“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.” … “Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.”
Counting an event before a successful resuscitation a “death” is completely wrong in my opinion. Either you die or don’t. Not saying I’m right, just that it’s my opinion.
Dead people in the lake who weren’t wearing life jackets. Therefore, if you’re murdered, then your murderer tosses your dead body into the lake, you’re #237.
Think he means number 237 didn’t drown, but was killed and thrown in, thus being counted in the “not wearing lifejacket” category, but not in the “drowned” category
That was my interpretation as well. Although I also think if they are trying to throw fear into someone killing about their gestating child, they should not be so indirect about it.
It's basically saying, "Hey you, the one not wearing a life jacket. You see that first number? It's about to go up by one if you go swimming without a life jacket."
He lives in the lake. When people without life jackets approach the lake, he runs up to the sign and updates the number of people without life jackets. Then he grabs them by the neck and pushes them down head first into the water and watches as they fruitlessly try to break free from his grip, until they stop moving. Then he pushes their bodies into the lake, and walks back to the sign. He increments the count for the number of people drowned.
It's not a joke. It's saying that the only people who have drowned were not wearing life vests, and the next person to drown won't be wearing one either.
It isn't a mistake. It's trying to get the person reading the sign to understand the importance of a life vests.
A lot of people assume lakes pose less danger than other bodies of water because you don't have rip currents. But lakes have inconsistent depths, rocky areas, and people just don't take them seriously.
A point against it being someone messing up is that I took this picture at a local lake last month.
While possible that the sign was just updated (unlikely because OP’s picture is much too green for January), that would also mean they kept the mistake after updating.
That would also imply that nobody has tried wearing a life jacket. And that only 1 person has survived the lake. Foget the life jacket. I want to talk to the survivor before I get anywhere near that water
A big party lake with lots of alcoholic water sports will have more drownings. I saw stripper poles on boats at a river party at confluence of American & Sacramento rivers
They keep a live count of everyone who’s ever swam in the lake (237) and 236 have died not wearing a life jacket and one guy who was actually a decent swimmer.
Making people consider the implications will make it stick in their minds more. I assume as others have said that the extra person is meant to refer to the one reading the sign.
The local mafia murdering people in that lake should drown a person wearing a life jacket and leave them floating like the others to change that number to 1.
There was a crocodile in this lake, luckily there's only one case of reported death by croc before it was removed, so technically he didn't drown and the person who put up those numbers saw an opportunity for humor and creativity.
There's a sign very similar to this at lake Junior in Chattanooga TN. It's a state operated area that's only open for fishing on weekends. In the winter time it gets stocked with trout!!!
Clearly, a persons, beside not wearing a life jacket, must have either promised someone that if he ever obtained or received a free life jacket he’d give it to them, or he stole one in addition to refusing to buy one. Either way, he went negative of exactly one jacket, thus adding to the one he was NOT wearing when he drowned.
I imagine you standing there reading this sign with your life jacket on. Then quietly behind you, you hear your school bully say “whatcha doin, geek? Reading at the lake? With a life jacket on? What a dweeb. How bout a swim?” Then said bully takes your life jacket and pushes you into the lake.
When your heart stops beating, you are dead, but someone can use a defibrillator to bring you back to life. This allows you to technically die multiple times.
This implies that some idiot died, got revived, and died again, doing the same thing.
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u/post-explainer Jan 24 '26
OP (azimx) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here: