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Man About To Drown Refuses Help To Keep Rescuer Safe
UNION, MO (KTVI) – He was in trouble on the Bourbeuse River Tuesday afternoon. When his 18-year-old friend extended a hand to save him, the man struggling to stay above water refused to hold on.
Apparently the man who was struggling to stay above water feared he would pull his friend in as well.
Jim Strube is the father of that 18-year-old who tried to rescue the man in his 30`s. Strube says the man wondered into water that was too deep.
“My son saw him going under and then spring boarding off the bottom, coming back up and trying to gasp a breath of air,” said Strube.
http://kplr11.com/2013/06/25/man-about-to-drown-refuses-help-to-keep-rescuer-safe/