Aww shucks, 'twarn't nuthin' Ma'am.
Since Jonas asked so nicely, I'll give you a brief summation of my heroic exploits - very brief.
In the hills behind Many Peaks in Queensland, I was camping with a couple of mates. Due to a desperate shortage of beer mate no. 1 was sent into Many Peaks for a reload. While he was gone, mate no. 2 was bitten by a western brown snake. Basic first aid - pressure bandage, immobilise the leg, keep him calm and wait for mate no. 1, who, for a change, didn't get stuck in the pub. When he returned we loaded mate no. 2 in the car and took off for Gladstone, stopping at Many Peaks to arrange for an ambulance to meet us on the way in.
I worked at a swimming pool for a few years and surprisingly enough, only had to resuscitate four people in that time (I knew a bloke who worked at a suburban Brissie pool and the rate there was one rescue per shift). One of those I saved was a two year old girl whose mother had left her on the wheelchair ramp of the heated pool while she (the mother) swam laps. She saw me handling her kid and went crook at me. I went crook at her. She filed a formal complaint with the council (owners of the pool). A lot of bullshit later she withdrew the complaint and I got a community service award. Or something, I never went to the ceremony or picked it up.
The one that got away was over twenty years ago - a car caught fire and the driver was badly burned. It took him three days to die and I had bits of him stuck to me. Only little bits, but still...
posted by Dirk at 3:58 pm
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what the fuck was her gripe?
but anyway, good on yer for doin your bit for rescuing the lemmings at the pool and your mate and doin your bit for the burned guy. that would take heart, i'd probly puke...
my only claim to fame is rescuing a dumb blonde who ran out of air scuba diving while we were at 28 metres. but there were other divers around who were equally as competent so she was probly gonna be right. still, a freaky experience.
Rat,
apparently she thought that I was kiddy-fiddling. Looking back on it now, I think she was a bit stunned and having put her foot in it, was too proud/stubborn to take it out again. Probably didn't help that I got a bit vocal about her lack of parenting skills, leaving a two year-old unattended at a swimming pool.
Shakes you up every time something like that happens, abuse or not.
yeah i can relate to that. i don't have my own "biological kids", just rent a kids :-) but it's still amazing how badly you get shocked when anything happens to kids. well anyone for that matter. my lame-arsed rescue had me worked up. i lectured the bimbo afterwards.
with hindsight, i coulda handled the post-stupidity briefing better.
i've gotta say i agree wholeheartedly with your abuse of this dumb woman though. a 2 year old unsupervised at a pool is a recipe for disaster. i know personally someone who lost a kid through drowning, reinforced forever my paranoia about young kids near pools. drowning is the number one accidental death in australia. (according to the radio today, the probably were excluding accidently dying in your damn car)
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