Motorcycles

It's been a very sad week for everyone. My best friend's little brother got into a massive accident outside a local grocery store. He was on his motorcycle and got mowed down by Toyota CRV. He was pinned down, the driver ditched the car and ran. This poor boy has lost an arm in the process, is in an ICU getting his leg repaired, faces years of physical therapy and pain and mental trauma.


The bad guys -

SUV Driver - of course, I can't spew enough invective, I don't think I have enough bad words in my vocabulary, or enough bad thoughts in my head to do justice to how I feel. I hope he suffers, I hope everyone finds out, I hope he has nightmares every day of his life from here on out, I hope it happens to him, so he sees the other side of the coin.

Chinmaya Mission Hospital - they sit on a vast tract of land in the middle of a residential district, they let this boy bleed for 3 hours before a doctor would see him. He lost his arm most probably as a result of sitting around and waiting. I wish sueing was possible in India without getting goonda's involved.


The good guys -

Manipal hospital - god bless them, expensive but good and able to do a lot with this boy. They will get him back on his feet again.

The random strangers who helped saved him. Wish it was an emergency system with trained medical staff, but thank god for random strangers who helped.

The boy - he's doing well all considering. I and all his friends are praying, praying, praying.


The complications with all this are insurance takes forever, no one wants to handle a "police case". I mean really?????? It's easy to buy off the cops, use politicians, justice depends on who you know and how much higher your dad can piss than the other dad.

I've been doing some poking around. Emergency systems are terrible around here. You have to depend on the mercy of who is near you to get you to the hospital and check this out - a hospital can actually refuse to treat you, because it was an accident.

I would kill for a 911!