Tell us about your most colorful co-worker..or ex-co-worker.

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Despite the button-down lawyered-up unilithic EMS scene today, we still have to be a little nuts to keep with it, and some of us are hanging a little looser on the branch than others. So, tell us tell us tell us, to paraphrase Holly Hunter.
 
Oh, well...thud.

I worked with a guy who used to shoot Viet Cong tax collectors.........:ph34r:
 
I used to work with a Viet Cong tax collector.
 
So YOU're the one!

He was an ex-Ranger, got blown up in Nam, extemely neat guy to work with. I may have posted about him cutting a man out of a wrecked car with his Buck knife when the Jaws wouldn't do.
 
mycrofft said:
He was an ex-Ranger, got blown up in Nam, extemely neat guy to work with. I may have posted about him cutting a man out of a wrecked car with his Buck knife when the Jaws wouldn't do.
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Wait, wait, wait.
You are saying that your boy cut a person out of a wrecked vehicle with a knife, since the Hurst tool couldn't do it?

I'm throwing the challenge flag on this one.
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I love it! Thanks!

The patient was in an old (early Sixties) heavy duty stationwagon rammed on the driver's side by a van going maybe 45. Knocked the wagon for a 360 and over a ten inch curb (old part of Lincoln Neb) onto a front lawn. Wife next to driver dead on scene, probable C1 fx they said later. Driver's foot was trapped by the firewall being bent up and to the left (port) under the steering column, trapping his foot against the left side of the car interior...all metal. He additionally had a parietal head lac, impact fracture and rupture-lac of left humerus/upper arm. The FD had opened the driver's door with the Jaws, and was firing up the K-12 saw and revving the Jaws and even thinking about using a winch and cribbing-standoff to somehow unbend this metal, when my driver/coworker crawled in, took a close look, whicked out the blade, cut the carpet, and lifted the foot out still in its shoe and attached to the owner.

He said if it looked too tight, he would have cut the shoe, too. He was definitely all about thinking outside the box.
 
So he cut carpet, not disassembled the car?
For a second there, I thought you were gonna say you worked with Chuck Noris....

Oh wait, he was Delta, not a Ranger...
 
BLSBoy said:
So he cut carpet, not disassembled the car?
For a second there, I thought you were gonna say you worked with Chuck Noris....
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There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.

Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
 
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My coworker was a Phoenix.

ooooooooo............:ph34r:........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.........
 
firecoins said:
There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.

Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
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There's more of these in this thread: http://www.emtlife.com/showthread.php?t=3337
 
there is a whole website devoted to those. Chuck Norris just lets everything else exist
 
Now that you're getting me started...

How about a guy who was so bad at late night calls, as soon as he'd drive us to the scene, I'd hop out and go in to the house and he'd nod out! I'd go out and get him only if I needed him.

or...

the guy who, dispatched to a cardiac arrest walked into the house with me, asked directions to the bathroom and didn't come out until me and the FD got the pt worked up and loaded.

or...

my best extricators were two good ole' boys who drove a tow truck. They could do more with a saw, come-along, crowbar and shears than I ever saw got done with the Jaws of Life.
 
firetender said:
the guy who, dispatched to a cardiac arrest walked into the house with me, asked directions to the bathroom and didn't come out until me and the FD got the pt worked up and loaded.
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Sounds like a case of having a Big Mac for lunch! When it hits you, you gotta go!!

I am usually the most energetic person in the service. When someone asks about me, just about everyone that knows me will says something along the lines of MAN She has a lot energy! But generally, we all have fun when I am around.
 
MedicPrincess is everyone elses's most interesting coworker!

;)
Read "Population 485: Meeting our Neighbors One Siren At A Time" to hear about some strange ones.

Our company's business manager would drive code three, starting in the garage and down the steep incline to the street, in the Caddy with a regular cup of coffee in one hand, steering and occasionally manually downshifting the auto trans (when he needed some warpspeed) with one hand and his knees. He would turn around and leave a scene when the pt was a repeat deadbeat.

One of his co-owners concluded one of his periodic beer bashes at his house by literally dangling one of the EMT's by the ankles over a second floor parapet over the driveway. Very big guy, that owner, played for Nebraska once.

His brother was much like Jamie Hieneman on Mythbusters and was a reserve deputy. He was capped when sent to a domestic by a husband as he stepped in the door.
 
We had an old farmer fr that was known for 'thinking outside the box'. He came up to the paramedic who used to do our EMS training and got into a very serious discussion about how to go about using a car battery in place of a defib. Medic is like.. "NO! Don't... You can't do that!" FR ... "But how 'bout if.... Medic: "NO! Never!".. FR: "But if you don't have anything else, it would be better than nothing!" Medic:"NO! It wouldn't be better than nothing.. never do that!"

The medic never felt that the FR was convinced and lived in fear that someday, on some call this guy would use a car battery to spark some poor cardiac pt.
 
That ain't colorful. Thats just stupidity at its best/worst.
 
this probably isnt colorful but my emt partner from class cracked me up quite a bit. He would do the I gotta pee dance and the omg hand wave whenever he got flustered which was quite a bit. He wasnt cut out for trauma situations and is now working with a private ambo company thank god. Other than that we had alot of firefighters at my old volley house who loved to play with too much gas and lighter fluid and never had a full set of eyebrows
 
Colorful is stupid plus time minus casualties, sometimes.

We were trying to persuade a structural and crash driver, Swede guy named Big Swannie (we had a Little Swanson also), to join the rescue truck crew on base. We took him out to the old F-100 crcasse and let him tear off bits with the Jaws (and put humongous nicks in the blades trying to cut the canopy struts), when we had a call. I jumped behind the wheel, he got in the jumpseat behind me in the four door Powerwagon, and we were off acros the field, bounding and banging..and then something got tight around my neck. I slowed down, the squeeze eased; I sped up, it got worse.
He had invented the Swannie Ten Finger Governor.
 
OK, new crops of readers and experiences....craaaaaazy coworkers?

I went into the field with a medtech supporting a five day exercise which of course got extended to six. Being the medics, I made us "First in, last out". This tech panicked when she saw we were to bring up the rear, sun was going down over the star thistle etc., we were about three miles (THREE MILES!?) away from the base hospital, we would not be alone but in the last convoy, and she started in with "I gotta get home! I gotta get home!". I sent her back with the SP's and she deserted the unit thereafter.

Wonder if she would have passed the mandatory drug testing stating the next year?:glare:
 
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