As ridiculous as this story looks, its for real.
Think again, Tonto.
Children are told these stories "without people stopping to really look at what's happened", according to the tongue-in-cheek research.
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"What sort of EMS (emergency medical service) training and equipment did these first responders have?" they ask in a light-hearted paper published by the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Now, if any of those words I italicized gives you trouble, follow that first link I provided.