Police medic wields magic wellness stick

"Primum non nocere." Unless you have a cool-looking baton and you just can't help yourself.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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To be fair – medicine is so much more socialized over there. Perhaps there simply were not enough patients for medics to attend to. If year end reports show that there are too many medics for too few patients they stand to lose funding and have to lay off medics.

So this is a win-win situation. If he goes out there and wallops a few people, he gets to practice and secure his profession, and the people get free medical care and possibly a cool scar that you could use to impress chicks.
Anonymous

The steely irony of that brass copper is simply golden.
angusm

Photographer Max Reeves took a picture of what is presumably the same gentleman from a different angle. The expressions are priceless.

http://s-kollective.com/photo/londinium/3614462_6458961_n/
- bklynchris
  
  oooh, that was AMAZING! That was an amazing WHU?!TF look from the colleague on his immediate right.
Anonymous

here’s a video of the german police medic at gorleben anti nuclear waste protests mentioned in another anonymous comment (#6).

.~.
Anonymous

>implying this macro hasn’t been around for years
Stooge

Mark, that’s the second time I’ve seen that photo used in one of your posts without attribution. In both cases the fault lies with others, but a little link love to the original by amjamjazz wouldn’t go amiss.
bobk

It seems like a conflict of interest to me and should not be allowed. To make an absurd comparison, that would be like starting a pre-emptive war to preserve peace, or a Nobel Peace Prize winner starting a war, or…oh, never mind.
Anonymous

Looks like a make work project.
The Mudshark

The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.

Sarah Connor: I’ll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?

The Terminator: Correct.
smagdali

A quiet, forgetful day at Frauenfelder towers?

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/10/british-police-medic.html

or perhaps you’ve been getting some good old British police treatment yourself
- bklynchris
  
  I think it was just his way of commemorating the royal wedding. WHU?!
hassenpfeffer

Staff of Healing with +5 damage? :-(
phisrow

Hey there, subjects! If I were here for your health and welfare I’d be wearing a “protester medic” sign…
oodja

Duh, everyone knows that clerics can’t use edged weapons in combat.
Strabo

I guess now would be a good time to remind everyone to read Robert Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians.

http://boingboing.net/2009/11/23/understanding-the-ps.html
- Kimmo
  
  I guess now would be a good time to remind everyone to read Robert Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians.
  
  http://boingboing.net/2009/11/23/understanding-the-ps.html
  
  +1. A very enlightening read, and highly apropos.
endotoxin

“Don’t worry, it’s a medical grade truncheon. Sterile violence.” — Spider Jerusalem
Glenn Fleishman

No, no, he’s a police medic, not a hoi polloi medic. The rest of you can bloody well faff off.
Anonymous

http://www.skverlag.de/s-k-verlag/aktuelles/meldung/newsartikel/anzeige-gegen-pruegelnden-polizei-sanitaeter.html?tx_ttnewsyear=2010
Brainspore

This am how medic do job in Bizarro World.
Anonymous

He only treats coppers. Protesters will get the baton and like it!
Avram / Moderator

He’s the cleric in the back rank, tapping front-rank fighter with his Rod of Resurrection as they run out of hit points.

(My spellcheck suggested “Insurrection” as a typo-fix when I misspelled “Resurrection”. A “Rod of Insurrection” would be handy in China Miéville’s New Crobuzon.)
- querent
  
  Not to call you out, but I bet you smoke the herb. Seem like the stoned abstract thinker type. Not that I’d know.
  
  Also, +1 for the D&D references, -1 for the Hippocratic oath.
- Anonymous
  
  Well, it would help explain why they confiscated those LARP weapons in Toronto.
Anonymous

Erectile dysfunction is an alarming condition
- attax
  
  How right you are, how right you are !
simonbarsinister

Please people, have some faith in a medical professional. If you look closely and project the arc of his bludgeon you will see that it is intended to land squarely on the hat of the cop in front of him who is intent on doing harm to some fallen citizen below him.
Thus he is planning on *saving* someone from harm with a well placed blow to a nerve point intended on quickly rendering the out of control cop unconscious.
el_gallo

I feel a little guilty for chuckling at that.
Anonymous

Medic: “When I run out of bandages, I like to whip out Old Thumpy here. It’s real satisfying. Here, feel the weight.”
EH

The beatings will continue until health improves.
Blackbird

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: “Police Medic, the ultimate make work project”.
tobergill

Man, I hope this wasn’t at the Royal Wedding……
- Blackbird
  
  It’s been floating around for a while. Came up shortly after the Ian Tomlinson incident if I remember correctly.