The bat phone rang at 12.35pm and our hero was in the air three minutes later, which is a damn sight faster that he's ever got his backside off the sofa to mow the lawn. Perhaps it's something they're putting in his tea.
The Batmobile followed the line of the M4 motorway and across the Nepean river into the Blue Mountains, where they landed in a field and were escorted in a police 4x4 vehicle complete with their kit bags (you know, long socks, Heinz Beans. Copy of Top Gear Magazine) to a partly-constructed house where a builder had fallen from his scaffolding. The paramedics were already at the scene and though they'd managed to get his blood pressure up, he still wasn't breathing so the Bat crew had to bag him and hook him up to an artifical respirator which they were carrying in the kit.
Within 29 minutes of touching down in the Blue Mountains they had taken off again with the patient on a stretcher and they arrived at the A and E department five minutes later (the helipad is right outside).
What Happened to the Patient?
He had a CT scan which showed he'd broken his neck in six places though his brain seemed to be okay. The medics think he had a cardiac event and this might have caused the fall. The Bat crew probably saved his life, but we won't know until tomorrow how his life is going to look. He's sedated right now but tomorrow they'll stop the drugs and see how he reacts.
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