• Dozens of people perform CPR for 96 minutes to help heart attack victim
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[quote]When Howard Snitzer clutched his chest and crumpled on a freezing sidewalk outside Don's Foods in Goodhue, Minn., he was wearing gym shorts, fresh from his daily workout. Across the street, at Roy and Al's Auto Service, the Lodermeier brothers were getting ready to close. A local high school teacher ran up. "He said a guy had fallen on the sidewalk," Al Lodermeier says. At that moment, Don Shulte, owner of the grocery store, walked in. The three ran back to where Snitzer lay on the sidewalk. He wasn't breathing. He had no pulse. If he didn't get help soon, he would die.[/quote] [url]http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/mind-soul/doing-good/2011-03-03-saviors03_ST_N.htm[/url] This is just a completely heart warming story.
[QUOTE=Master117;28417478]This is just a completely heart warming story.[/QUOTE] I see what you did there.
[QUOTE=Master117;28417478]This is just a completely heart warming story.[/QUOTE] This joke left me breathless.
[quote]"He hugged me for a long time. He wouldn't let go."[/quote] :q:
Despicable that it took so long for help to arrive
Round where i live i had to do CPR on a guy who had collapsed in the street, i was probably about 5 minutes in and quite a few ppl had gathered ( idiots had to be told to call for an ambulance like 5 times ) and one guy thought i was mugging him.............
[QUOTE=Atokniro;28417988]Despicable that it took so long for help to arrive[/QUOTE] Clearly you've never tried to drive a vehicle the size/weight of an ambulance during a winter storm. It's a nightmare.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;28419812]Clearly you've never tried to drive a vehicle the size/weight of an ambulance during a winter storm. It's a nightmare.[/QUOTE] I've driven a fully loaded Utility van during a blizzard. You call it a nightmare, I call it a challenge :frogc00l:
[QUOTE=Source;28418811]Round where i live i had to do CPR on a guy who had collapsed in the street, i was probably about 5 minutes in and quite a few ppl had gathered ( idiots had to be told to call for an ambulance like 5 times ) and one guy thought i was mugging him.............[/QUOTE] I was reading something a while back, I don't remember the specific name for the theory but it was called "Bystander effect", good read; [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect[/url] "The bystander effect or Genovese syndrome is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely related to the number of bystanders; in other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help." Basically, if there are more bystanders to help someone the chance of someone actually helping is slim because everyone is hoping that the others will help so they don't have to, apparently singling people out like saying "You in the red top, ring an ambulance" helps.
One lucky guy, to have all them people there to help.
[QUOTE=Atokniro;28417988]Despicable that it took so long for help to arrive[/QUOTE] Help was immediate in the form of the first responders.
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