Ambulance "Booted" While on Emergency

[texasstooge]

Just when you thought you've seen it all...
Ambulance gets 'booted' while paramedics tend to emergency

NEW ORLEANS - The Quicky's convenience store in Mid-City takes its parking lot rules seriously. Very seriously.

About 4 p.m. Friday, New Orleans paramedics rushed inside the store for a man with a life-threatening medical issue.

They worked on the patient with chest pain, put him inside the vehicle, then started to speed off.

The paramedics “heard a loud noise,” and the vehicle came to a screeching halt, according to Jeb Tate, spokesman for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.

The medics stepped out and found a boot on their ambulance.

Convenience store employees allegedly put a restrictive parking boot on the ambulance. And now it was stuck.

The paramedics were perplexed.

Tate said the ambulance had its emergency lights on the whole time.

Store employees didn’t want to talk about it. They declined requests for comment.

Apparently one of the employees took the boot off. The tire was left flat.

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[TWCCraig]

People need to use common sense, even if it didn't have it's lights on, there's a reason why the ambulance is there!

[Zach]

That's just plain wrong! I hope that convenience store gets a fine slapped onto them because emergency vehicles are an obvious exception to right-of-way rules. That incident could have also cost someone their life 

[texasstooge]

That's just plain wrong! I hope that convenience store gets a fine slapped onto them because emergency vehicles are an obvious exception to right-of-way rules. That incident could have also cost someone their life 

Guess what Zach, this happened.

Man who booted ambulance issued citation, fired

NEW ORLEANS - The fallout continues for a convenience store that placed a boot on a working ambulance while EMT’s with New Orleans EMS were inside trying to save a man's life.

I'm just gonna fast-forward to the good part...

“The guy that did this, he came from another country. He didn't even know what an ambulance looked like. He's been fired,” said Ali Colone, a man identified as a worker at Quicky’s. The owners declined to comment, but Colone said the owners are sorry it happened.

How can anyone not know what an ambulance looks like?!?!