Anyone ever been a good samaritan?

Scuzi

Scuzi

Scuzi

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Bit of a strange thread this since I'm a bit drunk but I was on my way home tonight after a few hours on the cider when I stumbled across a guy lying on the pavement. Since it's freshers week here in Winchester I thought it was just some drunk student but this guy was blue. I know they say it in movies and stories but this guys face was actually blue. I kind of crapped myself proverbially and knelt down to have a word with him. I slaped him on the face a few times and tried to get a response but there was nothing. Realising something wasn't right, I had a duke in his mouth and for some reason I stuck my fingers in there and took a grab of his tongue and pulled it out. I don't know why I did this as I have no clue about medical stuff but as soon as I took a grab of his tongue this guy started to sort of breathe again. It was instinct.

At that point I realised something wasn't right and called 999. Fair play to them, within a couple of minutes they arrived and tended to this guy. When they arrived he wasn't breathing and as far as I know he had no heartbeat so they gave him CPR. Eventually they brought this guy around and got him taliking which I couldn't believe. Moments before he was techincally dead then he was talking to the paramedics.

To cut a long story short they shipped him off in the ambulance and took him to hospital. One of the paramedics told me had I not intervened, the guy would most likely be dead by now. That freaked me out.


I'm not posting this for the purpose of kudos or anything, I'm just copmpletely freaked out by the impact I have had one someone's life (or lack of it) and can't quite come to terms with it.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and if so, how did you deal with it?

I'm still ****ed and confused but after realising what just happened I'm a bit freaked out. :(
 
Go to bed. Get up tomorrow and get on with your life. Don't worry about it, don't milk it. Just be content in the fact you're not a complete arse.

It's weird having to give praise to someone for something any decent person should do for another, but let's be honest; life isn't like that and nor are people. So, whether you like it or not: kudos. :)

That'll do pig, that'll do.
 
True bill, Nix. I don't intend to milk it and I don't intend to worry about it. I just have trouble comprehending the whole situation. It just doesn't...... make sense? I mean, screw the whole hero ********, yeah I might have saved this guys life but from my point of view it's just totally werd and uncomprehendable. I didn't think at the time but now I'm thinking about what may have happened and I'm totally freaking myself out. It sucks. :(

To hell with it. I suppose it's nothing that a few glasses of whiskey can't fix :D
 
Indeed a good teabagging would have been well deserved, just make sure no one posts pics of your knob on facbook. (happened to a friend).

But seriously well done. I see people on the floor all the time in town and just walk past but to be fair they don't look blue. I had to phone 999 recently for the first time. It was quite scary in a way but it was the right move, turned out my mate had a collapsed lung after the Xray.
 
What else would you have done, the dude was blue. So was he drunk then or was something genuinely wrong with him?

In the meantime, here's some more blue folk to take your mind off it all:
 
Well played Scuzi. I've yet to be in a situation where I could offer so much help as to save someone's life, and hopefully will never be. If I do come across something like you have, I hope I act in the same way.
 
I'm the type of person who will attend to those people that everybody else walks over.
Sometimes they're drunk and sleeping it off on the floor but at least 10 times in the last 30 years an ambulance has been called.
I gave CPR to a dead man for 30 minutes about 20 years ago.
The one I'm most proud of was a car crash involving 4 young people joyriding and when I went past about 20 people were just standing there staring at them.
I quickly took charge getting other people involved and putting 2 of the passengers in the recovery position but as soon as the ambulance came I took off.
Like you Scuzi, the following day I just stood there in a daze and was taken down to our works surgery where I poured my heart out.
Apparently it's very normal when you've just saved lives or lost them and that's why hospitals have their own Counseling services for workers.

My latest Samaritan work was yesterday when I saw a young woman in trouble on a car park.
With her car switched off and keys out of the ignition her car kept turning on:eek:
I got my toolbag out and removed a lead from her battery.
 
I once came across a guy spread out on the pavement at 4 in the afternoon, with his head and tongue properly lolling and his eyes all over the place. The guys in the newsagents were just watching. I told them to call an ambulance but they said they couldn't dial out from their phone. Whatever. Idiots. I'd left my phone at home so I had to start my dr abc stuff myself. Thankfully he started responding so I didn't have to start cpr! Some guy who'd been driving past rocked up with a mobile and called an ambulance. I waited a bit, but the guy with the phone said I may as well head off.

The guy on the floor was drunk or drugged up or both. Some woman who knew him turned up and said it happens from time to time. Pretty sad.

I could have killed those guy in the newsagents though.
 
Where I used to live, someone hailed a taxi cab and then tried to rob the driver whilst it was driving along. The taxi driver was trying to fight him off as well as drive, they ended up crashing into a parked car outside my flat. I heard the bang from the crash, looked out the window and saw the taxi.

Ran downstairs and outside, the bloke who had tried to rob him had run away (I knew the taxi driver was telling the truth because the back door was open and the driver couldn't have done that) and because taxi drivers don't legally have to wear seat belts, when they crashed his head had gone into the windscreen, nice big crack in the windscreen and lots of blood from taxi driver. He was conscious, so I ran back into the house, and got my phone and a tea towel. Put tea towel on his head and rang 999. Kept him talking while everybody turned up, which is how I found out what had happened.

Police and ambulance turned up, took my details and then I left them to it.

Good on you Scuzi by the way. :)
 
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I've come off a motorbike and had 15 or so cars just drive on by bespite my bike blocking a blind bend in a 60mph zone. ne woman stopped, but luckily I was OK and not far from home so I thanked her and sent her on her way as she didn't look like she could help lift it :D

I'm lucky to have grown up in an area that's rural and full of warm hearted and helpful people. Well, it used to be. Compared to big towns and cities it's still great, but most people don't seem to give a toss anymore. Completely self obsessed. It's people like you who can just be there that make the difference. I've been there myself quite a number of times with car accidents etc. I don't think much of it, you just do what you gotta do.

The same goes for homeless people and beggars. I rarely go anywhere built up enough that attracts them in the street, but I do tend to just ask if the're OK in passing and hand over some shrapnel. They seem to appreciate the "are you OK" more. My mum always seems to get approached by people asking for a light or for a fag by homless too. Never seen it happen to anyone else, it's quite odd but my mum doesn't mind.
 
I confronted a couple of guys who were actually trying to rob a homeless guy :/

thankfully nothing as bad as Scuzi's incident, but well played to you sir for being smart enough even while drunk ;)
 
Something similar happened to me last yr...i was on my way home from work...it must have been aroudn 9pm on a fri night...anyhow as i was walking up to the DLR station, where i catch my train...i saw some guy standing at the railings next to the road...next thing i know he falls back and smacks his head on the pavement behind...now the pavement behind him has these sort of steps so was quite sharp...well the area he hit his head...anyhow at first i stood there in disbelief...couldnt quite believe what i saw...there was no one else about so i went up to him to see if he was ok...he was out cold, bloody pouring from the back of his head...i kinda panicked but called 999 where i spoke to someone and within a few mins the ambulance was there to take over.

Found out the guy was drunk as a skunk and i mean drunk...he couldnt stand straight so no wonder he fell back and smacked his head...bet he woke up with a banging headache next day lol.

Anyhow not as life threatening as your Scuzi but still scared me somewhat...i felt good after helping some random guy who could have been in a lot more trouble had i not called the ambulance.
 
Slightly different but fits;


I remember back when I was about 12, I was in the town with a friend, and these other kids (the kind who are now young adults with asbos and police records) all jumped me and started fighting with me, any time I tried to fight back, another would jump in.

Anyway, during the conflict I was waiting for one of the several hundred adults in the town square to step in and help me, as you think anyone would if they were to see a 12 year old with several other 12 year olds beating on him. There were plenty of people walking past only 6 feet away from where we were standing, yet all they did was look at us and carry on walking, clearly seeing I was in distress. It made me feel sick seeing that the adults who I relied on to stop this kind of thing, and more importantly expected to stop this were simply watching and walking past, and I was helpless. Of course the other kids also noticing that nobody was going to step in only took it as an oppurtunity to be more daring.

I still feel angered years later that all the people who saw the situation did nothing, I would always put myself in a risky situation to help someone who is being attacked, even if there was a chance I would be attacked myself - especially if it were a child. It's a perfect reflection of society today, because it's constantly noted by people that others are reluctant to step in to put themselves at risk - yet they would surely want someone to step in were they in the situation. People don't care as long as it doesn't come to their doorstep.

Anyway, slightly offtopic, slightly related, but the stories above made me think of it.
 
Not to that extent, but i'll always help a drunk person in trouble.
I found some bloke asleep in a road one day, dragged him out of it, grabbed one of the coppers on duty (station just round the corner).
 
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