So what happened?

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"So what happened?" I had been at Emanuel's ambulance entrance for a while, waiting to pick up some firemen to take to Vancouver. When I first arrived, I went in to look for them, only to be told that they were en route. I went back out to the cab and picked up my book, only to put it down when the ambulance came in.

The person on the stretcher was lost under a mass of tubes and wires and gear, surrounded on all sides by EMTs, all scrambling into the ER. I went back in after them. "Those firemen that just came in, I believe you guys called a cab for them?" The person at the desk was snippy: "I don't know anything about that." I took a deep breath. "Well then, can you perhaps find someone who does?" She looked like I'd just thrown up on her dinner or something.

Fortunately, a co-worker who didn't have a stick up her ass said she'd tell them I was waiting outside. "Whenever they're ready, thank you," I said.

And now we're heading for Vancouver, and the guys are telling me they can't tell me what happened, due to confidentiality issues. "It was bad, though," said one. "Bad, bad bad," said the other. "Just look in the papers tomorrow, and you'll know." And so I did. And there she was, Anna Svidersky, stabbed—excuse me, allegedly stabbed—by David Barton Sullivan, a 28-year-old paranoid schizophrenic sex offender. She was 17 years old.

06.06.2006 at 09:00 Reply

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So what happened?bad, bad, bad indeed. maybe it's because they see too many beautiful kids killed in horrible disasters, but e.r. receptionists are bitches (regardless of gender). i got hit by a car and thought my foot was broken. when i limped into the ohsu e.r. and tried to check in, face tear-stained, they just stared blankly at me, even as i burst into tears again explaining what happened. i had to limp around the desk to show them i was bleeding before they got off their asses to get me a wheelchair.—Anonymous

So what happened?Would all the hype over Anna's death have been the same if she were black?Why not?—John Q.

So what happened?We have to decide how tough we want to be on crime. Do we want to throw away the key on these pieces of human debris, or do we want to make them walk through the Justice System revolving door? A Republican is a Democrat who's been mugged. Or who has had a daughter murdered.Do we vote for candidates who put innocent citizens ahead of predatory killers? Or do we vote for those who blame societial ills for a young life cut short?—Robin B.

06.07.2006 at 09:00 Reply

So what happened?And...the ACLU just lets em roam the streets..nuthin we can do. They used to be institutionalized. Used to be the only street folks were HOBOs..and they would do an honest days work for food. Well now another innocent life cut short by someone who would have been in institional treatment in the past. So, whose right was violated?—Livermore

06.08.2006 at 09:00 Reply

So what happened?Actually, they roam the streets because tax payers refuse to fund the mental institutions.—

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