OT ish Darwin Award

First call of my daughters shift today was 'stabbing in Thamesmead tower block, police on scene'. Not an uncommon call for that area.

She got there to find it was accidental. A mains powered smoke alarm had been beeping and the victim decided to cut the cable feeding it. It was live and he used metal scissors!

The electric shock caused him to react violently and he stabbed himself in the leg with the scissors - twice!

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The Medway Handyman
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Has she had any attendances involving vacuum cleaner hoses unfortunately attached?

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Andy Hall

Could have been worse - at least he didn't fall off the chair and break anything.

Owain

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Owain

Or Hoover Constellations?

Owain

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Owain

Did he become an official nominee, or a near miss ?

Reply to
Colin Wilson

Nah! Survived with minor injuries, treated on site, not even blued in.

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

Somehow it is the "twice" that makes it for me! LOL.

Reply to
John Rumm

Of course, had this been a fatality it would have been caused by the 'fixed wiring' in the property which would have just gone to show how important Part P is for the wellbeing of the population...

David

Reply to
Lobster

I've always thought that anything which was only 'nearly' a miss was actually a hit.

Shouldn't it be a near hit??

R ;-)

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Richard

The verb "to blue" is interesting

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Stuart Noble

Have you not heard of the BMJ article?

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meow2222

Presumably if you turn blue, you get blued.

Owain

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Owain

Blues and twos I believe it's called.

I still wonder how they sell any icecreams at that speed though.

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Andy Hall

You are an Eric Morecambe fan and I claim my £5. It is still funny, though.

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Peter Twydell

You've Earned it.....

I still laugh when I see that sketch - it demonstrates how timing is everything.

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Andy Hall

It's taken me ages to learn 'ambulance talk'. Typically my daughter will arrive home & say something like "had a 53YOM with DIB so we bagged him, got him in the truck & blued him in. Rest of the shift was white work". London ambulance exists on acronyms & abbreviations.

Translated; we had a 53 year old man with difficulty in breathing, so we used a respirator, got him in the ambulance & took him to hospital using blue lights & sirens. The rest of the shift was patient transfers.

It's a world on its own.

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The Medway Handyman

On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:34:35 +0100, "The Medway Handyman" mused:

Ah, I took 'bagged' as being stuffed in a black bag ready to be dragged down the morgue.

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Lurch

I'd check the accuracy of "blued him in" meaning the use of lights *&* sirens. Last I heard they rarely use sirens when they have some one on board as it scares the crap out 'em: "Shit, sirens, I must be in a

*REALLY* bad way".
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Dave Liquorice

Quite right. Sirens are standard proceedure with cat a & b red calls. Normal 'nee nah' unless they approach a hazzard like traffic signals, roundabouts - in which case they use the 'machine gun' repeater. With a cat a or b red call the patient is usualy completely out of it. They use blues only for lesser emergency's.

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The Medway Handyman

We live on a main road which is the regular route to the local hospital... typically the sirens wail as they travel out of town, ie on their way to the incident; and are silent on the return when the punter is on board.

David

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Lobster

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