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 Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

 Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I did a stint of several years as a community first responder and reckoned that 80% of the call outs I attended (which didn't include traffic accidents) didn't warrant an ambulance or even a 999 call . Ambulance crews are in my experience very professional but some members of the public seem to regard them as a sort of help line for anything. I have a relative who works with the ambulance service and attended a call recently where the guy wanted them to put his bins out for the morning as he wasn't feeling too well  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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then a bill should have been sent to them to cover the false call out.
maybe if people actually got billed, and payment enforced then this sort of thing wouldn't happen

dorsetfreelander wrote:

I did a stint of several years as a community first responder and reckoned that 80% of the call outs I attended (which didn't include traffic accidents) didn't warrant an ambulance or even a 999 call . Ambulance crews are in my experience very professional but some members of the public seem to regard them as a sort of help line for anything.

Sometimes they do prosecute||||

'Malicious' pensioner, 73, who called paramedics 314 times in five years despite 'perfect health' is jailed for 20 months after costing the NHS £46,383

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6...years.html

I watched a short clip a couple of weeks ago from the Ambulance program on BBC1 (I think its that channel)

999 call for a toddler stopped breathing at a residential address, 1st responder, ambulance and police all turned up and the homeowner didn't know what was going on (they were just opening the door from a shopping trip IIRC).

So the blue lights went off to another similar address, which again was incorrect. In the mean time the caller kept dialling 999 to tell them to hurry etc. They went to a third address which again was a false one.

I think it was about 2-3 hours that all 3 vehicles (and some more) were running round trying to find this 'dead' toddler. In the end the call centre made the decision it was a hoax.

the ambulance driver just collapsed over the wheel in tears ........

Many years ago (pre-mobiles) we had a regular caller - not only to us but Police and Fire as well, hundreds of calls a day. Authorities weren't allowed to cut off the landline so instead each of the services would attend once a daily 'just in case'. It got to the point where she was taken to the local Police station and charged, but then on her long walk home, she called 999 from every pay phone

An ambulance guy told me that they were called to an address for a guy with severe chest pains and when they arrived the guy's wife said that "he has just popped out to the shops to get some ciggies and he will be back in a minute !".

The other side of the coin was a patient wearing an oxygen mask who decided to have a quick cigarette in the back of the ambulance. Apparently it was quite spectacular and resulted in facial burns as well as whatever was wrong with him in the first place.  3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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We had similar call to young guy , can't recall his 'complaint' now, someone called him back to apologise for the delay and he said he was just going out with his mates, perhaps we could meet him back at home later on