Post #3406466
2026-06-24 12:13 UTC
@timixretroplays@digipres.club @uncycliste@hostux.social and for the people who drowned, most went to unsafe river streams where it's specifically forbidden to swim or bath due to the very nature of the water (rapid flowing rivers, sinkholes, rapids etc.)
It's french people at their finest: "it's forbidden but I'm so more clever than the others (no) so it can't happen to me. Anyway since it's a national authority that issues the interdiction, I must trespass".
Sad but #darwinawards contestants for sure...
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@timixretroplays@digipres.club 2026-06-24 14:03
@SuperDocteur@mamot.fr @uncycliste@hostux.social I don't think this is just a French thing - putting a theoretical Australian slant on it, I can see people going "it got a bit hot so they went for a dip in the river, bloody typical". I don't think being desperate for a reprieve from a heatwave has a nationality. Thinking back to my worst summer here, in a concrete block of an apartment with no fans, no aircon, and windows that didn't even fully shut, I might've have gone and jumped in a river too if one was nearby.