Iโve heard the term cow exploder which may be more accurate for what happens when a huge, hard mass with considerable momentum hits a, comparatively speaking, small, squishy object.
Why? To the best of my knowledge, in Switzerland it is verboten/interdit/vietato/scumandร to jump in front of a tram. So this obviously never happens.
Pull the lever or donโt pull it . You have no impact on the situation because the tracks were pulled up in the 1950s. Instead, everyone who would have been riding the trolley is forced to buy a car, and the resulting traffic kills more people than either lever position ever could.
You ponder whether you should choose not to drive, but society is structured to make it practically impossible to exist without a car. This is advertised to us as freedom.
In their defense, people are told to bring in the animal that bit them if at all possible, for positive identification and/or rabies testing. (Or Lyme disease testing, etc.)
And in Australia, lethal snakes are an everyday occurrence, so it probably didnโt seem that weird to them to follow the usual guidelines.
Dr Michael said medical staff did not need to see a snake to know how to treat patients.
โWe can determine if you need anti-venom and if so, what anti venom you need based on clinical signs, blood tests and also the snake venom detection kits that we keep here at the hospital,โ he said.
"Weโre actually not trained to identify snakes, and so itโs not helpful.
โIt just puts the staff at risk as well as yourself.โ
I hear you, but what people โknowโ in general might not be accurate, especially as it pertains to a particular hospital. I was postulating on an understandable reason why the incident happened, not saying itโs always the correct course of action.
Hopefully this story can be used to get the real info out there, that when it comes to snakes at least, they donโt need to be brought in to be identified.