the 100% directionless thread

[Aprz]

Do you need me to coach you?

What are your koalafications?

 

[NYMedic828]

I'm sick of people complaining about not getting a free coffee or something at Dunkin Donuts because they aren't a cop or a firefighter and assume their must be some great conspiracy to keep EMS down.

A true job well done doesn't require or expect a thank-you. If someone doesn't want to give you free :censored::censored::censored::censored: then too damn bad you aren't entitled to it.

 

[VFlutter]

I'm sick of people complaining about not getting a free coffee or something at Dunkin Donuts because they aren't a cop or a firefighter and assume their must be some great conspiracy to keep EMS down.

A true job well done doesn't require or expect a thank-you. If someone doesn't want to give you free :censored::censored::censored::censored: then too damn bad you aren't entitled to it.

I went to a 3 month class and drive a boo boo bus back a forth from displays...Bow down to me! I am a Hero :rofl:

 

[JPINFV]

What are your koalafications?

Well, I hit double digits for current points once.

Also...

 

[Jambi]

For gas?

In light of this article, and because of the reports of needing LE escorts for protection, anyone out there in an official capacity get propositioned for fuel or supplies?

Also...that koala looks wonderful on a retina display.

 

[medic417]

What are your koalafications?

See post 31819.
:rofl:

 

[VFlutter]

Smoke Edition Master Cardiology. Ballin'

 

[exodus]

Tacticool edition.

 

[DesertMedic66]

In light of this article, and because of the reports of needing LE escorts for protection, anyone out there in an official capacity get propositioned for fuel or supplies?

Also...that koala looks wonderful on a retina display.

We have 8,000+ of diesel and 10,000+ of unleaded fuel at our ambulance staging location. The fuel can only be used for ambulances and government vehicles. So when people come by in POV they get desperate. We have had the sexual offers and other bribes. We have also been threatened, cussed at, flipped off, etc.

It is quite funny because the odds are really high that the next car behind them is some kind of government officer with a weapon/tactile unit.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Which ones? I know sbn is pretty tame in most areas...

R6-forum.com or gsxr.com come to mind.

 

[ffemt8978]

Darn, I have 0 points.

That can be fixed....h34r:

 

[silver]

We have 8,000+ of diesel and 10,000+ of unleaded fuel at our ambulance staging location. The fuel can only be used for ambulances and government vehicles. So when people come by in POV they get desperate. We have had the sexual offers and other bribes. We have also been threatened, cussed at, flipped off, etc.

It is quite funny because the odds are really high that the next car behind them is some kind of government officer with a weapon/tactile unit.

How bad is it actually? I am not home, but doesn't Westchester have fuel? Why don't people just go there? Or were they just dumb and waited until they had a gallon left to look for fuel?

See this is one reason why I want to buy an old M35 A2 w/ a multifuel engine. Ohh a little flooding? No big deal. Oh no diesel? Well why don't I just use heating oil. Oh no heating oil? Let me just use used motor oil...

 

[DesertMedic66]

How bad is it actually? I am not home, but doesn't Westchester have fuel? Why don't people just go there? Or were they just dumb and waited until they had a gallon left to look for fuel?

See this is one reason why I want to buy an old M35 A2 w/ a multifuel engine. Ohh a little flooding? No big deal. Oh no diesel? Well why don't I just use heating oil. Oh no heating oil? Let me just use used motor oil...

A lot of people waited until their tank was on E to worry about fuel. The harbor opened a couple of days ago, and electricity is slowly coming back on. There are still a lot of gas stations that are closed.

Some of the gas stations that are open are charging $6.00 for a gallon. No matter the price there are lines at every gas station. Some of the lines are 6+ hours. Police are doing traffic control at every open gas station. Most gas stations will have a 5-10 gallon limit.

People are syfining (sp?) fuel out of parked cars. There are a lot of cars on the sides of the street with no fuel. Pretty much every single red gas canester is sold out. Our fuel tanker trucks would stop at a street light and people would run up and pound on the doors and try to get fuel. People are trading things for gas (food, cloths, sex, drugs, etc).

There is no real reason for the ambulances to be here any longer. The local 911 systems can now handle all call volumes. State needs more gas then everything else right now. Our only calls (Missions) right now are doing evacuations of SNFs when their generators run out of fuel.

 

[Jambi]

Our only calls (Missions) right now are doing evacuations of SNFs when their generators run out of fuel.

As opposed to just taking them more fuel? Seems to me that it would be far more efficient to take fuels than evac an entire SNF, but this is the gubmint we're talking about.

 

[DesertMedic66]

As opposed to just taking them more fuel? Seems to me that it would be far more efficient to take fuels than evac an entire SNF, but this is the gubmint we're talking about.

Yep.

In other news it's cold. Been snowing for 5 hours so far and I look like a banana in an orange vest who is going to rob a bank.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Yep.

In other news it's cold. Been snowing for 5 hours so far and I look like a banana in an orange vest who is going to rob a bank.

I don't know what kinda bananas ya'll get in California but ours are yellow

Send some snow this way!!!!!!!

 

[DesertMedic66]

I don't know what kinda bananas ya'll get in California but ours are yellow

Send some snow this way!!!!!!!

My rain gear that work gives out is the same yellow shade as a banana. It's overalls and a jacket.... All yellow.

 

[Handsome Robb]

My rain gear that work gives out is the same yellow shade as a banana. It's overalls and a jacket.... All yellow.

That's what I figured. Just givin' you a hard time. Stay safe out there, watch out for those east coast girls, I hear they're trouble.

 

[DesertMedic66]

That's what I figured. Just givin' you a hard time. Stay safe out there, watch out for those east coast girls, I hear they're trouble.

They don't have anything on the west coast girls haha.

 

[bigbaldguy]

Wow. Now for a lot of the areas we are sending crews to we have to get police/FBI/ATF/Secret Service/Federal Police to do security for us as citizens have been trying to break into our ambulances and threatening our crews :mellow:

Apparently it was like that during katrina too.

You know most of the stories about violence in new Orleans during Katrina were totally made up and later proved to be rumors put out as fact right. Remember the whole people shooting at helicopters thing? Never happened. Bands of armed men riding around in the back of pick up trucks? Turns out they were cops.