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Clearly someone blocked his drive.
Some folks have no empathy.....
"Me, me, me, me......."
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I'd personally file that in the B1N and not think about it again. How ever maybe some exposure for being a **** will make them think twice in future. Nob - next time it could be them needing saved
Looking for the post about an ambulance parking in front of someone's drive but I can't find it. Bookmark their address and when they call 999 park a bit away and walk leisurely to their house.
It doesnt surprise me at all, have you seen the latest version of an ambulance driver/paramedic, they`re in the main slovenly, obese lazy looking oafs who act like they deserve the adoration of a reverent public ! I have even seen them nicking milk from the doorsteps of poor, old disabled ladies 😉
At the Torq in your sleep race, the ambulance crew said they had someone get into the ambulance and move it while they were working on someone. Coz it was in the way of there car, moron.
I hate to say it but I can sort of understand where he is coming from. I don't know what sort of training the drivers are getting but I have seen plenty of instances locally of deliberately blocking a road when they are attending a house, even though they could have easily parked where they wouldn't have caused an obstruction and not been any further away from the address they are attending. In actual fact their access to some of the side storage they had to get into would have been easier, as would have getting the casualty into the back of the ambulance rather than having to get between parked cars.
Also inappropriate use of 'blues and twos' whilst on or approaching corners with poor visibility resulting in the ambulance being pretty much prevented from further progress as the panicked motorist had just stopped and they couldn't get past or the ambulance then drove on the wrong side of the road round a blind bend. If the crew had delayed putting on the siren for less than 10 seconds they would have been on their way pretty much unimpeded.
Some time back had I an ambulance sitting way too close behind with full lights, siren, etc. whilst I was driving down a 1-way street with cars parked on both sides and nowhere for me to pull over - quite what the driver thought I could do to help his progress I have no idea.
You’re baiting right?
Sorry we couldn’t save your partner as John had to parallel park the van so very important people could go to the shop for some milk.....
Happens all too frequently
Usually it’s turnips like hairybiker who’s observations make him far more qualified and experienced than the staff themselves
I agree with hairybiker, ambulances should circle the block a couple of times to find the best place to park, maybe check with the houses either side of the emergency to make sure they're not going to be inconvenienced in any way.
It's sad but all too believable. I spend enough time driving on the roads to witness the increasing number of drivers who won't even bother moving over to let an ambulance past.
If the crew had delayed putting on the siren for less than 10 seconds they would have been on their way pretty much unimpeded.
Hardly the ambulance's fault if someone stops in a stupid place in front.
Won't bother or too busy looking at their phone to notice...?
By and large I'm proud to live in Birmingham but there are times the good people here can leave you speechless. This is one of them.
Some time back had I an ambulance sitting way too close behind with full lights, siren, etc. whilst I was driving down a 1-way street with cars parked on both sides and nowhere for me to pull over - quite what the driver thought I could do to help his progress I have no idea.
We are taught to turn the sirens off in situations like that, so it was just that driver being ignorant.
Sadly it doesn’t surprise me. Whoever left the note broke the don’t be a dick rule
Hairybiker84 is Mr Moore of Tunbridge Wells AICMFP.
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Going up behind people and putting the sirens on? I’d never do such a thing. 😀
Oh my goodness.... HairyBiker did you actually write that post or was your account hacked?
I have read some daft posts on here but that is definitely the worst ever.
One of the things that really distinguishes the British from Canadians, and that - even after 15 years of living here - I still can't get my head around, is just how effing cynical and critical the British are.
I mean, holy shit! Ambulance drivers! These people save our frickin' lives, and people like the note-writer in the OP, and Mr Moore of Tunbridge Wells have the temerity to suggest that they should be more careful about parking, or using their sirens?!? That is just effing bizarre!
They're public servants, ffs. They aren't trying to make our lives difficult; they're trying to save them. Most of them have seen horrors the like of which most of us could never imagine, and some complete dick in Middle England feels he can tell them off?
I never, in my 30 years of living in Canada, heard of such nonsense.
Sorry, but the mind boggles.
[quote=Drac ]Going up behind people and putting the sirens on? I’d never do such a thing.
no sir not me 😉
should be treated like royalty, what's more important than saving a life?!
NOTHING
Thing is no one on here can see how the ambulance is actually parked. HB could be right and perhaps it could have been parked just as easily, and at no risk to any patients without causing an obstruction.
And yes I've seen dangerously driven ambulances and met rude arrogant drivers. None of this distracts from the admiration I have for the ambulance service or the men and women doing the job. Just they aren't perfect and like the rest of us they're people and perfectly capable of being dicks occasionally.
I couldn't give a **** how the ambulance was parked. Maybe let's worry about the person they were busy treating instead.
What is wrong with some people!!!
Personally wouldn’t care less if an ambulance parked on top of my car if they were saving someone’s life...
I mean, holy shit! Ambulance drivers!
No such thing.
I kerbed my alloy yesterday to make room for an ambulance, think I should invoice WMAS for a refurb
Personally wouldn’t care less if an ambulance parked on top of my car if they were saving someone’s life...
Nor would most people if that was required to best attend a patient. But if I had to guess I would imagine as part of their training ambulance drivers are told not to cause obstructions if reasonably possible.
Thing is no one on here can see how the ambulance is actually parked. HB could be right and perhaps it could have been parked just as easily, and at no risk to any patients without causing an obstruction.
How much room do you think an ambulance would need to park and load a patient from the back?
Man, heavy smoker, grossly obese, very lazy, has done time inside for possessing indecent images of minors.
Has chest pains, calls for ambulance.
Ambulance arrives and parks across your driveway so you can't get your car out.
You need to be at the airport to catch a flight to New York where you've been called to attend an urgent business meeting that's worth millions of pounds to you and your company.
Obviously you can't get to the airport and miss the flight; the rest is history.
How is it that fair?
Get a taxi troll
Public transport/taxi/family/friend..
Who are we to decide who can and can’t be treated?
How much room do you think an ambulance would need to park and load a patient from the back?
A fair bit I would imagine, but as no one of here could see how the ambulance was parked we don't know if it could have been parked better.
Perhaps it couldn't have been and the letter writer was been a tool. But maybe it had been poorly parked. I'm sure most ambulance drivers try to avoid causing obstructions if they reasonably can.
One wee point related to that letter - I have tinnitus and noise damage deafness. Ambulance sirens passing when I am out on my bike hurt and cause more damage to my ears - cos they are very loud to alert numpties in cars. I don't go writing to the papers tho or complaining to their bosses - I dive for the pavement and put my fingers in my ears.
davidtaylforth - Member
Man, heavy smoker, grossly obese, very lazy, has done time inside for possessing indecent images of minors.
How does the driver know his history before parking?
How does the driver know his history before parking?
The ambulance driver doesn't know his history, but that's a point; maybe that information should be made available upon receipt of the emergency call. Then the ambulance drivers could decide whether it was worth blocking a neighbours drive if they were going to attend a nonce, for example.
How often do you think ambulances parking in drives is a real issue ? It's not. It's in press because the bloke writing the note is a knob.
Are they self driving vehicles nowadays?I mean, holy shit! Ambulance drivers!No such thing.
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davidtaylforth - Member
How does the driver know his history before parking?
The ambulance driver doesn't know his history, but that's a point; maybe that information should be made available upon receipt of the emergency call. Then the ambulance drivers could decide whether it was worth blocking a neighbours drive if they were going to attend a nonce, for example.
Ha ha, you're a basket case. I'm done. You can't argue with crazy.
maybe that information should be made available upon receipt of the emergency call. Then the ambulance drivers could decide whether it was worth blocking a neighbours drive
they can't even work out how to park properly, let's not ask them to make complicated decisions like that 😉
they can't even work out how to park properly, let's not ask them to make complicated decisions like that
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I honestly don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps it should be mandatory that you tarmac your front lawn to provide an ambulance parking zone if you smoke/are obese/are over fifty etc. ?
Perhaps it couldn't have been and the letter writer was been a tool. But maybe it had been poorly parked. I'm sure most ambulance drivers try to avoid causing obstructions if they reasonably can.
He doesn’t mention any parking.
One of the things that really distinguishes the British from Canadians, and that - even after 15 years of living here - I still can't get my head around, is just how effing cynical and critical the British are.
We are great arent we 😆
psssst got any Moosemilk 😉
davidtaylforth - Member
How does the driver know his history before parking?
The ambulance driver doesn't know his history, but that's a point; maybe that information should be made available upon receipt of the emergency call. Then the ambulance drivers could decide whether it was worth blocking a neighbours drive if they were going to attend a nonce, for example
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None of this distracts from the admiration I have for the ambulance service or the men and women doing the job
Happy days! Everyone's a winner, then. 🙂
Good fishing this evening dtf 🙂
I'm assuming the letter from Mr Moore was written in green ink.
I N R A T S but I'd love to see how the ambulance was parked
Good fishing this evening dtf
🙂 yes I was being ridiculous. Although it was probably just a stone's throw from the author of the note.
Some people ❓ 😀
I wonder if the driver of the ambulance had more pressing things on his mind than ideal parking?
[quote=molgrips ]I wonder if the [s]driver of the ambulance[/s] ambulance driver had more pressing things on his mind than ideal parking?
fixed for Drac 😉
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Once again, the crown for the 'King of Threads' changes hands in the never ending battle of whatthe****ery, here on Planet STW.
Down our road there is really only a one cars width of space for around 150 houses to get in and out.
Nothing more annoying than an ambulance blocking the road at 7.30 when I have to get out and get to work.
Once they even had the cheek to arrive at 1.00 AM, park right outside my bloody house with lights ablaze. Was like a rave at 1am in the pitch plack, with everybody trying to sleep. Annoyance I tell thee.
Still, got me to resus 17 miles away in under 14 minutes 😀
Emergency services are the one thing nobody has any right to complain about parking. Nothing (in this country anyway) can't be sorted by other means if you happen to be inconveneanced a tad by their parking.
LOL at twonks
If you are on the edinburgh bypass at rush hour and nothing much is moving and lights and sirens appear on the horizon. A miraculous third lane appears harry potter style and the blues flashes power down the road unhindered while traffic trundles on then the gap closes up.
I'd love to see some drone footage of it.
Closely followed by a couple of tailgaters who like to think they can follow in slipstream.
Once again, the crown for the 'King of Threads' changes hands in the never ending battle of whatthe****ery, here on Planet STW.
thinking of starting one on the COE getting involved in the minefield of children playing dress up.. could be a biggie.
re the topic: the patient attended to by the ambulance crew died apparently.
Closely followed by a couple of tailgaters who like to think they can follow in slipstream.
Ha i've not seen that to be honest.
Most people seem to have no fight left after the sliproad gauntlet.
A similar thing happens with motorbikes but they get less space.
Edit to not look so callouse.
We live down the road from an old folks home and ambulances are an almost daily occurence, they always manage to park reasonably well, occaisionally on a yellow line, but never seen anything worse.
The police on the other hand seem to find parking quite difficult, have even come home to find a cop car parked on my drive, no note, nothing to explain its presence. A few hours later they'd gone..............
Ghah! Don’t get me started on Tesco Food delivery drivers parking in inconvenient places, bloody nuisance..
Get your own food y’a lazy gits.
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You know when you see an opinion poll and you think "who are the self-centred arseholes still voting for [i]X[/i]?" and then you see a story like this and think "oh, those pricks".
So does everyone posting think there are no circumstances whatsoever in which it might be unreasonable for the ambulance to block someone's drive?
(Other than this specific incident).
WEll it should be fairly apparent they're in one of the nearby houses, likely it's going to be one of 2-3. If it's THAT urgent to get out, then can't people just knock on a few doors and have a 15s chat with the Ambulance staff ? I don't see why it's such a complex debate.
What about those stupid ambulances who get all flashy and sireny when you're on a cycle lane and cars pull over to let them past, in the process barging you off the road! Shouldn't the drivers look ahead to check before hitting the woowoo button?
I want to try something here.
Ling Ling Ling.
Lets see if she can liven the debate up a bit.....
Went through a red light so I didn't block in an ambulance - SP10 & 3pts 🙁 do I get a badge of honour?
do I get a badge of honour
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Blocking drives, well what about this...
http://www.****/news/article-5076621/Angry-motorists-gives-paramedic-shocking-torrent-abuse.html
FunkyDunc - Member
Blocking drives, well what about this...http://www.****/news/article-5076621/Angry-motorists-gives-paramedic-shocking-torrent-abuse.html
Totally disgusting, abhorrent and sickening behavior. He should be shot...
...for posting a Daily Mail link on STW.
Hardly the ambulance's fault if someone stops in a stupid place in front.
It's amazing where you see people stop - i can't imagine where they think the ambulance is going to go; well clearly they don't they just stop/ pull over with no sense of surroundings.
Maybe the ambulance parking was inconsiderate; Drivers aren't perfect. Also they get a pass, because of the job: who know's they might just be rushing to get onto something other than parking. 🙄
I'm constantly amazed/ dissapointed with peoples self-absorption.
How is anyone meant to make progress these days with ambulance drivers parking their vans left right and center. I don’t know who to blame more, the ambulance driver or the selfish bastard who had a heart attack.
Sooner this government cuts back on these self satisfying do gooders the better.
[s]ambulance driver[/s] paramedics on here
Can I ask about this one - when I am commuting thru town on my bike I often hear sirens before car drivers. When stationary at lights ( I will be right at the front) I will sometime try to give a signal ie waving my arms / putting a hand up in the air to stop all the cars from moving off /across the junction as the ambulances seem to like to approach blocked traffic lights on the wrong side of the road and if the lights go green and cars move off it would make it trickier to get back on the right side of the road. Is this helpful?
waving my arms / putting a hand up in the air to stop all the cars from moving off
Although well intentioned that’s just going to pee drivers off and surly you are distracting them from the road and the ambulance.
No expert but I’d say keep out of it
Aye - terrible the way they abandon those vehicles. A couple blocked my drive and the neighbour's one day.
Still it got them a bit quicker to the roofer who had fallen off my roof and was trying to run out of blood quite quickly. I'm sure he could have waited a bit longer whilst they circled the block a bit - what's half a pint of blood in the scheme of things.
[quote=franksinatra ]Totally disgusting, abhorrent and sickening behavior. He should be shot...
...for posting a Daily Mail link on STW.
It's also already bindun, so no need to follow the DM link:
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[quote=FunkyDunc ]Although well intentioned that’s just going to pee drivers off and surly you are distracting them from the road and the ambulance.
No expert but I’d say keep out of it
Tricky - I can't remember ever having that situation myself, but my inclinations would be similar to tj's - it's difficult to convey the reason accurately though (but in terms of peeing drivers off, only the completely brain dead wouldn't work out why the cyclist was waving at them afterwards). Similarly, but completely different, yesterday I flashed my headlights at cars coming the other way because there was an ambulance behind them - they might have noticed anyway, but I figured it did no harm, and at the worst they might just wake up and notice the sirens and blue lights (all the cars on my side pulling over should also have given a clue - we did successfully leave a decent gap for it where I was).
People don't give a hoot. When a driver right turned on me breaking my spine, I was lying in the middle of the road with paramedics working over me, people were still passing us closely that we were getting splashed. The paramedics went nuts.
the Runcorn Paramedic abuser has apologised just before he was arrested, his company and address has been named on the local papers website as well with some intresting reviews.
Going to be a difficult time for his family.Sadly.