Lifeguard Beaten, Stabbed After Asking Group To Stop Drinking By Dane Enerio Representation. Beer and tobacco. A 17-year-old lifeguard at a Worcester County, Massachusetts, pond was attacked by several people on the Fourth of July after he asked a group to stop drinking and smoking in the premises, police said. Officers had been dispatched to the area of Bell Pond near Worcester's city center at approximately 6:30 p.m. Sunday for a report of an on-duty lifeguard being attacked, the Worcester Police Department said in a statement released Monday. Responders discovered the teenager with stab wounds and rendered medical aid to the victim before he was taken to a hospital by ambulance.