THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: JJR on August 23, 2007, 11:29:27 AM
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I scored hero points again. While distributing flyers for an upcomming garage sale with a friend I got to help a sweet old lady.
I was putting the flyer on the door of a house when I heard, "Heeellp" from inside. I asked, "Are you all right? What's wrong?" and the voice replied, "I need help. Come in through the door."
I went inside and an elderly woman was on the floor. There was blood on the floor. I asked her what happened and she replied, "I fell while trying to get in to my wheel chair."
After saying, "It's okay. I have medical training" I got her wheel chair and lifted her into it. I then cleaned the blood off of her and sterelized the wound with hydrogen peroxide. My friend had come in and watched all of this. Soon all the blood was cleaned off of her and we asked her if she needed to borrow a phone and she replied, "No."
She had told us that the phone next to her was dead so I had checked the one in the bathroom, "Next to the camode" as she said and it had a dial tone. She said she was going to call a friend to clean up the rest of the blood on the floor.
We left, walking through the park and talking about how fun it is to help people. There were parents and kids playing soccer.
Everything was fine but then I told this story to a friend of my Dad's while at the cross walk. He said, "I hope you don't get in trouble." I crossed the street, bought our after-work beer and went home. I discussed it with my family and was told, "Don't worry. The Good Samaritan Law protects you."
I remembered learning about this back in medical school. I then also remembered an interesting case where a doctor was drunk and revived someone. The doctor was being a good citizen and was in a bar. He had a ride home and had gotten off of work a few hours before. He was just relaxing in the bar and drinking with friends when suddenly a man next to him had a heart attack. The doctor did CPR on the man until the paramedics arrived and took over.
Afterward, the cops went after him. The doctor. They are trying to take away his medical liscence because he was drunk and performed medicine on someone. Now, I was sober as a judge when I lept into action and saved someone without thinking about money or the fact that I was not at a hospital . . . but what if I had stopped at the local bar on the way to distribute flyers and had had a couple of drinks?
I mean, after all I was on foot. I could have been over the limit and have been following the law. There are no laws against being drunk while distributing flyers for a garage sale.
Scary stuff. Fortuneately the law isn't after me for saving the nice old lady from hours of lying on the floor while bleeding and scared. Not today, anyway.
Laws are meant to be used to protect people . . . not harass citizens for having a good time. And cops should stop harassing men that happen to have long hair, too. Dumbasses.
That's my oppinion. I don't care if my doctor drinks while off duty. Considering our culture, though . . . is it possible that with my leftist views on the subject I'm encouraging some young doctor to smoke a blunt before operating?
Dr. Bob Marley's brand of medicine is something to be considered.
-JJR
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I guess my post will somewhat not really be on topic but EH ITS ABOUT TEH LAW
I got an uncle who works in a big distribution warehouse of a bunch of bread companies, we're talking a gigantic place where vans come to pick up stuff and then they go around and distribute them to supermarkets, and bla bla. Not just bread but all sorts of products like cakes and etc. Anyhow at the end of the day, they end up with TONS, i mean TONS of extra stuff that was over-ordered by stores, and since its all surplus stuff, the employees can take whatever they want home. It happens every day, and even with all the employees taking everything they want for themselves and their extended family, theres still tons of stuff left.
The warehouse also gives a part of the stock left to various organisation, but can't give anything more than a certiain % due to company policies. Everyday theres enough food left to feed lots and lots of persons. All that food is destroyed over night. Whats that policy? Well the companies only allow a certain % due to insurrances risk; indeed if they were to give all that food to charity or if the warehouse boss was going to give himself the food to random homeless people; if someone was to get sick, they could get sued to oblivion and their insurances wouldnt cover them since they would had given more food away than their % allowed in the insurance contract. If my uncle was to be seen going to some food bank with boxes of food from the warehouse and that he would get caught, he would be in big trouble.
Fucking sicknening, really. My uncle always comes around every week with boxes and boxes of stuff, and the stuff I can't use, I give them to my friend who is having a hard time these days. I guess i'm doing my part..
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Ooooooooooonly in America! What a great country!!
Robbers sue people for hurting them, too. The professional victim is the highest head on the totem pole here!!
The whimpering propoganda of the weak has done it's foul work. Just one of the crazy things you will find in Ernest Rady land . . . where cowardice is rewarded and hesitation is called . . . patience.