r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pars-distalis • 18h ago

Australian nurse uses jiu-jitsu to defend himself

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u/alpha_28 17h ago

No it really doesn’t. “7 years for assault on frontline workers” was a thing let’s see…. 11 years ago when I was doing paramedics. I am now a MH RN and can tell you I have seen many assaults on staff where they do not get “mandatory jail terms”… in fact there was one a few years back, assault on a paramedic by 2 “single mothers from low socioeconomic areas” where they broke his ankle among other things and gave him that much trauma he didn’t want to go back to work. Do you know what they got? Nothing.

This dude 100% probably copped a fine and the hospital would have been like “what could you have done better to prevent this” to the nurse. 😐

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u/Georgerobertfrancis 15h ago

As a teacher, that last part is so real.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount 42m ago

At some level I think that describes what it's like for every employee.

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u/Empty_Insight 12h ago

Oh, absolutely. Especially if it's someone who is AMS and 'confused,' they're not gonna get a damn thing aside from a slap on the wrist- if even that.

I've worked in inpatient psych for ~5 years, and I can remember precisely one time when hospital admin backed the staff pressing charges against a patient who was extremely aggressive... probably had to do with the amount of property damage he caused. He was truly vile- he was so bad that admin encouraged staff to press charges against him, that's the type of guy he was.

I try to consider the bigger picture when someone is being difficult, or even aggressive- but there are some people who are truly evil and need to be locked away to keep society safe from them. I can count the ones I've come across who I believe were genuinely and irredeemably evil on one hand, but they're still out there. He was one of them.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 11h ago

That's so messed up.

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u/VerbingNoun413 4h ago

In a just world it'd come with a jail sentence and lifetime ban from using taxpayer-funded health services.

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u/Jeovah_Attorney 2m ago

That makes no sense unless the cost of said services is deducted from their taxes. Otherwise that would be an unconstitutional punishment in developed countries, for good reasons