I've just read this news story.
I'll reproduce here as much of Amy Barnes' emergency call as is given in the article:
The tape begins with piercing screams and cries from Amy, before she says: "I've been stabbed."
Operator: "Emergency, which service do you require?"
A loud screaming is followed by Amy saying: "I can't breathe! I've been stabbed! Please help me! Please help me!"
Operator: "She says she's been stabbed."
Amy: "I've been stabbed. I'm dying. Please help me!"
Operator: "Where are you?"
Amy: "26, Moss Street, Farnworth."
Operator: "What?"
Amy: "Moss Street, Farnworth."
The operator then asks: "What's happened?"
Amy: "I'm dying! He's stabbed me to death. I'm dying! Please help me!"
Operator: "Who?"
Amy: "My boyfriend… I'm going… I can't see."
Operator: "Where are you stabbed love?"
Amy: "All over my body. I need help. Please help me."
As the life drains out of her, the victim's speech became more and more slurred and she appears to lose consciousness.
I hardly dare comment on this. However, I'll just try and write the first things that came into my head, probably not in chronological order. First of all, this is 'love' as it is known in our culture. No wonder there are so many lonely people about. Second, however valiant a job the operator was doing, I can't help feeling dismay at the suggestions of formal procedure here. But then, we're all of us dying, and we're all of us trapped in such formal procedures throughout our life, on the giving or receiving end, or both, even though we're dying. This is just an incredibly intense microcosm of the general human condition. It's a two-minute play.
"Where are you stabbed love?"
In that question is expressed all the tragic and unbridgeable distance that lies between all human beings.
Man, your comment just hits the bull’s-eye,especially the last statement.Thanks for sharing your thoughts which make me believe that not everything is lost.Anodyne
Thank you. I don’t think it’s lost yet. Not yet.
Nothing surprises me these days:Must admit at the end I would have expectedafter “Where are you stabbed love?” the reply”I’ve told you , 26 Moss St Farnworth”Maybe that would only happen in Liverpool..
Yes. It might have been a witty way to die, in the ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me’ line.
Ah yes good old troubled frankie…nay nay francis i tell a lie. Hope amy barnes’s killer gets his come uppance though. Bad news.
Yes remember the case now . He was a football coach who had a history of violently attacking girls. Amy was a quite beautiful young model. And his horror of a mother who was a policewoman no less,tried to give the murderer an alibi..What an unfortunate day when that particular beauty met that beast!!
I believe he was a footballer. I don’t know at what level.You’d think people would have got bored of violence by now, but it seems to continue.