Thread: More often than ever I really do wonder how they can stay alive?

With you 100% Bob! Start up a deadly weapon while unfit, damage yourself due to unfitness, then drive another deadly weapon. This mindset gets passed on to offspring!! Spare me days!
The mind boggles.
Harry (Redbog)

I think I saw a photo of this bloke trying to start his chainsaw, with the blade between his legs. He's in the running for the Darwin Award, with a split personality.
The biggest problem is that they breed.
Kryn

Originally Posted by Redbog

Start up a deadly weapon while unfit, damage yourself due to unfitness, ...

Maybe I missed it, but I don't think they mentioned that he was operating the chainsaw while intoxicated.

It did mention that he used gin as an antiseptic and for pain relief (hence how he became intoxicated) after the chainsaw accident.

Having said that he should have found alternative means of transport to the hospital.

The sad thing is that there is a 10 hour wait for emergency treatment in the hospital/medical centre he rang.

Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

I think I saw a photo of this bloke trying to start his chainsaw, with the blade between his legs. He's in the running for the Darwin Award, with a split personality.
The biggest problem is that they breed.
Kryn

He wont be doing much breeding if she fires :d

Originally Posted by Vernonv

Maybe I missed it, but I don't think they mentioned that he was operating the chainsaw while intoxicated.

They didn't, but given the rest of the behaviour it's a pretty safe bet.

It did mention that he used gin as an antiseptic and for pain relief (hence how he became intoxicated) after the chainsaw accident.

Yeah, right.

The sad thing is that there is a 10 hour wait for emergency treatment in the hospital/medical centre he rang.

Sad indeed but I wonder how many of these nongs there are out there clogging up the system for those that really need it.

My comment to the little woman this morning was that this had disaster written all over it. I do not *know* but it is highly likely that this guy was two sheets to the breeze before he picked up the chain saw. You don't get to be 3 times the legal limit on one shot to "ease the pain".

Here is my summary of the plot. Somewhat tired and emotional, decides to have some fun with chain saw. In his inebriated state ends up (almost inevitably IMHO) slicing into his skin. Lets face it many of us have had lapses of concentration when perfectly sober that have resulted in injuries, I know I have. Then rings hospital who identify him as anebriated already and they brush him off, so he decides to continue his self medication and self surgery, I mean why ever would you not! Then instead of getting help from a neighbor or friend, he decides to hit the road.

I cannot see any chance of that ending in disaster. He should count himself lucky that he got away with his stupid behavior relatively unscathed or even worse not doing someone else a serious injury.

During my youth, working in the bush, I knew several people who, through lack of company , had to do similar. My own grandfather split his foot clean through between the big and second toe with an axe. He doused it in spirits, drank the rest, bound up his foot and then rode his horse to hospital.
In the bush, alcohol has been used for both pain relief and antiseptic since the white man came.
I know a chap who at six years of age, drove his mother to hospital as she had gone into labor.
Kids in the bush learn to drive early for this very reason. The cops dont like it and the bushies dont care.
My cousin drove her father to hospital after he was bitten by a tiger snake. She was drinking with friends at the time and was voted the soberest . Wouldnt have passed a breath test though. Should we lock her up?
To assume the chap in the OP was drinking prior to using the chainsaw seems a bit judgmental.
You would probably find the judge would have done exactly the same thing in similar circumstances.
I was attacked by chap wielding a knife. I belted him. Hard. He pressed charges. The case was dismissed. Plaintiff to bear costs. The magistrate's parting words to me were,
"In future, dont take the law into your own hands."
Yeah right.

Originally Posted by rustynail

During my youth, working in the bush, I knew several people who, through lack of company , had to do similar. My own grandfather split his foot clean through between the big and second toe with an axe. He doused it in spirits, drank the rest, bound up his foot and then rode his horse to hospital.
In the bush, alcohol has been used for both pain relief and antiseptic since the white man came. . . . . . . .

We all have those emergency stories when there's no one around that could/should drive or do what needs to be done.

The one I am familiar with was the tree faller in a small country town back in the early 1950s who sliced his guts open with a freshly sharpened axe late on a friday afternoon after work and "a few drinks".
Two of his mates held his guts in place and staunched the blood flow and drove him around to the local docs house where the victim arrived unconscious from shock/blood loss.
The only doctor in town had also been on the turps for a couple of hours and was in no state to do the operation so the bloke was going to have to be driven 50 km to the next town but it would then be touch and go so the doctor did it anyway and he reckoned they were the neatest set of stitches he'd ever made in his life.
Years later the victim would retell the story and show the ft long scar at the local pub for a beer.

The difference between all these stories and the dude in the news story is he had a viable alternative of asked for help from neighbours.

Maybe, but we dont know the status of the neighbours.. were they home, were they not? He probably decided the time spent looking for somebody was better spent driving himself to hospital, seeing he had a car at his disposal.

Originally Posted by rustynail

Maybe, but we dont know the status of the neighbours.. were they home, were they not? He probably decided the time spent looking for somebody was better spent driving himself to hospital, seeing he had a car at his disposal.

Here is apparently what the magistrate said.
""There were other options available, such as calling an ambulance or a taxi or approaching a workman or a neighbour. None of these were explored before the appellant decided to drive himself."

Also neighbours do not always get on for one reason or another, if you ask the other.

Originally Posted by BobL

They didn't, but given the rest of the behaviour it's a pretty safe bet.

Well that does it then ... that's all the evidence I need.

Sorry but I would rather stick to the facts as presented and even then, relying on most media these days to relay the "facts" accurately can be a stretch - they do have a tendency to sensationalise things to appeal to the masses.

Regardless this guy does appear to be a bit of a nong.

Originally Posted by BobL

Here is apparently what the magistrate said.
""There were other options available, such as calling an ambulance or a taxi or approaching a workman or a neighbour. None of these were explored before the appellant decided to drive himself."

If I had taken the advise of the magistrate, I'd be dead now.

It all beggars belief!!!

I remember my father taking an axe and other tools from a drunk worker in his gang.

The fellow was sent to sleep off the grog for the day but was paid!!!!