I'M AFRAID that no matter how tragic, or how much is done to prevent it, you will not be able to stop students, or anyone else for that matter, from getting paralytic with alcohol and falling into water and drowning, writes Owen Battle.
Be it the Avon at Bath the Ouse at York, or any other river or even a canal, people will have too much to drink, think themselves invincible, but fall into water, and being intoxicated unable to do anything, so drown.
Waste of life
What a silly waste of life and how tragic for those left behind, but more than that, at the risk of upsetting, how selfish. Not only for losing a precious life but for the distress they cause to those left behind.
Someone remarked about the latest drowning that though women in such a state are looked after and seen safely home, men are not, but should be seen home. But what a state of affairs if a man gets himself into such a state that he has to be taken home.
No means the last
Alas. this will not be by any means the last such waste of a life, and no matter how much fencing is erected or how many lights are installed, at the request of those left behind, we are still responsible for our own safety.