Richard B the EMT

I'll be here after watching the broadcast to comment. Local time is roughly 1839, show comes on at 2100. Comments from me probably will go up after 1330

Because his head "might be popped off his neck", he had a stay of execution under the grounds that it constituted "Cruel and Unusual Punishment". I don't know if he was executed, or if the case is still being heard.

I don't know North Carolina law on Police Monitor Radios (scanners) in POVs. Here in NY State, only LEOs in the line of duty, the Press Corps, and HAM radio operators, are authorized to have radios capable of receiving Police radio traffic actually in their POVs. There is an exception: a permit from the local LEO authority. When I worked in Nassau County, I would have needed a permit from the NYPD, the Nassau County PD, the Freeport (NY) PD, Rockville Centre (NY) PD, and the Lynbrook (NY) PD, at a cost of $25.00 for each agency. Yet none of them knew of the existance of such permits, when I asked to get applications for them. My friends who are HAMs, for this and other reasons, have been on my case for years to get an Amateur Radio Service license (some of them are even EMT City members). A mention that here in NYC, the Sheriff's and the Marshal's offices don't do law enforcement. They are for repo-ing cars and other property from deadbeats to return said properties to their original sellers, or auctioning off said items, usually from the steps of one of the 5 Borough Halls in NYC. Anybody notice that this guy's name was McVey? This in the same week they observed the anivirsary of the Kansas City Bombing of the Murrah Building. Coincidence?

It might explain the strobies, at least. In 1971, a manager of mine at the McDonalds was also an auxiliary cop. HE got arrested for chasing and pulling over a car that was displaying a blue "Kojack" dash light, and proceeding at a somewhat high rate of speed, and going through Red Traffic Signals, while this manager was in his personal car. The car he was chasing turned out to be the FEDS, specifically, an FBI team. However, he had neither lights or siren in his POV.

That suddenly clears things up for me. First, I got an E-Mail from, allegedly, the sister of a woman I used to date, but using the wrong first name for whom the E-Mail is in my records. The mailing said she was robbed at a conference in London, but made no reference to the grounding of most aircraft due to the Icelandic volcanic dust/ash cloud, then still in progress. Then, this. If anybody gets one of these letters, allegedly from me, just look to see if I made mention of the trip prior in the EMT City. Besides, I usually never leave NY State, except to cut across the New Jersey Palisades from the George Washington Bridge to the New York Thruway.

For the record, I have no part of the decision making in the FDNY EMS Command, just turning in field review paperwork on new equipment being field tested by us. In some defense of them, I can only presume they were trying to be proactive, as opposed to reactive, in starting out with the new protocols and equipment.

I have no idea Me? No, but somebody else already has, if in part.

Somewhere out there, is a movie on a military basic training camp. The Sargent tells the recruits, The supervisor I mentioned was kind of like that with me, and apparently had seen the same movie. We got along, for the most part, quite well, as we both had that attitude. I say "for the most part", as nobody likes being advised they are being mandated to stay into the next tour. That, however will be a different string!

Wow. I had totally forgotten "The Sleeping Prophet".

Keeping you advised, I just got a copy of this order, and thought I'd share with the rest of you. As always, remember that this is FDNY EMS Command protocol, your local area might have protocols that are in direct opposition to this one, so always follow your local protocol(s). As per an operations order dated April 23, 2010, from the FDNY EMS Command, Bureau of Operations:

Attitudes vary, from the newjack thinking they know it all due to just having come out of school, to the experienced but overbearing long-timer who wants to teach all by a "watch what I do and you'll never go wrong" 'tude. There is the good newjack, does some, and asks "what do I do next?" and the good long-timer who probes them with "You've done this so far, what else can you do to make it even better?" Of course, there should be some code wording between partners, to let the tech know the other feels they are losing the picture and wants to take over ("Hey, partner, need a bit of help here?"). I have had partners who have done that with me, if it is something new to me, or if I start doing the wrong thing, and I have, with that same partner, returned the favor. This is followed by a review in the ambulance outside the ER, along the lines of "What did you see, or think you saw, that you started going in that direction?" When I have had newjacks, and they are working with numerous partners aside from myself, I tell them that all of us long-timers have our own styles of doing the job, and we do the job well, but "You, newjack, will eventually form your own 'style', in a formatting you'll be comfortable with, inside the protocols and laws we work under. Take from us various ideas on forming up your own 'style', and soon, someone will learn parts of your 'style' when you are teaching a newer newjack than you are now".

Tammy Lin, what, if any, is your "take" on Psychic advisers, in print, telephone, online or streaming video capacities? The previously mentioned "Medium" that I dated, is either a "customer" or an "adviser" with one of these on line "services".

I once was accused of not reporting a nasty dent, actually a 1 by 6 inch cut into the metal of the "box" at shoulder level. In my case, as the ambulance had come in early (overtime personnel going home), the supervisor and I did a walk-around inspection for any new dings and dents in the vehicle. There were none. The next tour, 18 hours later, the same supervisor approached me, asking about that cut. Seems the tour 2 crew I was relieving had reported the damage, and the tour 1 crew that had taken the vehicle from me had denied knowledge. My anger at the damage to my ambulance, which had been the 47Adam vehicle for only a few months, brand new, plus the reminder to the supervisor that he, like me, hadn't seen this damage during the walk-around the night before, convinced him I was not responsible for that damage. He did, however, tell my partner and me, and the crew from the 47Boy unit, to swap out the assigned equipment and trade vehicles. 47Boy got the then newest, if damaged, ambulance at the station, and my 47Adam got placed into the oldest non spare ambulance. 3 months later, 47Boy got their new truck, and we got our new-old-new ambulance back.

I am at an age, both within the job (37 years worth), and chronologically (Almost 56, couple more days at this posting), where most EMTs are younger. I used to BE the younger EMT, as I started out at age 19. Now I mentor younger EMTs. You youngsters are reading me now, are you not? Us long-timers (I refuse, if possible, to say "old-timers, as I feel that to be demeaning) most times do want to help newcomers become decent EMTs and Paramedics.

Here: http://www.emtcity.com/index.php/topic/17723-fire-truck/page__p__236615__hl__little%20red%20wagon__fromsearch__1&#entry236615

European Motoring Foundation? Back to the actual string...(sorry for the hijack!)

I guess you never saw the "Wagon Train" sequence from "Blazing Saddles"? The sheriff's family, being non-white, had to form their own circle when the Indians attacked. Mel Brooks, as an Indian chief, looks at them, and asks "Schvartzes?" (Sorry, despite my Jewish background, I don't know how to spell it in English)

I have no clue of Empaths in my own travels (at least as far as I know). The way they seem to be depicted seems to be like the one Kirk, McCoy and Spock met in Star Trek (TOS=The Original Series), empaths can take away both the pain and physical manifestations of illness and injuries, briefly taking on the pain and manifestations themselves. This almost kills the empaths. For a reference, check out http://www.fancast.com/tv/Star-Trek/96413/621252424/Star-Trek:-The-Original-Series---The-Empath/videos. I must warn any who go to the link, it is an entire Star Trek episode, so set up an extended time to watch. I also seem to recall a "Mutant X" episode where our hero mutants benefitted from one with this ability, even though they had originally been sent to kill him. As for aura reading, there were episodes on both the 1960s and the late 1980s versions of "The Twighlight Zone", where, respectively, a soldier in Korea, and a Southern California schoolteacher (post Columbine), see an aura on someone who is going to die within the next quarter hour. It ends when both see the aura on themselves, as they try to prevent the deaths of others who also have the aura visible. There also was a variation of this on "Medium".

There was a time some decades ago, juvenile delinquents were offered a choice by the courts: Jail Time, or forced enlistment into the US Army. From what I have read, those who went into the army got some discipline they otherwise never would have gotten, and indeed did turn their lives around. Then, there was boxer Rocky Gratziano (spelling?), who joined the army that way, deserted after assaulting a commissioned officer, and while on the run, became a champion boxer. He didn't get away with running away, ironically, he was caught when he was booked into a match with an Army Golden Gloves contender, and found himself fighting in front of a bunch of members of his unit (as depicted in the bio-pic "Somebody Up There Likes Me").

The reason I cross referenced to this string was, the NAEMT simply does not want EMTs and Paramedics to participate in the actual executions, as we are supposed to protect and save lives, not take them within our scope of practices. They leave the decision of support or opposition of executions in general up to the individual member.

A cross reference, here, to the NAEMT (National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians) stating an agency policy of not having EMT-Bs or EMT-Ps be involved with executions http://www.emtcity.com/index.php/topic/17744-news-feed-naemt-opposes-ems-participation-in-executions-jemscom/page__p__236734__hl__firing%20squad__fromsearch__1&#entry236734

I just hurt my back, lifting Momma B up, when she fell laughing!

OK, You called my bluff. I went to the TV website to check. I lose! Glen actually says they had 3 dead and one living. My count was wrong by one, so there was no MCI this episode. For those keeping score, yeah, I missed the mark, and admit it. It still remains one of the few times.

On second thought, that simply won't fly!

Of course, Timothy "Jemstone" McGee.