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Dc has been on and made no effort to comment in this thread, so there maybe some truth to it.
We shouldn't be adding a dollar to the ticket price, they wouldn't do that to help out the purse. This needs to be taken care of by the promoters.
Seems to me that AMMC is just as important if not more important than the Ambulance service which is mandatory in order to be able to get insurance. So the promoters need to step up, either substitute AMMC for the Ambulance service or kick in the extra needed for both.
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He said...
Just got permission from @deanwilson15 to post pics. Motocross is such a Love Hate relationship. When you are flowing with the track and your bike is on point you feel unstoppable and loving it. When your bike is not right and the track is a motherfer you hate everything about racing and sometimes that can bite you in the leg.
On his personal page he said...
I don't like when athletes get injured. That being said I love my job and the guys and gals I work with. To think that up until a week prior to the start of the Glen Helen national the Asterisk Mobile Medical Center was not going. There were some individuals who thought the cost of our team being there was too much. To that I say, perhaps Dean Wilson would have been better treated by a flagger or EMT.
Paul
As I said initially I heard a RUMOR, which I wouldn't have posted if the person who shared it with me wasn't reliable.
As I also said if it's true it's poor form and if it's not it's a rumor in very bad taste.
I hope it isn't true personally but it was something told to me that I thought I'd share , I guess I should have kept it to myself and saved the 10 mins I spent on here to use drinking beer instead......
So who are these individuals? Not to hard to take a guess.
I have a hard time believing they want to charge AMMU to park but I also have a hard time believing that those running the events think AMMU is not worth it.
Like Eddie said, who is going to care for the riders better than they do. NO ONE. Those guys are always there within seconds to help out while the flaggers are clueless and the Ambulance crew is????????????
Someone has screwing up, I would like to know who?
I have to guess the insurance company would be very insistent on the ammu being present at the race. It's similar to the flagger stands at tracks. If you have them and they're unmanned, it can be more damning than not having them there. The ammu has been around this long and they've helped 100% when needed. Having them around is a testimony that they are necessary. When an incident like Wilson's leg happens and the ammu isn't present, and Wilson has to lose his leg because the emt isn't trained to handle that kind of accident, I would think the insurance company would be cutting Wilson a check. Or at minimum a costly litigation would ensue.
That wouldn't have touched this at all. Glad you actually did some thing with it and brought it to light. I would like if somebody had more clarification on the mandatory concussion testing the ammc does for mx sports and how it will work if somebody get a concussion and ther rant at the track
2. Have all you guys demanding that DC responds considered that he probably traveled across the country yesterday and may have wanted to spend what was left of a holiday weekend with his family today? I would have if I were him. Let's give him a reasonable amount of time to respond before you get the pitch forks out.
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I was in a bad car crash when I was a teenager and the EMT's and more importantly, the Firefighters cut us out of that car and saved my buddies foot. It was crushed under him and was bleeding and white when they pulled him out. They didn't panic and stopped the bleeding, stabilized him and put him on a helicopter ride that saved his foot and life. I see the need for something like the AMMU, but quit cutting down EMT's and other emergency personnel. They save lives everyday without bright lights, flaggers guarding them and clean, well lit semi's full of medical gear. No offense to AMMU, but that cut on Dean's leg is a walk in the park compared to some of the shit they deal with all the time. Just ask your friendly local fireman for some stories and you will be humbled.
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Why are fans talking about the medical treatment for Pro riders? It has nothing to do with us. Are we going to debate why the OEM's only hire two factory riders instead of the old three or four because they say they don't have the money anymore. Anyone want to start a paypal for that? Geez. They will straighten it out.
Even if you have paramedics in an ambulance, they won't drive around the track during the race to help people, and they certainly won't run across the track, either. They will need a red flag and then they will go help whoever is hurt. Also, trauma surgeons and nurses who have much experience in motocross related injuries are more suited to help riders.
Do you want a lessor prepared crew taking care of your favorite rider when they go down? Not me.
On that note, one of our friends is alive today because the ambulance crew at a race knew how to take care of head trauma. If they didn't, he would certainly be dead. I am not trying to say that the ambulance crew is unqualified, I am saying that they are less qualified that anyone on the AMMC's crew
I sent in a question to Gab at Gibbs tonight on the Pulp show. I wasn't able to listen but I think they talked some about it based on tweets I saw
OK then WHO said the cost was too much ? I think the Asterisk truck should be there, but I would also want to examine the cost and look at expenses just like anything else. Who pays for it now ? Who are the person's who think it costs too much ? who is paying the bill now ? I think it will be funded by someone because its very respected but if there is a person or persons who are making waves then name them. Maybe it is over priced, maybe someone else could do more for less but put it out there first and check out all the options.
As an ex pro rider, current recreational rider, and a qualified paramedic/fireman/first responder, he is probably in the best position to comment on this issue.
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