I think Good Sam laws don't do enough to protect the folks with skills.
Last summer I went to a steakhouse with my in-laws (you can see where this is going) and I had to do a Heimlich on an obese 15 year-old girl who inhaled a chunk of cow.
The restaurant was packed. She stood up and was in obvious distress. Her mother, also obese and not part of the solution, started screaming.
No one stood up. Period.
Besides that lesson that no one may come to my aid when I am choking, I also learned that:
1. obese people are hard to get your arms around
2. The Heimlich is easier on TV than in real life... you have to do it about twenty times
3. vomit does not equal dislodged FB.
After I cleared the obstruction, she actually went back to eating her steak.
