Ooooh I could crush a grape....I once worked as an emergency operator, connecting calls from highly distressed members of the public, through to the relevant emergency services, then listening in to the calls to see who was giving who a larraping outside which pub etc. One evening I had a call from some woman, shakily asking for an ambulance, she said that her brother was upstairs, with his bird, and had apparently just 'snapped' his old chap whilst on the job. The screams of pain clearly audible from upstairs in the house, were enough to make me feel queasy for the next hour or so!
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Tue 11 Nov 2003, 11:32,
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999While i was working as an emergency operator i recieved a call from a distressed women who told me that her husband whilst mowing the lawn had cut 2 of his toes off (nasty!!). After i had connected her to the ambulance women i stayed on the line to see what advice she would give. she told the distressed women to find the toes and put them on ice as they might be able to re-attatch them. after about two minutes the women returned even more distressed than before and told they ambulance women that the pet alsation had eaten them!! laugh i nearly cried.
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