As you know, I work security at a hospital. A few years back, an old man was struck by a vehicle in front of the hospital. I didn't see the initial incident, but I heard it and looked in time to see the poor man coming back down onto the pavement. He was thrown up into a tree before he hit the ground. I was the first to get to him. Kratos knows what I am talking about when I say how horrible to be there with the man looking up at you, crying and asking you to help him and therer is nothing you can do but try and stop the bleeding.
Several ER nurses arrived, but, ER nurses don't normally do this and were at a loss. When a patient gets to the hospital, the patient has been packaged, libs are pointing the right way again, etc. It really messed up a lot of them and many had to go for counseling.
Once I turned the patient over to them, I started gathering witnesses to hold them until PD arrived. The one kid started telling me what he saw. I was irritated that he seemed so calloused about it, almost as if it was an irritation. Basically, him and another car were racing. that was when I realized, this little piece of :9898: is the one that hit the man. He then asked if he could leave. The man's glasses were still stuck in this kid's windshield! I took a few deep breaths to keep from knocking the kid's teeth down his throat before I told him to sit down and shut up.
I have seen and been involved in too many threads that got closed and do not want to accidentally contribute to that happening again. So I hope this doesn't take this thread in a bad direction. However, Kratos' post, especially, reminded me of this incident and I had to get it off my chest. I still get angry at that waste of my oxygen from that day. He was being stupid, not paying attention, and did not care one little bit. I hope that kid finally realized what he had done and it haunts him for the rest of his life.
BTW, the man died a short while later. In fact, I was the last person to hear him speak. He went unconscious as the nurses were arriving and never regained it. I have worked other fatalities at the hospital and volunteer fire department, but none have ever filled me with rage like this one.
