It can be really fun watching OTHER people make fools of themselves.
We were having a nightcap at a nice little place in this fantastic entertainment area with a lake and motorized, private paddleboats.
There was a sudden commotion and while I normally don't react to that type of thing, I couldn't resist going over to check it out.
Some Finnish guy (or he may have been British - he had made a pass at Nicole as we were to find out later) somehow fell off of the bridge and into the lake. Thankfully, the boat traffic had stopped.
The greatest part is that he wasn't hurt and was very entertaining in his efforts to get out of this canal. There were 6 cops, alternating between wanting to jump in and talking on the radio - but basically doing nothing.
It would seem that if you worked security in an entertainment area like this, you'd have trained for this eventuality. I mean there's a bridge connecting bars over a canal that has brick, vertical walls that are 10 feet high. Spells trouble to me.
Anyway, there were some random guys on the rooftop bar overlooking the canal were heckling this guy. Hilarious. I felt kind of bad for him because he was in water up to his neck.
Then he discovered he could stand up in the 3 feet of water.
The cops finally found a ladder that they tried to hold for the guy to climb, but that didn't work. Finally the drunk guy told them to let the ladder go so it would rest on the bottom of the canal and he could climb out.
And the crowd went wild!
I love a self-rescuer.
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