Has anyone ever seen one of these before?
A good idea in principal but I'm not convinced I'd want an un-trained person zapping me!! :nono:
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surely that's not for real :huh:
Yep, of course it's real!
I've seen one of these before, near an old folks home if I recall correctly
i think id be happy with an untrained person zapping me, hey, just leave me alone to die here, you are not trained !!
Only in Bradford. Must be when there's a drug overdose :whistling:
Viper, now you come to mention it I see your point, zap away I say. :mfr_lol:
Quote from: Kwikasfuki on June 21, 2012, 09:01:27 AM
Only in Bradford. Must be when there's a drug overdose :whistling:
No, not in Bradford for a change! Is there a drug problem in Bradford, I've never noticed, :mfr_lol: I'm usually too busy dealing with all the :2guns: crime and :death:
That's good .. seriously .. it's just a Defib ... idiot proof ... which is why they are being rolled out all over the country ... open the box and it tells you what to do ... stick the pads on and off it goes .. you literally don't have to do anything .. and it may save a life .... remember for every minute a heart attack victim does not get any help his chance of survival drops by 10% ... so it is vital to get this stuff going and or CPR ASAP ... if you drop and there is no help ... 10 minutes and you is fooked.... :no: :no:
Totaly agree.... these are a great idea.... cos I bet the GTR is a bugger to bump start if the batterys flat.... :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
Quote from: Mogster on June 21, 2012, 07:48:20 PM
Totaly agree.... these are a great idea.... cos I bet the GTR is a bugger to bump start if the batterys flat.... :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
I bet it's easier than bump starting the car you swapped it for. :rolleyes:
That looks like it just been installed. Somewhere in the Cotswolds, near Tewkesbury!! :mfr_lol: What's all that about?
I think the locals have heard there are a load of old Codgers coming over next week and want to be prepared !! :mfr_lol: :mfr_lol:
Quote from: Rossendale Rider on June 22, 2012, 11:04:04 AM
That looks like it just been installed. Somewhere in the Cotswolds, near Tewkesbury!! :mfr_lol: What's all that about?
How did you guess that ?
Ha! It's the rustic brick synonymous with Cotswold architecture.
The price of phone calls these days is enough to give you a heart attack :mfr_lol:
I help run a local charity, and we have has just been through this defibrilator decision dilemma for our village.
In common with lots of rural villages, we have a fairly high elderly/retired population and we are a good 15-20 minutes away from the nearest ambulance station.
There is lots of credible information saying that the first 8 minutes after a stroke or heart attack are vital. After that point, the brain is starved of oxygen and irreversible damage is done.
The idea behind these defibs is if anyone suffers a stroke/arrest in the village, they call 999 *and a local hotline"*. Hotline routes to a number of people, all of whom supposedly rush to the defib box, and take it to the patient asap.
We decided against it alas. The initial cost is high (~£3,000), but the main reason is we found it hard to imagine that in practice, we could reliably get people to the defib box and to the patient in enough time. 8 minutes will disappear very, very quickly.
Martin.
I guess that when you would really would need one they will be just like any phone booth - vandalized and out-of-order. :rolleyes:
And after the first kid has been tortured to death because a bunch of idiots thought it would be hilarious to film a nerdy kid being 'jump started' and put it on the internet those things will disappear quicker than you can blink. :ohplease:
Quote from: mecki on June 23, 2012, 10:24:04 AM
I guess that when you would really would need one they will be just like any phone booth - vandalized and out-of-order. :rolleyes:
And after the first kid has been tortured to death because a bunch of idiots thought it would be hilarious to film a nerdy kid being 'jump started' and put it on the internet those things will disappear quicker than you can blink. :ohplease:
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Did my ELS / Ballistic Injuries refresher yesterday and we talked about times and survival rates .. latest stats are.... 15% will be dead before they hit the ground and nothing you can do will bring them back ... and of the other 85% if you can get a Defib on within 2 minutes they have a massive chance of recovery ... much longer than that and the fight is much harder :no: :no: ... so be quick !
Rusty, I bet your great at parties aren't you, :mfr_lol:
Quote from: olde coney on June 22, 2012, 09:40:57 PM
The price of phone calls these days is enough to give you a heart attack :mfr_lol:
funny you should mention the price of phone calls :smiley: the other day I forgot my mobile phone so needed to use a call box to call the wife, it's been a long time since I've made a call from a bt phone box because I remember it was 10p to start off with. so I was :shocked: when I needed to put 60p in before I could dial out.
Dont ever try and reverse charges then cause I did that last year and it £5.30 approx per minute. BT it's good to talk.
Quote from: 2kwacks on June 23, 2012, 08:26:13 PM
funny you should mention the price of phone calls :smiley: the other day I forgot my mobile phone so needed to use a call box to call the wife, it's been a long time since I've made a call from a bt phone box because I remember it was 10p to start off with. so I was :shocked: when I needed to put 60p in before I could dial out.
do you still have to push button 'B' :mfr_lol:
£5.30 a minute :eek: :eek:
What do you expect?
Who uses a phone booth these days? Even if you can find one that actually works and isn't so filthy that you don't want to go anywhere near it that is? And if you find one that works you'll find that it doesn't have a phone book anyway.
It must cost BT a fortune to fix all those vandalized phone booths over and over only to have them wrecked again within hours.
:banana:
mecki, when needs must you will use them.
Imagine this, June 2011, on the banks of Loch Ness, a beautifully quiet, humid evening in an unspoilt village, you are surrounded by hills for as far as the eye can see. It's like a scene out of a romantic book or film. No vandalism, no urine pooled in the bottom of the only phone box in the village, no litter, no gangs on street corners intimidating tourists or locals. No mobile phone masts or reception and all you wish to do is give your wife a call and let her know how your day has been and enquire how hers has been. Tell her you love her and wish you were with her, so you pick up the receiver and dial......
And then the bastards from BT screw you over for £5.30 a minute :no: I wished I'd just stayed in the pub now. :mfr_lol:
It is a simple cost-benefit calculation.
How much does it cost to maintain all phone boxes in the country, not just the one in the village on the shore of Loch Ness?
How many people use the few that work and how many calls do they make?
So how much do you need to charge for a phone call to still make a profit from phone boxes?
BT is a private company after all, they are not there to provide a service, the only aim is to make money for their shareholders.
BTW when I was in Scotland last year we saw a phone box in the middle of nowhere with just one house across the road.
As we say in the job, your comments are noted, now move along. :mfr_lol: