My Mum saved the life of an arsonist.
Not much of story, but this QOTW made me think of it.

My Dad was terrified of fire. He would take ages to leave the house, as he would go back in multiple times to check that everything was turned off and there were no cigarettes smouldering in the ash trays. It used to get on my nerves, until my Mum told me the reason.

As a newly married couple, they lived in the nurses housing at Coldharbour hospital in Sherbourne. One night in 1972, the fire alarms went off, but they thought nothing of it, as that was a regular occurrence. Unfortunately, their slow response was mirrored across the hospital staff, and 30 patients were burned to death in the fire that was raging in the psychiatric ward. my Dad was a gentle and deeply empathic sort, and I don't think the events of that night, and the feeling he had let down his patients ever really left him.

The post script is that my Mum told me the man she pulled out of the burning building and revived turned out to be the arsonist who had set the fire.I questioned her on her feelings about that, and she shrugged and said she was a medical professional, and her job was help people regardless of who they were. Put in the same position, she would still grab the first person she could, even if she knew the fire was his fault.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 14:35, 6 replies)

Not much of a story?
Good grief, what would it take to make it interesting for you?
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 14:51, closed)

What I meant was it's not really entertaining or funny.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 14:54, closed)

or sexy.
very difficult to masturbate to.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 17:55, closed)

well...........

(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 18:12, closed)

^ this
got there in the end though
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Mon 26 Jan 2015, 19:18, closed)

The late, great, Alastair Sim
There's altogether too much arson about.
(jerrykew He who codes last, codes least, Tue 27 Jan 2015, 3:42, closed)