Ouch.

Impaled woman Kim Broadbent forced to wait for ambulance

A WOMAN was impaled on a steel fence for an agonising 47 minutes waiting for an ambulance.

The 34-year-old received no pain relief while her body was supported by volunteer emergency services workers during the ordeal at Yarrawonga, in Victoria’s north.
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It was contacted at 9.42pm on Tuesday and told Kim Broadbent had been impaled through the groin in a fall. A crew did not arrive until 10.29pm.

There was no paramedic available in the border town that night and sources said a graduate officer was refused permission to attend.

A crew was sent from Wangaratta, 55km away, but was not cleared to travel over the speed limit or with lights and sirens.

Huh. Me, I would’ve thought that might be the sort of thing worth turning on those siren thingies for.

<> It does raise an interesting idea, though. Whenever a Senator or Congressman enters a bill that calls for the government taking over the healthcare industry, he or she should be subjected to some level of physical pain while the bill is read in it’s entirety on the floor of the House or Senate. Maybe not impalement, but at least thumbscrews or tasering or waterboarding or something. The briefer the bill, the briefer the discomfort.