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On the sunny days when the weather is warm but not too hot it's one of the best jobs in the world add some small fun surf to the mix and you are in paradise.If your employer is a professional outfit they will allow you a training break and there really is nothing better than when you are out there on the rescue board cracking a few waves and getting paid for it whilst the rest of the world is stuck at 'work'.When the weather turns bad for more than a day extreme boredom sets in and it's easy to get cabin fever stuck in the tower huddled up against the cold,rain and wind.In most places it's a seasonal job 7 or so months a year so you need something to fall back on in winter or you can try swap hemispheres and have a continuos summer all year otherwise winter is really tough trying to find work.A Beach Lifeguards job revolves around watching people(pro active surveillance), managing and communicating danger,preventing incidents by communicating with customers in a tactful manner, dealing with First aid needs, record keeping , incident reporting and checking emergency gear (AED) (Rescue equipment). Oh and looking for lost kids who are always either in the playground, shops or toilets.Beach lifeguards deal with complaints of all sorts ranging from why the toilets are unclean to there's a strange dude hanging around the showers and why are the weeds overgrown on the beach access path?Most of the time if the Lifeguard is doing their job properly nothing happens because they have communicated any hazards to the public and the swimmers have followed the directions of the lifeguard.However when something goes wrong it happens really fast (sudden rip current or flash rip, maybe a swimmer has a heart attack) and then the lifeguards training and preparation kick in the first time this happens you really have to calm yourself down and let the training take over.Being a beach lifeguard means that you have committed to achieving and maintaining a high level of fitness and are most likely comfortable being in the water in most sea states (Calm,Rough, Treacherous).Because of this you become part of a very tight knit group of people.You meet a lot of wonderful people at work and on the beach and the greatest traits of any beach lifeguard are interpersonal effectiveness, integrity,superior customer service skills, empathy and a commitment to maintaining high levels of fitness.

For about the third time in 24 hrs I’m going to write “there is no Queens Guard”.There are two regiments of cavalry (Blues and Royals & the Lifeguards) plus 5 battalions of foot guards (Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Welsh Guards) who together make up the Household division. All 7 are frontline regiments who have all done tours in Iraq and Afghanistan recently. The foot guards provide a primarily ceremonial guard function at Buckingham palace (and other places) on a rotating basis.There are multiple levels of security around Buckingham palace. If you stand at the gates and watch the guards march back and forth in perfect step you’ll also notice half a dozen heavily armed metropolitan police wandering around the palace grounds. The Mall (the road running between the Palace and Westminster) has more armed cops than just about anywhere else in the UK)Realistically if you try and get into the palace the police will stop you (quite possibly it’ll be a 9mm stop….. ) . If you get aggressive you’ll be arrested for breach of the peace. Throw a punch and it’ll be assaulting a police officer. Basically you’ll be committing a crime so it’ll be a criminal matter not a military one.The Queen herself has plain clothes personal protection officers close by.That said the Guards are highly trained professional soldiers and more than capable of protecting themselves and others. This happened recently.“London, Apr 6 (Agencies) : A soldier at Buckingham Palace pointed his bayonet-fixed rifle at a member of the public after an argument erupted at the gates, it was reported Sunday.The soldier, on guard duty, left his post to intervene when a man refused to stop shouting at a police officer manning the gates of Queen Elizabeth II's London official residence on Friday.The front page of The Sun newspaper had a picture of the Queen's Guard, in his scarlet tunic and black bearskin hat, pointing the weapon at the man, the tip of the bayonet less than an arm's length away from his neck.The newspaper quoted a sightseers who said man was trying to get closer or inside, and the guard eventually pushed the man away.A police spokesman said the man was eventually left and was given "words of advice". He was not arrested."Police were made aware of a disturbance at the north-centre gate of Buckingham Palace at approximately 5:50 pm on Friday," the spokesman said."Officers from royalty protection spoke to a man and he was given words of advice and there were no arrests."The soldier is not thought to be facing any action over the incident.A British army spokesman said: "We are aware of an incident outside Buckingham Palace on Friday and while no-one came to any harm and there were no arrests, we are very clear that the Metropolitan Police lead on royal security arrangements including outside the palace itself."Shooting is ALWAYS a last resort. Both Police and the army will only shoot when its necessary to protect lives. You don’t get shot for being mouthy. In fact recently a guy with a knife did scale the palace gates and was taken down without guns being needed (he got 16 months in jail)

When I first moved out on my own I would visit a local community centre with a swimming pool, weight room and other facilities that I used to keep fit. At the community centre there were men’s and women’s shower areas that had semi private shower stalls with only a opaque plastic curtains for privacy.One evening when I was one of the last patrons to use the showers after an evening ‘aquafit’ class I was showering and I heard some laughter that sounded like a woman’s laugh. I heard a voice say, ‘do you want me to wash your back’ and I yelled, ‘no thanks, leave me alone’. I was a bit shocked but I assumed that since the centre was closing in 30 minutes that could have been a community centre employee who had access to the men’s changing room to hose down the tiled room and spray it with bleach as was done every night before closing.About a minute later while I was shampooing my hair with my back to the entry way to the shower stall I was in I felt some hands rub my shoulders and neck and I suddenly turned around to see this attractive petit naked woman and she laughed and said how, ‘I shouldn’t a shower alone and she thought I could use some company’. I was so shocked that I could barely move or speak and I instinctively cover my privates with the large washcloth I brought with me to scrub down with.I then screamed, ‘Get the f—k out of here’ and she laughed even more and then I ran out of the stall partly ripping the shower curtain off the shower rod and the woman tried to grab my wet arm and laughed and said, ‘stay with me handsome you’re not done yet’.I grabbed my towel off the towel rod just outside the stall and screamed, ‘help’ as loud as I could and ran towards the exit that would lead into the carpeted hallway where there was a kiosk that was always manned with a staff member who sold swim googles and caps and took in admission for the pool. When I saw the male lifegaurd standing outside as he vacuumed the hallway outside the kiosk where an mature woman was counting her cash register contents I screamed again and they both stopped what they were doing and I hysterically told them everything that happened while I had a towel wrapped around my waist.The mature woman kiosk employee radioed for security and the male lifeguard told me to wait there while he entered the men’s changing room. Not a minute later a female lifeguard and a uniformed security officer who always worked at the front door and did patrols of the centre and parking lot and they both entered the changing room. I heard some loud yelling and then that same woman laughing and the male lifeguard came out and directed me to a room that was a small lounge next to the kiosk and he handed me a large bathrobe from the kiosk to wear.The lifeguard asked me if I was okay, which I said that I was but that I was shaken up from that woman who I didn’t know nor did I invite her to shower with me and I felt that it was a violation. The lifeguard told me that he understood and that the police were being called and the woman was being detained until they got there.The evening ended with the police arriving and arresting the woman who wasn’t intoxicated nor mentally ill but who thought that she could walk in on a man showering and that would be tolerated and even lead to more. She laughed and treated the whole incident as one big joke. I was given the opportunity to write out a police incident report and after getting dried off and dressed the police drove me home and gave me a police file number and I was told that I could expect a phone call from the Victim Services unit who would help me if I needed councilling or help to press charges against the woman.Months later I was notified that the woman wouldn’t be going to court nor would I have to testify against her for charges of sexual assault and few other charges that was facing as she was a foreign student and was being deported within days of the letter and following phone call that I received from the provincial crown prosecutors.I did feel that justice wasn’t really served but at the same time I’m certain that the police did as much as they legally could within the boundaries of the law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and I was referred to for some free councilling and support group for men who were survivors of sex crimes.In the end, there seems to be a double standard when it comes to men who are sexually assualted, sexually abused and even raped and physically attacked by women assailants. The feelings of shame are often worse since so many male victms of sexual violence believe that most people won’t believe men when they come forward even to the local police or they seek help at hospitals and even domestic violence sheltersFrom the suport group that I attended that had only male participants and facilitors a lot of men have been victims of abuse and sexual violence at the hands of women and female spouses, partners etc.So all I can say is that ‘two wrongs don’t make a right’ and everyone has a right to feel safe and be free of abuse and sexual violence as well as an obligation to never do it to others. No ever has the right to abuse or violate another human being regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation or social and economic standing. There is help available and people need to speak up and support those who do when it comes to any crime of sexual violence annd abuse. There is no excuse for abuse.