[Alta_redneck]

I was heading into the store when they pulled up, they both got out and went in ahead of me without any life saving equipment, just walked in. So I kind of hung back to see what was going on and they grab a basket and started shopping for groceries. So I had a confrontation with them, tried to convince them to go park the fucking wagon if they were just here to pick up some grub. This is actually a street connecting a Timmies at one end, to an A&W and Mickey D’s at the other end with a mall in between, so kind of a busy street and they got a fucking ambulance bottle necking it in the middle. And to add to that, people now had to either walk out from in front or from behind it into traffic to get to their cars.

The driver told me they were on duty and they could park where ever they wanted to, they couldn’t be expected to run across the parking lot to the ambulance if they got a call. Well what the hell are they doing, going shopping in the first place then? It’s not like it’s a firehall ambulance, it belongs to a private company and they don’t have a kitchen in their shop.

So what we have here is an emergency vehicle plugging up an emergency lane, putting other people’s lives at risk as well as parked on the wrong side of the street facing traffic, all for a personal shopping trip. Give me a fucking break.

Like don't ever just drop off the assistant and then get the fuck out of the way and sit there with the motor running, waiting for that call. I took this picture after I picked up what I needed and they were still in the store.

[commanderkai]

Eh...I'm not surprised. You ever see cops flash their lights to blow through lights?

[RUEZ]

I would forward this to their company. Shopping should be done on their own time just like any other job. No reason they can't do it on their time off.

[Tman1]

Yes I did. I had a 'twinkie' attack and had to put on the lights and sirens.

[RUEZ]

Tman1 wrote:

Yes I did. I had a 'twinkie' attack and had to put on the lights and sirens.

I don't think a Ford Taurus with fog lights counts as an emergency vehicle.

[Alta_redneck]

RUEZ wrote:

I would forward this to their company. Shopping should be done on their own time just like any other job. No reason they can't do it on their time off.

I agree. Thats why I took the picture. But heaven forbid if I ever need an ambulance and it's this crew that shows up. Shit like that happens in a small town.

[crystalsm]

Nah, but we have taken the rescue truck to go for lunch after calls a few times. Mind you, we park in regular parking spaces.

There's no reason to pull what those guys did. A complaint should definitely be voiced to the company.

[Yogi]

Yup. I have. Several times. But then I owned the ambulance, and it was decomisioned!

Good pic AR. Send it to your local paper.

[Sapio]

Yogi wrote:

Yup. I have. Several times. But then I owned the ambulance, and it was decomisioned!

Good pic AR. Send it to your local paper.

Sweet, were did u get a decommissioned ambulance from?

[ridenrain]

Just another example of entitlement.
I agree with Yogi. Send it to the paper.

[Yogi]

Sapio wrote:

Yogi wrote:

Yup. I have. Several times. But then I owned the ambulance, and it was decomisioned!

Good pic AR. Send it to your local paper.

Sweet, were did u get a decommissioned ambulance from?

I found it listed in the Auto Trader.
1951 Dodge Ambulance with a semi-auto trans. '3 on the tree' with a clutch but you only used the clutch to shift gears. I could start or stop in any gear. Took some getting used to. Tranny used 30 wt. motor oil! I'll have to look around and see if I can find the pics. I know I still have the auto trader with the ad. Quite an interesting 'side story' to this vehicle when I sold it.

[Sapio]

That sounds like a great find and sweet ride.

[Thanos]

Give the guys a break. At the end of their shift they probably have to hose all the blood, puke, and shit out of the van before they go home. I doubt that most of us would enjoy doing that part of their job.

Besides, if anything bad happened at the grocery to someone the paramedics would already be there to take care of it. Quick response time = more saved lives.

[Thanos]

lily wrote:

Thanos wrote:

Give the guys a break. At the end of their shift they probably have to hose all the blood, puke, and shit out of the van before they go home. I doubt that most of us would enjoy doing that part of their job.

Besides, if anything bad happened at the grocery to someone the paramedics would already be there to take care of it. Quick response time = more saved lives.

All the years I've "known" you, Thanos, I never realized you drove an ambulance.

Too terribly out of shape to be a para. I don't have the mentality to tolerate all the weeping, bleeding, and screaming these guys have to put up with every shift. I've done a few driving jobs in the past, though, so I know what stress the public service drivers are under just from having to be on the roads all day long with the rest of us villains and retards.

I'm admittedly a soft touch for the emergency service personnel, but I always look at it from a "walk a mile in my shoes" perspective. They go through too much hell on a daily basis for me to take all the excessive whining and bitching that's done about them very seriously.

[Brenda]

I was at the McDonalds with my kids, and an ambulance parked in the parkinglot. They came in, ordered, got their stuff, and ate it, sitting in their ambulance at the parking lot.

Parked with the front of the car to the fence