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03-25-2016, 12:14 PM
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How Can A Car Get So Close to a Helicopter?
Are there signs? If you were close enough to cause a security guard to confront you then something is wrong with the lay-out. Surely this must be an on-going problem.
The security guard should report the problem but he won't because he enjoy's the occasional power trip it affords him. You should contact the hospital as other have suggested to report him and to suggest a better place for the copter to land, away from traffic, maybe on the roof. it would a shame if the copter hit a car or someone while trying to save a life.
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03-25-2016, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Stillriledup
It's not a post about a safe landing, it's about does any random peon have a right to talk to anyone anyway they want.
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This is vile. This random peon may have two jobs to make ends meet. You don't know.
You've written lately "I love the uneducated." You should, you're lost to understanding this confrontation, as it were. And how 2M can get beyond it.
Too, I hope you are not ever, ever in need of emergency transport to a trauma center, be it, by air or by ground transport. 
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03-25-2016, 03:03 PM
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It might be worth remembering Plato's famous quote, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
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03-25-2016, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by highnote
It might be worth remembering Plato's famous quote, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
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That Plato really knew his stuff. 
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03-25-2016, 06:15 PM
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That Plato really knew his stuff. |
he smoked weed a lot methinks. He was at Woodstock.
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03-25-2016, 06:37 PM
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You're thinking of Dana Plato. 
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03-25-2016, 06:59 PM
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You're thinking of Dana Plato. |
very sharp post
RIP for that tortured soul though.
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03-25-2016, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Stillriledup
It's not a post about a safe landing, it's about does any random peon have a right to talk to anyone anyway they want.
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Why do you all keep talking about him as a "random peon"? He has a job to do and it is of a life-saving nature which may make it a more important job than most. Besides, anyone who is doing honest work should be respected more than to keep denigrating him.
No logic leads me to believe that this guy got upset and yelled for no reason. Logic tells me Mountainman wasn't getting a move on to get out of the area and a helicopter was trying to land. I don't even know why he was in the area designated as the landing pad. Again, I'd like to hear the "peon's" side of what happened.
Last edited by Fager Fan; 03-25-2016 at 09:58 PM.
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03-25-2016, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Grits
It is mind boggling. The up and down of fuel cost can have bearing, of course, as well as mileage from, and return to, the trauma center. Also, the team. Whether there are two RNs aboard, or DR. and RN. I live with two teaching hospital/trauma centers to the west of me, and one to the east, each within 40 to 70 miles. Everyday, one or the other of the teams flies over my home to our local hospital.
Google it, you'll see how wide the variation of cost is. My friend's dad had a heart attack...almost had another when he saw the medical billing. 
Google the same, but for ground ambulance transport to major trauma center. It, too, is mind boggling. This one? I know from experience, as I've done that long, but hellaciously fast trip--twice. |
Don't forget the cost of the medically equipped chopper and pilot.
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03-25-2016, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Grits
This is vile. This random peon may have two jobs to make ends meet. You don't know.
You've written lately "I love the uneducated." You should, you're lost to understanding this confrontation, as it were. And how 2M can get beyond it.
Too, I hope you are not ever, ever in need of emergency transport to a trauma center, be it, by air or by ground transport. |
We were far away from the landing area and I was no conceivable impediment to the chopper's mission when the guy got verbally abusive. He is a power tripping Barney Fife. So let's not confuse a noble mission with a noble man.
Your counsel concerning the aftermath is, of course, sound and well considered. You're a wise lady and I consider us friends. So here, dear G, is some friendly advice (that I hope alleviates some of the tension creeping into this thread)-no worries about me explaining why I got my ass whipped. lol. In fact, I would strongly advise wagering the other way. I'm not THAT old yet!
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03-25-2016, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mountainman
Several weeks ago a toy cop screamed into my car and berated me for driving too slowly when directed to vacate the area as , unbeknownst to me, a helicopter angled in for a landing. That the chopper touched down 200 yards from my suv and I had already complied with his directions didn't matter. "Are you BLIND?", he yelled? "Don't you HEAR that chopper?", again, at the top of his lungs.
Tonight I spotted the prick, jumped out of my car, positioned myself at least 10 feet away and advised the guy in a level tone to never, ever scream at me again.
His responded by warning me to get out of his face and and leave the premises, or he would have me arrested for issuing "threats."
I say it was he who made the threat, an inappropriate one intended to intimidate me that implied more authority than he has and assumed a police decision by no means assured.
Either way, the dude tried twice to bully me, and I don't take that from anybody.
Please, fellow posters, sound in with an opinion: which of us was right? And which overstepped? Morally and legally.
I can take it.
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If you confront every idiot that crosses your path it becomes a strain on your character and your health.
Sometimes you just have to let it slide.
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03-25-2016, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Fager Fan
Why do you all keep talking about him as a "random peon"? He has a job to do and it is of a life-saving nature which may make it a more important job than most. Besides, anyone who is doing honest work should be respected more than to keep denigrating him.
No logic leads me to believe that this guy got upset and yelled for no reason. Logic tells me Mountainman wasn't getting a move on to get out of the area and a helicopter was trying to land. I don't even know why he was in the area designated as the landing pad. Again, I'd like to hear the "peon's" side of what happened.
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I tried to apologize for not following his directions more quickly, but I think he mistook that as a sign of weakness, because that's when he got really abusive.
And if his role at the hospital is THAT critical, should it be filled by a guy who so easily loses composure????
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03-25-2016, 10:51 PM
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A wise man once advised me that knowing when to stick up for yourself is one of life's trickiest calls.
I will acknowledge this was probably not one of those times.
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03-25-2016, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by mountainman
A wise man once advised me that knowing when to stick up for yourself is one of life's trickiest calls.
I will acknowledge this was probably not one of those times.
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But, be honest, you've got one last good fight in you, and this was the guy in your mind, who deserved a good ass-kicking.....Am I right, or what?
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03-25-2016, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by ReplayRandall
But, be honest, you've got one last good fight in you, and this was the guy in your mind, who deserved a good ass-kicking.....Am I right, or what?
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I still bench 280 and have a bad temper. In person, I'm more rugged and a bit less civilized than my tv persona might imply. Is that honest enough?
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