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Old 07-16-2010, 6:36pm   #1
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I heard on TV and other sources that Ambulances that go to the "bad" neighborhoods get seriously harassed a lot of the time and even threatened, assaulted, shot at, etc... is this true and if so, what gives? Why would "poor people" want to harass the ambulance? They are there to help whoever got hurt and they can't make arrests or anything like that so why would people hold any malice towards them????

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Never heard that before.
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I don't know how the big boys do it, but when I go into a bad area I always shut down and lock the cab, and I never go where I can't see the entrance points to the box. Being non-emergency we don't carry any narcs on the truck, but they see the ambulance and think they can score something.

As far as being harassed, I just keep driving and don't slow down.
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33 yrs. as a vol. medic/driver and NEVER a problem in the community . In hospital parking lots...ripped off several times of everything not highly secured !
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Luckily I have never dealt with it to an extreme. I have had rocks thrown at the ambulance. Still haven't figured that one out. My entire career has been spent in rural areas and small cities of less than 30,000. One section of Hood county is terrible. They see flashing lights, add a little (ok actually a LOT, no no....A **** LOAD) of alcohol or drugs and no telling what you may get. I have seen medics with some of the services that work in the big metropolitan areas wearing bullet proof vests but I am not sure it is required. It is true that we are there to help but believe it or not, 45 - 50% of the time we are dealing with the dredges or society. People who use the Emergency room as a doctors office. Medicaid patients who have figured out how to work the system. The don't have any self respect why should they respect anyone else? Almost a, "So what, I am not paying for it." attitude. I have been punched,kicked, pinched,spat on and called names I have written down to use later. I love my job.
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Oh no, not pinched!
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Have you ever heard, "you can't help those that won't help themselves"?
The dregs of society are these people that do things like mentioned above. My twin has worked for an ambulance service for many years as his second job. Mostly rural area back home in Kentucky, but he has made trips to Louisville many times.
Some of the stories he tells, I just shake my head. I don't think he has been shot at, but that's about the only thing that hasn't happened.
Feel sorry for the sumbeoch that does shoot at him. Daddy didn't raise no bad aims in his house.
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Oh no, not pinched!
Hey some of those 90 year old women have sharp as hell finger nails and knoiw how to use them.
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i think u guys should carry tazers. no one screws around when a tazer comes out. like a jarkafish on a rampage.
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Sneakels is a twin??
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Yes, add that to the files, there are two of them!

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Fraternal twins, and we couldn't be more un-alike if we had to.
We're the same height, but he weights about 60 pounds more than me(I'm a svelte 180 ), he has red hair like mom(mines brown), and he's dumb as a brick book wise(while I never had to crack a book and got straight !'s). His legs are huge, and his calves are as big as my thighs!
And he's the worlds biggest redneck! Scene: Early 1992
My brother had just gotten out of the service, I still had a few more months to go. I took my girlfriend down to Kentucky with me to visit mom and dad, and see my brother.
We were sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee and talking, when my brother comes out of the bedroom, jumps up on the kitchen counter, sits there for about 30 seconds and rips the biggest fart you ever heard!
Mom was all ready to die! I was like, "RED dammit! Did you have to do that before her?"
He just said with a straight, I don't see the problem look on his face, "Sorry, din't know it was her turn."
He's a redneck, and I'd like to kill him at times. But I know he's always got my back, and I'd kill a mofo in a heartbeat if they ever messed with him. Hell, he's my bro, and I love him.
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Friday I had some old jewish lady tell me I was evil, insane, said I was killing her, the as I was trying to transfer her to the stretcher said, and I quote..."Oh God, please smite him dead lord" as she looked at me.

Needless to say as it started to get cloudy later, I started to get very nervous.
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Friday I had some old jewish lady tell me I was evil, insane, said I was killing her, the as I was trying to transfer her to the stretcher said, and I quote..."Oh God, please smite him dead lord" as she looked at me.

Needless to say as it started to get cloudy later, I started to get very nervous.
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I heard on TV and other sources that Ambulances that go to the "bad" neighborhoods get seriously harassed a lot of the time and even threatened, assaulted, shot at, etc... is this true and if so, what gives? Why would "poor people" want to harass the ambulance? They are there to help whoever got hurt and they can't make arrests or anything like that so why would people hold any malice towards them????

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I have a good friend who has 15 Years as a Paramedic, all after his 10 years service to the Military.

He hears that “Myth” a lot, and as a veteran Paramedic who territory is both the West and South side of Chicago, I would think he knows first hand.

// Enlighten //
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Of course, I also get very nervous walking into churches, or other places of worship...I may burst into flames.
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Of course, I also get very nervous walking into churches, or other places of worship...I may burst into flames.
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I have been a firefighter a little over 12 years, I can say first hand that this is NOT a myth.Honestly its not a everyday occurance but it does happen and and one point they were thinking of issuing medics bullet proof vest.Usually the patients friends are angered and feel that there buddy isnt getting proper or the best care due to skin color(which is NOT true of course!!) but its not often for sure....
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