Not Fun Anymore

I witnessed a serious accident today, on the way back from Ipoh. It was on the main road of Ayer Tawar, a crowd of people congregated, some watching from a distance, the rest causing traffic congestion.

There was an ambulance blaring its siren but I didn’t see any paramedics or anything. Two police personnels had just arrived and were taking their own sweet time getting out of the car. One even slung a very mean looking machine gun over his shoulder. They walked slowly towards the scene. As we drove by, I saw some people clamoring around a Grey Proton Wira. Two were trying to get someone out of backseat of the wrecked car. These people were in plainclothes and they look more like the victim’s friends or family than paramedics or firemen.

There is a couple of things I couldn’t get over. First, why would the policemen need a machine gun?  To taunt the already grieve-stricken people?To show who’s boss? Just in case a fight broke out? Even if a fight did breakout, what? They’re gonna start randomly shoot people? It’s disheartening for me to see him swing that machine gun so nonchalantly like it’s part of his daily job, like there might be a need for it. There should at least be consideration towards the family of the crash victim. This is a crash-site, not a scene of a robbery. And bloody hell, how slowly can these guys walk towards the wrecked car, it’s seriously frustrating to see them ’sashaying’ all the way there. Gawd…

Secondly, where were the paramedics? Sitting in the little ambulance waiting for the victim to be  slotted into the back of the car magically? It’s very dangerous for people with no medical knowledge to move a crash victim. Moreover with the commotion around her, she might just break a few more bones and felt worse that she already is, being a spectacle, that is. Were these paramedics even trained? Seriously, how professional is this?

Sometimes, I think all we need is to have a bit of heart.

And some foresight. (It might seem unrelated but trust me, it’ll amaze you how little people actually have it and should these policemen of paramedics have the foresight, plan ahead a little, it would certainly have been quickly resolved)