Parking for customers ONLY!!!
Dec 4, 2012 19:09:41 #
Had to share this...
From WWL News, New Orleans:
NEW ORLEANS - The Quicky's convenience store in Mid-City takes its parking lot rules seriously. Very seriously.
About 4 p.m. Friday, New Orleans paramedics rushed inside the store for a man with a life-threatening medical issue.
They worked on the patient with chest pain, put him inside the vehicle, then started to speed off.
The paramedics heard a loud noise, and the vehicle came to a screeching halt, according to Jeb Tate, spokesman for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.
The medics stepped out and found a boot on their ambulance.
Convenience store employees allegedly put a restrictive parking boot on the ambulance. And now it was stuck.
The paramedics were perplexed.
Tate said the ambulance had its emergency lights on the whole time.
Store employees didnt want to talk about it. They declined requests for comment.
Apparently one of the employees took the boot off. The tire was left flat.
And so the paramedics and the man with the emergency waited.
We actually had to delay that patient's care by calling another ambulance out here to come transport this patient, Tate said.
Signs on the convenience store make clear that parking is for customers only. The signs state: If you leave the property for any reason your vehicle will be booted.
But the paramedics apparently were there the whole time tending to a man with chest pains.
We called the telephone number on the sign, for the Boot Man.
A convenience store employee picked up, then hung up.
Tate, the EMS spokesman, said the agency has never had an incident like this before.
"As long as we have our lights on, we park where it is safe to park, he added.
From WWL News, New Orleans:
NEW ORLEANS - The Quicky's convenience store in Mid-City takes its parking lot rules seriously. Very seriously.
About 4 p.m. Friday, New Orleans paramedics rushed inside the store for a man with a life-threatening medical issue.
They worked on the patient with chest pain, put him inside the vehicle, then started to speed off.
The paramedics heard a loud noise, and the vehicle came to a screeching halt, according to Jeb Tate, spokesman for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services.
The medics stepped out and found a boot on their ambulance.
Convenience store employees allegedly put a restrictive parking boot on the ambulance. And now it was stuck.
The paramedics were perplexed.
Tate said the ambulance had its emergency lights on the whole time.
Store employees didnt want to talk about it. They declined requests for comment.
Apparently one of the employees took the boot off. The tire was left flat.
And so the paramedics and the man with the emergency waited.
We actually had to delay that patient's care by calling another ambulance out here to come transport this patient, Tate said.
Signs on the convenience store make clear that parking is for customers only. The signs state: If you leave the property for any reason your vehicle will be booted.
But the paramedics apparently were there the whole time tending to a man with chest pains.
We called the telephone number on the sign, for the Boot Man.
A convenience store employee picked up, then hung up.
Tate, the EMS spokesman, said the agency has never had an incident like this before.
"As long as we have our lights on, we park where it is safe to park, he added.
Dec 5, 2012 01:40:45 #
Now that's definitely not funny! Did they ever find out the name of the moronic (now former, I hope) employee who did it?
Dec 5, 2012 09:29:20 #
They did, and he is indeed now a former employee. He claims to have just arrived in this country and didn't realize that it was an ambulance that he booted and that doesn't speak English. My question is, if he just got here (from somewhere in the middle east, judging by his name) and can't speak any English, how did he get the job in the first place?
Dec 5, 2012 13:21:10 #
We had an case of an ambulance crew working on a person who had
collapsed on a footpath in Wellington Central.It got a parking ticket for over staying...OMG
collapsed on a footpath in Wellington Central.It got a parking ticket for over staying...OMG
Dec 5, 2012 13:44:14 #
Five Minutes!!! Just Five minutes!!! Just Give Me Five Minutes With This Idiot!!! I'LL TEACH HIM A LESSON HE WILL NEVER FORGET AND HE WON"T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH!!!
Dec 5, 2012 15:23:11 #
Xtreme66 wrote:
They did, and he is indeed now a former employee. He claims to have just arrived in this country and didn't realize that it was an ambulance that he booted and that doesn't speak English. My question is, if he just got here (from somewhere in the middle east, judging by his name) and can't speak any English, how did he get the job in the first place?
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Most of the 'little' stores are foreign owned anyway...just as the service stations too. We have more foreigners over here than any country probably.... I thought there was a limit amount of people who could come here in a year's time... what ever happened to that?
Dec 5, 2012 16:33:20 #
gerry908
Loc: An Aussie from Scotland
My mind boggles over that incident, what sort of country allows idiots like that in???
We in Australia are just as bad though, and in years to come how many more are we going to bring in? For these people VOTE. Im not against immigration but surely we have to be selective
We in Australia are just as bad though, and in years to come how many more are we going to bring in? For these people VOTE. Im not against immigration but surely we have to be selective
Dec 5, 2012 17:13:58 #
I agree 100% Gerry. I have no problem with people coming here to seek a better life. However, it should me MANDATORY that you learn English before you can get a job, driver's license or ANY kind of federal aid, etc. There are way too many unemployed Americans for us to be handing out jobs to people that can't be bothered to learn the language.
Dec 5, 2012 19:03:23 #
Five minutes? Surely it wouldn't take that long!
handgunner wrote:
Five Minutes!!! Just Five minutes!!! Just Give Me Five Minutes With This Idiot!!! I'LL TEACH HIM A LESSON HE WILL NEVER FORGET AND HE WON"T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH!!!
Dec 6, 2012 17:10:22 #
Mattie wrote:
It went out the window when Obama got elected the first time quote=Xtreme66 They did, and he is indeed now a f... (show quote)
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