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Woman rescued from sea is detained

A screaming woman ran into the sea, sparking a lifesaving operation.

Crowds enjoying the evening sunshine were shocked when the woman, in her 40s, entered the water near to the West Pier in Brighton.

Brighton and Hove Lifeguards were called at 7.10pm and pulled the woman ashore.

Police detained her 20 minutes later under the Mental Health Act.

She was checked by paramedics at the scene but not taken to hospital.

9:04pm Sunday 11th May 2008

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Posted by: treetoucher, Sssex on 9:46pm Sun 11 May 08
sunstroke ?

drunk ?

or just mad as a box of cabbage ?
Posted by: dave, bn1 on 10:32pm Sun 11 May 08
sounds a right frikking loon.
Posted by: sm on 10:49pm Sun 11 May 08
Police detailed her 20 minutes later under the Mental Health Act.

Well at least she was clean when she got dragged off to Sussex House then!

Does the Argus have at least a 'sub' to oversee the 'reports' on this site ???????
Posted by: Hotel Foxtrott, Lews on 10:51pm Sun 11 May 08
dave wrote:
sounds a right frikking loon.
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in her 40s

Dodgy age
Posted by: sm on 11:31pm Sun 11 May 08
taxpayer wrote:
I saw it all happen. what a total waste of taxpayers money for one crazy nutbag woman. they had an inspector, a seargant and 5 other coppers there not to mention the ambulance, rnli lifeboat a police helicopter and 3 hm coastguard people with some heatseeking gun. total madness all for one silly bint. well that another few thousand pounds of taxpayers money wasted on some pisshead that had to much to drink or an issue with the hubby. what a complete joke.i hope they send the woman the bill.
and i hope you die and are left to rot to a skeleton at the side of the road.

just to save taxpayers money of course. clearing you up would obviously be a waste of it.
Posted by: treeperson, tree on 12:07am Mon 12 May 08
taxpayer wrote:
I saw it all happen. what a total waste of taxpayers money for one crazy nutbag woman. they had an inspector, a seargant and 5 other coppers there not to mention the ambulance, rnli lifeboat a police helicopter and 3 hm coastguard people with some heatseeking gun. total madness all for one silly bint. well that another few thousand pounds of taxpayers money wasted on some pisshead that had to much to drink or an issue with the hubby. what a complete joke.i hope they send the woman the bill.
Are you serious ?
all those people,helicopters and boats for one poor woman having a loonspud moment and going for a dip ?


How far out was she ?
Was she trying to kill herself or just having bit of a squeel,in the sea,in front of hundreds of people?
Was did she look like?

Its got me curious as to what all the fuss was about,thats all.
Posted by: Tom on 7:08am Mon 12 May 08
taxpayer wrote:
I saw it all happen. what a total waste of taxpayers money for one crazy nutbag woman. they had an inspector, a seargant and 5 other coppers there not to mention the ambulance, rnli lifeboat a police helicopter and 3 hm coastguard people with some heatseeking gun. total madness all for one silly bint. well that another few thousand pounds of taxpayers money wasted on some pisshead that had to much to drink or an issue with the hubby. what a complete joke.i hope they send the woman the bill.
All of the resources detailed above were for a seperate unrelated incident of a missing swimmer who fortunately was found safe and well ashore.
Posted by: Loser, Beachy Head on 7:51am Mon 12 May 08
Yes I saw united take the title too.I took a gun fired at close range, missed,and then signed for Spurs.
Posted by: whogivesa, Brighton on 8:05am Mon 12 May 08
sm wrote:
taxpayer wrote: I saw it all happen. what a total waste of taxpayers money for one crazy nutbag woman. they had an inspector, a seargant and 5 other coppers there not to mention the ambulance, rnli lifeboat a police helicopter and 3 hm coastguard people with some heatseeking gun. total madness all for one silly bint. well that another few thousand pounds of taxpayers money wasted on some pisshead that had to much to drink or an issue with the hubby. what a complete joke.i hope they send the woman the bill.
and i hope you die and are left to rot to a skeleton at the side of the road. just to save taxpayers money of course. clearing you up would obviously be a waste of it.
Not a fair comparison. This woman decided to selfishly spoil the afternoon of everyone within earshot of her by her stupid overdramatic action. If you want to kill yourself go home and take some pills in private - not involve hundreds of total strangers.
Selfish and self centred.
Posted by: Mrs Freeps, Burgess Hill on 9:49am Mon 12 May 08
winkywonky wrote:
They should have left the silly bint to either drown or waddle back to shore. The downdraught from the helecopter sprayed sand into our sanwiches and ruined our picnic.
Sand in Brighton, where? Thought it was all shingle and pebbles & whats a "helecopter" lol. You sound a bit nuts yourself Wonky lmao.

As for some of the selfish, mean comments on here, poor lady was obviously ill, hope you never have to suffer mental health probs yourselves.
Posted by: micke, hove on 9:50am Mon 12 May 08
silly cow l work on the life boat and l and my mates are getting realy sick and tired on this kind of sillynis dunt people know how much it costs to call us out 15.000 every time we get called out
if she was going to kill herself why didnt she go somewhere esle
oh yes l do have a full time job
micke
Posted by: Jay, South Coast on 10:11am Mon 12 May 08
micke wrote:
silly cow l work on the life boat and l and my mates are getting realy sick and tired on this kind of sillynis dunt people know how much it costs to call us out 15.000 every time we get called out if she was going to kill herself why didnt she go somewhere esle oh yes l do have a full time job micke
Too right, the RNLI volunteers risk their lives to save people in trouble at sea, not stupid attention seekers.

P.S. Big hi to the Shoreham Crew from HQ in Poole ;)
Posted by: Honey, Peacehaven on 10:52am Mon 12 May 08
My Oh My! Aren't we all full of compassion!!! She clearly was in need of help!
And as for the person claiming to work for the RNLI, I take it the ability to spell and use correct grammar are not part of the job description!?!
Posted by: Suzy, Worthing on 12:19pm Mon 12 May 08
If I was trapped in a box with a bee, a scorpion or any sort of viscious animal I would make a hell of a fuss!!

Sometimes I wish you would all bloat up to ten times your original size. Then I could roll you "puffed up" ones around on the Lawn Bowls arena in preston park. Suckers!!
Posted by: melfromhove, hove on 1:40pm Mon 12 May 08
Suzy wrote:
If I was trapped in a box with a bee, a scorpion or any sort of viscious animal I would make a hell of a fuss!! Sometimes I wish you would all bloat up to ten times your original size. Then I could roll you "puffed up" ones around on the Lawn Bowls arena in preston park. Suckers!!
Have I just landed on a parallel universe?
Posted by: Rev Ponge, brighton on 1:49pm Mon 12 May 08
Maybe she saw some one smoking in the street.
Posted by: Offaher hed on 2:08pm Mon 12 May 08
The woman was sitting next to me and my family for about an hour before she suddenly ran into the sea and I can tell you this, she was smoking skunk and we weren't happy about it, but just before we could complain about it, she rushed into the sea screaming her head off, but that’s cannabis for you, it turns all users into nut cases eventually.
Posted by: Reg Toole, Brighton on 2:47pm Mon 12 May 08
Once I accidentally had a sip of some "ice cream" that a teenage vendor offered me on the beach. One sniff of the barmaid's apron and I was in a 'writher'.

All-a-flutter and growling and muttering on Brighton Beach and I was suddenly wearing a top hat and some colourful rags and then it was like the stones had disappeared and I was lying on a tiger skin rug and this man was there with leather boots and he was telling me everything will be alright and I just lie on the rug and hold onto the boot and he tells me that everything will be alright
Posted by: Andy Triggs, Hove on 4:44pm Mon 12 May 08
If this refers to the similar-sounding incident around 7pm on Sunday 11th May by the West Pier, a number of the facts are wrong. This report is light on detail and accuracy, and probably shouldn't have been published.
Posted by: Honey, Peacehaven on 4:45pm Mon 12 May 08
Offaher hed wrote:
The woman was sitting next to me and my family for about an hour before she suddenly ran into the sea and I can tell you this, she was smoking skunk and we weren't happy about it, but just before we could complain about it, she rushed into the sea screaming her head off, but that’s cannabis for you, it turns all users into nut cases eventually.
She was sitting next to you for an hour 'smoking skunk' and you didn't complain??!!
More fool you then!!
Posted by: boxofrogs, peacehaven on 9:39am Thu 15 May 08
Hehehe, you lot.................
........!!!
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