A Lucky Lad

[Alan_W]

It may sound strange to call someone who had a 4 foot metal spike through their skull lucky, but wow. Surviving THIS is amazing.

And what a great imaging.

[emporer]

Just going off topic a bit, reading through that article made me chuckle thinking of how my boss (a Hindu indian) is always telling me how advanced India is nowadays etc,- just how advanced is a country where a serious accident like this happens and a guy who has been speared through the head gets taken to hospital in a bloody rickshaw, and on it for an hour, and then has to endure another 3 hour journey to somehwere that could treat him. Thats really advanced!!!!

[Decadence]

Originally Posted by emporer

Just going off topic a bit, reading through that article made me chuckle thinking of how my boss (a Hindu indian) is always telling me how advanced India is nowadays etc,- just how advanced is a country where a serious accident like this happens and a guy who has been speared through the head gets taken to hospital in a bloody rickshaw, and on it for an hour, and then has to endure another 3 hour journey to somehwere that could treat him. Thats really advanced!!!!

The same thing could happen here though if you crashed a bus in Leicester Square!

[Uridium]

Originally Posted by emporer

Just going off topic a bit, reading through that article made me chuckle thinking of how my boss (a Hindu indian) is always telling me how advanced India is nowadays etc,- just how advanced is a country where a serious accident like this happens and a guy who has been speared through the head gets taken to hospital in a bloody rickshaw, and on it for an hour, and then has to endure another 3 hour journey to somehwere that could treat him. Thats really advanced!!!!

3 hours to get to a good hospital in rural India doesn't surprise me. the Roads are shocking.

a 150km drive on major roads took us almost 5 hours recently

and you'd be amazed what they do carry in Rickshaw's!

[Geege]

They were filming the new "Final Destination" horror film at the time the bus crashed.

[Maniac618]

Wasn't there a thread on here recently showing an NHS patient on a trolley at a bus stop?

The Health Service is a joke here too, not only in India, plus they saved him.

[Alan_W]

If I had been him, when the rickshaw stopped at the lights I would have jumped off and nipped into the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. He was a cert.

[dognosh]

Originally Posted by Maniac618

The Health Service is a joke here too

I've lived all over the world and I can honestly say our health service is only beaten by very few countries,and that is out of over 190. Same goes for the Police and our politicians, we don't know when we've got it good

[mooperman]

Originally Posted by Maniac618

Wasn't there a thread on here recently showing an NHS patient on a trolley at a bus stop?.

it turned out to be some kind of publicity stunt.....

[Phil57]

Originally Posted by dognosh

I've lived all over the world and I can honestly say our health service is only beaten by very few countries,and that is out of over 190. Same goes for the Police and our politicians, we don't know when we've got it good

Well said...............

[Singh400]

...and he probably went back to the call centre after the op.

Originally Posted by emporer

Just going off topic a bit, reading through that article made me chuckle thinking of how my boss (a Hindu indian) is always telling me how advanced India is nowadays etc,- just how advanced is a country where a serious accident like this happens and a guy who has been speared through the head gets taken to hospital in a bloody rickshaw, and on it for an hour, and then has to endure another 3 hour journey to somehwere that could treat him. Thats really advanced!!!!

It's def. not an advanced looking country - 75% of India is a shithole basically. But around 80% of the worlds programmers come from India and along with China, we (India) have the fatest growing economy (or something or other).