Me: "Communications, send LEO to intersection of hwy 70 and pedestrian crosswalk. The big, giant pedestrian crosswalk"
Dispatch: "10-4, can we request a reason why?"
Me: "Patient fled unit at stop sign"
Dispatch: "Are you saying that the patient jumped out of the truck at the stop sign?"
Me...
We had a call for a full code at a nursing home. Nurse called it in. Got there, went to check the patient and when my partner grabbed the patient, he woke up swinging and saying "WHY ARE YOU F*** WAKING ME UP?"
Needless to say, the nurse got a good lesson on how to tell if a patient was in...
How about the huge Burger King slides that used to be on all the playgrounds around North Carolina? They were probably 10-15 feet tall. Giant heaps of scrap metal. When I was about 8, I was looking down at a friend from the top and somehow fell over the rail. Landed flat on my chest and my face...
During one of my training rides, I was talking to a medic after a code. He told me this story, which is hilarious but horrible at the same time.
They were running a code and the family kept coming in the room asking if they needed anything. The crew started getting really tired of having to...