Don’t Worry, The State Will Protect You

This is not about protection from wild animals of the two or four legged variety, but of the failure of the 911 (000) service to do it’s job. There have been numerous reports in the past of the emergency services failing to do their jobs and tragedy being the end result. This is another one of these. This story comes from the nanny state of Australia.

Go read the whole thing, the story is heartbreaking. As a father, I can only imagine the feelings such incompetence would generate in me.

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“Seven times, teenage hiker David Iredale used his cell phone to call Australia’s equivalent of 911, pleading for rescue after he became lost in tough scrubland and ran out of water in 100-degree heat.

Each time he got through, he was told he needed to give a street address before an ambulance could be sent. Shortly after the final call, Ireland collapsed and died of thirst.

An inquiry into the 2006 death of the 17-year-old exposed deep flaws in the country’s emergency response system, including what a coroner called an astonishing lack of empathy by the operators who took his increasingly desperate calls for help.

Officials in New South Wales state on Friday acknowledged the system’s failure and promised to overhaul it. Iredale’s father said preventing similar tragedies in the future would be a legacy his son deserved.”

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I Want One!

If for no other reason than to drive the antirights bigots bats&$% insane!

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