Out And About

Tuesday, May. 09, 2006 - 12:35 a.m.

On Monday, the miners were rescued at around noon my time. I spent most of yesterday afternoon listening via the web to the local talk show reaction in Brisbane, Australia. Somehow the local chat shows are providing better news than the muckymuck national news sources. Isn't that the way it almost always is, though?...

Without fail, the calls are all starting with the phrase "Great day, innit?..."

Well, yes, of course it is. :)

The miners emerged with their arms up and wearing fluro jackets. Then they defiantly walked over to the redboard where the cards were that indicated who was still underground, grabbed their cards -- and Todd Rusell and Brant Webb motherfucking clocked out.

For whatever this is worth, if the miners take home thirty dollars per hour while they are in overtime, they have each made about ten thousand dollars during the fourteen days.

The miners were then instructed by the authorities to please for gosh sakes to be good blokes and PLEASE get into the ambies [while the cameras were trained on them to avoid the liability of just letting wander on home, I add with the eye of experience and spousal osmosis, being married to Liability Guy] and go to hospital. They did, and ambulances pulled away at a leisurely pace, with their sliding doors still open so the assembled crowds and the miners could enjoy one another for a few more moments while driving through the melee. The miners were then taken to Launceston Hospital about a half hour away, where, incredibly, they were poked and prodded for about an hour, and then told that they were free to go if they wished. Todd Russell stayed and had a metric assload of steak and eggs, but Brant Webb went home.

The miners were able to attend the funeral of fellow miner Larry Knight, who was killed in the original rock fall on April 25th. The Knight family postponed the services for two weeks so that the miners coud say goodbye to their friend if they so chose.

There's obviously quite a story to be told by these blokes, worth several skedillion dollars. If they work their cards right, so to speak, they never actually have to work again.

Anyway, yay, hurray, they're out and already went out into daylight for the first time in a couple of weeks.

Drink your water and take your Vitamin D, fellas.

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Okay, that's it. Have a good Tuesday.

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