On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, MIG wrote:

On Feb 4, 9:05*pm, Adrian wrote:
MIG gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

That was certainly my first thought, but I completely and utterly fail
to comprehend any circumstances where blocking an ambulance service
fast response vehicle, then locking gates on them, because they
"shouldn't be driving on the grass" is even remotely acceptable.
The story doesn't do itself much credit. *It repeatedly refers to the
car as an "ambulance", despite it being one of these
http://www.ukemergency.co.uk/ambulance/dsc10899.jpg.

Yup, an ambulance service fast response vehicle, staffed by a paramedic.
The vehicle they send so as to get expert medical help to an incident
faster than a full-fat ambulance may be able to get there.

Although probably not in the Yorkshire colours (may have been less
garish). In London I see a lot of paramedic motorbikes these days,
which makes a lot of sense.

There's also a bicycle paramedic, with huge panniers full of paramedicine
etc. He's been along with the Critical Mass rides on occasion (possibly
always, but i haven't always spotted him). I don't know what he does the
rest of the time.

Thinking about it, there was also a cycling paramedic in Oxford. I was
around when a guy fell out of a tree and donked his head on a concrete
wharf, and he showed up to treat him. It was he

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.7...=17&iwloc=addr

Where an ambulance couldn't have reached (due to bollards) and even a
motorbike would have had trouble.

Wasn't the best picnic i've been to.

tom

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In other news, has anyone here read Blindness? Does it get better after
the 30 page mark, is does the whole thing read like a sentimental fairy
tale for particularly slow children? -- Abigail