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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 

No brakes

Last night was my first day back from the weekend. I had 3 whole days off. I worked Friday night and we ran all over all night long. One of the psych patients, a felon, had been scaring the staff so they had him snowed and restrained. The shrink was able to get him into a forensic facility. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when he left, except the EMS guys that had to transport him. There was a woman burned 80% in a car fire that got diverted. Thought it was an accident, but The EMS guys said she left a suicide note back at the house.

I managed to be sick on my days off, never a good thing. We were busy last night, but nothing particularly profound, just the usual flow. The weekend was pretty bad across the area. One nearby city has had 20 people shot in the last week. Its getting like the wild west or the early nineties.There was a five victim fatal crash and burn MVA a few miles up the road from our place. Four were ejected, one was pinned and burned. They all went to OCME. They were way beyond medical help. Over the weekend we got a youth that was racing his brother down a mountain on a bicycle. They told me he didn't have brakes. His brother got home and he never showed. They went back and found him. Broke his neck. It was his birthday.

Its also motorcycle season.

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