Comments on: A new use for the light rail

By: mike_s

mike_s — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:26:10 +0000

I was on the subway in NYC once when a dude was stabbed. It apparently wasn’t a life-threatening wound, so the cops marched him up and down the train trying to get him to ID a suspect. They wouldn’t let any of us off the train until the cops were convinced the attacker had escaped. They also didn’t seem concerned about the dude’s blood — or the fact that I’d just left a bar and had to pee like a racehorse.

By: g rote

g rote — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:32:18 +0000

trains + bodily fluid = visions of Tom Cruise and Rebecca DeMornay

By: aliecat

aliecat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:26:35 +0000

Bleah, I have a higher tolerance for seeing someone bleed than for puking…ish.

By: kc!

kc! — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:08 +0000

They have to get passangers off due to the bodily fluid stuff. I assume they were not allowed back on the car he was in until the hazard waste people cleaned it up.

I was on a bus where a dude vomited all over it. The man was clearly sick and I felt bad, but we all had to get off and wait for a new bus to show up and replace the vomit filled one, which took half an hour. Then the vomiting dude got on the new one. I was so sure he was going to puke on that one too, but he didn’t.

By: JACC

JACC — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:21:30 +0000

“”As soon as they arrived, they asked the people to move off the train so they could get to this man and help him,” “

So this one selfish bleediing man ruined transportation for the entire train? He’s lucky a mass transit patriot didn’t shoot him down.

By: aliecat

aliecat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:17:57 +0000

Yep, I knew the whole sliding fee thing, but that explains why I couldn’t find contact information for it for a friend who had a gap in coverage.

By: kwatt

kwatt — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:50:40 +0000

Nick Punto ought to go to a sliding fee clinic. Then he’d see the real cost of diving into first base.

By: kc!

kc! — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:44:36 +0000

sort of. It is a sliding fee clinic, so it is free if you have no income. And it is run by The Center for Victims of Torture, not Fairview.

NorthPoint is also a sliding scale clinic in North Mpls, IIRC.

By: aliecat

aliecat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:39:48 +0000

But yes, always go to HCMC if you have an emergency. But please do not go if you have a sore throat.

Does Fairview Riverside still have that free clinic?

By: mason

mason — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:28:50 +0000

Pfft. I saw a doc for a cut on my finger that wouldn’t heal fully, and the skin began to lightly peel, and the bill was $145 for about 5 minutes of face-time. She then proceeded to write me prescriptions for some steriod-based lotion (which I researched and found either she was being spiffed, and/or I was going to be Guinea-pigged with an quasi-experimental Canadian medication) & “a heavy duty” lotion; either for different applications. It turned out to be an extremely mild case of eczema, i.e. dehydration. I never redeemed the prescriptions because a few applications of Neutrogena, it disappeared. What a racket.