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An Illinois father is grateful for the generosity a group of nurses showed after he was arrested for violating traffic laws while rushing his choking daughter to the hospital.
“I can’t thank them enough,” said the father, Darius Hinkle.
Hinkle told Fox 2 Now that he was driving without a valid license and speeding on the way of the hospital to save his 1-year-old daughter, who had choked on a penny.
“The first thing on my mind was to get her to the hospital,” Hinkle told the news station.
He said a number of police officers from different agencies were trailing behind him on the way, and arrested him when he arrived. They told Hinkle he was going over 100 mph.
When the 1-year-old’s mother arrived at the police station to pay Hinkle’s bond, she saw a woman she didn’t recognize. They learned that a group of nurses from Touchette Regional Hospital had put money in together to post bail to get the father out, reported the news station. more here
Yet Hillary and Obama are still free to flout their treason in our faces.
Good thing there was a ‘DAD’
in the home,only 30% of black children
got one… A miracle the child made it.
Learn heimlich maneuver.
Great Story. Glad the daughter is okay. However, why does he not have a valid license? Or am I not being “woke” enough?
I’m also glad the girl as okay, but what about an ambulance? They may have been able to handle it on site and if the girl had stopped breathing, certainly could’ve given oxygen.
…y’know, the first impulse is to sympathize with Dad and hate the Police, but…
N.B. To People Who May Try This, Even In An Emergency…
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK YOUR’RE DOING!!!
The Police don’t.
Your fellow drivers D@MN sure don’t.
You are risking YOUR life, your fellow driver’s lives, the Police’s lives…
AND YOUR BABY’S LIFE.
This IS an understandable impulse, but the WRONG one. If your baby is choking, it may not be as emergent as you THINK. The baby may have an object and some discomfort, but MAY be breathing well enough to NOT be an emergency. A quick call to 911 will:
-Connect you to someone who KNOWS what to look for, and can TELL you.
-Someone who can TELL you what to do RIGHT AWAY.
-Someone who can send Police, First Responders, Medics, Ambulances, even doctors on helicopters if warranted, some of whom can be at your door in a minute, and ALL of whom are TRAINED to deal with this.
…Chucking your child into the car may be the WORST thing you can do. First off, you probably didn’t waste time with restraints and stuff, but just threw it in there like a load of wet laundry before you busted hell-for-leather to the hospital. This may make the situation WORSE and cause the baby to become MORE obstructed from the motion, from gasping, from sticking its hands in its mouth…and do YOU know this is happening? NO YOU DO NOT, you’re too busy trying to avoid the other drivers that are desperately trying to swerve out of you way and the stop sticks the understandably concerned Police are putting in front of you because THEY HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DOING, and are trying to keep you from hitting OTHER motorists who have NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DOING.
I have driven ambulances, firetrucks, responder vehicles, rescue trucks, and assorted special-purpose vehicles, all of which were festooned with lights and sirens that an ’80’s disco would envy, and people driving down the road STILL DID NOT SEE ME! Happily, I was TRAINED to drive under emergency circumstances and was able with the grace of God to avoid tragedy. If they don’t see ME, are they gonna see YOU with your beeping horn and faintly flashing turn signal lights? Probably NOT, and they are NOT expecting you at 100 MPH on a city street in ANY case…
I’ve had people follow me while DRIVING an ambulance and bust intersections WITH me to do that. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS because the other cars aren’t expecting that, and, because I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY FUCK THEY ARE DOING, I have to assume the worst, which is that they are following because they wish harm on my patient (this DOES happen, sometimes gangs follow a rival TO THE HOSPITAL to finish the job), so I’d call a LEO to peel him off before I end up wearing him as a tailpipe decoration that blocks my patient loading door.
If you end up, God forbid, causing a Blues Brothers scale crash, did you help ANYONE? Yourself? The other drivers you hit? The Police you hit?
YOUR BABY?
…you were EXTREMELY BLESSED that they didn’t PIT you and you didn’t hit anyone else, not even a PEDESTRIAN WHO ISN’T EXPECTING YOU TO BE DRIVING DOWN THE STREET AT 100 MPH, but you can’t BET on that blessing. There were MUCH better resources available to you. You chose the WORST answer.
…Sorry, I’m with the cops on this one.
And with the guy with the pregnant chick, too.
The cop could have delivered the baby.
An ambulance crew could have delivered the baby.
911 could have talked YOU through delivering the baby.
Your personal crisis does NOT allow you license to risk everyone ELSE’s safety, INCLUDING your loved ones AND YOUR OWN.
Pick up the PHONE, sport. It’s MUCH safer for EVERYBODY…
When the child you love is in danger of dying in your arms, reason gets kicked out of the mind’s driver seat and gets replaced with panic and fear. I had hoped this father could have been forgiven for not reacting the way we feel he should, especially since things seem to have turned out OK.
… I don’t disagree with you, @TN Tuxedo, I’ve seen panicky parents and BEEN a panicky parent (it’s easy to be clinical about OTHER people’s kids, not so much your OWN), and I am not saying I do not UNDERSTAND his impulse, but only that it is NOT a helpful one. Yes, it turned out OK. THIS time. I can give you some where it did NOT turn out OK, though, but the ones I was PERSONALLY involved in would be a bit too revealing, so I would just have to say to search some yourself with “Accident On Way to Hospital”, and here’s a starter…
https://www.foxnews.com/health/texas-couple-lose-unborn-son-in-tragic-car-accident-on-way-to-hospital
…we DO have impulses. So do animals. NOT acting on impulse is what sets us apart. We have to SWALLOW that fear, take a breath, and do what’s RIGHT, NOT what the panicky guy inside says to do.
And it is not for the cops to decide if it’s forgivable from a legal standpoint, so he can have a court date for that. They DEFINITELY do NOT want to ENCOURAGE that behavior.
I am also NOT faulting the nurses. God Bless nurses, they are the most compassionate people on the face of the Earth, and God Bless them for bailing him out. While I believe he SHOULD have to explain himself to a judge, it probably wasn’t appropriate to hold him on this because he wasn’t very likely to recidivate unless there were more pennies lying around, so he was pretty low risk for that, and no harm reuniting him with the baby God held his hand over during his wild ride and the rest of his family.
But maybe the trouble will help him think clearer in future…
“but just threw it in there like a load of wet laundry”
Supernightshade, I dub thee Wordsmith. This. Laughing so hard I ruined my mascara…
…you are too kind @Hoo Hoo Nay Nay, and thank you. Sorry about the make-up, though.
…to be honest, it was you and yours I was thinking about when speaking of the nurses, because I was ALWAYS awed at the grace under pressure that you all have 24/7/365. This is the ONLY group of people I can think of who could be harassed all day, confront tragedy all night, and STILL have the compassion to do a selfless act like THIS. My hat is off to these nurses and all those who toil in the trenches of the modern hospital. Thank-You and God Bless.
I dunno, waiting for an ambulance to arrive to save a choking child, is a little to much like calling 9-1-1 and waiting for the police to arrive after hearing someone bust through your back door at 2 a.m. The old – the police are only minutes away when seconds are what count. Same timing issue may apply to ambulances.
Same thing happened to me when my two year old swallowed a piece of her mommies hair clip and began choking . I broke every law of traffic between her and the emergency room and she survived. No wallet, no license, barefoot and shirtless. I would have driven naked. Gotta have priorities in this life and bless those kind nurses for understanding that.
Those who would criticize that I put other lives in danger do not know my driving skills and never watched an episode of the Walking Dead. Trust me, you will take care if your own.
“I dunno, waiting for an ambulance to arrive to save a choking child, is a little to much like calling 9-1-1 and waiting for the police to arrive after hearing someone bust through your back door at 2 a.m. The old – the police are only minutes away when seconds are what count. Same timing issue may apply to ambulances.”
…not the same thing, @Blink. I can’t tell you how to arrest a crazed bad guy over the phone, but I CAN tell you how to do the Heimlich Maneuver.
…also, if you’re going to do some things that inevitably will get you chased by the police, might wanna tell them beforehand so they at least don’t shoot you…
Supernightshade, I am humbled. Thank you for your kind words of praise and encouragement.
Living in the sticks most of my life we would be dead if we waited on an ambulance or police. We have guns to save us and in an emergency we can be at the hospital already getting treatment in the amount of time it takes an ambulance to get to us and if they get lost we can already be back home by the time they arrive.