Make that the other person was dead...not drunk. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the worst calls (emotionally) was an accident caused by a drunk > driver. The drunk ran a red light it and killed the driver of the other > vehicle. My partner went to the vehicle with the person who had died, I was > stuck with the drunk guy. As we were loading the drunk into the ambulance, > my partner told me the other person was drunk. As we headed towards the > hospital I looked out the window at the other vehicle and recognized the > vanity license plate as being a friend of mine. She was actually on her way > to the hospital to bring me some dinner. > > The drunk was belligerent, blaming he accident on my friend and called her > names that would make a trucker blush. That is the closest I have ever > come to actually wanting to kill someone. > > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Bruce Sorge <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My hats off to you Scott. I was going to to school to get my EMT, but the >> more I thought about it, the more I decided this was not the job for me. >> All >> I could think about is how emotional I would get if I came to a scene >> where >> some stupid ass drunk plowed into a car with kids in it, the kids are hurt >> or killed and the drunk was fine with no idea what the hell happened. It >> would take every ounce of strength I had not to go over there and beat the >> shit out of him. I can deal with getting shot at and blown up, but I don't >> think I could deal with hurt or dead kids. >> >> Bruce >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott Stroz" <[email protected]> >> To: "cf-community" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:27 AM >> Subject: Re: CF-Comm's Most Dangerous Person >> >> >> >I once took care of a woman who supposed to be cared for by her daughter, >> > but was neglected. Her daughter went away for a long weekend and her >> > mother >> > fell out of bed and the daughter's 2 ferrets 'mauled' her. There were >> > over >> > 1500 separate bite marks on the woman's body. We did not know what to >> make >> > of them at first until one of the cops at the house saw one of them run >> > under a bed. >> > >> > BTW - While not as dangerous as Sgt Sorge, in my time as a paramedic I >> was >> > shot at more times than I care to remember, and I spent a couple of >> years >> > as >> > a tactical medic working with one of the State Police SWAT teams. I was >> > even part of a few raids where we were 'in the stack' with the SWAT >> guys. >> > All the raids I was on were uneventful, except for the one where the >> SWAT >> > guys had to shoot a dog because the bad guy ordered him to attack us. >> > Never >> > saw a State Trooper cry until that night. I swear he would have been >> less >> > upset if he had to shoot the bad guy. >> > >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285361 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
