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//I'll admit, it took a minute subby


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♫ Now, a stick to the head
And some kicks to the shins
And several bites by Rin Tin Tin
And I couldn't wait to get into that jail ♫

Nice one!

Better than 'eats shoots and leaves'

Like the headline. The story, however, reminds me of a Cool Story Bro moment:

Back a thousand years or so, I was a transporter for the juvenile detention center. This meant that I did the pickups from police departments, and took kids from the center to court, and to the hospital when they needed treatment. One day I got to work and there was a kid and a file waiting for me. File said the kid need to have his dog bite rechecked. When we got there (and waited a hour) they unwrapped his leg. The attending poked at it (the kid winced every time -- he was doing a pretty good job of manning up, but this wound was quite infected). He disappeared and came back with a gaggle of R1-s and proceeded to give them a lesson in recognizing gas gangrene. He showed them how you could note it from the "crackling" feeling in the tissues surrounding the wound as the gases moved through the tissue when you palpated it. Each one of them got to poke at the kid's leg.

When he was done, they left, he pulled up about 15ccs of lidocaine in a big syringe, and without even telling the kid to look the other way, take a breath, or anything, he plunges it right into the main bite wound. Kid teared up but didn't lose it, which was impressive. Doc then began irrigating the wound before the kid was numbed up completely. As much as I understood why the kid got bit (bad kid -- banger, ten/fifteen arrests, knew there was a dog with the cops, ran anyway. Bad choice -- they could have been a bit nicer to him. Ended up having to admit him for IV antibiotic treatment. So they signed the piece of paper giving them custody and it wasn't my problem any more. Didn't see him again -- either he got released to parents, or escaped, or died.

/csb

Nice headline.