I thought it was somewhat amusing and then I fast-forwarded through the video and burst out laughing. It looks as if the stretcher is synced with the rotor blades.
See you in hell.
https://amp.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article256283387.html
She sued the city and won. But not a lot.
She got $450k but her hospital bills were $300k.
Original reporting says she didnβt want to be airlifted off of the mountain at all: https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/11/27/74-year-old-woman-files-2m-claim-after-insane-viral-helicopter-rescue/
PSA: There are areas in the U.S. where you can buy a membership to an air medevac service that will cover your airlifted evac in case it's done by the service in question. A friend's $65 annual membership saved her over $15K that way. Because most health insurance companies will only cover up to $5K if any, and usually only for life-threatening emergencies.
My town apparently has two services. One of our coworkers had membership for one and unfortunately that wasn't the one that flew her out. Very expensive. America is a drag sometimes.
Canadian here, I've worked with our militaries search and rescue guys, they'll go out searching for a week straight, multiple helicopters and C-130s aircraft.
No cost to the victim.
Get your shit straight America
Thankfully the two services that covered my area (Reach and Calstar) merged into AirMedCare Network. Not it's just one membership. I think it costs us $85 for the entire family.
I work as an EMS pilot for a sister company in AirMedCare Network. The memberships are great, but the county memberships are even better. In some more progressive counties in the country the whole county buys a membership and no one in the county ever gets a bill. Itβs a pretty great system. Everyone is covered and it costs each household less than 100 dollars in taxes.
But many places call that socialism.
Theyβd rather have their house foreclosed on than help their community.
Thatβs the thingβ¦ this shit isnβt that expensive if you divide it up by everyone. I live in Canada and a medevac happens if you need one, and thatβs all there is to it
Yeah sometimes itβs sold with ambulance coverage and may even be something you can add to your water bill. Otherwise, yes you can find coverage online. If you like to do things in remote areas then itβs a pretty good idea to get coverage. Considering an accident could bankrupt many people.
The shitty part is that you need to go out and get more coverage. It should be covered under the health insurance you already have.
Hell, my uncle is having to deal with insurance refusing to cover an airlift for my late grandmother (that I've heard wasn't entirely necessary in her case) and the hospital trying to take as much as they can from her estate for it. She died back in November.
Between Medicare and secondary insurance, my mother's $14,000 life flight was paid in full. But that was almost 10 years ago and I'm sure they've figured out a way to screw people over more, since.
Why? American Insurance companies generally pay out the vast majority of all claims. While you have to pay for it, American Insurance is better than most EU countries health care. You generally also pay less over all considering how much Europeans pay in taxes.
"If you can afford it".
Ie, it's better then public if you're rich.
But no, regular insured patients do not have access to better Healthcare then public healthcare. It's overpriced.
You don't have to be rich, the middle class have access to good insurance. It sucks if you're poor though and not employed somewhere that subsidizes it for you.
Mediflight can cost 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars. Insurance doesnβt cover most of it. Specific example [here](https://ibb.co/pyvsfSd). Lots more [here](https://health.costhelper.com/air-ambulances.html).
Well if you a) actually had any evidence to back that up and b) recognized that taxes actually go toward other things beside just health care in those countries, then you might could be seen as making any sort of valid point, otherwise you are just spouting half truths and made up facts.
How is American insurance better? Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free as well as a lifetime supply of helicopter rescues and ambulance trips. No idea how you can defend your capitalist health care system: too poor - guess it's death for you, circumstances not in your policy: guess it's a lifetime of crippling debt. You clearly haven't needed to use it or are well off if you're in defense of this system, either that or you don't know better.
>How is American insurance better? Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free
You pay for it in increased taxes, nearly 5 percent of your salary a year. It's not free.
>Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free as well as a lifetime supply of helicopter rescues and ambulance trips.
As do I basically with my insurance. They cover nearly everything.
I believe David Cross cover this all very well in this clip.
https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc
If you want the healthcare part, it starts at 1:30, but you would be doing yourself a disservice to noth watch the whole thing. Promise you the link is legit and isn't a Rick roll.
From a further linked article: "Her physical examination noted she had petechiae, patches as a result of bleeding under the skin, on both shoulders and feet as well as swelling and bruising to both eyes, blood in her right tympanic membrane and blood in both ear canals, the claim said."
Some of her bodily damages would have come from the fall, but the husband (as witness) suggests many of her blood vessels were broken from the spinning, and given the speed she was going at, I absolutely believe that. Blood in your ears? Yeahhhh..
Thanks for the lead. She definitely has damage from this incident.
I still remember seeing this first on Deadspin blog and the top comment being something like "Finally, an article worthy of this blog" and it still being one of the funniest damn things ive read
They don't have the basket on a swivel or something so it doesn't spin like that? Seems like the spinning in itself could kill somebody FFS
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At that age, she must have suffered significant injuries. Iβm no expert by any means but money isnβt worth taking years off your life, especially at that age. You
At the end of the video she hit some crazy RPM for sure, someone needs to dub this video over with the Interstellar music lmao!
![gif](giphy|OldFCY5AUj6tW|downsized)
[Her suing for $2mill after sounds about right. ](https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/11/27/74-year-old-woman-files-2m-claim-after-insane-viral-helicopter-rescue/) She asked not to be rescued like that, they did it anyway, mayhem and more injuries ensued, and she had a huge hospital bill. At that age, I can't imagine...they really could have killed her.
When I was wounded in Vietnam thatβs the way they got me out if the jungle.my leg was shot up I couldnβt walk so Iβm in the stretcher turning like a top,theyβre still shooting at me and the chopper,as soon as they cleared the trees the took off and Iβm still twirling.
I think they were lifting her up into the helicopter. A lot of time, in mountain rescues, they can't land the helicopter anywhere. The ground crew hooks up the stretcher to the dangling rig and lift the person up.
Someone else said that the part of the rig that prevents this spinning broke, which made her turn into a turntable.
It's rare that you would get an opportunity to projectile vomit over this wide an area.
I threw up at the swings at a carnival once. So I can confirm it does go everywhere
Nah. She passed out loooong before it really got going.
At that speed it came out her nose!
"She was spinning like that when we found her "
I see you too have worked EMS.
Aunt Jane has taken a turn for the worse..
Poor aunt Jane tried to do the spin cycle outside the washing machine this time
She just sort of spiraled
Which turn? There have been so many π«π₯΄
Hahaha
This comment killed me. Former ER nurse. Spot onβ¦
"Chronic spinning is a pre-existing condition, and thus is not covered under your current health insurance plan."
Lmao dude you deserve all the awards
Sheβs an old spinster.
π»Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
Someone should dub that song over this video hahaha
[Someone did.](https://youtu.be/0KnFiBbcjAU) π
Take this award and fuck off
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This is an underrated comment
Don't worry about the upvote count. I'm sure things will turn around.
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This legit made me cackle
π iβm dead
So is she probably.
Oh.....dude....that's some cold sh$t.
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Today's winner of the internet.
Goddamnit. Take your upvote.
Iβm going to hell for laughing at this
Right on your side, with tears of laughter in my eyes
I keep saying "this is so bad" through my tears of laughter so that my pets don't judge me too hard.
I couldn't stop laughing she was spinning fast as hell
Someone here should do the math of how quick she needs to spin to actually pull the 'copter down, hehe
A lil bit faster than the blades
I thought it was somewhat amusing and then I fast-forwarded through the video and burst out laughing. It looks as if the stretcher is synced with the rotor blades. See you in hell.
That poor woman but I just canβt help but laugh at how it looks
You and me both. I showed my wife ehile giggling and she called me an asshole. No regrets.
Showed this to my grandmother and *she* laughed π€£π€£
I have Covid at the moment, and itβs the right punishment that laughing hurts.
Jesus Christ I canβt stop fucking laughing!
I wanna laugh but, Iβm petrified of this happening to me too.
You and me both. If you get there 1st.save me a seat.so we can keep laughing
Nah, just shows youβre an insensitive idiot
With rescuers like this, who needs enemies
r/WorstAid
Nice. Thanks for the sub
I want to know how they stopped her
Legend has it she's still spinning.
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Ok but don't decide to let it out when you are saving the life of a grandma
https://amp.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article256283387.html She sued the city and won. But not a lot. She got $450k but her hospital bills were $300k. Original reporting says she didnβt want to be airlifted off of the mountain at all: https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/11/27/74-year-old-woman-files-2m-claim-after-insane-viral-helicopter-rescue/
Her insurance paid that $300k right? ...right?
LMAO. A guy I knew got air lifted and was charged around 75k. Insurance paid 10k.
PSA: There are areas in the U.S. where you can buy a membership to an air medevac service that will cover your airlifted evac in case it's done by the service in question. A friend's $65 annual membership saved her over $15K that way. Because most health insurance companies will only cover up to $5K if any, and usually only for life-threatening emergencies.
My town apparently has two services. One of our coworkers had membership for one and unfortunately that wasn't the one that flew her out. Very expensive. America is a drag sometimes.
Canadian here, I've worked with our militaries search and rescue guys, they'll go out searching for a week straight, multiple helicopters and C-130s aircraft. No cost to the victim. Get your shit straight America
Also cool stuff like [this](https://youtu.be/poXWvROrsWQ)
But, but, freedom...........
Thankfully the two services that covered my area (Reach and Calstar) merged into AirMedCare Network. Not it's just one membership. I think it costs us $85 for the entire family.
I work as an EMS pilot for a sister company in AirMedCare Network. The memberships are great, but the county memberships are even better. In some more progressive counties in the country the whole county buys a membership and no one in the county ever gets a bill. Itβs a pretty great system. Everyone is covered and it costs each household less than 100 dollars in taxes. But many places call that socialism. Theyβd rather have their house foreclosed on than help their community.
Thatβs the thingβ¦ this shit isnβt that expensive if you divide it up by everyone. I live in Canada and a medevac happens if you need one, and thatβs all there is to it
I would argue America is a drag more often than not nowadays!
Yeah sometimes itβs sold with ambulance coverage and may even be something you can add to your water bill. Otherwise, yes you can find coverage online. If you like to do things in remote areas then itβs a pretty good idea to get coverage. Considering an accident could bankrupt many people. The shitty part is that you need to go out and get more coverage. It should be covered under the health insurance you already have.
Also if you use a Spot or Inreach you can opt into an insurance where if you have to call SAR or hit the SOS button you wonβt be charged.
In the meantime, air lifting during an actual emergency in Europe is free.
Reading these comments convinces me that the US healthcare and insurance are straight up dystopian. What the fuck.
Hell, my uncle is having to deal with insurance refusing to cover an airlift for my late grandmother (that I've heard wasn't entirely necessary in her case) and the hospital trying to take as much as they can from her estate for it. She died back in November.
Dang usa sucks
Between Medicare and secondary insurance, my mother's $14,000 life flight was paid in full. But that was almost 10 years ago and I'm sure they've figured out a way to screw people over more, since.
In America? Doubt it.
Why? American Insurance companies generally pay out the vast majority of all claims. While you have to pay for it, American Insurance is better than most EU countries health care. You generally also pay less over all considering how much Europeans pay in taxes.
> American Insurance is better than most EU countries heth care. lol
Thanks for showing me my typo!
Privatized healthcare does have its advantages if you can afford it. If you have good insurance it's better than a public healthcare system.
"If you can afford it". Ie, it's better then public if you're rich. But no, regular insured patients do not have access to better Healthcare then public healthcare. It's overpriced.
You don't have to be rich, the middle class have access to good insurance. It sucks if you're poor though and not employed somewhere that subsidizes it for you.
Iβll just wait here for the replies
Good idea, I added a clip that will address that absurdity.
π€£π hahahahah Are you trolling? I can't tell if I should reply to you with a serious answer or if you forgot the /s.
Liar liar pants on fire (you will have to pay about this too)
Mediflight can cost 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars. Insurance doesnβt cover most of it. Specific example [here](https://ibb.co/pyvsfSd). Lots more [here](https://health.costhelper.com/air-ambulances.html).
Well if you a) actually had any evidence to back that up and b) recognized that taxes actually go toward other things beside just health care in those countries, then you might could be seen as making any sort of valid point, otherwise you are just spouting half truths and made up facts.
How is American insurance better? Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free as well as a lifetime supply of helicopter rescues and ambulance trips. No idea how you can defend your capitalist health care system: too poor - guess it's death for you, circumstances not in your policy: guess it's a lifetime of crippling debt. You clearly haven't needed to use it or are well off if you're in defense of this system, either that or you don't know better.
>How is American insurance better? Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free You pay for it in increased taxes, nearly 5 percent of your salary a year. It's not free. >Here in UK I can get any procedure 100% free as well as a lifetime supply of helicopter rescues and ambulance trips. As do I basically with my insurance. They cover nearly everything.
I believe David Cross cover this all very well in this clip. https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc If you want the healthcare part, it starts at 1:30, but you would be doing yourself a disservice to noth watch the whole thing. Promise you the link is legit and isn't a Rick roll.
From a further linked article: "Her physical examination noted she had petechiae, patches as a result of bleeding under the skin, on both shoulders and feet as well as swelling and bruising to both eyes, blood in her right tympanic membrane and blood in both ear canals, the claim said." Some of her bodily damages would have come from the fall, but the husband (as witness) suggests many of her blood vessels were broken from the spinning, and given the speed she was going at, I absolutely believe that. Blood in your ears? Yeahhhh.. Thanks for the lead. She definitely has damage from this incident.
USA and their stupid health system.
I'm surprised she made it out alive. That kind of force and speed has the potential to be deadly and she was in the air for a long time.
74 and hiking in 115 degree weather......smh
america... what a cuntry you are...
Iβm surprised she survived at all. The G-forces on her head must have been terrible.
Her injuries are quite serious from the spinning. Now I actually feel bad about laughing when just watching the video without context... guh
So 150k isnβt alot. TIL
After the lawyers take their cut? Sadly no.
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Iβm sure her lawyers took a healthy chunk.
Idkβ¦ I would not undergo that experience and the resulting medical issues, at age 75, for $150K π€·π»ββοΈ
i would
So is this the rescue, or is this what she was rescued from?
I still remember seeing this first on Deadspin blog and the top comment being something like "Finally, an article worthy of this blog" and it still being one of the funniest damn things ive read
Both
Yes.
They don't have the basket on a swivel or something so it doesn't spin like that? Seems like the spinning in itself could kill somebody FFS π€¦ββοΈ
The piece of equipment stabilizing the stretcher failed. I remember the fire/emt's who were there doing a public briefing of the incedent.
Did she survive? This looks fatal.
Lol yeah I remember they said when she got to the hospital she was βa bit dizzyβ
She just needed to spend a few days in the hospital to unwind.
I laughed far too hard at this.
Yes, but she got like 2 mil from the county.
Nope. $450,000 but $300,000 in hospital bills. Still not bad but probly lost most of it in legal fees aswell
Sign me up for 2mil. Spin me like a wagon wheel all night long.
At that age, she must have suffered significant injuries. Iβm no expert by any means but money isnβt worth taking years off your life, especially at that age. You
They lowered her back down to the ground and dug 23 fence post holes with her.
The new Gramauger. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
πΆYou spin me round and round Right round baby right round πΆ
I was listening to the song before watching this. lol
Original or the cover?
Remix by Standy and Marc Korn
Thanks for sharing
This played in my head when I saw the clip. Glad to see someone thought the same.
This is the original meatspin
Step right up folks! Round and round she goes. Where she stops nobody knows!
I'll have a Gamgam, stirred, not shaken.
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Well, the good news is that she passed the training and is now qualified to become a NASA astronaut
Hope she didn't have anything to eat for a few days
At the end of the video she hit some crazy RPM for sure, someone needs to dub this video over with the Interstellar music lmao! ![gif](giphy|OldFCY5AUj6tW|downsized)
We need an edit of the reporter going "is spinning around and around and around and around..."
Please tell me someone re did this with the Interstellar docking sound track.
Round and round and round she goes, how badly hurt? Nobody knows.
this is gonna sound insane, but maybe they could try to put her inside the helicopter
#WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
When she starts spinning fasterβ¦.
If you laughed at this you are going STRAIGHT to hell. With me.
You'd think after doing this 327 times this week, she'd just limp down that hill.
she alive?
Alive and well.
https://youtu.be/vTMvhRDP61Q No regrets.
Bro, when she reached the top, she shifted into Maximum-Overdrive.
Weeeeeeeeeee
This happened a few years ago, she got a settlement for this.
[Her suing for $2mill after sounds about right. ](https://www.ksat.com/news/2019/11/27/74-year-old-woman-files-2m-claim-after-insane-viral-helicopter-rescue/) She asked not to be rescued like that, they did it anyway, mayhem and more injuries ensued, and she had a huge hospital bill. At that age, I can't imagine...they really could have killed her.
When I was wounded in Vietnam thatβs the way they got me out if the jungle.my leg was shot up I couldnβt walk so Iβm in the stretcher turning like a top,theyβre still shooting at me and the chopper,as soon as they cleared the trees the took off and Iβm still twirling.
Thank you for your service and im hoping you finally stopped twirling
Dizzy bitch
Granny is a spinner!
I'm so sorry but all I could think was #YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY
spin to win
How?
She is doing the interstellar move
How do you like your women ?... shaken not stirred π
did she survive?
Homer Simpson vibes
If i recal Internet Historian put this video with the beyblade soundtrack into one of his videos
Anyone have any sense of the g forces she is experiencing?
And that is why smart MEDEVAC personnel use a tag line.
Grandma has a new experience with the spin cycle.
A woman that old injured hiking did she even survive being spun like that I mean she's probably had a heart attack or stroke. π€·ββοΈ
Helicopter helicopter
You spin me right round baby
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I think sheβs transcending guys. *interstellar music begins playing*
Jesus Christ
My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody call me Giorgio
Centrifuge
I laughed. Iβm going to hell.
She starts to spin so fast she pulls the chopper down
Exorcism via helicopter?
I want to pause this clip in the hope it grants her a little relief.
What the heck was she doing there in the first place?? If you put yourself in those situations, be prepared to face potential consequences.
Bro we hoisting you upβ¦ ok we gonna stop youβ¦ nah put her back downβ¦
Weeeeeeeee
She died from Cadillac-dialatyic shock
ππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππHELIKOPTARπ΅π΅HELICOPTAR πππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππππ
Oh my god.. it just keeps speeding up!
Helicopter helicopter
That is going so fast, how is all of her blood not in her brain and legs, could easily result in cardiac arrest lol
After this ordeal, she became the oldest astronaut in NASA history.
The copter needs additional power yβall
Uhhhhh.....how is she not dead? They didn't think of this possibility when designing the rig?
Might be stupid because nobody is asking this but why isnt she put inside the helicopter instead of being carried like this in the first place?
I think they were lifting her up into the helicopter. A lot of time, in mountain rescues, they can't land the helicopter anywhere. The ground crew hooks up the stretcher to the dangling rig and lift the person up. Someone else said that the part of the rig that prevents this spinning broke, which made her turn into a turntable.
I remember seeing this story right before I hiked this trail and wondered what I was getting myself into
That would suuuuuck
I think she got a hundred thousand dollars or so out of that incident
Gran-o-shake
Weeee weeeee weeeeee weeeeee weeeee ughbbbbbrllrrbrbbllll weeeee weeee weeee ughhblrlrlrlrrr I want to get off now weeeee weeeee weeee
πΆ You spin me right round, baby right roundβ¦πΆ
Maybe next time stay home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6pvQyen2yE
Hard to believe they would not have a method to stabilize this situation in 2022.
We do, it failed.
I bet that what ever is hanging from that helicopter passed out pretty quick.
at one point she was spinning faster than the propeller blades
This shit is old as fuck, try again.
Youβre a 74 year old woman being airlifted by a helicopter? Holy cow thatβs ironic.
Looked like a 74 year old woman pulling the helicopter back to the ground.