I'm too much of a liability!!!

Last week I experienced something horrifying and made me panic. It was a situation where my best friend was in trouble and I couldn't do anything to help him. I felt so helpless and useless to... my buddy was in the freezing cold river, hanging on to the side of a pier wall, below and back under me, as I layed on my stomach trying to reach him. The design of the new pier the city is putting in is so unsafe and retarded! It now sticks out, way over the original shore wall, making it impossible to drop a lifeline down to my scared freezing screaming cat! If it was a human it could be the same story, he just couldn't reach it without letting go of the brace on the old wall.

I'm still so shook up about it.

That stupid ledge, or their stupid concrete walk way sticks way out over the water and he was on this ledge or top of a brace of an older steel wall like half corrugated thing. They set this huge thick concrete slab shit on top of, he couldn't get up and I couldn't reach him. I tried using a blanket hanging over but of course the concrete sticks out over the water more than a foot maybe two. He was 3 or 4 feet down and couldn't reach it, his cry was horrible but if he wasn't crying I would have never heard him!!! It was hard enough to see him when I DID find him!

Somehow I got him to "swim" and he went a few feet then crawled up on the little ledge again but that ledge was under the surface of the river, and so i kept encouraging him to swim again for a ways by dragging the blanket along on the water in front of him. Then around the corner an back to where that stupid wall starts, there was ice there and big rocks piled along the shore then, I jumped down there to meet him and he swam to the edge of the ice, it was just under that ledge (where it starts) and I was able to grab him and pull him to safety, in my arms!!! He was so cold and soaked, I'm was so thankful! 

Before Marvin decided to try swimming it, I did decide to pray honestly to God, Jesus our Christ and swore I'd be better and stop swearing at Him if He'd help me get him. It must have been at least half an hour trying to get him to grab the blanket and "climb up" he actually tried a few times but couldn't. He was like a little baby, shivering while I was drying off and I had another blanket in the truck, and I had started it, warmed up the truck right away. I'm so glad he decided to try swimming but I didn't know he could swim 😧 but he only started to try swimming after I had my talk with the Lord, I asked Him to please forgive me and to help me!

 But Jimbob was still out somewhere, he took off the other direction (away from the water) just before I lost Marvin, so I went back to the truck and sat there outside , that's when I heard him cry for me to help him! From the water to the truck is at least 20 feet. So now I'm glad I went back to the truck after Jimbob walked way off before me, I got mad at him so not staying by me and that's why I turned around and headed back to the truck, near where Marv must have fell in the river.

I found Jimbob, muddy and wet!

Marvin sure gave me a scared, but it was so brave of him to drop himself into the water and swim,!

The way he swam was amazing. I'm wondering why or how he decided, to do whatever he had to do to save himself! He could tell I was trying and trying and that I wasn't giving up, I kept telling him that it will be ok... But he must have realized I can't help much more than what I was doing, and had to try it; wondering if God told him to do it, or made him think of it and to try it?

I don't think he fell there, but he might've slipped off the ice chasing ducks, they hang out around there at night. I went off with Jimbob trying to get him to stop so I can turn him around, he gets that way. I said fuck it when I started getting muddy because the concrete walk ways stop and it's not done, so all mud past the gravel. I went back to wait for THEM and I heard this black guy from the other side of the river, yapping unbelievably loud on his phone or to someone else, but only heard one voice. So I got out of the truck and sat on this concrete paving where they stopped, and I yelled back at him and we bickerd a bit, thats when i heard something that sounds like a cat,, ,,so I finally heard him! Faintly! I had to keep moving along the edge following his voice. He probably was there awhile and here i'm eating in the truck! Poor thing, but ya, I got up and walked over to the edge of this new pier they're putting in, and I called him when I heard him and he got louder and I was able to see him finally, 

Crazy I tell you!  But that's how MIRACLES work I suppose.

It was dark and he didn't know where to go probably. I did walk down and looked to see if the ledge goes around the corner and up the shore but it stopped or so deep I couldn't see it. And I think maybe going back and forth from there might have told/showed Marv what way to go..

I'm going to write something up and send it to every newspaper and TV news stations about what I've experienced so far. It was a hell of an ordeal I tell ya, and the dispatch lady called back to tell me the fire department is refusing to help me, liability reasons they said!!! I asked her how much of a liability would it be if I fell in to trying to get him out of that ice cold deep water? I had my toes gripping the edge of the concrete and hanging over the edge as far as I could! I couldn't reach him and he couldn't reach the blanket I was holding down to him.

You know, a friend of mine it sounds like a safety concern, I was thinking the same exact thing about a safety issue, I can't help saying how stupid, and the thing is, they just put it in! They aren't even done yet, it's a city project and dumping TOO MUCH MONEY into it!!! The entire design of everything so far I seen is ridiculous and stupid, besides being a huge waste of money, tax payers money.

I called 911 emergency when I couldn't get him, she called me back and she told me the fire department is refusing to even come out by me, because of LIABILITY since its only a cat. 😧

Seriously I thought!!! What if I go I to!

She then called this animal shelter services guy that helps in recovery,,, and asked him if he can help us, he called me to find out where i was for sure and more details so he knew what he should bring. He wasn't even from our city,,, but a neighboring village. said has a huge net on a pole... that he can try. 

So while I'm waiting, two cops show up, I could see their bright spot lights from their cars that were way down from where that gavel stopped. They didn't drive down there because they'd probably get stuck in the mud, but had hand held lights to, they saw me laying there with my face down bending way over the edge, and asked me whats going on, im sure they got called and knew.. but the assholes kept asking me to come back away from the edge! I said I'M TRYING TO GET MY CAT!!! and again they said they wanted me to get back away from the edge so I don't fall in also, I yelled back, never even looking at them, IM NOT GOING TO LET MY CAT DROWN!!! 

'How did your cat get in the water?" (Pissing me off now) I yelled loud HE FELL IN!!! they kept asking stupid questions and I said well you guys aren't helping! And they said "excuse me?" I got pissed. And I said I'm not leaving him alone down there!!! and that's when Marvin started swimming! And I kept crawling along the edge on my knees with the blanket hanging over, and moving with Marv each time he let go of that rail to swim more. I had to "drowned them out" and I ignored every request they made!!! I just kept telling Marv he's a good boy and keep swimming, encouraging him as we went. Around the corner and to the end of the wall where the big rocks were placed for erosion control, you know, and because the boat slip goes way into the property there it was ice covered yet, it ended right at the start/end of the wall and as I'm getting up to walk the last few steps to the end of this STUPID wall they built, and I'm going down to meet him when he gets there, the cops again speaking "oh don't go down there! You might fell in "/ and then said " o be careful of the ice you might break through!" So when I got down there, I jumped down putting both my feet right on the ice while holding onto the wall, and it didn't break but my feet both both got wet and using the rocks next to me, for grip of a handle, I kneeled down on that ice while reaching Marv who was swimming yet along the wall and when he got to the ice, he put both front paws on the ice, but struggling to pull himself up. He's kinda fat and now water logged, cold and tired to, but I reached him with my left arm (my free arm/hand) and just got a grip on the back of his neck and I pulled him out of the water. I stood up, feet under the water surface because the ice sank and I was standing on the rock(s) in the water and I wrapped my arms around him holding him to my chest, I climb up the embankment with the poor scared n soaking wet cat in my arms, telling him how good he did, and praise; one of the cops, who, the entire time stayed way back from the ledge, like scared kids, TELLS ME TO "put the cat in the truck now, so he doesn't get away" 😡 now they have me really pissed off! "Do you see him struggling to get free??? No! He's not going to run away! " But I got in the truck and started drying him up with the blanket I wrapped him as soon as he got in my arms, and then (kneeling on my seat facing the back, ) grabbed another blanket that was dryer and rubbing him I turned the truck on to get heating it up,,, stupid cops still asking something, like how did your cat get out, why are you down here...,? And it was just as I was about to crawl into the truck with him still in my arms like a baby, I asked them if they "HAVE ANY MORE STUPID QUESTIONS?" they said, "they aren't stupid questions " so I yelled "They Sure as Hell Are!!!!"

They asked me what I'm "even doing down in the first place, and why would you let your cat out anyway " I said because I live down here! They said "but this is private property "! I'm thinking what a couple of stupid assholes!!! I said, " NO! it's NOT private pRoPeRtY!!! Look around! It's city property!!! And it's open to the PUBLIC! They are installing PUBLIC WALK WAYS and they're turning it into a PUBLIC boat landing and PUBLIC park - it was public before and will be when they're done to!" They didn't say any more than "Oh". Then they said I should leave anyway, go to Walmart, they let people sleep over night there" I said "Im wasting gas every day driving back and forth - that's way on the other side of town!" And "no one ever bothers me down here! Not even the different construction workers! I said they like the fact that I'm here, I watch the place for them, and they feel better knowing their stuff isn't walking away at night AND their machinery and skid steers aren't being fucked with!!!" I told them I use to be a security guard and that's just the way I am. 

They didn't know who this guy was that the dispatch lady called, so I went out the ledge where I was when they came, to get my phone, and used their flashlight for me to see it. And I called the guy myself to let him know, and he had just got there,.but way down by the tugboats under the bridge, but said if I had him out and he's safe then he'll just leave and I replied so that's why I'm calling, thanked HIM many times for even coming to attempt to help, and the cops both walked away when I said my other cat took off that way, towards their cars, and said "I'm not leaving till I find my other one!'" they just left then, walking away, i couldn't resist saying" ya thank you guys to for all your help, have a good night!" ☺️ They didn't even turn around or say a word but just kept walking away back to their cruisers.

I drove around there, slowly creeping thru the mud, tires sinking but grabbing as im looking for Bob. I was so exhausted I needed to sleep so I stopped and crashed for the might. When it got light out and I woke I didn't see Bob yet so I went out walking and I found him near where I had originally parked that evening. I was very happy to see him as well, as he called for me back.