Lurid Work Stories"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
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chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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My sister-in-law is a nurse in ITU......and my wife is also a nurse, so family dinner parties are often enriched with them trying to outdo one another in the lurid story department.
One particularly memorable story was about a van driver who ended up on ITU after he foolishly stood in the way of his van as it was being stolen. The thief decided it was easier to go through and over the guy, rather than around him. This, sadly, resulted in the van driver being dragged along the road, caught up on the gubbins under the van for a quarter of a mile before a bump in the road dislodged him.
He lost most of the tissue on his back as a result and was described as being "like a gingerbread man, curved on the front and flat on the back" when he arrived, barely alive, in hospital.
I seem to recall being told that he was put on a special bed that allowed for the blood he was losing to be collected and pumped back into him somehow - but I might have dreamed that bit.
Either way, it didn't do much good as the poor bastard died.
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Tue 10 Sep 2013, 19:19,
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That's exactly how cell savers don't work.I suspect the bed was one of these
www.hill-rom.com/usa/Products/Category/Wound-Therapy-Systems/Clinitron-RiteHite-Air-Fluidized-Beds/
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Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 8:12,
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Smooth edit AB.(, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 9:09, closed)
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