Fuckin’ Australians Man...

[Doc Reeves 6434]

 

Man Dies After Mob Attacks Paramedics Trying To Save Overdosing Drug User

As many as 80 men surrounded the ambulance, preventing the paramedics from helping the sick man.

A man has died in Australia after paramedics trying to save him were attacked by an angry mob.

According to The Australian, paramedics were called to the Riverwood suburb of Sydney around 8 a.m. local time Sunday. There they found a 25-year-old man suffering from a suspected drug overdose.

But the man's family members quickly became angry and attempted to intervene. The dispute attracted the attention of others nearby, and soon as many as 80 irate men had gathered around the ambulance.

The men began to harass and threaten the paramedics, before one person charged into a female medical worker, injuring her shoulder. Meanwhile, the ill man continued to deteriorate.
As the emergency workers barricaded

themselves inside their ambulance, the group outside became more violent and demanded a a defibrillator and drugs believing they could treat the young man.

The Australian Paramedics Association (APA) released a statement explaining that while the paramedics "were forced to fend off angry males," the patient suffered a cardiac arrest and died.

Around 150 police officers—including specialist riot squad members—were dispatched to support the paramedics, and eventually managed to disperse the aggressive crowd. But by that point it was too late to save the sick man.

APA Secretary Steve Pearce said "the stupidity of these people have taken the life of their family member."

"We don't want any more people to face the horrifying situation of their loved ones dying because paramedics are unable to treat patients after threats of violence," Pearce added, calling for faster intervention by police. The secretary said attacks on paramedics were becoming a regular occurance in some parts of Sydney.

In the state of Victoria in the south east of the country harsh new laws have been implemented by the government to cut the number of attacks against paramedics. Anyone found guilty of assaulting medical personnel will be classified as a category-one offense—the same as murder and rape.

Following the announcement of the new law, Ambulance Employees Australia—the union for ambulance workers—Secretary Steve McGhie told ABC Radio Melbourne that those who attack medical workers should face "the full force of the law."

Though he admitted harsher punishments will not solve the problem entirely, "It'll certainly go a long way to sending a strong message that when people do take that action of assaulting emergency service workers, and certainly frontline health workers, then there are serious ramifications from that."

[Surly Bevo 25166]

Bad vegemite?

[SDG 3319]

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, you need to watch Housos.  It’s a parity show but holds true for much of Australia.  

[Doc Reeves 6434]

1 minute ago, SDG said:

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, you need to watch Housos.  It’s a parity show but holds true for much of Australia.  

The National motto should be “hold my beer” in misspelled Latin 

[Baboontyme 2825]

Not sure I understand why attacks against paramedics are increasing in Sydney to the point that they had to pass harsher laws against those who attack paramedics. They seem to have left that part out.

[RPM 26356]

Doesn't sound like they had a g'day, mate.

[GSU&UT 1798]

6 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

Not sure I understand why attacks against paramedics are increasing in Sydney to the point that they had to pass harsher laws against those who attack paramedics. They seem to have left that part out.

Was curious too and it seems like there's no obvious reason. It looks like many cases are patients who are on drugs and attempt to hurt the paramedics helping them. I didn't see any other articles of weird mobs preventing paramedics from doing their job.

[Upgrayedd 5821]

Checks to see if it was a certain model from the old site . . . .

Whew.

Edited September 3, 2018 by Upgrayedd
Crap. Wrong thread.

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

My trips to both Canada and Australia led me to believe that Australia was just an upside down, warm Canada with better hats and funny animals.  This changes my mind.

Edited September 3, 2018 by HornsOverIthaca

[RDCanecutter 26475]

Not an EMT but I played a Natl Guardsman driving EMTs around in a blizzard on TV. One dude told us he had no problems knocking junkies upside the head if they got rowdy, because they would do stuff like try to stab him while he was helping them.

[LongestHorn 759]

I tried to research the "why" to understand and make sense of these attacks.  I can understand a drunk victim because he's drunk, wounded, whatever.  But the mob of friends and family attacking those trying to render first aid?  There was a case where a victim was struck by a train, lost both legs, and the same thing happened with the same outcome - a mob injured the paramedics who were then unable to save the victim. 

This makes no sense at all.  Zero.  What the hell am I missing?  

[Fudge Nuggets 19227]

5 hours ago, LongestHorn said:

I tried to research the "why" to understand and make sense of these attacks.  I can understand a drunk victim because he's drunk, wounded, whatever.  But the mob of friends and family attacking those trying to render first aid?  There was a case where a victim was struck by a train, lost both legs, and the same thing happened with the same outcome - a mob injured the paramedics who were then unable to save the victim. 

This makes no sense at all.  Zero.  What the hell am I missing?  

Maybe the people that died are assholes and the mob doesn’t want them to live.

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

Or they’ve all sniffed too much flex glue and they think the paramedics are martians.

[Guest]

On 9/2/2018 at 2:03 PM, SDG said:

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, you need to watch Housos.  It’s a parity show but holds true for much of Australia.  

[RayDog 682]

I plan to ask some Aussies I know about this. I used to respect Aussies but I am used to dealing with scientists.

In Ph they have bad tats, get drunk, fight, smoke, treat women like shit and Filipinos in general. I stay away from them.

Oh, and they think their beef is awesome when it tastes like shit and they have to put sauce on it to make it edible.

Edited September 5, 2018 by RayDog

[Guest]

On 9/2/2018 at 2:03 PM, SDG said:

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, you need to watch Housos.  It’s a parity show but holds true for much of Australia.  

Throw another gimp on the barbie...

[Fat Bastard 608]

Paramedics got attacked by a penile colony. 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

On 9/3/2018 at 12:26 AM, LongestHorn said:

This makes no sense at all.  Zero.  What the hell am I missing?  

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.

[chitwood 155]

A comment to the article:

Happens all the time. People get a "save them" mentality, start barking orders because it doesn't look how they saw it on TV. They start getting aggressive towards the paramedics, who rightfully tell the people to back off or they can't treat the patient. Drunk people interpret that as a threat, and start trying to gain control of the situation over the medics. The medics sense an escalating situation and begin to leave the scene, as the only thing that comes second to patient care, is their own safety. This causes the drunk bystanders to really get angry and start threatening death and violence unless the medics "save them". No medic will treat a patient under the threat of violence, and they have no obligation to. So they leave. All the while it never dawns on the angry people that they are literally standing between their loved ones and the care they need. Seen it happen many a time as a medic. Sad that this time it resulted in a death.

 

[Bateshorn 9942]

55 minutes ago, chitwood said:

A comment to the article:

Happens all the time. People get a "save them" mentality, start barking orders because it doesn't look how they saw it on TV. They start getting aggressive towards the paramedics, who rightfully tell the people to back off or they can't treat the patient. Drunk people interpret that as a threat, and start trying to gain control of the situation over the medics. The medics sense an escalating situation and begin to leave the scene, as the only thing that comes second to patient care, is their own safety. This causes the drunk bystanders to really get angry and start threatening death and violence unless the medics "save them". No medic will treat a patient under the threat of violence, and they have no obligation to. So they leave. All the while it never dawns on the angry people that they are literally standing between their loved ones and the care they need. Seen it happen many a time as a medic. Sad that this time it resulted in a death.

 

This is true.  Additionally, some of the poorer communities in Australia have a very insular, clannish aspect to them. A perceived insult to a member of the community can rapidly spiral out of control.  There's a surf community in NSW that is notorious for gang/police violence.

[Guest]

Edited September 5, 2018 by slorch

[Doc Reeves 6434]

6 hours ago, chitwood said:

A comment to the article:

Happens all the time. People get a "save them" mentality, start barking orders because it doesn't look how they saw it on TV. They start getting aggressive towards the paramedics, who rightfully tell the people to back off or they can't treat the patient. Drunk people interpret that as a threat, and start trying to gain control of the situation over the medics. The medics sense an escalating situation and begin to leave the scene, as the only thing that comes second to patient care, is their own safety. This causes the drunk bystanders to really get angry and start threatening death and violence unless the medics "save them". No medic will treat a patient under the threat of violence, and they have no obligation to. So they leave. All the while it never dawns on the angry people that they are literally standing between their loved ones and the care they need. Seen it happen many a time as a medic. Sad that this time it resulted in a death.

 

Jesus. It’s like Surly in real life.  

[EZ$ 2105]

3 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

Jesus. It’s like Surly in real life.  

So this isn’t real life???

[Lhorn 4967]

On 9/2/2018 at 10:26 PM, LongestHorn said:

I tried to research the "why" to understand and make sense of these attacks.  I can understand a drunk victim because he's drunk, wounded, whatever.  But the mob of friends and family attacking those trying to render first aid?  There was a case where a victim was struck by a train, lost both legs, and the same thing happened with the same outcome - a mob injured the paramedics who were then unable to save the victim. 

This makes no sense at all.  Zero.  What the hell am I missing?  

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As the emergency workers barricaded themselves inside their ambulance, the group outside became more violent and demanded a a defibrillator and drugs believing they could treat the young man.

Crazy shit.  "Step aside doc and give me that scalpel.  I'm taking over!"

Never ever underestimate that dumbassery of man.  

[TwiceHorn 31539]

On 9/2/2018 at 2:48 PM, Baboontyme said:

Not sure I understand why attacks against paramedics are increasing in Sydney to the point that they had to pass harsher laws against those who attack paramedics. They seem to have left that part out.

In addition to being filled with morons, Australia is a virtual police state.  There may be a correlation there.  Take heed and govern yourselves accordingly.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

Smh...

 

http://time.com/5397859/australia-strawberry-needle-scare-queensland/

The startling discovery of sewing needles hidden in strawberries in stores across Australia has prompted an investigation into what the country’s health minister has called a “vicious crime.”
Needles have been found inside the fruit in six states, and one man has been hospitalized after consuming one, the BBC reports.
“This is a very vicious crime and it’s a general attack on the public,” said Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt, who called on Australia and New Zealand’s food administration to investigate.
Since the first case was reported last week in Queensland, more contaminated containers of fruit have been found in New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania.
No suspect has yet been identified and police have suggested that there could be so-called copycat offenders. The government of Queensland has reportedly offered a $72,000 reward for information related to the crime.
Several labels have been recalled, and some of New Zealand’s largest markets have stopped selling Australian strawberries all together as a precaution, according to the BBC.
“How could any right-minded person want to put a baby or a child or anybody’s health at risk by doing such a dreadful act?” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was quoted by the BBC as saying.
Growers are worried that the incidents could be detrimental to their peak season production period, which is now. To quell fear, some farmers have begun installing metal detectors to scan their fruit, ABC reports

[clapclapclap 9000]

Ah, but the strawberries.  Going to need geometric logic to solve this case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[clapclapclap 9000]

On 9/2/2018 at 2:03 PM, SDG said:

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, you need to watch Housos.  It’s a parity show but holds true for much of Australia.  

Perhaps it's self evident, but are all shows down there created equal?   

[52-80 19259]

i prefer fucking australian women, if youre asking

[smuggs 9353]

[Biff Tannen 45745]

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

4 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Ah, but the strawberries.  Going to need geometric logic to solve this case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

That's the key of course.... if they can find it......