[QUOTE=outlierrn]
Sure, but no cop where I work is going to take an actively vomiting pt out of the hospital that HASN’T been medically cleared to book, and I’ll bet your brother hasn’t either.
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Same here. I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of police departments and other law enforcement agencies, and for the most part, if someone in custody has so much as a scrape on the arm, the ambulance is gonna get called.
St. Urho
Paramedic
[QUOTE=Jodi]
I think you’re full of shit.
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You stole my line.
I think it’s just another one of lee’s bullshit fantasies of how she’s soooo mistreated and abused. Am I the only one who notices this?
[QUOTE=lee]
I have had occasions to overhear security guards at that hospital brag to each other about “roughing up” various people. It seems to be a major source of personal and job satisfaction.
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Well, they’re security guards. They probably don’t sit around bragging about the security they didn’t provide.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
Sorry, but so far this tale couldn’t be any less plausible if Tony Snow himself were vouching for you.
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Yup, kinda leaning that way myself.
[QUOTE=Jodi]
I think you’re full of shit.
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Ooh, now we’re getting there!
lee’s story sounds perfectly plausible to me. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed her post anything to make me doubt her, and I’ve been on this board since 2001.
But some posters’s reaction to her story sure makes it easy to believe that security guards can get away with that kind of behavior.
[QUOTE=lee]
They threw punches at my belly, sides, and chest, and left bruises that took quite a while to fade. I also am at a loss to explain why a half dozen guards would be sent to intimidate one woman in a wheel chair in maternity, who at that point was causing no one grief
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I am also at a loss. I can’t tell if you are delusional or if you are just lying about your Rhonda King experience.
[QUOTE=bluethree]
lee’s story sounds perfectly plausible to me.
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What color is the sky in your world?
[QUOTE=bluethree]
lee’s story sounds perfectly plausible to me.
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Yes, but you didn’t have to admit that you are a gullible imbecile. Kudos to you for taking the first step. You only have eleven more to go.
[QUOTE=lee]
The point in this is that there are those who delight in exercising power over others, and even people who are supposed to be providing help or keeping the peace may instead use their positions and status afforded due to such positions to inflict or extend pain and suffering rather than prevent or ameliorate it, as evinced by what happened to me, by what happened to this woman, and others, including the bartender in Chicago who made news when an off duty police officer beat her.
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Yes, some do delight in exercising power over others, but it usually takes place in a setting where there is no one else around who can help, such as the case of the bartender & the off-duty cop. Are you trying to say that 6 security guards were beating you in the waiting room of an ER, and NO medical staff came to your aid? That, in fact, when you lost consciousness in the ER, that the security guards were left to handle the situation rather than medical staff?
Am I the only one who will henceforth see security guards looking all Snidely Whiplash-like while they plan their next attack?
[QUOTE=bluethree]
lee’s story sounds perfectly plausible to me. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed her post anything to make me doubt her, and I’ve been on this board since 2001.
But some posters’s reaction to her story sure makes it easy to believe that security guards can get away with that kind of behavior.
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It’s not plausible because any sane person would a) call the police and prosecute, b) sue the fuck out of the hospital c) what with the bruises and witnesses and her gravid state, win criminal and civil suits and d) be all over the news, very likely.
If lee’s story is true, and she never pressed charges or pursued it any further, she is either a moron or… it never happened. I’ll wait to see what, if anything, she says before I decide which.
The only saving grace to Lee’s story is Lee’s lifestyle. If I recall Lee has a family life that might be considered “freakish” by your standard average Joe. Many security guards are just that,. average Joes.
So here we have a pregnant woman lumbering around bitching about perfume and dying right where she stands followed by a man dressed as a woman (or is KellyM post-op?).
Me, I don’t care. But I could see your average American lash out at that.
Frankly, I think the point is moot because I don’t buy a word of it.
When I was twelve I was in the hospital because I got a boo-boo on my elbow, so the security guards threw a pillowcase over my head, dragged me into the basement, and beat me with socks filled with soap and pennies until I lost consciousness. When I woke up, the ER doctors had removed a kidney and half my left lung, and infected me with an experimental monkey virus. Later, the admissions staff took their turns prying out my teeth and plucking my nose hairs one by one. Then, the finance department forced me to move furniture. Finally, they threw me out a window right onto a squad car and the cops laughed and urinated on me. The media took pictures but they only show the film on their end-of-year blooper reels. So yeah, I find the story entirely reasonable.
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
When I was twelve I was in the hospital because I got a boo-boo on my elbow, so the security guards threw a pillowcase over my head, dragged me into the basement, and beat me with socks filled with soap and pennies until I lost consciousness. When I woke up, the ER doctors had removed a kidney and half my left lung, and infected me with an experimental monkey virus. Later, the admissions staff took their turns prying out my teeth and plucking my nose hairs one by one. Then, the finance department forced me to move furniture. Finally, they threw me out a window right onto a squad car and the cops laughed and urinated on me. The media took pictures but they only show the film on their end-of-year blooper reels. So yeah, I find the story entirely reasonable.
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Uncle Jim?!?!
[QUOTE=Seven]
The only saving grace to Lee’s story is Lee’s lifestyle. If I recall Lee has a family life that might be considered “freakish” by your standard average Joe. Many security guards are just that,. average Joes.
So here we have a pregnant woman lumbering around bitching about perfume and dying right where she stands followed by a man dressed as a woman (or is KellyM post-op?).
Me, I don’t care. But I could see your average American lash out at that.
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I think an “Average Joe” reacting to that would be sort of lumbering in their interactions and doing things like calling **KellyM **“sir”. I don’t think they’d be beating an unconscious pregnant woman in the middle of a crowded ER.
In fact, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t actually beat a drugged-up junkie, either. They might restrain, because such scenes have the potential to turn ugly, but beating? :dubious:
Kudos to lee for the use of the word miasma. That’s one of the SAT words I specifically remember learning.
Okay, cure my ignorance…what does RO stand for?
Quick tip to lee - for top notch legal representation, I’d suggest an attorney whose record is as flawless as your own, a man of integrity, who can be trusted to tell the truth.
Such a man is currently seeking work, he’s in North Carolina, but will relocate. Nifong’s the name. 1-800-HORSHIT.
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
When I was twelve I was in the hospital because I got a boo-boo on my elbow, so the security guards threw a pillowcase over my head, dragged me into the basement, and beat me with socks filled with soap and pennies until I lost consciousness. When I woke up, the ER doctors had removed a kidney and half my left lung, and infected me with an experimental monkey virus. Later, the admissions staff took their turns prying out my teeth and plucking my nose hairs one by one. Then, the finance department forced me to move furniture. Finally, they threw me out a window right onto a squad car and the cops laughed and urinated on me. The media took pictures but they only show the film on their end-of-year blooper reels. So yeah, I find the story entirely reasonable.
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You got off lucky. The same thing happened to my best friend’s uncle’s step-sister’s third cousin’s paperboy’s 7th grade math teacher, except they also pulled out her toenails while making her watch reruns of The Facts of Life.
[QUOTE=Lord Ashtar]
You got off lucky. The same thing happened to my best friend’s uncle’s step-sister’s third cousin’s paperboy’s 7th grade math teacher, except they also pulled out her toenails while making her watch reruns of The Facts of Life.
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Not “The Facts of Life”! The horror, the sheer horror of it all!
[QUOTE=kittenblue]
Okay, cure my ignorance…what does RO stand for?
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Recreational Outrage
[QUOTE=kittenblue]
Okay, cure my ignorance…what does RO stand for?
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[del]Ridiculous[/del] Recreational Outrage.