That's not nice...

[Lance]

There is no good Samaritan law in the UK and even the laws around reporting overdoses in the US are fraught with issues.
Overdose “Good Samaritan” Laws Should Protect, Not Punish - Network for Public Health Law



I, friends and family (individually & together) have all helped in similar situations but demanding that is probably a step too far.

if there was criminal law for being a twunt the prisons would be bursting.


EDIT: more than they already are

[d000hg]

Hermes is a worse employer as they don't even employ their delivery people and let them go if they don't do their deliveries on the right day.

If they don't employ them can they be a bad employer?

[Gibbon]

There is another side to in/actions such as this. What would have happened if he tried to help, got her half way up and then slipped and she cracked her skull?

A lad I vaguely knew in the RAF saw a car accident and a young woman was terribly injured with her left leg hanging off and bleeding profusely from her aorta. He tried pressure and wrapping coats round etc to no avail. So he then pulled her skirt up and stood on her aorta in her groin to slow down the bleeding until the ambulance arrived. Undoubtedly he saved her life.

A couple of months later the police contacted him with allegations of sexual assault! Which rumbled on for nearly a year.

[SueEllen]

I do wonder why the neighbour that filmed it didn't help though? Another sad curse on society is people willing to film stuff and not help.

Apparently it was filmed by the neighbour's doorbell.

[SueEllen]

There is another side to in/actions such as this. What would have happened if he tried to help, got her half way up and then slipped and she cracked her skull?

A lad I vaguely knew in the RAF saw a car accident and a young woman was terribly injured with her left leg hanging off and bleeding profusely from her aorta. He tried pressure and wrapping coats round etc to no avail. So he then pulled her skirt up and stood on her aorta in her groin to slow down the bleeding until the ambulance arrived. Undoubtedly he saved her life.

A couple of months later the police contacted him with allegations of sexual assault! Which rumbled on for nearly a year.

Lifting a woman's skirt up then standing on someone aorta is a bit weird.

[jainnode]

Lifting a woman's skirt up then standing on someone aorta is a bit weird.

so you'd let her bleed out then?

[d000hg]

If you have an aorta in your groin, something is seriously wrong. Maybe it wasn't her aorta he was looking at when he pulled up her skirt.

[Gibbon]

If you have an aorta in your groin, something is seriously wrong. Maybe it wasn't her aorta he was looking at when he pulled up her skirt.

Your aorta splits in your pelvis into the common iliac vessels, they are nearest the surface in your groin and yes they have aortic pressure which is why you can bleed out so fast. They are also where they attach kidney transplants too because of the copious blood supply.

[Gibbon]

Lifting a woman's skirt up then standing on someone aorta is a bit weird.

Battlefield first aid training.

[vetran]

Your aorta splits in your pelvis into the common iliac vessels, they are nearest the surface in your groin and yes they have aortic pressure which is why you can bleed out so fast. They are also where they attach kidney transplants too because of the copious blood supply.

Seems it depends exactly where. However to close it standing on the edge of the pelvis could stop it.

Sounds like the lad did well, I am sure the doctor confirmed that. The Police of course failed to understand.