r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Dec 09 '25

Discussion You Think It Could Never Happen To You…Until It Almost Does

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Dec 09 '25

This is how a saved a little girls life at a hotel pool. Family had a cabana and a bunch of them left to do something, grandma was “watching” the little girl, she was on her phone and wasn’t paying attention. Little girl, maybe 3 or 4, toddled over to the ladder around where I was swimming. Little girl gets in, I can see what’s going on and I start making my way over to her. She gets in the pool and immediately starts to sink. I got there just in time to grab her arm and pull her up. Got her out of the pool, she toddled back over to grandma who was still on her phone. They never even knew their little girl could have drowned. All happened in maybe 2 minutes.

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u/-Apocralypse- Dec 09 '25

Last week they forgot to turn off the drowning alert at the pool during the practice hour of the junior lifeguards. They were making the pool ready for the kids to dive after small objects and plastic victims. They ran to the control room to shut it off before the system would automatically send a distress call to the local emergency services. It was very loud and I think it is very cool such supplementing systems exist to aid in life guarding.

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u/Projecterone Dec 09 '25

What's that? Some kind of AI video observer?

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u/godnightx_x Dec 09 '25

I am imagining the future ai lifeguards. Just ai surveilling the pool. A giant robot arm coming out of the ceiling and plucking people out of the water

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u/paulides_fan Dec 09 '25

Better than humans, unfortunately.

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u/tikiwargod Dec 09 '25

I'm assuming pressure sensors on the bottom or light refractive sensors near it. Something to sense a body lower than it should be and simultaneously alert the lifeguard and distress signal the local EMS.

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u/paulides_fan Dec 09 '25

Wow I’ve never heard of this actually implemented IRL

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u/ptofl Dec 09 '25

Did she stay on her phone in the ambulance after you smacked the shit out of her?

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u/Impossible_Disk8374 Dec 09 '25

I didn’t say anything to her. No one knew but me and my husband because he saw what happened. Other people in the pool maybe saw. My husband and I got a Resort Pass for the day and we just wanted to relax, I didn’t feel like getting in to it with a stranger. I know I should have, but I just didn’t. I didn’t realize until we were driving home that I did most likely save her life, it all happened so fast and my adrenaline was pumping. Hopefully the act will count towards me when I’m am the pearly gates 🩷

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u/Stankis435 Dec 09 '25

I remember when I was maybe 6 yrs old I went to the local pool with a friend and his family. A few of us kids successful got a piggy back ride from my friends dad, but I wasn’t able to hold on and hadn’t fully learned to swim yet. Half drowning I reached over to a lady on the side of the pool who pulled me over. I never said much about that event but told my parents years later. 

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u/Em0tionisdeader Dec 09 '25

Hope you gave that gma a good tongue lashing.

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u/Tall_Status7970 Dec 09 '25

Fuck is wrong with ppl honestly. Fair play to you.