Derek was involved in a reenactment of disasters for the purpose of training health care and emergency workers. Being a nursing student, this was part of one of his clinicals for school and had to show up and call on those acting skills of his. Derek's role to play was that of an inmate being transfered by a bus that was involved in a serious crash with a tanker transporting rocket fuel. They were suppose to be taken to one of the hospitals in the area, involved in the training, and dropped off at the ER. Derek was suppose to have had a heart attack 3 yrs ago, taking nitroglycerin and asprin. He was suppose to be having another heart attack after the crash and not have his meds with him. Unfortunately, things didn't seem to be planned out very well and Derek and the other actors were taken to different hospitals before being dropped off about 2 blocks away from the hospital they finally ended up going to. While fully shackled and in their prison garb, Derek and the other men were made to walk those two blocks to the hospital; crossing a very busy road. Derek said they received some very strange looks from people in their cars wondering what was going on. Derek said he caught the wide eyes of one little girl. He wished he had told her,"make sure you eat your vegetables!" Derek could see why no one would want to try to run in shackles. He came home with marks on his ankles and wrists from being shackled for nearly 3 hours. The "makeup" artists had used perminent marker on their "victims" so Derek came home with "dogs" and "cats" written on his knuckles and some fake tats on his hands. They wanted to put tats on his neck and head, but Derek said no way when he saw that they were using perminent markers. I got a kick out of the picture; big tough Derek next to the little squatty police officer! Love it!
