Boys and their toys

Luckily last Saturday wasn't a busy day, because we had much better things to do. A couple of the guys at the station and I decided to order Havoc Helies...

They're stupid, simple little micro RC helicopters, and damn are they fun! We were way too busy to save lives or anything like that.

We would charge them for 30 minutes, get our 10 minutes of flight time, (that's all they fly before they need to be recharged), then fly some more. We buzzed all around the apparatus room all day. Of the 3 of us that got em, mine's the only one that's still alive. The other 2 have fried. It's kind of funny because of the 3 mine looks the worst. First thing I did was modify it, rip it's little stickers off and jam a paper clip in the nose of it to make it fly foreward faster. Of the 3, mine definitely looks the worse for wear, but hey, it's still flying and theirs isn't.

Today, (Tuesday), I'm on the medic and it probably won't be quite as slow of a day. Our first run involved a guy that was assaulted with a baseball bat on his way to work. We got him to the hospital and they asked what we had.

Us "Assault, beat with a baseball bat"

Nurse "Another one?"

We had the third person brought in this morning. Seems that a group of kids were driving around, looking for people to beat. They got 5 people in 3 towns before the police got em. I know of at least 1 of their victims that had to have surgery. Cop told me later that the sad thing is the guy we brought in was a concealed weapon permit holder, and had a gun in his car. He just couldn't make it to the glove box before passing out. Those guys don'y know how lucky they were.