My son's a radiographer and has just finished a grueling 16-hour shift in the x-ray dept of the local hospital. A typical busy Saturday night, so he says. Mostly alcohol-induced fights and falls, a bloke glassed in the back of the neck, a baseball bat attack, loads of arms that have been punched through windows, and a chap with a foreign object lost up his jacksie. The Govt claims smokers cost the NHS but it's a drop in the ocean compared to binge drinkers. Anyway the most interesting incident was a young hard nut who arrived in a bad way with multiple injuries, claiming to have "fallen off a roof". He'd cracked a lot of bones down one side of his body but the worst were a minor pelvis fracture, a badly broken arm, a very serious break to his lower leg and a broken neck. Miraculously the neck had somehow not become displaced. This chap was well pissed and my son had already sussed he'd been involved in an RTA when the police turned up. They were looking for a heavily-tatooed gentleman matching his description who had ridden a stolen motorbike at speed into a car injuring the car's driver and passenger. Apparently as he lay in the road he'd phone his girlfriend on his mobile. A few minutes later her and an older man bundled him into the back of a car and screeched off into the night. His game was up but he remained doggedly sticking to his roof-fall story. Neither he, nor his bird Linda, would give their names or address. So how do we know her name was Linda? Coz this bloke had her name CARVED across his chest. Not tattooed but carved in deeply with a knife. Linda, incidently was an 18 stone screaming mouth with a face "like it had been hit with a shovel". Anyway the police decided to take a softly softly approach because this pair were getting increasingly agitated. After all, the man was strapped rigidly to a trolley to immobilise his broken bones. He urgently needed surgery and had a broken neck so he wasn't going anywhere was he? Er... wasn't he? Wrong. The moment the cops' backs were turned Linda grabbed the trolley and legged it like a steam engine through the hospital to a side entrance where the old bloke had the engine running. They threw him in the back of the car and haven't been seen since. The filth are still looking for them. It's madness. Unless he gets the leg treated immediately the twat will never walk properly again and could be facing amputation. If he moves the neck or takes off the collar he risks becoming a paraplegic. But then this kind of people aren't to be credited with much grey matter. The things people will do in the name of being "hard". riccip
