6yo boy led his 4yo little sister onto hysterically thin ice because of a canal float marker that looked like a ball. I had several mini heart attacks and yelled like crazy to get them out of there. Very likely saved those two children.
Yelled at their parents for letting their kids go unsupervised onto such thin ice.

So this was a few years ago.

It was winter in the northmost parts of Sweden.

I was with a couple of friends at a frozen lake nearby a suburban area with houses, getting ready to start a fire and such. And this lake has a canal that runs into at moderate to fast current speeds.

For you who doesn't know, if fast moving water from a river or canal enters into a frozen lake. The fast moving water will prevent any ice from building where the currents are too strong.

This means that at the edge between no ice at all, and where the Ice begins, the Ice is extremely thin, razor thin. And the Ice will gradually get thicker the further from the river/canal outlet you go.

Eventually, the currents go underneath the gradually thicker ice sheet further down onto the lake.

*Keep this in mind as i continue.*

While i had my back towards the lake and wwre prepping to start a fire. I hought i heard something far away from the direction of the lake, childrens voices.

I turned around and saw two kids on the lake, which in itself isn't a huge issue. But they were very young and completely unsupervised.

A maybe 6yo boy had led his little sister who was around 4yo onto the Ice. AND THEY WERE STANDING ONLY A FOOT AWAY FROM THE ICELESS CANAL WATERS.

The Ice where they stood was almost black because of how thin it was, i still cannot understand how the hell they didn't go through the Ice. That ice shouldn't have been able to support even their small weight as they were both standing so close to each other.

They were drawn onto the Ice because there was a orange ball shaped float that marks the canal entry point frozen into the thinnest parts of the Ice, close to the open currents.

Only a second after i saw them, i screamed ontop of my lungs while sprinting with everything i had through 3ft of snow at the kids to immediately go back the way they came. Else they would fall through the Ice.

I remember the panic i felt, because i was over 300ft away. And i remember feeling so powerless to do anything as i saw them look up at me while standing on probably only a few millimeters of ice.

But i sprinted while keeping yelling for them to go back to land. Both to direct them away from the waters edge, away from the thin ice and into thicker ice. And to make people around me aware of what's happening.

Most of you probably know, but for you who doesn't know.

Going through ice and fall into below 0°C waters is very bad to begin with. Shock, hypothermia within seconds, clothes getting soaked and dragging you down.

But this time we're talking about moving water currents that would've pulled these small children under the Ice if they fell through.

If that were to happen, i would've been completely powerless to save them.

I was too far away to do anything them if they went through.

But they didn't go through and according to me, they avoided certain death that day.

And before anyone asks, yes, i gave their parents an earful so harsh that i hope they never ever forget them. It was so close to disaster that while writing this, i feel my heart pound.

Two dogs - a 17/yo toy poodle and a 4/yo Bichon Frise were mauled to death by this unknown breed of large dog, possibly mixed with a mastiff considering how heavy it is and dog aggression.

The owner (from here on I will name them a "monkey", for being an pathetic excuse of a human) of the dog is completely absent, leaving bystanders (notably mainland tourists) to fend the dog off from the Bichon Frise in the image but unfortunately the poor pooch died shortly, and while STILL being held in the large dog's jaw. The large dog mauled a toy poodle around before the Bichon and the owner hastily took it to the vet, only for it to be too late.

The dog was so strong that people tried to subdue it but to no avail. Even after the police arrived, it took them effort just to subdue it. All this happened, and the monkey was nowhere to be found.

The woman that looks completely broken in the image is supposedly the bichon's owner.

As a dog owner myself, and keeping two bichons at that (the same breed that died in this mauling), this fills me with intense rage that calling it "rage" cannot completely describe how furious I am seeing this. Unfortunately, rule 4 is a thing so I can't say anything more on that monkey.

According to the tourists, the dog had a strong smell, supposedly the dog was never cared for by the monkey. The large dog supposedly never was socialized properly due to negligence and caused this to happen.

I have seen the uncensored footage and boy, it was absolutely heart wrenching to see, I can't even imagine this happening on my own bichons