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Katek Mon 19-Aug-24 22:45:05

Was just watching an emergency ambulance/paramedics programme where a woman had fallen whilst trying to clean her motor home. She was being treated on the ground where she had fallen and there was the usual crowd of onlookers but 6ft from her head was a woman sitting in a folding camp chair!! She wasn't doing anything, not even comforting handhold, just sitting watching proceedings from her camp chair! I'm wondering where it came from.....did she just happen to be passing with it tucked under her arm? Rushed home to get it for comfortable viewing? Taken it out of the motor home? It was very incongruous to say the least! Shades of Mme Defarge and the guillotine. Oh and the victim had fractured both bones in her lower leg in case you were wondering.

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AGAA4 Tue 20-Aug-24 08:55:23

Could it have been a relative or friend of the injured woman who was unable to stand but wanted to be nearby?
Or was she knitting?

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Katek Tue 20-Aug-24 09:13:17

Lolgrin AGAA4. Didn't see any wool - it may have been concealed somewhere!

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Babs03 Tue 20-Aug-24 09:27:15

It does seem inappropriate.
Funnily enough when I watched a vid of youths with knives and machetes waltzing about in broad daylight in Southend with police in attendance there were holiday makers just ambling by, no mass panic.
I for one would be heading for the hills.

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JaneJudge Tue 20-Aug-24 09:32:22

AGAA4

Could it have been a relative or friend of the injured woman who was unable to stand but wanted to be nearby?
Or was she knitting?

I wondered this. Maybe the camp chair was from the motor home and the lady was in shock?

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flappergirl Tue 20-Aug-24 10:41:16

I had a relative (now long since gone) who would pull a dining chair up to her large bay window and peel back the net curtains if an ambulance arrived at a neighbour's house. She'd sit there sometimes for a couple of hours until proceedings were concluded. This was back in the early 70's.

As others have suggested, perhaps the woman on the camping chair was somehow connected given that a motorhome (presumably with camping chairs) was involved.

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Aveline Tue 20-Aug-24 10:53:49

My dear late Grandmother had chairs especially raised on plinths at her front window so she could see who was coming and going in the street!

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David49 Tue 20-Aug-24 10:54:35

It’s what the director wanted and hadn’t thought it through properly, low budget it didn't get reviewed properly.

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Baggs Tue 20-Aug-24 11:06:21

My first thought was what janejudge said. Perhaps the woman was already sitting there when the accident happened and was in shock. I think this is more likely than that she went and got a chair and became an audience.

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Cossy Tue 20-Aug-24 11:33:12

Aveline

My dear late Grandmother had chairs especially raised on plinths at her front window so she could see who was coming and going in the street!

Love it 😂😂😂😂😂

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Katek Tue 20-Aug-24 12:35:08

Don't think she was in shock - none of the half dozen or so paramedics were bothering with her and no sign of a restorative cuppa or glass of water. Programme was on 5Star last night at 9. Ambulance:Code Red, Series 3 episode 7 if anyone wants to have a look and see what they think.

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