On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:14:43 +0100 someone who may be "wafflycat"
<w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com> wrote this:-
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All very sad.
Not being a member I wanted to add a little more to the other
messages to the first aider who felt inadequate. If anyone is a
member of the above they can copy this there if they want.
Even the most highly trained and experienced people can experience
that sort of thing from time to time. It is a good sign, it means
you are human. The railways have always had a very large voluntary
first aid movement, for obvious reasons. This includes a series of
fierce competitions, in which the most trained and experienced teams
fight it out to the final.
One year the final was held at Derby Midland station, probably in
the late 1970s but the person who told me about it din't tell me the
date. After the initial part of the competition, inside the station
buildings, they were told that they were to go out onto the
platform, where there was an "incident" for them to deal with. They
assumed it was probably a collapsed passenger.
In fact the organisers had used a man with a wooden leg as the
"victim" of the "incident", with him lying on one side of a rail and
his leg lying on the other, as if severed by the wheels of a train.
As the first aiders emerged from the building a locomotive drew away
from the platform to reveal the "scene" on the line, complete with
much screaming and huge amounts of "blood".
One or two fainted and a few more were sick. However, they all
rapidly regained their composure and carried on dealing with the
"incident". Most people can do the most extraordinary things when
they have to. It is only when there is time to think that they may
think they have failed.
--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54
