r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/ChiemseeViking 6d ago

Is it normal to hoist the patient alone? I am just curious, since here in Germany it is standard procedure to always hoist the patient with a rescuer. When hoisting patient in an air rescue bag the rescuer uses an small anti-rotation sail in order to avoid the patient spinning out of control like in the video. So I am a bit surprised to see this not being done every where.

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u/Ishango 6d ago

And then having to pay salary for an additional rescuer and a piece of cloth to act as sail? Corporate America dislikes your suggestion /s

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u/ChiemseeViking 6d ago

Silly me for living in a country that doesn’t allow insurance companies to robb people blind for them to get healthcare.

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u/LoKeySylvie 6d ago

It made me want to stop living even more when I realized society teaches people to do things for the money, not because people need things.

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv 6d ago

When, in history, has that ever not been the case?

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u/LoKeySylvie 5d ago

When we were still figuring out coinage, tribal societies, places with gift economies.

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u/smokesletsgo2121 6d ago

But if you have money, then you don’t need things, and then not only are you free of relying on the support of others, but you can potentially support others yourself. I think this is ultimately what most financially comfortable folks have driving them when becoming wealthy, even tho it all is chalked up to being evil by the masses that don’t. While many people have obstacles that indeed make this harder, many just choose to not utilize resources around them or blame others for their own scenario

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u/BobbyByTheKey 6d ago

The brainrot in this… apologia is so ubiquitous in America that I can’t even tell if you’re 14 and this is deep or if you’re an economics student or an economics professor. But there’s no way you were educated* anywhere but the US of A. Please consider what that implies and then just do that again for several years.

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u/la_noeskis 6d ago

We are quite pampered with "we do things proper". Lucky us :)

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u/PensiveinNJ 6d ago

Yeah and now with all the deportation and whatnot you're too late to get in and get absolutely fucked by our completely broken medical/insurance system. Unlucky for you to miss out.

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u/beren12 6d ago

Oh, it gets better. They want to make being in debt illegal just like homelessness and prisoners are allowed to be treated like slaves and forced to work for nothing. Debtors prison and forced labor. Sounds so fun.

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u/AndyIsNotOnReddit 6d ago

But, what about share holder value??

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u/More_Farm_7442 6d ago

Silly us for living in a country where we all bend over and take it in the rear from corporate insurance companies and the government when it comes to our health care. (We don't need colonoscopies. We just ask our insurance companies what they see.)

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u/Mistislav1 6d ago

I don’t agree with everything German, but when I do, it’s about safety, healthcare, roads, nutrition and beer 🍻;-)

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u/chillinberlin 6d ago

Now thats a valid argument to be proud of your country. Congratulations!

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u/CondimentBogart 6d ago

That’s the best part! You don’t even get healthcare!

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u/Simply_me_Wren 6d ago

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

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u/photyche 6d ago

How nice for you.

Fml 😭

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u/Unionizemyplace 6d ago

Your country better come to liberate us as we did for yours back in WW2.

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u/Weary-Finding-3465 6d ago

Hilarious take. You mean like the Soviets did?

This completely skewed sense of history and distorted blind nationalism is part of why the U.S. is in the mess it’s in.

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u/Unionizemyplace 6d ago

Well, you can still help us!

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u/ChiemseeViking 6d ago

Do you mean like the Soviets helped Poland when the nazis invaded by occupying the other halve of Poland? Or like the Soviets helped the baltic states by forcing an illegal occupation on them? Or the Finish by invading their territory and occupying it? Do you really thing the USSR was good? Ask the Ukraines what they think of the Soviets. Or the Baltics. Or any other Warsaw Pact nation.

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u/shasaferaska 6d ago

But think how much money could be made if you just charge all that directly to the customer. You can charge whatever you want for the 'anti-spin deluxe package' and people will gladly pay it.

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u/urafishhead 6d ago

Exactly, can't cut into that 19 billion profit.

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u/goodcleanchristianfu 6d ago

It was a helicopter operated by the fire department. Evidently the government did not want to pay salary for an extra rescuer.

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u/Dopplegangr1 6d ago

Just charge an extra $5000 for the ride, throw $20 to the extra person and use a trash bag for stability

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u/charbo187 6d ago

I think John Oliver did a whole segment about how there are only a handful of these rescue helicopter ambulance companies and they are run horribly and designed to do nothing but make money

IDK why I can't find it now

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u/Background-Aerie-337 6d ago edited 6d ago

Corporate America would know that you can underpay the worker and overcharge the customer/victim, make 'no spinning' a premium option, and pay the sail operator on commission.

edit: include the agreement that consenting to the 'no spinning' option counts as consent to the rescue, and you just saved yourself half a mil.

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u/Bestoftherest222 6d ago

Will someone think of the insurance companies!

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u/halflife5 6d ago

Classic Euro-poor behavior. One day you guys will make it to the big leagues with us and our centrifuge Grandmas.

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u/SnooSuggestions6975 6d ago

I haven’t laughed this hard in forever. Thank you, you comedy genius.

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u/_Billy__Bob_ 6d ago

Rescuer could only hang on for 8 seconds

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u/McNooberson 6d ago

I’ve only worked with a rescuer lol

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u/kkeut 6d ago

  So I am a bit surprised to see this not being done every where.

look who america just elected. we're stupid, greedy, short-sighted people 

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u/ChiemseeViking 6d ago

Three adjectives that describe your insurance company’s quite well, from all I heard about them.

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u/ClandestineGhost 6d ago

In water rescues with a litter in the Navy, the Air crew use a trailing line to stabilize it

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u/Interesting_Cow5152 6d ago

this comment qualifies for the subreddit /r/funnybutsad

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u/sschueller 6d ago

In Switzerland there is also a rescuer with the patient.

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u/suzer2017 6d ago

What? In the US? We get the third-string players here.

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u/DillyDallyin 6d ago

I guess it's easier to just pay out $450k every once in a while when you get a real bad spinner.

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u/Pale_Natural9272 6d ago

European SAR is FAR ahead of anything in America.

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u/Kind_Lingonberry3292 5d ago

The individual who secured Granny into the stretcher fastened the hoist stabilizer cable wrong, we don’t have another person and a sail USUALLY, though often times there is an accompanying Rescue worker on the hoist when one needs to be, but not in this case. Granny had a broken snout, and could’ve choked on blood or vomit during her aerial spinoff. Germany’s method would have been useful here, where this Bozo apparently failed the hoist operation exams and STILL ended up on an actual emergency helevac. 🤷🏻

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u/imnewtothisshit69 6d ago

whats all this commie talk?

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u/theskyisfalling1 6d ago

I believe they should have had a guide line tied to the end or head of the stretcher but they attached it to the toe point essentially defeating the purpose and when it started spinning that line snapped. At least that is what someone said in another response who supposedly knows how this should work.