All Wet
Brian Bendle was standing in shallow water when a jet ski smacked into him at England's Middlemoor Water Park. He suffered a broken back and ribs and a punctured lung. But when paramedics arrived at the scene, they refused to enter the six-inch deep water to help him out. They said health and safety rules demanded that a fire crew remove him from the water.
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No fucking way.
A spokesman for the South Western Ambulance Service has said “the incident was managed in accordance with procedures” …
Boy, that excuse sounds familiar for some reason.
Oh yeah, I remember now
Oh, you had to go and do it.
Now I’m gonna hate me some statist thugs for the evening. Puppycide puts me right over.
Jet skis? They have obnoxious rednecks in England, too?
according to thomas sowell we invented them.
having said that before global warming it was only slightly tanned necks
Lookup the word “chav.”
The only question is: how far down the tubes is England?
So what’s the point of paramedics, if all they do is stand around and watch? Do they have a super union or something?
The vast majority of them aren’t like that.
But like any highly unionised employees the idiots always get away with it.