"Where is he?" "He's DRT." - Democratic Underground

Robb

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:08 PM
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"Where is he?" "He's DRT."

OK, this was a new one for me.

State patrol at a collision, one asks the other where the driver is. Trooper #2 points toward the crumbled wreckage and says "He's DRT."

So later that night I ask a local cop what the hell DRT stands for.

He grins wryly. "DRT? Stands for 'dead right there'." :eyes:

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Oeditpus Rex

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:18 PM
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1. Highway patrol have to have coping skills

I guess acronyms are among them. Reduce the carnage to three letters. Otherwise, they'd probably lose it.

I remember my first DRT. Head-on, both bodies still in the cars when I got there. You look (you don't really want to, but you do) and think, "They were both alive and perfectly fine 20 minutes ago."

Then maybe you walk to the shoulder, put your hands on your knees and hope nobody sees you throw up. Sleep doesn't come very easily that night.

I asked the captain, a really nice guy, how they get used to it.

"You don't," he said.

I believe it.

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Robb

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:26 PM
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3. No argument here. n/t

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xmas74

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:24 PM
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2. I used to dispatch for a department.

They do pick up little phrases and sayings. It's a way to cope w/ the job.
It's not meant to be disrespectful. If they had to think of every DB call that they've ever responded to they would go insane. Let's face it-it's easier to make a joke about it than to think about what you've just witnessed.

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trof

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:26 PM
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4. We say "DOA". Brits say "BID".

If there is the faintest spark of life, we hustle them off into an ambulance.

Yanks say "Dead On Arrival".
Brits say "Brought In Dead".

For some preverse reason, I find "BID" funny.
:shrug:

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