Honestly, from the sublime to the ridiculus –
A police officer in Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada insisted on detaining and ticketing a man who was being rushed to the hospital to remove nails embedded in his skull. After construction foreman Gavin Docherty received two hits to the head from a nail gun in a terrible workplace accident, a first-aid worker moved swiftly to drive Docherty to Saanich Peninsula Hospital. The pair made it half-way before being intercepted by a police officer.
“We showed him the nail sticking out of my forehead but he didn’t care at all,” Docherty told A-Channel news, as reported by the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper. “He was dead set on getting some tickets.”
Actually, that IS what the cop did. He allowed them to continue to the hospital and ticketed him in ER.
Unbelievable! Irrespective of compassion, where is the common sense? I rushed my son to the hospital once a few years ago with a nasty head wound. With flashers going and adrenalin pumping I broke several traffic laws but if we had waited for an ambulance to come to our rural home, he probably would not have made it.
I guess I was lucky no law enforcement happened to witness my high speed trip to the hospital.
I’m sure our policemen would have more compassion then that. They would at least follow you to the hospital before handing out the ticket.