Did you ever find out why this occurred?

I'm slightly disturbed by that story

no it was a call the blogger listened in on and that was virtually the whole call

Virtually? So, there was more?

well that was all that was blogged im assuming the person went no i dont need an ambulance

Ah, okay.

sorry i truely wish there was more

lol, that's hilarious

my grandfather used to drive an ambulance night crew when he was 16 and his two "assistants" were in their 30's(all they really did was carry the cots)

one of his funnier stories was of this hobo that kept getting picked on by another hobo. my grandfather was called twice in one week to pick him up after getting stabbed by the other guy. on the way to the hospital he first time they didnt say much to eachother but the second time the guy was going on and on about how was gonna learn a lesson the next time he tried to mess with him.

the very next week my grandfather was called to the same area except this time to pick up the guy who had be doing the stabbing...the only thing was that he was dead. apparently the first hobo had learned some self-defense moves and had taken the knife from the guy and stabbed him back only this time he did it "right" by accidentally hitting an artery.

yeah really funny

was that at whitesammy sean?

@WS: That actually is pretty funny.

yes, thought it was a bit odd to call whitesammy's story as "funny"

yeah im with you on that one

I thought his story was. In an ironic way, at least...

Funny like a clown, funny?

Funny "ha-ha", or funny "ho-ho"?

ok well how about the time when he was training a guy who was in his 20's on his first day and the first call they had was to pick up a person who had died at the scene and take them to the hospital. on the way to the hospital they had to stop at a red light and my grandfather thought it would be funny to try and spook the guy so while he wasnt looking my grandfather reached from behind him and put his hand on the guy's shoulder. The guy freaked out, jumped out of the ambulance, and proceeded to walk the remaining 4 miles back to the hospital despite pleas from my grandfather(who drove next to him for about a half a mile) to get back in and that it only a joke.

Your grandfather is/was oneof the greatest people I've ever heard of. Or at least, he seems to have the best stories.

and the thing about the first story was that the first guy didnt fight back the first two times and the third time he was attacked all he wanted to do was make the guy stop by showing him that he wasnt going to take the abuse. he only happened to accidentally kill his aggressor

D you know if he got in any legal trouble?

he and his buddy worked the night crews for their town when they were only 16 and 17(respectively) and both of them were in charge of older men.

my grandfather even drove the city ambulance to the DMV to get his lisence. when he was asked to parallel park the vehicle had said that it wasnt possible because the mirrors dont show the back well enough. Confused, the instructor asked him what he planned on doing if he needed to parrallel park so my grandfather did just that. he overshot the parking spot and then just backed up over the curb with the front end of the ambulance sticking out into the street.

well once the police cheif got mad because the ambulance is only supposed to go 15 miles over the speed limit in case of emergency and he complain to my grandfather's boss who told him that he needed to slow down(usually they just held the peddal all the way to the floor so they would go about 80-90). the very next call my grandfather drove only 15 miles over and the police cheif got pissy because he drove "too slow". the cheif got even more mad at the fact that my grandfather responded with the smartass "but you told me to" so he got im my grandfather's face and said "son, when i tell you to get here you damn well make sure that you get your ass here".

thats really the only the only "legal trouble" that he got into

I meant the hobo in your other story. The one that defended himself. Did he get in any trouble?

no the police ruled it self-defense

trim - which despatcher blog? I read Nee-Naw, Paramedic's Diary and Random Acts of Reality - all great, but I've not come across that particular story before!

its in nee-naws a long way down like 2006 i think,i was just traweling through the old posts, i read the other 2 as well