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Chicago Police Cadet Collapses With Heat Stroke 10 Days Into Academy . . . Given Disability Payments for 15 Years

The Chicago Sun Time is reporting a fascinating case involving a police cadet who collapsed from heat stroke after just 10 days in the police academy when asked to run three miles. Donald E. Barnes Jr. never finished the “slow jogging exercise” or the academy but was put on medical disability . . . . 15 years ago. Barnes has collected $500,000 over the last 15 years but has never returned to the academy to complete training, let alone work as an officer.

The 30-year-old trainee ran only five blocks on the slow jog when he collapsed and diagnosed with heat stroke and placed in intensive care due to kidney and liver failure.

He is now 45 years old with the support of the tax-free payments. He has been found with “lingering” effects of the heat stroke and is entitled therefore not only to free health insurance for himself but wife and their two kids born after the heat stroke.

It is interesting to see this level of disability payment for such a long period of time.

According to the Daily Mail, “Barnes underwent surgery and outpatient rehabilitation following his collapse in 1997, but ‘has had no other treatment or follow-up’ since then, according to a pension fund doctor’s report dating from 2010.” He is one of a number of CPD employees who have been questioned about their disability status — one of hundreds of such cases.

Source: Sun Times

41 thoughts on “Chicago Police Cadet Collapses With Heat Stroke 10 Days Into Academy . . . Given Disability Payments for 15 Years”

  6. PS Sometimes clarity slips on a banana. I make no claim as to the religion nor other personal characteristics of our folks who have revealed their southern placement. My sentence is hopefully clear now.
    Oh yeah, one is inclined to make jokes using Greek philospher teachings. Gave me a leg-up in my education. So much is lacking.

  7. Matts,

    You do know about the arbitrary list, from JT it is said.

    Just think FABBS.
    Effing, anal openings, illegitimate child, testicles(?), and feces.

    What they do with visitors with Tourette’s with coprolalia escapes me.

    Of course it is related to not swearing in church, not for god’s sake, but for decorum—-or was it vice versa, do you think. We are religiously neutral here; jews and catholics are however exempt from attacks here, but that’s being properly kind I feel. They get so much feces anyway IRL.

    Criticizing the pope, bishops who crank women and shield pedophilic priests, and the Vatican has been shown to be OK. And WS, cuz it is not fully homogenous. In fact it was the WASPS who started it. The Vanderbilts still have USAs largest residence. Biltmore Palace in Asheville, NC.

    But you can kick as many evangelists or muslims that you like. If the E’s are redneck or suspected of living in the South, then they have to pass special inspection and qualify for entrance. We have some of those. They might be refugees forced to live there.
    One likes cats and the other music festivals. And I love them both. Welcome to my party.

    Here it is declared that freedome of speech reigns. And reins in our speech sometimes.

    So, re-word it. Cussing can be done in more than one way, and it’s even more fun that way. You don’t have to say a man is a damn fool. Just show him instead. Although the former saves time and words.

    Did you fall asleep?

  9. Am I rude by telling you to stick your moderation? There isn’t any inappropriate language.

  10. Matt Johnson,

    Didn’t see any. Saw either the motorway from the Dallas airport to our office near Plano. Or saw cross-Texas, and then mostly sagebrush. Warm weather in Louisiana andt freezing rain in west Texas. Guess weird weather is standard..

    Did you look up that philosopher fellow? I did on Wiki. Cool how much they knew then—atoms and so.
    Just shows we aren’t so smart. Another greek guy measured the diamter of the earth, etc. and showed it to be round. Then came the Christians and said it was forbidden to talk about. The greeks had lots of schools around called academies. Emperor Constantine’s wife, who was a Christian, closed them all.

    This Greek has said that he didn’t believe in any gods, least he’d never seen any. And they never had either hindered nor helped him far as he could tell. Smart guy.

    Just shows you can’t trust the progrssive nature of everything.

    Sorry to get windy on ya, was just excited by that greek fellow.

    We got a thunderstorm with hard hard rain now. It’s been the same generally for more than 40 days and nights, just not continuously. Forecast more of the same.

    What are do up so late or early as the case may be?

  11. ID707,

    Didn’t see that many cows. Saw lots of cowboys and Mexicans.

  12. Perhaps OT but it deals with an aligned corruption subject:
    US drug policy, counter-measures, new emerging problems with prescription drug use, etc.

    “Of the 36,450 overdose deaths in the United States in 2008, 20,044 involved a prescription drug, more than all illicit drugs combined.

    And whereas cocaine and heroin have been concentrated in big cities, prescription drug abuse has spread nearly everywhere. “Today there is drug use in every county in Ohio, and the problem is worse in rural areas,” said Mike DeWine, the attorney general of Ohio.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/world/americas/us-priority-on-illegal-drugs-debated-as-abuse-rises.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120717

    Quality of life decline or ?????

  13. MJ,

    And survived both times. Some have all the luck.
    Did you see any cows or cowboys. Lots of miles of nothin’, especially West Texas.

  14. Ya know, anecdotal articles like this tend to leave a lot to be desired. (Think of the sorry reporting on the elderly lady who was burned by scalding hot coffee at McDonalds.) The disability review board is bound to have more info than what we see here. I believe I’ll trust that board to do its job. I have more important things (warrantless wiretaps, citizen assassination, billions in tax credits for corporate giants shipping US jobs overseas) to worry about.

  18. Malfeasance in Chicago? Say it ain’t so, “O”…

    So much for Sandburg’s “Chicago”:

    HOG Butcher for the World,
    Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
    Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler;
    Stormy, husky, brawling,
    City of the Big Shoulders:

    They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
    have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
    luring the farm boys.
    And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
    is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
    kill again.
    And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
    faces of women and children I have seen the marks
    of wanton hunger.
    And having answered so I turn once more to those who
    sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
    and say to them:
    Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
    so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
    job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
    little soft cities;

    Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
    as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
    Bareheaded,
    Shoveling,
    Wrecking,
    Planning,
    Building, breaking, rebuilding,
    Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
    white teeth,
    Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
    man laughs,
    Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
    never lost a battle,
    Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
    and under his ribs the heart of the people,
    Laughing!
    Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
    Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
    Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
    Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

  20. i went to great lakes RTC. it never got warm enough to get a heatstroke. frostbite maybe, windburn yeah, no heatstroke.

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