Learner driver who stitched own chainsaw wound before drink driving to hospital loses appeal

ABC ^ | February 17, 2015 | Loukas Founten

[Squawk 8888]

I could tell from the headline that this happened in Australia.

[Squawk 8888]

It’s amazing to see how natural selections works in a place that was designed by God to kill people.

[doorgunner69]

A hardy group, they are..............

Amazing a croc was not involved.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

10 hours?

[Ray76]

He was not a novice driver, he had driven for 10 yrs in California.

[Patriot Babe]

Wow sounds very Obamacarish =)

[BreezyDog]

How drunk is the headline writer?

[bigbob]

This has all the ingredients for a major motion picture!

[familyop]

“Mr Withrow...had held a full licence in California for 10 years,”

[spokeshave]

“Mr Withrow...had held a full licence in California for 10 years,”

Well...there you have it....

10 years in California did nothing to improve his chainsaw dexterity

[Boogieman]

That’s probably what he was trying to cut up with the chainsaw :)

[Olog-hai]

There are a number of contradictions in that statement.

[VanShuyten]

“His blood alcohol reading was 0.175, more than three times the legal limit, and he was issued with an immediate licence disqualification.”

“He argued the failing to stop offence was trivial in itself because he was travelling at approximately five kilometres per hour.”

“The magistrate ruled against Mr Withrow, saying he should have used a taxi or asked neighbours for a ride to hospital if he could not afford an ambulance.”

Here, hold muh gin. I gotta stitch this up and then drive to the hospital.

[familyop]

Notice the nature of emergency-rescue-judicial rackets now.

[Slings and Arrows]

If this gentleman were to emigrate from Australia to Florida the average sanity of both places would go up.

[vette6387]

“He was not a novice driver, he had driven for 10 yrs in California.”

Hey, the “boracho Mexicans” here are the problem drivers. The rest of us have to be way better than average to keep from getting hit by them! Secondarily, we have a large community of Chinese who have never made the transition from Ricksha to motor vehicle. The saying here is that the last thing a Chinese driver sees as he exits the freeway is a single-finger “salute” from the other drivers. (There are no Chinese F1 Drivers!)

[familyop]

Some ambulance rides have cost more or less than $10,000 in the U.S. during recent years. Some of the ambulance companies are multinationals owned by groups of investors. With the ongoing default process and somewhat managed shrinkage of the economy, many of the currently smug and insured will meet consequences before long.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

If he was a Texan he would have said “I ain’t got time to bleed,” and the wound would have closed up on its own.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Moonman62]

He had earlier phoned the Noarlunga Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre, only to be told they were extremely busy and would be unable to treat his gaping wound for more than 10 hours.

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That sounds like socialized medicine to me.