Emergency Services Volunteer
I'm a member of the State Emergency Service in Victoria, Australia. We do flood and storm, as well as road accident rescue.

As a result, we're usually early on the scene after car accidents, amongst other emergencies, so one has to deal with it fairly often. Probably the worst dead body I've unfortunately had to see, or deal with, was in Frankston, a suburb in the south of Melbourne. Frankston is generally full of bogans and such (not too dissimilar from chavs, but equally as stupid), especially in the northern part, and along the railway line. A guy in his mid twenties happened to be on the railway right of way one afternoon. In front of a 40-car steel freight train. We picked most of him up with a shovel.

There's been others, and one of my fellow members once had to deal with a friend being involved in a fatal accident. We are fortunate that there is counselling available, and that the SES does look after their members.

With regards to length, it was 40 cars long, and travelling at 80km/h.
(Grey_Ghost has yet to decide on a sig on, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 5:08, 2 replies)

I too
am far too familiar with Frankghanistan.

Good work on the SES. I volunteered for Northcote but had to move to Canberra before they could get me operational.
(Edktstsss, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 11:09, closed)

Northcote SES
That's actually ironic man. I transfered to Northcote from Frankston not too long ago. Then back to Frankston about 12 months later.
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