{"id":38633,"date":"2014-02-05T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=25c9bef13a7132e59d9b47a7698b73a5"},"modified":"2014-02-05T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T19:15:00","slug":"press-release-neknominate-game-leads-to-emergency-call-out-in-redcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38633","title":{"rendered":"Press release: NekNominate \u2019game\u2019 leads to emergency call out in Redcar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At just after 5pm (5 February 2013)  Humber Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre sent the <abbr title=\"Royal National Lifeboat Institution\">RNLI<\/abbr> Lifeboat based in Redcar and the Redcar Coastguard Rescue Team to Saltburn Pier after receiving reports from Cleveland Police that a teenager was threatening to jump in to the rough seas.<\/p>\n<p>When the teams on scene couldn\u2019t find the teenager further investigations revealed that he was at home. He had posted his intention to jump from the Pier on social media after taking part in a \u2018game\u2019 of NekNominate this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Humber Coastguard Watch Manager Bev Allen said;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The craze of neknominate is spreading virally through Facebook but before accepting your mission please just stop and think about what you are doing.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been drinking, your judgement will be impaired and you will be more likely to be overcome by the cold, dark sea. Your<br \/>\nacceptance of the dare is highly likely to be life threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Alcohol is a contributory factor in a significant number of coastal drownings every year. Alcohol and sea water really don\u2019t mix.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Maritime and Coastguard Agency\">MCA<\/abbr> understands that NekNominate is a drinking game where young people are \u2018nominated\u2019 through Facebook to down strong drinks and carry out dares. The participants often share their exploits after filming them on mobile phones. It\u2019s believed that the social media craze originated in Australia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1507\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Maritime and Coastguard Agency Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              023 8032 9401\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeboat and rescue team sent to Saltburn Pier after a teenager announces his intention to jump off it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}