The Bat Phone Rings - 2

Batman wasn't home last night when the mobile batphone went off, he was in the queue at our local curry house in pursuit of some tandoori chicken to go with the vegetable curry he'd been making all afternoon (the same curry we'll be eating all week judging by the amount he's cooked up).

Anyway, he flew in the front door wheezing something about a medical transfer from Coff's Harbour and over the course of the next ten minutes, managed to change into his cape and eat his dinner and speak to the medics at Coff's hospital all at the same time, which was an entertaining spectacle and marks the first time in ages I've seen any bloke multi-tasking, let alone Batman.

After that it was off in the Batmobile (which you might remember is a 20-something year old Toyota Corolla; the CD player being worth more than the rest of the car, including the tyres) to Mascot, which is the site of Sydney's main airport (and calling it Mascot saves me having to call it Sydney Internatonal Airport all the time). The little plane got an emergency take-off slot around 8.30pm flying north to Coff's Harbour, which is an hour and a half's flight up the NSW coast, though would be considerably quicker in a commercial plane.

The patient was a 55 year old lady with a brain haemorrhage who needed transferring to Sydney for further investigation by the neurosurgeons at the Royal North Shore (they don't have the right expertise at Coff's). The transfer was uneventful though he did note with some amusement that there were only three of them on board; himself, the pilot and the flight-nurse, the latter seeming to be in charge of brewing up and handing around the bourbons, which is more that you get when you fly Jetstar.

I'm not asking any questions about the lack of co-pilot. We've all seen Airplane and we all know how the cabin crew and autopilot have to land the plane after both pilots get sick. Darren reckons the autopilot is up to the job but I'll just keep my fingers crossed the pilot's not had the fish.

Patient Update

The man who fell from the scaffolding in the Blue Mountains has died.