“They were both screaming frantically for help. There was no way I was going to be able to save them both.”
A woman tossed herself off the Huntington Beach Pier into the lineup last Sunday. Her brother did the lemming walk close behind.
She? Fine.
He? Dead.
Witnesses on the pier told police that a woman, 36, was dangling off the pier’s rail along with a male, 36, identified as Fenton Austin Dee, 43. She was claiming that she wanted to jump but was wavering.
According to onlookers, the two were debating about the plunge.
“It looked like she just wanted to jump for fun, like she wanted to do it and then she didn’t,” Edmundo Alarcon, who recorded the event on video, told the LA Times. “You can tell he didn’t want to [jump]. I don’t know if he was trying to stop her.”
Surfer Landon Holman, bobbing in the solid evening swell, saw the duo hovering above.
“We’re kind of bantering back and forth,” he told People Magazine, “but I said no, it’s not a good idea to jump, not only will you get in trouble. It’s dangerous in these waters if you don’t know what you’re doing.”
They jumped anyway.
“Immediately they knew they made the wrong decision,” Holman said. “They were both screaming frantically for help. I got there pretty quickly — they were both grasping onto my board. There was no way I was going to be able to save them both.”
After getting the woman to the sand, Holman went back to help Dee, brought him in and attempted CPR until medics arrived, but Dee was already gone. Eight bells.
Last month, I wrote about the sad sack who stuffed a gun in his face in the Vero Beach, Florida, line-up. I suggested we write it off to the unknowable crockpot of the head.
But this?
Brother and sister: full-on thrill seekers. Forget life’s controlled burn.
Let it rip, damn the consequences. At least that‘s what the sister can say, huh?
Toxicology reports yet to be released.
By the way, what’s the oddest thing you’ve seen fly off your local pier?
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I knew the witness Alarcon. He edited the video so that no one on TV could see the truth of what really occurred, and he profited from the video. Not long afterwards he was convicted of a sex crime with a minor in Chino California. Google Chino man arrested A-Team van replica for yourselves.
WHERE THE HELL WERE THE LIFEGUARDS?? A complete failure on their part and whoever was on duty and supervising should be fired.
Hit water, Where’s my sister, cold, sober,what did I just do, panic,cold, stiff, shiver, I’m going to die, panic, breath heavy, inhale water, I’m dieing, can’t breath, cold cough, can’t breath. Can’t swim can’t see im underwater. I’m dieing. Numb tingling in fingertips crawls to torso. Heart speeds up. Take breath nothing but water. Feel lungs fill. Cold very cold. Heart slows. Warm feeling. Very warm, all numb. Euphoric feeling. Heart stops. Feeling happy warm. My sister is ok! Smile. Dead.
Of course they do. But this is the USA and we are the GREATEST country on the face of this earth – what we do is amplified buy 1000x. Nobody cares about those other places.
I recall this guy we called Space Rick. Way back in the 90’s he was talking about the lizard people and HAARP array, chemtrails etc… Funny to watch it evolve here. It gives us comedy gold like the demon semen ‘doctor’.
No, question everything, nothing wrong with that. It’s when people go against the grain just to go against the grain in spite of the evidence smacking them in the face, that’s what’s nutty.
Natural selection at work.
The water here(at least in SD) is in the mid 60s
I don’t paddle out to save kooks. I paddle out to surf like one.
Thoughts and prayers 🙏
did not do the clothes on tread water, swim test most likely !!
Is this the dumb Huntington Hop you guys always talk about ?
Huntington Plop
used to be mandatory, a ritual one would say…
Zach Plopper
weren’t wearing Depends so the beach was closed until the aisle 5 clean-up crew was activated…
the boyz used to wear protective cups w/ a strap…
” Immediately knew they made the wrong decision” I doubt it.
Did they get any likes?
She had 1 follower…
Bravo!
Water entry on that still pic by the sheila looked a bit like an underwater nuclear test. Decision to go can go either way. One survives the other don’t. Most unfortunate.
2 soon
The Inland Empire gonna Inland Empire
Definitely no surfers rushing to them in this video. Looks like a bunch of fake watermen watching someone drown. Straight kooks.
The body count of “doin it for the ‘gram” has to be in the thousands by now.
I’d
sued all the rescues.
Just get lawyers to throw a big net over everyone concerned.
( include Beachgrit)
It’s Americans, cash too be made!
Sad thing is, you’d have less liability exposure in America if you did nothing at all to help them than if you helped them and someone died.
Sure were a lot of surfers just sitting there watching.
So at 1:44 she’s been in the water 20 seconds, and he’s been in 10 seconds, and there are 5 surfers visible, just sitting there, within 10 yards of both, and no one has made a move to help them. Easily could have been avoided, all of it.
One of them is probably Simpo. He didn’t get his wall built ya know.
I witnessed a man holding on to a barnacle encrusted piling screaming and couldn’t tell if he was having fun or scared shit less. It was in 5 feet of water, he could have walked away. Someone else gave him their board he was fine. Cut but alive. Point is its hard to know what’s happening. Even harder for the untrained brain to process Someone drowning in a space you feel safe. Like a mellow lin up. We all need to be train in first aid and certified on cpr . Love and respect to all that this tragedy has effected. So tuff. Seams like hero made the choice deceased brother wanted. Save my sister first. So tuff.