Lets see some recent calls, these are real calls and your tax money being thrown down the toilet.

1.) hysterical mother insists her child be taken lights and sirens because he licked a bar of soap all the while there are three adults lounging in the other room watching TV and four cars in the driveway that could have driven him to an urgent care.

2.) adult male cut himself shaving, the medic applied pressure, but the patient still insists on being checked out even though they are no longer bleeding from the 1/8″ cut

3.) how about I stubbed my toe three weeks ago and it doesn’t hurt anymore, and there is no pain, but I really need to have it checked in the ER just in case

4.) homeless woman claims she is having chest pain and dramatically grabs her chest, she is dropped off in a room and before we make it back to the ambulance she is walking across the lot. After talking to her and she admits she just needed a ride across town and didn’t have cab fare.

Waste calls like these are not rare occasions, they happen thousands of times everyday. So before you go blasting the emergency services as being slackers, how about a look at the abuse of the system that eats up what few resources are available.

You wonder why there aren’t more resources, I’ll tell you why, in many parts of the country, you can make more slinging fries at burger king then you can saving lives. Your ambulance crew is likely making minimum wage with no benefits and working a 12-24 hour shift, putting their lives on the line.

Oh and fyi, if I were present and someone was in bad shape and ambulance could not reach them quickly, I would drive them myself. It’s called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Mother, Jugs and Speed.