Well that was different
Today I was off to an event, a local fair. Lots of pretty things and I was/not glad I didn't bring any cash with me. I may not have had any spending money left for the First Scene garage sale tomorrow. (local costume hire place)
We had the usual sorts of injuries; plasters and a bee sting that needed some cream on it. A bloke wandered up to us because he'd hurt his shoulder in the morning and now it was really hurting- someone had grabbed his hand while he was playing basketball and he'd tried to yank it free but felt/heard a snap. I did a little poking and prodding, found that his collar bones were uneven and concluded that he may have dislocated and relocated something in his shoulder and it wasn't quite in the right place.
Roughly half-way through, my partner and I were sitting around trading stories when BOOOOM!
I grabbed kit and we went off to investigate in the direction of the noise and people turning and gawping/pointing at something. We trot out of the park and perhaps a dozen meters down the road to where a street light attached to a power pole is looking rather charred and has dropped it's cover on the road. A cop turns up in short order as people come out of their houses saying they've lost power. (One idiot walks UNDER the street light that has bits, including the bulb, hanging precariously out of it and it takes a bit of yelling to get him to move) I look up and wrapped around one of the three power lines I spot spot a string and handle that looks just like what the balloon man at the fair has been selling, abeit attached to foil helium balloons. It looks like the balloon may have touched the lines, arced the power and caused a wee surge.
Perils of helium balloons, who would have thought?
We had the usual sorts of injuries; plasters and a bee sting that needed some cream on it. A bloke wandered up to us because he'd hurt his shoulder in the morning and now it was really hurting- someone had grabbed his hand while he was playing basketball and he'd tried to yank it free but felt/heard a snap. I did a little poking and prodding, found that his collar bones were uneven and concluded that he may have dislocated and relocated something in his shoulder and it wasn't quite in the right place.
Roughly half-way through, my partner and I were sitting around trading stories when BOOOOM!
I grabbed kit and we went off to investigate in the direction of the noise and people turning and gawping/pointing at something. We trot out of the park and perhaps a dozen meters down the road to where a street light attached to a power pole is looking rather charred and has dropped it's cover on the road. A cop turns up in short order as people come out of their houses saying they've lost power. (One idiot walks UNDER the street light that has bits, including the bulb, hanging precariously out of it and it takes a bit of yelling to get him to move) I look up and wrapped around one of the three power lines I spot spot a string and handle that looks just like what the balloon man at the fair has been selling, abeit attached to foil helium balloons. It looks like the balloon may have touched the lines, arced the power and caused a wee surge.
Perils of helium balloons, who would have thought?