Outta the way, dumbass!

[EricKei]

Sighting : On the interstate yesterday afternoon, late-afternoon, beginnings of Rush Hour but no actual stoppage or anything. I hear an ambulance coming up behind, full sirens, lights, "GTFO my way" horn blaring as needed, everything. I was two lanes over, so I was well out of his way -- ambulance was in far left lane.

The people in the lane in between are slowing a bit and making space so that fast-laners can shift over and let the ambulance through...except for this one guy... Someone ahead of him had moved halfway into the "slowing" lane, giving plenty of space for the ambulance to pass by and for this one last car in its way to move (who was getting the GTFO horn leaned on by this point). He has more then enough room to just pull in behind the half-way car, so what does he do? Make an illegal pass by going into the breakdown lane, making sure that he would remain ahead of the ambulance that clearly wanted him to move his ass so they could get to the scene/hospital faster x.x

Some people...

[Shalom]

My first thought was to give EMTs the power to write traffic citations, so when me-firsters like this block them, they can dispense some instant karma upside their heads.

Problem is, this would delay them getting to their destination even more, which would negate the whole purpose of the exercise. Maybe a better idea would be to provide a police escort on a motorcycle. Yeah, it would cost some money, but stop enough idiots like the one the OP witnessed and the fines would pay for it. Hey, it works for street sweepers, why not ambulances?

Or even cheaper, equip ambulances with dash-cams, and if someone refuses to GTFO of the way, snap the license plate and mail them the summons.

[ADoyle90815]

I think it would be nice if they had dash cams that would snap a picture of the dumbass's license plate and mail them the citation with the fine. It seems to work for reducing the number of red light runners, so something like that might convince more people to GTFO the way.

One PWNage I did enjoy seeing was some police officer pulling someone over for not getting over for an ambulance. The officer had just happened to be driving along, and managed to see the dumbass not move for the ambulance.

[Daemonmonkey]

Oh how I wish the ambulances were equipped with some kind of forklift-catapult to throw those idiots away....

[Raveni]

Oh how I wish the ambulances were equipped with some kind of forklift-catapult to throw those idiots away....

I wish that Uncle Al would hurry up and start putting recoilless rifles in a turret on top of these ambulances.

I mean, yes, they should have a way to deal with people like that.

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

I was thinking of dash-cams too. A nice hefty citation might teach a lesson to some of these EWs!

[EricKei]

I was thinking of dash-cams too. A nice hefty citation might teach a lesson to some of these EWs!

Well...

We had red-light cams (similar idea) a few years ago, but a local politician arranged to have them removed because they caught an photo of him in the back seat of a nice car with his mistress.

We got them again last year or so, and many now seem to be disabled or something, I think they're going with "invasion of privacy" now...Despite the fact that they have had a noticeable effect on the number of speeders (keep in mind that, historically, 3 or more of the ten deadliest intersections in the USA were within ten minutes of where I live...)

I want those cams back, PLEASE, and give them to ambu drivers, too!