We did this

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Victoria.
Did you work at the RPA in Sydney?
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

The members of the medical profession are often abused in manners not in a manner that may be considered as such.

The Austen hospital in Melbourne has a lot of Ethnics living close by and they were abusing the Emergency department by treating it as a GP rooms.
Going there for the slightest of complaints rather than making an appointment with their GP.
Took so many staff away from genuine emergencies.
But they fixed it.

On entry triarged and if not genuine sent across the car park to another section where they were told there would be a $10 charge as their case was not serious. Non genuine emergencies dropped by over 80% within a month.
A number of other hospitals now use this method.

[Doc Vernon]

Similar to what happens with the 000 Emergency Number John, i cannot recall the uses that wee told on TV but mate there were some just plain silly and ridiculas calls to that Number. Some People !??
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

Victoria you will be well aware of what comes in there.
I have been an emergency on one occasion and got the very best of treatment by some very professional staff.

But when you see a guy with only his underpants on and in hand cuffs with two cops it makes you wonder why in emergency?/

[j.sabourn]

#75.. Victoria 2 sets of handcuffs and a straightjacket were usually found in the mates wardrobe on most cargo ships I was on. I used to if nothing better to do put one of the cuffs on myself then starting with the biggest notch try slipping them, I finally worked down to the tightest notch and in the finish with hours of practice over a period of time could slip them. They were standard police design, mind I was a lot thinner in those days, myself I wouldnt be too complacent about a criminal in handcuffs. Give him a thump behind the ear just to be sure. Cheers JS.

[happy daze john in oz]

Now John tell the truth.
You were into fettish in those days and thought the girls might like that way of things LOL

[cappy]

when the cook ran amok with the cleaver on a tanker i was on .......he was chained via handcuffs to his ....very secure bunk ......till we reached mena al ahmadi ...where the guy he butchered was carried ashore ...in that godforsaken place.....R683532

[j.sabourn]

What was the argument about Cappy , was the yolk of the egg broken ? You know what they used to say Don’t upset the Cook at your peril. Cheers JS

[Tony Taylor]

when the cook ran amok with the cleaver on a tanker i was on .......he was chained via handcuffs to his ....very secure bunk ......till we reached mena al ahmadi ...where the guy he butchered was carried ashore ...in that godforsaken place.....R683532

I went to the dentist there in 68, that was bad enough.

[Graham Shaw]

Now John tell the truth.
You were into fettish in those days and thought the girls might like that way of things LOL

John, our 'poofreader' (sic )shipmate Gulliver would have screamed such abuse at you ,or at least put you on his blocked list for six months for spelling it like that.

Personally I don't know what the attraction of 'being into' smelly Greek cheeses is all about....
Anyway I sailed on one vessel that really should have had as many straitjackets on board as lifejackets,I feel sure many of you will know what I mean-characters like Never Knowingly Normal Neville from Newton Abbott or Thomas the ex-'Tea Leaf' captain's Tiger from Tynemouth,who claimed he had had a twin brother Trevor,a Transvestite Tractor Driver from Teesside who he claimed went down on the Titanic,although when confronted with the fact that we couldn't find him on that fateful liner's final crewlist, said he might have been mistaken and it could well have been Harrison's the Tactician,from which he either Threw himself overboard ,or was Tossed there ,after a lovers Tiff with a Tindal from Tamil Nadu during a Tropical Revolving Storm in the Tasman Sea.......I seem to have run out of alliterative T's,indeed any other alliterations for the moment,so I'll don either my lifejacket or straitjacket from the marked lockers in my cabin,whichever comes to hand first ,and just utter TTFN.