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- Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:09 am
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- Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:49 am
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I presume "systems" <- "symptoms"?jmra wrote:My wife worked in the ER at Children's in New Orleans years ago. During Mardi Gras parents would come in and lie about their child's systems in order to get them admitted. They would leave them there for 2 or 3 days and then come pick them up. Child care on the tax payer's dime.The Annoyed Man wrote:Just work in an ER for a while. You'll see enough examples of callous disregard to last you a life—particularly toward children and the elderly.
Some times they would never come back to get the kids. One of the nurses aides was a foster parent and had a house full of kids that were never picked up from the hospital. If people will do this to their own kids just imagine how they would treat strangers.
Sounds like she was running a human "lost and found".
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:12 am
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A few years ago (well, probably 10), when I lived in Kalifornia, I found an unconscious man lying partially in our shared driveway. The gentleman in question was drunk, and appeared to be on "vacation" from a, um, state to our south. 
Anyway, when I couldn't rouse him (by shouting only, no physical contact), I called the police. When THEY couldn't rouse him, they called the paramedics. As the medic was working on him (mainly just shouting and shaking), he woke up. Took one look at the medic, and the cop, and took off down the driveway toward the undeveloped park behind us. Get this, the cop takes off after him, and the drunk OUTRUNS the cop. My guess is that that's the most exercise that particular officer had had in many months. We never saw the gentleman again, though we were serenaded with singing coming from that area of the undeveloped park for several evenings after that.
In a separate incident, I saw a similar gentleman, also drunk, riding a bicycle down our street, swerving badly. As I was trying to avoid him with my car, he blindly cycled across a major divided roadway, and got nailed by a van doing about 50. This one didn't run off. Though once he woke up, he did want to leave. The paramedic restrained him, though he was in no condition to run off.
Anyway, when I couldn't rouse him (by shouting only, no physical contact), I called the police. When THEY couldn't rouse him, they called the paramedics. As the medic was working on him (mainly just shouting and shaking), he woke up. Took one look at the medic, and the cop, and took off down the driveway toward the undeveloped park behind us. Get this, the cop takes off after him, and the drunk OUTRUNS the cop. My guess is that that's the most exercise that particular officer had had in many months. We never saw the gentleman again, though we were serenaded with singing coming from that area of the undeveloped park for several evenings after that.
In a separate incident, I saw a similar gentleman, also drunk, riding a bicycle down our street, swerving badly. As I was trying to avoid him with my car, he blindly cycled across a major divided roadway, and got nailed by a van doing about 50. This one didn't run off. Though once he woke up, he did want to leave. The paramedic restrained him, though he was in no condition to run off.