237 isn't a valid area code, but 231 is a) a valid area code in Michigan that seems to overlap the state house district in question, and b) something that could be easily misread and/or typoed on a ten-key as 237. (Or they could be counting on the 237 being misread as 231 on a Caller ID display.) Reverse lookup on the phone number on Superpages.com, substituting a 231 area code, got nothing.
The only reference I can find to "two men charged in the murder of a Greenville man" has to do with Pennsylvania, although there is also a Greenville, Michigan in the relevant area. I can't find any news story in Greenville, Michigan's local paper that contains both "murder" and "work release" as key words, going back to 2005 - and Greenville, Michigan seems to have relatively few murders, so any murder should make the local paper. Seems to be an increase in the sleaze factor, if they're referring to a murder that took place in a completely different state and/or more than three years ago.
None of this explains why they're calling you in New Hampshire, of course.
I've been through ARC first aid training (and I agree with a comment on the other thread that it wasn't nearly comprehensive enough), but never had to respond to anything that needed more than a squirt of Neosporin and a band-aid. Pictures and videos of trauma make me woozy.
If I only get through steps 1 and 2 before needing to skip to 6, do I fail? Or is it likely that if I found myself in an actual emergency situation, training and adrenaline would kick in and I wouldn't notice that I needed to throw up until I sat down afterwards?
My parody detector is usually pretty reliable, and he's not setting it off at all.
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