CRASH.............. Stuart pull's up.... "how's it going mate...sooooooooooooo what team do you support".... guy's lying there with his head burst open.... Rang...... VROOOOOM......... stuart leaves the scene !
Very funny Stuart, may your gloating be short lived and rare, lol.
As far as the Biker Down course, good on the guys that are going to it, great skills to have as long as you are not frightened to use them.
True story from the start of this summer, almost as funny as Huge's test for assistance, too funny to be made up.........
Your intrepid hero (Me) is riding his Hp4 to the local town to get its MOT, upon a busy small roundabout I see a cyclist on the road with blood all over his legs, his bike in middle of road on white lines, he is sitting in the lane approaching roundabout, with a crowd of on-lookers looking at him but no-one helping.
I got off my bike and stopped all the traffic with the help of a HGV who made a safe area for the cyclist who was sitting on the road understandably swearing with pain, I asked him where he was sore and he told me his right shin (it was clearly broken but not penetrating the skin). After ascertaining there were no other injuries and that no other vehicle had been involved, I asked him if he could shuffle backward off the road onto the pavement as the road was jam packed with impatient drivers who were endangering him and others. I assisted him backwards on to the pavement and made him comfortable whilst I recovered his bike from the road and waved goodbye to the truck driver, I saw a man on the phone to the Ambulance who were on-route.
When I was walking back to him I saw two REALLY fat women push through the crowd shouting "let us through, we are Nurses", I held back as I had an inkling of what was to come.
One of them grabbed his wrist whilst the other grabbed him from behind and put her hands around his throat almost choking him, almost instantly she said, 'I can't find a pulse!!!!!!!!!!" Oblivious to the fact that the guy was conscious, breathing and holding his knee whilst he was assaulted by these galloots.
I tried to speak to them but they told me to go away "we are Nurses". I just smiled to the cyclist who was now in a panicked state no doubt wondering which one of Sharon or Tracey was going to rape him first.
I started laughing and went back to my bike and buggered off, I was laughing for ages as through experience I know that whilst Doctors and Nurse do fantastic work in a Hospital setting with Second Aid few of them are any good at First Aid unless they are specifically trauma workers. My Daughter is a Nurse and she agrees that they rarely see injuries that have not been stabilised prior to their intervention.
Seriously to those that are attending the courses, best of luck and well done for taking the time out to do it. NEVER be afraid to help an injured person, you might be the difference of life and death.
Just watch out for Sharon and Tracey, or Joyce who missed out on raping the cyclist as she was getting her blonde extensions permed, lol.
JimmyMac