George Zimmerman Emerged From Hiding for Truck Crash Rescue (not a joke)

[TorchTheWitch]

84. that's actually the first thing I thought of

Pulling anyone out of a car wreck is very dangerous to them. Unless it's imperative they be removed from a wrecked vehicle to save their life from an imminent fire or explosion, it's always best to leave these things to EMT's who are trained to recognize possible dangerous physical injuries that make extricating someone a specific way imperative.

I learned that from my own car accident years ago. When I went to get out of the car the police officer that was there warned me not to and why (which scared the shit out of me) and EMS put this big hard plastic neck collar on me while I was still in the car, carried me out of the car, put me on a hard board on a stretcher and actually taped my head in place to the board with duct tape. I would have just gotten out of the car myself and walked to the stretcher and got on it all on my own, but even I couldn't have known if I had a serious neck or back injury that doing that could have caused serious and permanent damage. At the time I thought they were being ridiculous, but after I was able to look back on it I'm damn glad they did the right thing even though I didn't think anything was wrong with me. I still have neck, shoulder and back problems from that accident, but I'm always grateful that the police officer didn't let me get out of the car and EMS took such pains to make sure they got me out and trussed up and boarded into the ambulance as carefully as they did. I'm still not happy about that duct tape though. Surely there's a better way to secure someone's head to a board than that. I thought I'd had half my scalp ripped off when they pulled it off after the x-rays. You could have made a decent wig out of all my hair that got torn out. OUCH! Ugh, my scalp throbbed for days afterward.

That was the first thing I thought of though even before I thought that the whole Zimmerman hero wannabe car wreck story is rubbish. If there is any truth to it I hope they gave him a good dressing down about not just willy nilly pulling anyone out of a car wreck unless it's imperative because of the danger of the car catching fire or exploding. That needs to be left to the learned EMT's.