Man Down, Man Down, Corpsman

So last month in the news there was a solid 3 weekends in a row where someone was stabbed and killed at the same Parramatta bus stop, it’s a large bus stop that is well lit and in the downtown section of Parramatta.  For all of you who aren’t from Sydney, Parramatta technically sits within the Sydney city limits but is roughly 26km from the Sydney CBD.  I know that doesn’t sound far but it is at least a 45 min train ride and can be a longer car ride or bus trip cause well to be blunt Sydney roads seem to be laid out by “Traffic Engineers” who planned Sydney by throwing cooked spaghetti on the floor and going with whatever design that yielded.  Zoo monkeys that throw their own faecal matter at each other have more common sense… 

Enough about the monkeys though, when they aren’t throwing their shit at you they are pretty cool, unlike any engineer I have ever met.

Back to the point.  There were 3 violent homicides at the same bus stop 3 weekends straight.  I think in one of the instances they caught the animals that were responsible.  In the other 2 cases no arrests have been made.  Usually if a law enforcement agency sees a violent hot spot developing you assign more foot and vehicle patrols to the area, but I am not here to criticize the Sydney police.  They take enough abuse from the Sydney media, most recently for taze’ing a man that was having what they said was “Adverse reaction to LSD”, yeah that dude was half naked and harassing citizens in the middle of the city.  They took heat over that? laughable…  

I know Sydney police and politicians aren’t going to stop street crime and knifings that happen on the same exact day in the same spot week in and week out, that would be way too easy…  What I think would be a suitable solution would be to park an ambulance around the block so when the inevitable stabbing happens at the same Parramatta bus stop at least this time the poor bastard will have a fighting chance of survival. 

Alternatively teaching field trauma medic courses in high school and investing in bags of “Quick Clot” that can be taped under the benches at bus stops would save plenty of lives as well.  I guess all I am asking for is level playing field…