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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:16am |
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Would you go to the beach to see a tsunami?
I personally am a little shocked to hear that people took their kids to the beach to see a possible tsunami. Especially after seeing the devastation in Thailand, Sri Lanka etc. so many years ago now.
There was a lady on the news last night who said "We worked out we could run to our car in about 10 minutes, so we could escape it" There she was at the beach with her kids? a wave even at "only" a metre high travelling at 1000kms per hour would be hard to escape one would think???? The sea can be so dangerous even when its calm let alone during a possible tsunami.
I am just stunned that people would put themselves and their children in that kind of danger. I know it did not come to anything here but to see the destruction in Samoa just goes to show how bad things could of been if it hit here.
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:19am |
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Me too, can't believe the stupidity. Yes it may have only been 1 metre high, but we're not talking about a single wave of 1 metre, we're talking about a possible wall of water, 1km long of 1 metre high. Absolutely crazy if you ask me. I didn't ever think it was going to hit but I certainly wasn't going to tempt fate.
I did think the woman who went to sit on the bench by the water dedicated to her husband who died 18 months ago was quite sweet though.
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:21am |
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Oh ack I know its so irresponsible!!! We were all talking about it last night at mum and dads and the guys were working out the math - even if the wave had only been a metre high it would've been enough to knock people over and people on the beach could've been in serious damage of losing their lives!!
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:22am |
Totally agree. I saw the footage of parents taking their children to watch the wave coming in and just couldn't believe it! Yes, the reports were that it wouldn't be that serious, but regardless, why on earth place your family in danger? Crazy! 
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:24am |
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Yeah it annoys me too. I mean fine if you want to go and kill yourself by being stupid but why bring kids into the equation?
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:26am |
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Idiots, I would rather let my kids watch the footage ALIVE later on the news
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:33am |
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Oh, and even if you only got knocked over by the 1 metre high wave, what about the sucking effect afterwards where you could well end up being kilometres out to sea?
Madness!
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:46am |
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I thought it was madness myself. Quite frankly would have served them blardy well right if a decent wave had come in. Yeah sure the reports where that it wasn't going to be that serious but they would have gotten a heck of shock if it had a 6m wave like in Samoa.
As for 10 mins to the car....lady, you wouldn't have made if there had been a tsunami.
idiots.
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:51am |
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What is it with some people?
Not for me..... If you want to go then go BUT don't take kids...IDOTS alright.
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:01pm |
IDIOTS!!! Words fail me, you have to wonder about some people!
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:29pm |
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And once they get to the car (If they even made it!) Do they not factor in possible traffic jams due to all the other idiots with the same dumb ass plan?
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:36pm |
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Its incredibly irresponsible.
If DP took our DD I might have had to drown him myself.
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:43pm |
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Personally, I'd have been interested to watch from a clifftop or somewhere, but on east cape thats easy to do. There are plenty of spots you could watch from and be perfectly safe as long as the wave wasn't 200m or more high. I certainly wouldn't be heading down to the sand!!
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:50pm |
There was a woman on the news who took her toddler and he was walking about 5m in from of her right on the waters edge - such a silly thing to do!
Also on the news there was a family with a picnic basket! Police said "There is a tsunami warning please turn around" and they said "oh we're just having lunch"
C'mon!!!!!!! 
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:36pm |
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Darwinism in action people!
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:42pm |
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exactly. i find it quite insulting to the people of Samoa who ran for their lives, while people in NZ were standing at the beach saying "yu-huk, I'm gunna dun see me a wave" - yuk. very distasteful
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:49pm |
 lemongirl wrote:
Darwinism in action people! |
except they had already bred
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:53pm |
It's Gods way of culling the stupid people 
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:55pm |
nzpiper wrote:
lemongirl wrote:
Darwinism in action people! |
except they had already bred |
Yeah but in fairness they took the kids with them, so they would still be removing themselves from the gene pool
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Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:57pm |
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Lets go to the beach & see the tsunami?
