Terrorizing Ourselves
Who needs actual terrorists?
How’s this for an ill-conceived emergency preparedness drill? An off-duty cop pretending to be a terrorist stormed into a hospital intensive care unit brandishing a handgun, which he pointed at nurses while herding them down a corridor and into a room.
There, after harrowing moments, he explained that the whole caper was a training exercise.
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The staff at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals-Siena Campus, where the incident took place Monday morning, found the exercise more traumatizing than instructive.
Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that they learned to be terrorized.
Scott • June 1, 2010 6:24 AM
I submit that he wasn’t pretending. If only he knew it was a drill, then it was the real deal for the hospital staff.