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I really am a cold bitch.

My friend C-'s boyfriend is in the City Police Force. He showed up at a crime scene where a man that was obviously drunk, claimed he was assaulted. Now the police did not believe this, however there was blood everywhere. They think he fell off his porch. Well, when her bf got there, he noticed something on his boots, looked down and saw it was a piece of thorn bush and kicked it off. In the process of doing so, the bush landed on his hand and punctured him. He thought nothing of it, then went back to check it. There was blood, presumably the drunk males, all over it. The man is Hepatitis C positive. The police officer is now on HIV preventative meds and of course as there is no cure or vaccine for Hep C...it is being researched to slow the process of this disease.

I feel terrible about this...for my friend. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, and she's very scared. BUT (it always works that way with me)...

He is a police officer. He should have gone into that crime scene (any crime scene for that matter) with caution. He shouldn't have been kickin' anything around honestly. Plus, he arrived AFTER, not ON the scene. There was blood everywhere...he should have known, out of sheer self-preservation, to look at it as a bio-hazard situation. He says he blames himself...HE SHOULD! No one told him to be careless with his life. He's had training on this and he failed to use it.

My dude works at a Packaging supply company...basically, they make trash. A temp-employee was watching the paper-roll machine. Apparently, he was stoned on dope (heroine for y'all with little street knowledge) and reached his hand toward the machine and got his arm wrenched out of its socket and it "meated" up his fingers, hand and arm pretty good. Of course, there was blood everywhere. People called the paramedics (911), got the man to stop freakin' out, USING GLOVES FROM THE FIRST AID KIT, and then got bleach to throw on the blood. They were worried about HIV, AIDS or any disease transferred from bodily fluids. They are not in a job type that deals with violence on a day to day basis. They have not been trained to react to a bio-hazard. Yet they knew enough...or I should say had enough self-preservation intuition, that they took precautions to make sure they didn't get blood on themselves or spread it around the warehouse. My dude was RIGHT THERE! It really got to everyone...to see that and then why the fuck did that guy do that after being told not too. Not only that, the paper roll machine, that is two 1 ton rolls pressed together with the paper in between. AND it's hydraulic, so there is much more pressure applied. But there it was.

I dunno, I guess my point is he is trained to be wary, they weren't and they seemed to take better care of themselves and each other than he did of himself. And now, he's scared, taking meds that's gonna make him very sick and his chick is terrified because she doesn't know what's gonna happen.

So, I'm cold because I'm having a very hard time finding compassion for a person that "should have known better." Not just that, this is his SECOND time being in a biohazard situation where he was compromised! I either would have made damn sure to take all necessary precautions or gotten out of a life threatening profession. But this is his dream, his passion and his right. I'd just think someone would be a little more careful in that profession.
holla@me posted by MobiusRazor at 12:05