Wow, those EMTs they're going to be in a world of shit when the wrongful death lawyers descend on them. Any hint of someone who might have made it in their career is going to create suspicion.
What... what!?... WHAT!!!???? Those fuckers, how dare they!! What gives them the right to make that choice!? You're an EMT damn it, its you job to save people, or at least try. Holy crap am I pissed about this!!!
As if its not bad enough to die, he died at their feet knowing they weren't going to lift a finger to help.
Wow. This story is so disturbing that, frankly, I'm not sure I'm prepared to believe it without a second source. It's got the kind of over-the-top melodramatic horror that trips my urban-legend radar.
I'm not saying it is an urban legend, just that the story as presented is, well, it reads like one -- it's constructed as a story; everything in the story fits the story line, with none of the odd facts that characterise true life. I think the thing about it that trips my urban-legend radar the hardest is the fact that the victim's name, Barry Baker, is given, but the name of the city he lived in was left out and in fact the country in which it happened is left vague too (I think maybe Canada?). That kind of vagueness and delocalisation is characteristic of urban legends.
Whether it is a true urban legend (don't think so), or true fact that's been reshaped in the retelling until it sounds like an urban legend (what I believe), or true fact that we get to observe midway though its transformation into an urban legend (what I suspect
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Well, you said it yourself: "First place I saw it linked to a newspaper site in the UK". So, natch, you had the second source right there. First place I saw it didn't link to an outside source, so I had a different impression.
(Incidentally, and off-LJ, there's a package addressed to you. We're in and out a lot (and often inaccessible even when home -- for instance, I'm generally a day sleeper), so unless it's something that will be harmed by the cold we'll leave it on the front porch for you to pick up at your convenience.)
Oh! I found out this weekend what that package is. A present from someone who had the old address, a present I did not expect to get at all. Is a video game. Front porch sounds fine!
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As if its not bad enough to die, he died at their feet knowing they weren't going to lift a finger to help.
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I'm not saying it is an urban legend, just that the story as presented is, well, it reads like one -- it's constructed as a story; everything in the story fits the story line, with none of the odd facts that characterise true life. I think the thing about it that trips my urban-legend radar the hardest is the fact that the victim's name, Barry Baker, is given, but the name of the city he lived in was left out and in fact the country in which it happened is left vague too (I think maybe Canada?). That kind of vagueness and delocalisation is characteristic of urban legends.
Whether it is a true urban legend (don't think so), or true fact that's been reshaped in the retelling until it sounds like an urban legend (what I believe), or true fact that we get to observe midway though its transformation into an urban legend (what I suspect ( ... )
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(Incidentally, and off-LJ, there's a package addressed to you. We're in and out a lot (and often inaccessible even when home -- for instance, I'm generally a day sleeper), so unless it's something that will be harmed by the cold we'll leave it on the front porch for you to pick up at your convenience.)
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