> > From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/10/10 Mon PM 01:30:08 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re: PESO - Chicago Marathon > > Hi! > > > At one point in our local event (50,000 runners) an ambulance had to go > > onto the running route to get at a casualty. It was travelling in the same > > direction, at the runners' speed, with all blue lights. Still, within half > > a kilometre, runners had collided with the back of it and had to have > > treatment themselves. This is a vehicle nearly 3 metres tall. How do you > > think a car, invisible to all but the runners in front, will cope? There > > would be thousands (literally) of people unable to stop, pushing into those > > in front. I suspect the car would be pushed over and many of those caught > > in the crush would be seriously injured. > > Indeed. > > > I think we can agree that there should have been proper awareness of which > > roads would definitely be closed for whatever reason, so that the taxi > > should not have been there in the first place. > > > > I certainly agree about the unfortunate couple needing hospital access. > > Indeed. I may even be convinced to drink some mead to that ;-). > I insist. 8-)
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