WHAT HEELS: Medics On Meal Break Allegedly Ignore Dying Woman
This sort of thing is only supposed to happen in England: Off-duty EMT dispatchers Melissa Jackson and Jason Green allegedly refused to help a pregnant woman who suffered a seizure and collapsed at the Au Bon Pain where they were buying bagels because they were on break, reports the New York Post:
A furious Mayor Bloomberg yesterday blasted "It was unconscionable, [an] outrage, pick some adjectives and stick it in," the fuming mayor said at a news conference a day after The Post broke the scandal involving tragic mom Eutisha Revee Rennix, 25. …
Witnesses have said the two EMTs - trained medics working as dispatchers at FDNY headquarters at Metrotech - were more interested in getting to their breakfast than helping the dying woman amid the panicked screams of her fellow workers.
Their cold advice: "Call 911," the witnesses said.
They then allegedly left the cafe before help arrived. …
A union official said EMT members are not contractually entitled to a responsibility-free meal period; members on duty and in uniform have an obligation to act in an emergency, and leaving a patient is "an act of abandonment," he said.
Rennix, who was already in cardiac arrest when the second EMT crew arrived, was pronounced dead at
Jackson and Green have been suspended without pay pending an investigation into the tragic incident. Meanwhile, their attorney, Douglas Rosenthal, insists that the facts will show they acted "appropriately."
Stocking Stuffer: The Build-A-Bear Grinch That Stole Christmas
Lisa Belkin, who writes the family and parenting blog “Motherlode” for The New York Times,
wants parents to boycott pink toys for girls for all the tiresomely predictable reasons, but documentary producer Maura Flynn (“Michael Moore Hates America”) wants parents to boycott Build-A-Bear for “brainwashing on the sleaziest and most sinister level” via an interactive video game on the company’s Web site, as she explains on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government blog:
[Y]our unsuspecting tot … will be informed - by Santa Claus - that Christmas may be canceled this year due to Global Warming:
Ella the polar bear: The ice is melting! The North Pole is melting!
Santa: Yes, my dear, we know, the climate is changing. There’s bound to be a little melting.
Ella: It’s worse than that, Santa, a lot worse! At the rate it’s melting, the North Pole will be gone by Christmas!”
Santa: My, my … all of this gone by next Christmas? I don’t think so.
Ella: No sir, not next Christmas, this Christmas! The day after tomorrow!
See for yourself (1:07-2:22 in this clip):
Editorial Note: And get this: Build-A-Bear calls this video - which can not only scare children, but may even be harmful to their normal cognitive development - “An Uplifting Christmas Adventure.”
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