I am getting sued for being a hero

[cavemusic]

It's interesting that this thread is still going.

Since a couple of people have alluded to this point, here's a bit more I learned from my first aid training. Generally speaking it's not a good idea for a first aider to move an injured person. If you can't determine the extent of their injuries, you can't be sure that you won't cause greater harm. For example, if their spine is broken, then moving them improperly can sever the spinal cord. Or if their femur (upper leg bone) is broken, the artery in the leg can get severed and they bleed to death in minutes. So a first aider's role is mostly to call for emergency medical help and stabilize the situation until trained help arrives.

However, there is the principle of life over limb. If the person's life is in danger by leaving them there, you need to move them despite the consequences. For example, if they are drowning, or in a fire, or there is an imminent explosion, you obviously need to move them to save their life, never mind what may happen to a limb.

That's the good thing about first aid training - it makes you think through what you should do in advance. And hopefully it will help you react in the best manner possible if an emergency ever happens. Also, the good samaritan act covers you.

 

[Munjibunga]

... alluded ...

 

[cavemusic]

... alluded ...

Thanks.

 

[champbassist]

It's "lownered," named after the member who perfected the practice, Lowner.

Actually the loner thread is not a TB specific phenomenon. On all other forums, the spelling is 'loner', not 'lowner'. Maybe not on TB.

Just in case you were serious

 

[MatticusMania]

he was

 

[dj150888]

Still nothing more from the OP....suspicions are high, particularly considering some of his other threads.

 

[Munjibunga]

Actually the loner thread is not a TB specific phenomenon. On all other forums, the spelling is 'loner', not 'lowner'. Maybe not on TB.

Just in case you were serious

No, it's lowner, named after the member (Lowner, who left in 2008) whose custom it was to leave us with orphaned threads after the initial post.

 

[Pilgrim]

Given the OP's record of posting bogus threads, I don't believe there is anything valid about the original post.

See this now-closed thread, which is just a fabrication: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=703656

 

[Infidelity]

And now quitting TB.. Poor Kid!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=703713

 

[Josh Pelican]

I know he's leaving/has left, but this is a case for Jackie Chiles.

 

[5StringBlues]

I hate that I missed posting in the "I'm Leaving" thread!





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Ha HA!

 

[bassrique]

Do we have proof that the two threads are based on fiction, or do many assume that they are based on the idea that two usually rare occurrences happened in close time proximity?

 

[hbarcat]

Do we have proof that the two threads are based on fiction, or do many assume that they are based on the idea that two usually rare occurrences happened in close time proximity?

I think it's more of the complete lack of plausibility of the stories (particularly the falling tree story) to actually happen in real life as he described. They just don't make sense.

 

[Demon_Hunter]

I find it an odd coincidence that I google "tree fall chicago" and the first thing that popped up was something called Tree Fall of Crow

However, all the other stories are about a tree branch that fell on a van and killed a poor guy.

 

[Febs]

Do we have proof that the two threads are based on fiction, or do many assume that they are based on the idea that two usually rare occurrences happened in close time proximity?

Did you ever watch The Empire Strikes Back and wonder how Luke spent all that time training with Yoda while Han and company spent a seemingly much shorter time in the Millenium Falcon? The falling tree story is sort of like that. The events that the he describes in that story would take weeks, if not months, to happen the way he describes them. Yet here in what I like to call the "real world," only a day or so has passed. The story just doesn't seem very plausible.

Plus, for the reasons I noted in that thread, I find it extremely unlikely that he received the advice he claims he received from his attorney.

 

[hdracer]

Both story's would have been covered by the local news. The one with the little girl would make the national morning news shows.

 

[Kwesi]

While his stories may seem unlikely now, crazier things have happened. I don't think we can all call BS so forcefully without any real evidence suggesting otherwise. Just sayin'.

 

[Waterpilot]

While his stories may seem unlikely now, crazier things have happened. I don't think we can all call BS so forcefully without any real evidence suggesting otherwise. Just saying'.

I don't know man... I see what you're saying but most of his threads struck me as ridiculous. Even bass related ones...

 

[L-A]

The hour-long titanium plate surgery seemingly done just yesterday struck me as, uh, unlikely.

 

[capnsandwich]

The hour-long titanium plate surgery seemingly done just yesterday struck me as, uh, unlikely.

The medical field has come a long way from the 80's and 90's, especially in the titanium plate field. I wouldn't doubt it took an hour to do the surgery. You can get glasses in about an hour. Why not a titanium plate?