Cops pull over paramedics on route to hospital
As good citizens we all know to pull over for emergency vehicles, but have you ever wondered what happens when two different emergency vehicles end up on the same road? If you guessed that chaos would ensue, you’d be right.
This idiocracy scenario played out in the streets of Oklahoma recently. An ambulance carrying a woman suffering from heat exhaustion and her son was on its way to the hospital when troopers pulled the ambulance over. The troopers were apparently angry because the ambulance driver failed to yield for the officers who were on route to another call. Lets see how that all plays out shall we? Here is the unedited version of the video, uploaded to YouTube by the victim’s son.
Interestingly enough, the cops are claiming there was an assault off camera, but have failed to release the footage from their dash cams. The assault claim does not appear in the statement released by the EMT. Regardless of who hit who, this is one situation that really should and likely could have been avoided. The troopers showed a complete lack of courtesy for the citizen in this case. If the cops really had a beef with the ambulance driver, they should have escorted the ambulance to the hospital and waited for the EMT outside after the patient was in the hands of hospital employees.
Naturally, the local news was there and interviewed the man who recorded the video.
- News 9 – Trooper, Paramedic Fight Caught on Tape
- KTUL – EMT Statement
- Photography is not a crime – Cops put EMT in Chokehold
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What, it wasn’t Orson Welles going to a radio appearance?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/bio
“In the 1930s he worked at various radio stations in New York City, at different times of the day. He found it difficult to be on time for his live shows because he had to use taxicabs and the heavy New York City traffic meant that he was often late. He soon found a loophole in the law that said you didn’t have to be sick to hire an ambulance, so he did just that and had the drivers blast their sirens as he traveled from one station to the next, and that way he was on time.”
This article sure does belong in the “Strange” (better: outrageous) category. Police bullying EMS personnel who have the well-being of a patient in their charge. That is just plain disgraceful.