Defibrillators
Walking to college quite a few years ago, me and a large group of friends walked past a guy lying in the road. There were a couple of paramedics kneeling by him, stripping off his shirt. Then they got the defibrillator out and *zzzzzzzz* gave him a good old shock, didn't see him do the full on body arch from in the films.
All we did was wait, about 6 foot from the action, for the traffic on the other side of the road to stop so we could cross. Conversations went on as usual, a couple of furtive glances were taken, but on the whole British upperlip triumphed and not a word was said, not even when the paramedics gave up with the shock pads and, I assume, the bloke was pronounced dead.
Ho Hum.
Maybe we are all desensitised by the media. (though I did feel pretty sick a few years before when I saw a woman under a truck wheel screaming in agony)
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 10:46, Reply)