Ambulence booted while on call

[Aethian]

When they called the number on the sign it rang to inside the store so I'm thinking someone really fucked up in the store.

[csquared]

Update: Man was ticketed and fired.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...nce_is_fi.html

[Aethian]

Wait...so who told him to boot the vehicle in the first place and how do you not know what a ambulance is?

[wolfie]

So if your vehicle is booted by this particular convenience store, how do you get it taken off? Do you pay the store something? The police?

I'd lean toward buying a case of beer for a redneck buddy with a pickup, a portable generator, an air compressor, and a plasma cutter.

[Aethian]

The sign had said that it was 115 to remove the boot.

[kpzra]

As f-ed up as it is for having your ambulance booted (no excuse for that happening), the medic driving was an idiot for not seeing it and trying to drive with it on. Whatever happened to the walk around? It was even on the driver side. Even as a student we were taught to do them (class in a fire station) as part of scene safety. What if that was a kid you didn't see because you couldn't take 10 seconds to go right from the rear instead of left.

[PepperElf]

Sidi Aleywa, according to the police report, didn't realize it was an ambulance that he booted, and added that he doesn't speak any English. Another employe at the store told the TV station that Aleywa had been fired.

Part of me kinda wonders... just how many regular employees have authorization to boot vehicles on their own like that?

I'm not saying he didn't do it but I do wonder if the company threw him under the bus to save their own skin...

[crazylegs]

As f-ed up as it is for having your ambulance booted (no excuse for that happening), the medic driving was an idiot for not seeing it and trying to drive with it on. Whatever happened to the walk around? It was even on the driver side. Even as a student we were taught to do them (class in a fire station) as part of scene safety. What if that was a kid you didn't see because you couldn't take 10 seconds to go right from the rear instead of left.

In the UK we get taught to do a walk around the scene upon arrival (if it's appropriate) but not on leaving, so it may not have been taught to them. It's also a fairly small clamp - so it the person driving was distracted getting into their seat they may not have spotted it.