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DragonClaw

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ffemt8978 said:
Been around long enough to know the only thing you really regret in life is the chances you didn't take.
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I've done that already more enough times. Tell your family and friends you love them. Don't let them go down a bad path without trying to help. Don't end a phone conversation in anger, it may be the last thing you say to them. Protect who you can when you should. See something say something. Ask them out. Go do that trip. Help those people. We're not here for a long time, so make sure it's a good one in all you do.

I used to think a warrior's death was how you died, but rather it is how you live and at that point, any death is a warrior's death.

I'm done with holding myself back and not doing what needs to be done, saying what needs to be said. Maybe I don't make the best choice but I learn and do better. And I do make the choice.
 
RocketMedic

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Why would you drive him home?
 
DragonClaw

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RenegadeRiker said:
Why would you drive him home?
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The intent was to make sure everyone got where they wanted to go safely. Then he'd have no reason to drive.

But I guess that only worked out so well.

We didn't realize he had an open container until after we agreed to drive him home and got in the truck.
 
RocketMedic

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DragonClaw said:
The intent was to make sure everyone got where they wanted to go safely. Then he'd have no reason to drive.

But I guess that only worked out so well.

We didn't realize he had an open container until after we agreed to drive him home and got in the truck.
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look, a huge part of this business is knowing when to not get involved. The bizarre scenario you just detailed is a textbook opportunity to make it not your problem.
 
DragonClaw

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RenegadeRiker said:
look, a huge part of this business is knowing when to not get involved. The bizarre scenario you just detailed is a textbook opportunity to make it not your problem.
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You'd watch a drunk guy eventually find his keys and drive away?

Like I said, LE was an option I'm mulling over again quite a bit.
 
Seirende

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ffemt8978 said:
Been around long enough to know the only thing you really regret in life is the chances you didn't take.
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That and all the pain for other people you caused or could have prevented
 
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@DragonClaw I think you did ok. Definitely better to give a drunk person a ride home than let them drive.
 
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One great thing about having a serious mental illness is that it makes hard to have a decent income, it's very expensive what with all the medical bills, and it's very hard to manage money due to being horribly depressed. It's just a merry-go-round of financial fun. (She says as she cries while trying to figure out why she has a $30 fee on a bank account that she was trying really hard not to overdraft).
 
DragonClaw

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Seirende said:
One great thing about having a serious mental illness is that it makes hard to have a decent income, it's very expensive what with all the medical bills, and it's very hard to manage money due to being horribly depressed. It's just a merry-go-round of financial fun. (She says as she cries while trying to figure out why she has a $30 fee on a bank account that she was trying really hard not to overdraft).
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I don't need mental illness for this rodeo. Been trying very hard on my budget.
 
RocketMedic

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DragonClaw said:
You'd watch a drunk guy eventually find his keys and drive away?

Like I said, LE was an option I'm mulling over again quite a bit.
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yep. There is absolutely no point in risking myself, my partner or my job to help some drunken idiot. Telling someone to toss the keys in an inaccessible location or requesting law enforcement is as far as I would go. And if you worked for me and were on-duty, and did as you did, I would formally discipline you for taking the ambulance out of service and gross stupidity and negligent, reckless self-endangerment. You are not a police officer, and your role is not to drive strangers home in their vehicles (especially drunken, potentially-violent ones into contexts where weapons are potentially at hand).
Your actions were good hearted, but also really really dumb.
 
DragonClaw

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RenegadeRiker said:
yep. There is absolutely no point in risking myself, my partner or my job to help some drunken idiot. Telling someone to toss the keys in an inaccessible location or requesting law enforcement is as far as I would go. And if you worked for me and were on-duty, and did as you did, I would formally discipline you for taking the ambulance out of service and gross stupidity and negligent, reckless self-endangerment. You are not a police officer, and your role is not to drive strangers home in their vehicles (especially drunken, potentially-violent ones into contexts where weapons are potentially at hand).
Your actions were good hearted, but also really really dumb.
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I wasn't on duty.....
 
RocketMedic

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DragonClaw said:
Salute?

So off duty you would be okay with watching a drunk driver leave. Interesting.
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Yep. Not my job, not my problem. Not worth getting shot, stabbed or beaten to prevent.
 
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