Full-Timer at South Pole Medevac’d After Fight
Dec 28th, 2007 by Nick
A South Pole plumber punched a full-timer, breaking his jaw, forcing the full-timer’s medevac to Christchurch on Christmas Day.
A Polie reports that the full-timer was “wasted beyond belief” and “was just fucking with the wrong guy too many times”.
Even though there have been a few other fights resulting in firings this season, and several other medevacs this season, this one caught the attention of the world press which, since the Jerri Nielsen episode, now always has a particular soft spot for medevacs from South Pole.
The timing is good. What better way to commemorate the historic spirit of the International Polar Year than with drunken violence at the South Pole?
Update: Bradford Benson, a Pole astrophysicist, witnessed the fight and wrote about it on his blog.
Excerpts:
Five minutes later, Steve comes into summer camp lounge with his mouth full of blood, frozen blood on his jaw, and blood running down his t-shirt.
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Now HR is all over me, wanting details on my version of the fight. I already went in for one 30 minute interview, and now they want a follow up.
Well Not suprised, I there in 2001 and 2002 summer season and I have seen it get out of hand. It is just like any other town except it isn’t usually a major headline.
Fighting, what a waste of time and energy!!
sweeeeet!
Have you seen the stats for top stories in The Guardian that week? The same week Benazir Bhutto was assassinated?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/topstories/page/0,,2233713,00.html
Sigh. I got shoved into a picture frame at Palmer by a blacked out drunk. He also whacked a few others of us at the bar at Palmer. This was back in the late 90′s.
He went home the next day. It was an HR “cover our ass” interview that made me believe that RPSC just wants to cover their tail, and don’t give a rat’s ass about employees.
If you go over to that blog, the full account is gone and replaced with a link to the generic Guardian article. Wonder who made him take it down?!