Mike Duffy wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:32:39 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > On 2021-05-13 4:17 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
>
> >> But putting gas in plastic bags is practically a way of life in
> rural >> Alaska (they huff it).
>
> > It seems to be very popular in some communities.
> > [...] there were people passed out on the sidewalk.
>
> In their defence I need to point out a tangential situation wherein I
> called an ambulance for a kid that had passed out and hit his head on
> the sidewalk from being drunk & sleep-deprived in a below-freezing
> line-up for tickets to see The Boss. All his friends could not wake
> him up. I had one of those at-the-time ostentatious cell phones, and
> offered to call an ambulance. His only friend who said anything was
> not to call, that they knew he was passed-out just because of how
> much alcohol he had consumed.
>
> So I asked her how long they were planning to leave him lying on the
> sidewalk before dying of hypothermia / exposure, especially
> considering how much alcohol he had consumed.
>
> While she was coming up with an estimate, I dialed 911.
>
> He woke while they were picking him up, but so drunk he couldn't
> understand anything. They checked his head for marks / bumps but they
> still needed him to sign a waiver. It was on a clipboard, so they
> just stuck a pen in his hand and then moved the clipboard around like
> spinning a cat's-cradle to make him sign a perfectly neat "X" on the
> form.

Ask them, theyre here. "You can stop saying that now. Thank you."

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