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Mom look, a good republican!
These are the people in charge of running the country...
“Accidents” happen. (I used to be a medic, and I firmly believe there is no such thing as a true “accident”.) If you look at the whole scene, you can find the point on the timeline up to the “accident” where the patient got stupid. And then I had to be there.
And yes, drunk mowing is a real thing. I had to overturn a riding lawnmower once to look for a bit of finger. But the two fatalities involving lawnmowers I did, had no alcohol involved—just stupidity was all that was required.
Another EMT here. The vast majority of the time it happens because of two mistakes, people almost never get seriously injured because of one thing, it is usually "I disabled or ignored this one safety step, then I got distracted for a second at the wrong time" or something similar. Could be alcohol, could be laziness, could be pressure to finish something for a boss that doesn't care.
Safety is typically defense in depth, and one failure isn't enough to cause a major issue.
Tho, there are MAJOR exceptions.
In aviation, this is called an “error chain.” It’s one of the concepts taught in ground school. Human error is a frequent element of accidents, so there is a focus on training pilots to find & fix mistakes early to “break” the “error chain” and prevent disaster.
Oh I agree, those are generally the base errors. People are stupid and do a lot of stupid things and disable safety devices or ignore safety protocols. I can remember scraping 4 fingers out of a 40 ton punch press with a putty knife, (it was handy), at an industrial accident with a putty knife. He had wired a safety latch back. Both of the lawnmower fatalities were caused by operating a heavy riding mower going across a steep side hill. The mowers rolled and crushed and suffocated the operators.
As a medic, I made my living dealing with everyone else's stupid actions.
I just noticed the pun.
I firmly believe there is no such thing as a true “accident”
I've been teaching my kids that "accidents happen because either someone did do something they shouldn't have or they didn't do something they should have, and it's important to learn from accidents and near-accidents to avoid them in the future"
It's incredible the number of adults I encounter who lack this wisdom and just shake off accidents as random chance without seeing the choices that led to them
Keep pounding it into them. The second most worst thing I had to do as a medic was hand out teddy bears to injured and sick children. I hated those calls.
***A Teddy Bear is perhaps the greatest medical device ever invented for treating a sick or injured child on scene. A shout out and all Blessings to our local motorcycle club for donating Teddy Bears to us by the case. They eased a lot of fear and pain.
It’s why I refuse to use the word and instead say incident.
Fire Department Chronicles pretty much underlines exactly this. Emergency situations caused by some level of stupidity. Often no communication, bad supervision or training, some stunt, or just extremely poor judgement leading up to whatever happened that caused the call in the first place.
and I firmly believe there is no such thing as a true “accident”
Getting hit with a meteorite?
God's bullet.
Lack of situational awareness. Or to put it another way-- Pull your head out of your arse.
Obviously, it's an act of god.
Well, not anymore
How drunk was he mowing the lawn?
Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step off the lawn mower. Do you know why I stopped you?
Because you're a pool?
That has happened more than once in real life.......
A bottle of shite (I meant to write "white" but I won't correct that) wine and a few Oxys, presumably.
What a hilarious way to go out. Darwin Award nomination incoming
The article I read recognized him for his contributions to the coal industry lobby and expanding horse betting. A real go-getter.
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Since the article decided it wasn’t worth mentioning—as if it wasn’t obvious by the fact he was a republican—he was also full heartedly participating in the witch hunt against trans kids, and also the slow destruction of public libraries.
May his grave be a gender neutral toilet for many years to come. 🙏
Why would it be worth mentioning? A person died. A medic had to climb down there and determine he was dead. He then had to climb out and tell the family that he was dead. The fire department then had to retrieve the body. The police had to write a report about what they saw on scene. A family is grieving now.
The guy was an asshole and bad person. But he was a human. Being a republican or democrat has nothing to do with death. Be a sensitive human and respect death.
He was doing his damnedest to make life unlivable for trans people, I hope he’s rotting in hell. If you want to be treated respectfully in death, don’t be a piece of shit in life.
Btw, he wasn’t found dead. It took him a while to die as the accident was a month ago. If you’re going to make up a story to try to make this dead shithead more sympathetic you could at least read the article.
I’d think being a sensitive human involves thinking of those whose lives he turned upside down and terrorized for the sake of politics, and not just going “but he wasn’t an actual monster living in a cave and had a family 🥺”
Like, did he turn democrat last minute before he hit the concrete teeth first? Or you mean that he was republican the entire time and now he's fucking dead so nobody give a shit he's dead and no longer republican?
Not sure if I’m correctly understanding what part of my comment you’re confused by, but I’m saying that it’s unsurprising that he is a transphobe who hates libraries because he was a republican. Past tense because he’s dead now.
Just wanted you to say it again 😁 that's all. 🤔 Does that mean one less evil vote?
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To any Republicans reading these comments and are "shocked" that we're glad he's gone... You will not be respected if you do not act respectably. You will be judged for your actions and you will not be missed.
"I have never wished death upon another human. I have, however, read many obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction."
I need not tolerate those who want me dead. The only people who think that's a paradox are fundamentally terrible people.
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