02 January 2007

Bubble Girl (Part II)

This is the part that really creeps me out (along with casually flipping a guy over after flying 20m through the air) my roommate was calling the cops and ambulance and I as I go over to him a cop did drive up. Richard said that he’s been on hold waiting to get through to the ambulance, on hold for over 5 minutes! The cop comes up to us and Richard tells him two people are hurt and he can’t get through to the ambulance can he call them. He says he’s sure their on the way, and than proceeds to get back into his car which he did park across the street so no one could get by, he than proceeds to drive up a few meters again park and place orange cones across the street (without even looking at the hurt people). Just before that this guy who had been driving behind the bike moved his van (it was right in the middle of everything, fair enough to move it but…) and drove right through the all the parts of the bike, a few cars had already done so before a few people began to stand up the street to wave cars away. The people lying on the ground, and the smashed motorbike wasn’t enough for people to turn up the side street (right beside them and the smashed bike) and go up 1 block to go around, no they drove through the smash and around the people lying on the ground. Several minutes later a emergency service car shows up, they are paramedics but can’t take anyone to the hospital and have limited supplies, i.e. no back board and stuff. He yells at the guy standing beside the huge puddle of gas next to the bike to put out his cigarette or leave, (well that’s better than the cop did we’re getting somewhere). Richard and I go up to him as he’s grabbing his stuff and tell them there’s two people hurt, one with the helmet says its just his ankle is hurt and the other guy was unconscious, not breathing well, and bleeding. He says thanks and walks over to the guy with the helmet. More cops show up they look at the bike and the car in the patio and stand around helmet guy but not a single ‘professional’ person came over to the other guy. One of his friends even went over to them to say there was another person hurt and they said that they would be there just now, bab! This guy was sitting at this point (yup his friends help him sit up) than he started to try and stand his friend did tell him not to move but yet he got half way up before I saw his leg jump to side (eww!) and him fall to the ground screaming his leg is broken. After close to 10 minutes after the emergency people showed up this guy still had the opportunity to stand up and discover his leg was very very badly broken. This is another friend went to the paramedic and told him what happened and he came over. Not to forget the other guy but he had a helmet and a broken ankle/ leg or whatever maybe just look at this guy. The ambulances and fire brigade showed up and we went inside. This is where my new slogan comes from “I’m never getting hurt in this country”.

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