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I cant find the video but there was a very serious accident in Australia at a theme park and several people died. The ambulance crews who attended reported that "The patients suffered injuries incompatible with life" and the media had a fucking field day about how paramedics shouldnt be making jokes and how cold and insensitive it was and blah blah blah.
The Ambulance service had a press conference the following day which was one of the absolute best public ass chewings Ive ever seen. The guy tore into the media like a wolverine. Heavily paraphrased but - "Our paramedics are not doctors, legally speaking they cannot pronounce someone dead. They do however know that a man who has been literally torn to pieces by heavy machinery cant be helped. They have to stand there, look at that scene and make a realistic professional assessment that the patient has suffered injuries that nobody could survive and report that. Then they have to look at the next person... and report that professionally too... and then the next one... And without doing any investigation into our procedures and the why of them you decide to report on OUR professionalism!?!"
This is pretty damn epic. Good on that ambulance service.
Was it the Dream World incident?
Yeah, its easy to find the video of the initial statement. Cant find the followup though.
It was the most amazingly professional "go fuck yourselves" Ive ever heard.
I like Aussies. Always have. Never met a single one that didn't tell me what he thought about me or anything else.