Why is it so hard to get a child out of a well?

[The Dark Knight]

I mean really, why can't we just lower a rope with a platform or a very easy-to-use harness or something? I've never been able to figure this out.

[twotone]

how does a kid get in a well in the first place? and what is the well not doing filled with water resulting in the stupid kid that decided to tool around with the idea of jumping down it drowning? i mean, if the well was dry, wouldn't the kid hit the bottom pretty rough and split it's little head open?

i say if they get stuck down there, they're stupid enough to be left down there.

overpopulation is a *****, thin out the dumb ones.

[Alastor]

Um... you're clearly either the oldest child, or an only child. Do you have any idea what my nephews trick each other into doing all the time?

I've found them with their heads in the toilet, I've found them eating dog food with whipped cream on it, I've found them with blisters on their hands where they've tricked each other into touching hot items (the exhaust on my truck, twice in the last week)... I've had to rinse Kool Aid out of ones eye because they convinced him it would tickle if he shot the BB gun that had been loaded with grape powder into his eye. Apparently they wanted to paint his eyeball purple or something.

I mean... it's not like the kid voluntarily says, "Hrmm, I'll put myself in a cold, dark, wet and unpleasant place today, and risk the loss of limbs or potential death for kicks."

[PAINTERDAVE]

hey

Abandoned wells are often abandoned after they go dry. Overgrowth of vegetation often hides the surface opening. Wells are seldom like that you see in a cowboy movie (Large and surrounded by a neat brick wall). Wells are often very narrow, being little more than the circumfrence of the rock drill bit and shaft itself that was used to tap it. While you might step into an old well and break a leg and your nuts, a small child might fit neatly and slide quickly to the bottom. Often jammed into place, arms and legs akimbo, it can be a daunting challenge to safely retrieve the rugrat. I have heard of rescuers digging a twin shaft, then tunneling across, breaking into the well from the side. I have heard of rescuers unable to do much until finaly a very small person arrives on scene, and then can be lowered in. Once arriving at the child, often the real work begins if a broken arm is pinned beneath the body or whatever. It can and has taken days before. I remember "baby Jessica" in a well in texas, years ago, who was in there for days. The national media was updating the story on the hour. She was finaly rescued.

Now that she is grown, she is a whore in Nacogdoches. Was it worth it?

(Just kidding! I got no idea where she is)

[Alastor]

Baby Jessica Graduated from high school recently.

[mattos]

I mean really, why can't we just lower a rope with a platform or a very easy-to-use harness or something? I've never been able to figure this out.

why don't you go jump down one and find out.

[Booher]

Abandoned wells are often abandoned after they go dry. Overgrowth of vegetation often hides the surface opening. Wells are seldom like that you see in a cowboy movie (Large and surrounded by a neat brick wall). Wells are often very narrow, being little more than the circumfrence of the rock drill bit and shaft itself that was used to tap it. While you might step into an old well and break a leg and your nuts, a small child might fit neatly and slide quickly to the bottom. Often jammed into place, arms and legs akimbo, it can be a daunting challenge to safely retrieve the rugrat. I have heard of rescuers digging a twin shaft, then tunneling across, breaking into the well from the side. I have heard of rescuers unable to do much until finaly a very small person arrives on scene, and then can be lowered in. Once arriving at the child, often the real work begins if a broken arm is pinned beneath the body or whatever. It can and has taken days before. I remember "baby Jessica" in a well in texas, years ago, who was in there for days. The national media was updating the story on the hour. She was finaly rescued.

Now that she is grown, she is a whore in Nacogdoches. Was it worth it?

(Just kidding! I got no idea where she is)

I remember that ,right after she was rescued miami vice came on.....

[rcsodak]

Baby Jessica Graduated from high school recently.

Ummmmm....ahhhh...thanks?

I'm sure EVERYBODY here was petrified with worry concerning her current well-being.

edit: I liked Dave's better, btw.....