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I worked on an ambulance rig as an EMT during college. My first night of working on the rig, around 7am, we were called to a house on the outskirts of Champaign, Illinois.

When we arrived, we found a man running through the street with a tiny pencil sticking out of his back. Turns out, his father-in-law had plunged a complete pencil ~6 inches into his back during breakfast. Why? He had eaten some of his father-in-law's hash browns. He wouldn't stop talking about it for the entire trip.

Sometimes, people have disproportionate reactions to slights against them.




I imagine the back stories that you would find in in ER around the world would make an interesting series of podcasts surrounding human behaviour.


Hope he got out of that relationship. You don't want to marry into crazy.




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