O/T What’s the bloody world coming to.

[Lolmorgan]

A health worker has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison with intent to endanger life after a child died at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
The 27-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday, hours after the death, and has since been suspended from her role at the hospital.
A spokesperson for the hospital said the child was being treated in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
The woman has been released while investigations continue.
Forensic tests are also being examined, West Midlands Police said.
"The woman was arrested on Thursday evening at a property in the West Midlands area on suspicion of administering poison with intent to endanger life," a spokesperson for the force said.
"The family of the child are being supported by specially trained officers."
A spokesperson for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust said it was "supporting the infant's family at this distressing time and ask that privacy is respected during this process".
"Following the death of an infant at our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital, we have asked West Midlands Police to examine what has happened, in line with our own safeguarding policy," it added.
"The staff member involved has been suspended by the trust following the national process on the sudden unexpected death of a child."
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a leading centre for specialist paediatric care and treats children and young people up to the age of 16.
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[MillersTime]

Not a new phenomenon. People have been poisoning others / children for hundreds of years. Doesn't make it any less horrid but it isn't a modern society thing in and of itself.

[millertop]

Doesn’t surprise me sadly, maybe a nuke isn’t a bad idea after all

[CAMiller]

I don't really know? Another 15 dead in the latest school shooting here today. I'm sure there will be plenty of candlelight vigils but as far as I'm aware I don't think those have brought anybody back to life yet.

Time to get out of here where our latest 'back to the office training' after Covid includes courses in "Stop the bleed" and "Dealing with an active shooter"

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

I don't really know? Another 15 dead in the latest school shooting here today. I'm sure there will be plenty of candlelight vigils but as far as I'm aware I don't think those have brought anybody back to life yet.

Time to get out of here where our latest 'back to the office training' after Covid includes courses in "Stop the bleed" and "Dealing with an active shooter"

Back in the 1970s I was sent on a number of training courses with impressive titles that could basically be summarised as “how to prevent yourself being blown up by the IRA”

[Pattylallacks2]

Back in the 1970s I was sent on a number of training courses with impressive titles that could basically be summarised as “how to prevent yourself being blown up by the IRA”

Seem to have worked Grist - or did they?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Seem to have worked Grist - or did they?

For me yes, but the Kings Arms in Woolwich ( a pub I occasionally went in) got bombed in 1974

[CAMiller]

For me yes, but the Kings Arms in Woolwich ( a pub I occasionally went in) got bombed in 1974

Good job you wasn't down there taking advantage of the first McDonalds opening then per the current Pop Quiz

[Brin]

I don't really know? Another 15 dead in the latest school shooting here today. I'm sure there will be plenty of candlelight vigils but as far as I'm aware I don't think those have brought anybody back to life yet.

Time to get out of here where our latest 'back to the office training' after Covid includes courses in "Stop the bleed" and "Dealing with an active shooter"

There’s no wonder you’re trying to get back here. Where else do you expect a massacre every other week than in the USA, a country way out of control with its gun laws. Thing is the 1st amendment screwed it for everyone when they brought that law in.

The suspect was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, two law enforcement sources have confirmed. Obtaining one of these high powered rifles is like buying baked beans off a supermarket shelf.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

There’s no wonder you’re trying to get back here. Where else do you expect a massacre every other week than in the USA, a country way out of control with its gun laws. Thing is the 1st amendment screwed it for everyone when they brought that law in.

The suspect was armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, two law enforcement sources have confirmed. Obtaining one of these high powered rifles is like buying baked beans off a supermarket shelf.

But in the past they’ve brought in amendments to cancel earlier amendments, so why is the gun one so “ unamendable” ?