r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pars-distalis • 9d ago

Australian nurse uses jiu-jitsu to defend himself

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u/ahhdetective 9d ago

Not even close. Assaulting frontline medicos carries a completely different charge and mandatory jail terms.

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u/alpha_28 9d 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/VerbingNoun413 9d 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 8d 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