I have been a Firefighter/Paramedic for over 18 years. I have been in many different situations some scary, some normal, some anything but normal, and some funny. Well this is one of the many funny calls I have ran. The call is to respond to a GSW (Gun Shot Wound) in one of Atlanta's Projects. Now keep in mind usually in these places a call such as this is usually very messy and the outcome is not good. When we arrive on scene dispatch informs us the scene is secured by the APD (Atlanta Police Department). We pull up to the address and get out ready to work a trauma and are taking in the scene. Well there is not really much of a scene to take in. One PD car instead of several.
I see a lone police officer standing on the porch talking to a young (early teens) male, but I see nobody laying on the ground so I'm thinking the patient must be inside one of the apartments. I ask the officer who's been shot. The young man he was talking to say's "That's me sir." I look at him and I don't see any blood plus the fact that he is standing. So I ask him "Where were you shot?"
He looks at me and say's "In the kitchen." I chuckled and said "No man, where on your body are you shot?" He immediately undoes his new looking green corduroy pants (thank god he had on undershorts) and points to his right knee where I see a small hole the size of a 22 cal (eraser head for non gun savvy folks). There is no blood nor exit wound so this call is not near as bad as first expected.
On the way to the hospital I ask him how he got shot and he says "My girlfriend shot me." So I said "Why did she shoot you?" and he says "Cuz I called her a Bytch." I asked "Did you learn a lesson from all this?" He says " Yea, not to call her a Bytch when she has a gun in her hands." I asked him if this was his first time being shot, he said no it was like number 3 or 4. You know he most likely end up getting shot again after his response of not calling his girl friend a name when she is armed. Some folks never learn. but as long as people do stupid things Police, Firefighters and EMT/Paramedics will always have jobs.
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I see a lone police officer standing on the porch talking to a young (early teens) male, but I see nobody laying on the ground so I'm thinking the patient must be inside one of the apartments. I ask the officer who's been shot. The young man he was talking to say's "That's me sir." I look at him and I don't see any blood plus the fact that he is standing. So I ask him "Where were you shot?"
He looks at me and say's "In the kitchen." I chuckled and said "No man, where on your body are you shot?" He immediately undoes his new looking green corduroy pants (thank god he had on undershorts) and points to his right knee where I see a small hole the size of a 22 cal (eraser head for non gun savvy folks). There is no blood nor exit wound so this call is not near as bad as first expected.
On the way to the hospital I ask him how he got shot and he says "My girlfriend shot me." So I said "Why did she shoot you?" and he says "Cuz I called her a Bytch." I asked "Did you learn a lesson from all this?" He says " Yea, not to call her a Bytch when she has a gun in her hands." I asked him if this was his first time being shot, he said no it was like number 3 or 4. You know he most likely end up getting shot again after his response of not calling his girl friend a name when she is armed. Some folks never learn. but as long as people do stupid things Police, Firefighters and EMT/Paramedics will always have jobs.
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