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General Climbing Discussion
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Ice, Shattered ankle, self rescue, all on tape |
24-Nov-2011 At 5:29:19 PM |
rolsen1
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On 24/11/2011 simey wrote:
>On 24/11/2011 rolsen1 wrote:
>>I broke my wrist skateboarding about 10 years ago, it was a bad compounded
>>break. I didn't have a mobile at the time, I had the one manual car (broke
>>left wrist) we owned...long story short someone else there called an
>ambulance
>>for me (I'm a member)
>>
>>I felt really guilty and apologised to them when they arrived, they looked
>>at my wrist and said I did the right thing ..... but they said what they
>>do get annoyed about is all of the old local footy players who do a slight
>>injury and call for an ambulance.
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>What is the point of your story? You break your wrist skateboarding and
>get picked up in an ambulance. You then try and make some weird comparison
>where your injury is deserving of an ambulance trip, but local footy players
>who get injured aren't allowed the same service. Uhhh??!!
>
>Anyway, ambulance officers are paid to do what they do. A call-out for
>an ambulance for a skateboarding or footy injury isn't in the same league
>as a call-out to a cliff face where dozens of people - ambulance, local
>police, police S&R and volunteer groups such as the SES & ARG are suddenly
>called into action.
>
>
Just saying from my limited non related experience that its hard to know if you are doing the right thing in calling for help....
and that according to my one expert source local footy players are particularly bad at it |
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