Posted on 12/02/2012 11:42:44 AM PST by grundle
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 didn’t 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.
“A convenience store employee picked up, then hung up. “
This idiot needs a boot to the head.
Well, that store is gonna owe a lot of money to a number of people for that grand act of stupidity
The phrase for this in New Orleans is “naturally New Orleans”. A related popular T-shirt a decade ago said “Its not the heat, its the stupidity.
No one in the City gov jackal pack is so detested or so incompetent as the meter “maids”.
I’m thinking that one person had a grudge against the ill person and put the boot on in hopes to delay care long enough to kill them.
I don’t believe rules like this apply to emergency vehicles
les and they may nit want to talk but when the patient sues they will be forced to do that.They all should be fired for doing this now!
I don’t believe rules like this apply to emergency vehicles and they may nit want to talk but when the patient sues they will be forced to do that.They all should be fired for doing this now!
I don’t believe rules like this apply to emergency vehicles and they may not want to talk but when the patient sues they will be forced to do that.They all should be fired for doing this now!
Next time the emergency might be in the convenience store. What then?
“What then?”
Simple...boot the door so paramedics cant get in. And when they call 911, hang up. Karma’s a bitch.
“I’m thinking that one person had a grudge against the ill person and put the boot on in hopes to delay care long enough to kill them.”
In New Orleans it is usually just the bone stupid in incidents like this.
Some idiot convenience store employee with no brains or some weird concept of employee fealty to the company rulebook 'boots' an ambulance parked in front of the store with it's emergency lights on and the EMT's in the store working to revive a stricken customer, thus, making it impossible for the ambulance to transport the patient to a hospital in a timely manner.
Well, it was in New Orleans so maybe that helps explain this bit of insanity. I'm not an attorney but the stricken customer seems to have grounds for a lawsuit against the store and the stupid employee.A suit that I would expect he would win, handily.
Photos at the link include (#4) one of an employee behind the counter. It’s worth a look.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...”
Hmmmm... Well back to the ol drawing board............... :-)
LOL, I thought so. Thanks for the reminder.
Attempted murder.
I can see a sick customer suing the hell out of this place. Johnny cashier is toast.
My nephew is a paramedic with NOEMS. No one is surprised by this...only in New Orleans...anal thinking to the max. What makes it worse is the fact that the ambulance fleet is falling apart...if the EMS people can`t fix them they rot in a maintenance yard with dozens of others. ONE mechanic on duty. Oh and the EMS people are STILL working out of a small trailer-7 YEARS post Katrina. There are few hospitals and calls to the Eastern part of the city can mean an hour wait or longer for travel to and from call. Long time EMS people are leaving(my nephew included) and are told _”We don`t need you” when they try to volunteer part time. Now all of this AND businesses who call are going to boot ambulances.!! ?? Morons! Lets just say the inside talk is that this business isn`t going to get fast service if they call again + EMS personnel are talking boycott.
They should have called the people in charge of Obamacare to get the proper clearance for whatever is allowed to be done, 911 will disappear and be replaced by an 800 number with a wait time of at least ten minutes before you get to the automated answer machine which will tell you to hang up and call later.
Funny how I *knew*, even before my mind registered the WWL reference as the source, that this had occurred in New Orleans.
Next time the emergency might be in the convenience store. What then?
It was, it was!
Right across the street from the Orleans Parish Criminal courthouse-— ‘nuff said. That and the “face blocking” photo of a ultra-long nailed “do” black female and the picture is rounded out.
The boot man gives a “kick” to the employee and/or the owner, for being called to boot a “violator”, no doubt.
This takes some real simple mind. Would be of minor interest to know if the “patient” was a problem customer....etc.
Per Ayn Rand...check your premises. The employee gets the boot for leaving his brain unattended
I always advise posters to read the article before making a comment. Embarrassment and the appearance of complete stupidity can be thereby avoided.
In this case, the article makes it clear that the emergency was inside the convenience store and that the paramedics were tending to the patient inside the store while their ambulance, with emergency lights flashing, was booted in the parking lot.
Hoodat?
People that stupid make me long for the days when we used to institutionalize idiots like that. Now we give them iPhones, EBT cards, and pay taxes to the {expletives} that buy their votes.
It's just hard to imagine what thought process led this employee to immobilize the ambulance that was attending to someone in his/her own place of employment. That is weapons-grade stupidity.
Alright, so it’s Kaneesha cashier and she can count to nine. Still toast.
The manager or owner and the employee who booted the ambulance should have been arrested. The boot should have been taken by the police and impounded. The city should bill the store for extra time wasted dealing with booted ambulance. They should also also bill the store for any repairs needed to the ambulance.
You can’t hide it, lady. We can tell by your hands you’re a Chocolate City Daughter of Obama.
The perp should be arrested for intential interference of public services.
Along with the manager on duty. I’m sure there are lots of charges that could be brought.
Along with the manager on duty. I’m sure there are lots of charges that could be brought.
Material for your schtick ping!!
I would also say some Ted Poe justice would be in order. Once convicted, the manager and/or clerk needs to be posted at a high traffic corner carrying a sign saying “I am an idiot. I booted a city ambulance.”
Can you imagine being the patient in the ambulance. “Sorry Sir but someone booted our Ambulance” response “WTF”.
Still I don’t know if that would work. New Oleans seems to still be “stuck on stupid. “
I could imagine the heirs of the patient owning the store and the parking lot if he had died.
Who paid the $115?
Remember this is New Orleans. Standards of intelligence that apply to the rest of the world don’t apply here.
There are indeed some very stupid people in this world.
Problem with your (key)droid?
;)
>>“Sorry Sir but someone booted our Ambulance” response “WTF”.<<
Or
“Sorry Sir but someone booted our Ambulance” response “WT...***beeeeeeeeeeeeep***”.
There are really some stupid people in this world.
bttt
Go ahead and use CAPS next time instead of three posts. :-)
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