Via the Reno, Nevada Gazette-Journal: Official: fight broke out at Washoe flu clinic this morning. Excerpt:
A fight broke out during a swine flu clinic held today at the Washoe County Health District when someone tried to cut in line, Judy Davis, the health district’s spokeswoman said.
“I heard a couple of people were involved in a physical altercation when somebody tried to cut in line and someone was unhappy with that,” she said. “I don’t know the details but the fight did stop. I don’t know if people in the crowd stopped them or if they realized their behavior was inappropriate, but it was very limited.”
An eyewitness at the scene said a man took a swing at a woman, then jumped on her and they fell to the ground. Several men nearby attempted to stop the assault before a county security guard stepped in, broke up the fight and called police.
Those involved in the altercation immediately left at that point, the eyewitness said.
By 8:45 a.m., health district employees had passed out 1,200 wristbands to people standing in line to get H1N1 (swine) flu shots at the clinic, which is not scheduled to begin vaccinations until 1 p.m, Davis said.I used to teach my fiction-writing students that they should make their characters suffer, because stress reveals what we really are. Unfortunately, the revelation is often bad news.
