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Drowned Prince

2009 Reader Submission
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Drowned Prince

This story dominated Czech newspapers during the high summer of 2009.

There are many Gipsy tribes in Europe, some more or less adopted the host nations values, while some still stick to their old ways. One of the Romanian more traditional tribes, ei. one refusing to adopt the majority useless values such as education, which gives one an atrocious ability to swim, to administer first aid, call an ambulance, learn o foreign language or logical thinking, but enjoying the benefit of expensive cars, wandered trough the Czech republic and established an illegal camp on the bank of a former sand quarry used by the public for swimming and sunbathing. They of course also used the opportunity to bath or rather wade in the shallows. Surprisingly for them the shallow bottom does not always remain shallow and can decline steeply. A son of their principal, called a “prince” by the Czech newpapapers, being considered a good swimmer by the Gipsies, stepped into the deep and sank under the surface at once. The other Gypsies screamed, panicked and kept searching the spot where they thought the “prince” has sunk over and over. Gypsies are generally known to be very noisy and aggressive, so it took one brave Czech guy half an hour to notice something is wrong and to muster the courage to approach the Gypsies. Finding out one of them is under the surface, he started diving and searching in concentric circles. He found the “prince” quickly, dragged him to the beach to administer the first aid. He was attacked by the panicked Gipsies and immediately chased away. The Gipsies had no idea how to revive a drowned person and only laid him on his back and kept slapping his cheeks to wake him up! They attacked and chased away anyone willing to help the “prince”. An ambulance was called by the Czechs. The Gipsies attacked the paramedics, but finally allowed them to spill water from the “prince” and transport the brain dead “prince” into the hospital. He was pronounced dead after about two weeks and transported for funeral to Romania. The “prince” bathed in unknown water, without knowing how to swim, without any swimming device, without any of his tribe knowing how to administer first aid or fish him out. He died before he could reproduce. He could become a Darwin Award nominee. This was his mother´s fourth offspring which drowned. She still has other four children alive. She never had any of her children learn to swim. She never learned a way to resuscitate a drowned person. She attacked and chased people who could administer an effective help. She could become an Honorable Mention nominee. The gallant savior remained in anonymity for fear of his life.

I know this sounds like a bad racial stereotype, but life writes the strangest stories. Kindly brush the text while keeping the irony of Gipsies behavior, so that the server is protected form over zealous human rightist attacks. Do not refer to the Romanian Gipsies as Romanians, because that would offend the Romanians.

I chose two articles form the 3 main online newspapers as reference:

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/zeny-si-na-brehu-jezera-rvaly-vlasy-lici-zachrance-romskeho-prince-106-/domaci.asp?c=A090727_161445_domaci_lpo

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/rumuni-kocujici-prahou-mou-pomoc-nepotrebuji-mini-kocab-pkf-/praha.asp?c=A090728_152945_domaci_jw

http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-37919510-praha-ma-necekany-problem-kocujici-skupinu-romu-z-rumunska

http://domaci.ihned.cz/c1-37974500-nemocnice-predala-romum-telo-prince-smutny-pribeh-konci-zustaly-dluhy

http://www.lidovky.cz/rumunsti-romove-zustavaji-v-praze-stav-prince-je-kriticky-po0-/ln_domov.asp?c=A090726_153838_ln_domov_mev

http://www.lidovky.cz/je-to-romsky-zvyk-neni-to-namireno-proti-lekarum-rika-expert-p5g-/ln_domov.asp?c=A090724_170110_ln_domov_mev

Pavel Ditmar Na Skalce 11 150 00 Prague 5 Czech Republic

pavelditmar@seznam.cz

Submitted on 09/18/2009

Submitted by: Pavel Ditmar
Reference: Czech newspapers, July/Agust 2009, links are at the bottom of the story

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>> Moderator Scores <<

Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
Thanks for the detailed writeup, Pavel. However drownings are simply way too common and all the behavior of the Gypsies during and after he was pulled ashore don't count as far as a DA goes. The victim couldn't be held responsible for their actions, and DA's are all about self-selection.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: Too Common
What Bruce said.


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