Note to self: Stick with a knife instead of the chainsaw when drunk.
Posted on 02/16/2015 9:07:18 PM PST by Squawk 8888
‘Twern’t really nothin’ to worry ‘bout, mate!
The croc was, in this case, sitting on the Court.
What a crock! Having stitched up a chainsaw wound, and being stopped by a cop while driving himself to the hospital, couldn’t the cop have driven him to the hospital? Or was Mr. Ossifer too busy keeping the local donut population properly fearful of him?
DANG! from Down Under.
Self reliance was at one time considered a virtue but no more.
The article then gets to root of the problem:
This man is originally from California.
Last summer I was walking a street in Berlin I had never walked before and discovered a chainsaw store. Was one of the highlights of my summer. You never know what you might find till you look.
I’ve got $20 sez that more than 8 “FReepers” think this was OK.
Talk about sheep.
Methinks he drank the gin before he picked up the chainsaw. Then he had some more to give himself the courage to sew himself up. And then he drank what was left in the bottle as an anaesthetic. It worked.
With a reading of three times over the limit, he wouldn’t have felt much.
Note to self: Stick with a knife instead of the chainsaw when drunk.
Sometimes you just should take the pain pill instead of having the surgery -B.Obama
“Not muh job!”
Aren't chainsaws illegal in California (or at least known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects)?
I drink gin to relieve the pain.
“Methinks he drank the gin before he picked up the chainsaw.”
Methinks you nailed it!
And if he was Chuck Norris, he would have replaced the chain on the saw, wiped the oil and sawdust from his arm, and finished the chore.
When I was a kid we were cutting wood with my dad’s friend. His chainsaw bounced and came down on his cowboy boot and cut a slice thru the toe. He shut off the saw and we both looked at the gap in the leather then the blood came out. He looked at my dad and I then told me to hand him his jacket. He got a big dip of Skoal, shook his head, then went back to sawing. It split his big toe for an inch right down the middle. After about a half hour, he said, Well, I guess I better head for town.
Now that’s just the sort of can-do spirit we’ve come to expect from our siblings Down Under.
If that is true (and all it says is that he told the Judge it was), he wouldn't have been a learner driver in South Australia. American drivers license standards are accepted as valid, and he would have been issued with a South Australian Drivers Licence, not a Learner's Permit.
While it's possible a mistake was made, I think it's more likely his statement to the court was less than entirely truthful.
The judge said he should have called an ambulance or if he couldn’t afford an ambulance he could call a taxi or a neighbor.
I guess Australians don’t have the right to free ambulance service.
Correct. It's one part of our 'free' health care system that isn't free. But many healthcare policies include provisions that will pay for an ambulance, and you can also pay an annual fee for separate coverage if you don't have health insurance or your health insurance policy doesn't cover it. In my state, the fee is about $80 a year for a family, or $40 for an individual, and all the states has reciprocal arrangements so I'm covered Australia wide.
People on most forms of welfare also get free ambulance coverage.
If you don't have it and you use an ambulance you will get a bill - the average is about $2000, but it can be a lot more.
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