So I'm watching the latest episode of Numbers, which is about a cargo train and passenger train collision in LA, and the FBI team is doing search and rescue in the wreckage.

Because of course you send FBI senior investigative special agents into dangerous wreckage. If they're the stars of the show, I guess.

Anyway, I'm watching them pull people out of the wreckage. The most egregious case is when the guy scrambles out of the wreckage with an injured woman on his back in a fireman's carry, and he hands her off to his partner who holds her in the classic honeymoon carry, and through all this, her head is flopping around.

Where the fuck is her cervical collar? I can see the head injury. There is an unacceptably high probability that these untrained FBI jackasses have just killed that woman, or paralyzed her for life.

We see them pull a couple more guys out of the wreckage, with the same carelessness about neck injuries. And yes, there's a certain amount of rush necessary here, because there's a chemical leak. But for gods sake, you can try. Even if you can't hold c-spine while extracting her, you can slip a c-collar on and get some stabilization.

Yeah, this is a stupid show that crowbars its premise into every inappropriate situation. But there's a difference between forgiving FBI guys doing things like S&R they wouldn't do in the real world, and them doing things wrong that cause more harm.

Bah, humbug.