I seriously was wondering earlier if he was going to need a rabies shot. You gave him an ice pack?! That’s SO SWEET!!!!!!!! :D
You are my hero. I’m envisioning the cowering and signing scene in my head right now and it’s hilarious.
Hm, to be honest, I know that you did your job and did it right, but I can’t shake the thought that out of all people in this anecdote, I’m the closest match to the one on the stretcher. And that doesn’t seem very comfortable.
That was great. The thing is, I know that there are tons of educated retards out there, and it’s always nice to see them face some comeuppance.
I love when you blog about your job. I’m fascinated by it. (I actually blogged last night about wanting to be a paramedic but I’m afraid to screw it up). Great story!
p.s. Getting pics of our grocery store for you today!
Every educated person has a touch of stupid fuck in them. I think it’s ego. The bigger the ego, the bigger the stupid when it shines through. I think it’s because school educated people forget that you can’t find common sense in in Law 101. And really, isn’t most stupidity a general lack of common sense? ‘Cause ya know, stupid and ignorant are different things.
I don’t know a single person who has not been a fucking total tool at some point. That’s cuz, you know, no one is perfect. We are all capable of unbearable idiocy.
However, that judge dude? Call me a horrible person (everyone else does) but I kinda wish the mentally ill guy had pulled a Hannibal and bitten off his friggin’ nose. That would have been a lesson well learned. Ya think? But now he has to worry about Hep B, HIV or at the very least, a raging infection so there’s that anyway.
PS: why am I getting a visual of Bluto when I think of you being a brute?
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I don’t have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem
I giggled reading this thinking of how many times those supposedly in positions of ‘superiority’ fail to recognize that someone else might just know something about what they do.
Emailed this to Scott...I’m sure he can understand running into such “ambient stupidity”.
I’m glad nobody was seriously hurt. But I’m also happy the judge learned a lesson.
Seriously? Who calls someone a “brute” anymore? Was the judge a sixty eight year old woman from the 18th century?
Poppies- We call it the rabies shot, but its actually something else. I really should find that out… just to have some handy… in case you tear a piece out of me accidentally… or vice versa. 
Kapgar- It really was pretty funny… I wish I had one of those flip cameras… the whole thing would have gone viral.
Creature- Oddly enough, I also relate with them pretty well… which is why I usually get those assignments… but there are some who are just too far gone… so I understand what you mean.
Avitable- Yes, educated retardation (also known as lack ‘o’ sense) is a serious dilmena facing our country. No wonder the Chinese are kicking ass. They STILL don’t require grammar school to work the fields!
Sybil- Oh he was definitely an ass… but in his defense he also has only been one of the judges since February 1… so at least the first week on his job is a memorable one!
Brian- Divorce hearing? You need a better lawyer. I never stepped into a courtroom during mine.
B.E. Earl- Actually it was good for him… he may have been committed but the judge never signed the medication orders… so he basically gets a med free stay upstate somewhere.
Karen- Can I let you in on a secret? Promise you’ll never repeat this, but… even when one of us screws up, people in general never know it. The stories you read about EMTs and Medics killing patients isn’t a screw up… it’s a fuck up… and fuck ups happen because people just don’t take the time to think. But yeah… I screw up all the time… I even screwed up with the judge and forgot to ask about drug allergies. I really hope they gave in penicillin.
Miss Ann- Oh I think everyone is human and entitled to mistakes. In fact, I encourage mistakes and screw ups because I think they are experiences you can learn from… so you should and therefore not make that same mistake and/or screw up again. I don’t think your a horrible person… especially since I really wanted the judge to have been unconscious when I walked in. But he wasn’t. Damn it. Oh… and not really Bluto per say… but more like The Undertaker… I’m all about the choke slam.
Turnbaby- There are more times than I can count… I run out of fingers, toes, and paw toes at 100.
Amy- Oh, I am SURE he has way better stories than I do in that area! He should get a blog.
Delmer- Well if you consider having a 3 inch oval diameter of flesh removed by human teeth not serious… then I guess your right!
Faiqa- Actually he looked in his forties… but here’s the thing that I have noticed about people with huge egos… they will use uncommon words frequently to maintain an air of superiority… and quite a few times they will use them wrong. I honestly think that he misused the word if he was indeed describing me… I think prick, asshole, or communist would be more fitting. It isn’t like I had laid my hands upon anyone… at least at that point.
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
Is it wrong of me to be glad that the judge got bit, and not some person who didn’t sign his name on the dotted line?
I’m late to this, but I forgot to comment on this when I first read it.
I just wanted to point out how different your mental health laws appear to be than ours. which is only to be expected really.
Mainly in that in order to detain people over here you need two drs and a social worker to sign the papers, judges don’t come anywhere near (although there is a sort of legal appeal system if you want to refute the detention at a later date).
Never piss off a Doctor in England, especially a psychatrist. they have powers far greater than judges to detain people.
We’ll no doubt end up in New York over the next few years as we got married there and it’s around time we revisited for an anniversary. We’ll have to meet up so I can quiz you about stuff liek this (and other stuff obviously)
Lynda- No, your not wrong, in the slightest.
Dan- We have a similar order called a Two Physician Consultation (2PC) Detention Order. The thing is that those orders have to be backed by a court when the patient is over 18 and they are looking for a detention period greater than 10 days. The period used to be 30 days, but they lowered it sometime in the mid ‘90s because of overcrowding in the centers. The judge isn’t actually a judge… he’s a psychiatrist or psychologist with knowledge of the Mental Health Code… so in essence he would be the third consultant in the case… and his decision is limited to a max of 90 days and also appealable in an actual legal court.
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
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