Internet Relationships I have a friend, Chris, who I haven’t seen in years. We’re not really friends; we used to work together years ago and got along OK but never really hung out. But when he left that company he went on to become an email administrator. He used the servers as his disposal to broadcast his own joke/oddity list. So although I’ve had no contact with him in a long time, I still learn about what makes him laugh and what he feels interesting enough to share with others, like this gem:
Woman Thought Dead Calls 911 Again
TOPEKA, Kan.–A woman who survived a suicide attempt dialed 911
for help and then passed out -and when rescuers arrived, they thought
she was dead. She had to call 911 a second time before she was given
any help.
Firefighters trained as emergency medical technicians were sent
to the home of a 53 -year-old woman in Soldier Township on Wednesday
after she shot herself in the head, authorities said.
Firefighters found her unconscious and assumed she was dead,
without checking for a pulse. An ambulance was canceled, and
firefighters and deputies waited outside the home to protect it as a
crime scene.
Meanwhile, the woman regained consciousness and called 911
again. Firefighters outside the home were told of the call and rushed
inside to provide medical care.
“It was a mistake. It should have never happened,” said Shawnee
County Sheriff Dick Barta. “I’ve never seen anything like this happen
in my 32 years of law enforcement.”
The woman, who was not identified, was listed in fair condition
Monday at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
— the Los Angeles Times