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Helping People in Emergency Situations; [Now With Cool SE++ Group Dinner Picture]
CrackedLens
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Last night the wife and I were driving out a country road to a friend's house. Along the way we come across a wreck. We were the second people on the scene so we pull over to see if we could help. Me and this other guy pry the car door open and pull the lady out. She bashed her head pretty bad but other than that she seemed ok.
Pretty exciting night huh? I wouldn't put too much thought into helping somebody if this wasn't the second time in two weeks that I've been around to help out in an emergency situation.
Last weekend I was filling up at a gas station when this lady starts frantically asking around if anybody has a coat hanger. She locked her week old baby in her car. So while everybody was just standing around trying to pull their thumbs out of their asses, I run over to the store next door, buy a pack of wire coat hangers, come back and unlock the car door.
They say that 2 times is a coincidence, 3 is a trend. I'm now waiting for the 3rd emergency to happen.
In the meantime, let me ask: what have you, the fine people of SE++, done to help others who needed help?
Pretty exciting night huh? I wouldn't put too much thought into helping somebody if this wasn't the second time in two weeks that I've been around to help out in an emergency situation.
Last weekend I was filling up at a gas station when this lady starts frantically asking around if anybody has a coat hanger. She locked her week old baby in her car. So while everybody was just standing around trying to pull their thumbs out of their asses, I run over to the store next door, buy a pack of wire coat hangers, come back and unlock the car door.
They say that 2 times is a coincidence, 3 is a trend. I'm now waiting for the 3rd emergency to happen.
In the meantime, let me ask: what have you, the fine people of SE++, done to help others who needed help?
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Besides it was either get her out or let her sit in a pool of gasoline
what?
did i inadverdently quote a book?
I've never heard of that
I'll have to look into it
also, if you simulataneously lock your baby and your keys in your car, you automatically fail to meet my qualifications for rescue
I was kind of expecting the last story to lead to some sort of abortion joke.
You have let me down.
then i think most people in this state would fail that test
there was a couple arguing about something when they had finished shopping
a closer observation revealed that a baby was in the car with the windows closed while they had been shopping and arguing
it was really hot out
had no clue what he was doin' on my mountain road that was miles away from anything. I figured if somebody didn't pick him up the coyotes would've gotten to him.
I wasn't really helping things though, the world could use a few less old people.
that got old after the 5th or 6th time
yeah i didn't pay much attention in school.
This is probably a good thing, even if it makes it difficult for me to inflate my ego.
or give you anything?
oh god, this reminded me of a vehicle i saw in my school's parking lot today.
huge ass truck, raised and all that jazz, with the words 'REDNECKS GIT ER DONE' sprawled across the back window in all their garish glory.
Git er Done;
Your guide to Git er-ing it done
Highlights include;
What is Git?
How do I get Git?
What do I do with my er?
Whats left after done?
And much, much more.
I will protect them, because I am Chris de Burgh
Beautiful ladies in emergency situations
Beautiful ladies are lovely, but sometimes they don't take care,
They're too busy with their makeup, or combing their lovely hair
To take basic safety precautions
But I will protect them, I will save the pretty ones,
With their smiles and their sparkling eyes
But let the ugly ones die
I have no place for them, in my new world order
I won't waste my seed on hideous trolls.
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the trolls,
Hunt them down there shall be no clemency
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the trolls,
Look under the bridges - that's where they hide
(that's where they hide)
And beauty shall be my bride.
but really, I've got nothing
It's not really a book you would have been assigned to read in class. Although some teachers somewhere might have it on a reading list.
It's a book by Richard Dawkins.
or at least been paralyzed for life.
Thanks a lot guys.
He was on the other side of the street and I was thinking of crossing over to help him out, but a lady came up to ask if he was ok and the fucker helled at her to fuck off and leave him alone.
Made me think of that Radiohead video.
this one.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
no, the lady that locked her kid in the car was gushing thanks, but too hysteric about being a horrible mother to offer anything
the lady in the wreck was suffering the obvious aftereffects of a concusion, so she was too dazed to do anything
I wouldnt have taken anything anyways
they should give a lot of stuff
you should take it
you gotta work these things out beforehand
'how much is your baby's life worth to you. maybe if you give me the car i will do something to get that ugly fucking ball of fat out of my new car before it vomits on my seats'
i hope you at least told them to fuck off afterwards
that or unlock the car and jump in and drive off before anybody can say anything
me and the baby go on a thelma and louise style adventure
culminating in our deaths
I knew I recognised it
after its gone
you die of starvation
He had bounced off of 3 other cars before hitting me and driving me towards the barrier. I managed to stop the car before we impacted, but the force of it sent him hurling into the divider.
A quick check determined that my friend (a cop) and I were ok, so we ran out to see if this dude was even alive....the car would have made you think otherwise. It was a fucking wreck.
His horn was going off non-stop and he was slumped against the wheel. We ended up ripping the passenger side door off to get to the guy and cutting away his seat belt to pull him out (bracing the neck the whole time). We would have just left him there were the car not beginning to smoke from the engine.
As we're all waiting for the emergency crews to show up the dude comes around. First words?
"I didn't hit anything did I? There were cars that stopped in front of me, I had to go around." And with those words the stank of alcohol.
Should have left the fucker in the car to burn.
It was the first thing I thought of.
that was pretty much my lady's first reaction
"is my car ok?"
i told her a little bit of polish would get the dings right out
her entire front end was caved in along with the right rear
only instead of alcohol she had about 10 prescription bottles rolling around in the floor
Just curious.
AIM: Yarrfooey
There are countries that have that.
Denmark I think, can fuck you in the ass if you don't stop to offer help at a road accident.
I'm not sure...
The closest thing I can think of is The Good Samaritan Law, which protects people that do help out at an emergency scene from being sued or held prosecuted if any injury or death should occur due their helping