Posted on 12/03/2012 9:26:38 PM PST by grundle
One generally assumes that an ambulance with its lights flashing can park wherever it pleases. This past weekend in New Orleans, a parked ambulance was "booted" by a convenience store employee, who was apparently annoyed that the ambulance had parked in his store's lot. Never mind that the paramedics were treating a man inside the store. That employee has since been fired.
According to a report from WWLTV.com, the paramedics put the patient in the back of the ambulance and began to drive away when the vehicle came to a sudden stop. The medics saw that someone had put a boot on their vehicle. When a store employee finally removed the boot, the tire was flat. The paramedics had to call for backup while the man with chest pains waited in the back.
Jeb Tate, spokesman for New Orleans Emergency Medical Services, said, "We actually had to delay that patient's care by calling another ambulance out here to come transport this patient."
Now, a few days later, WWLTV.com reports that the convenience store employee has been fired and issued a citation by the New Orleans Police Department for simple criminal damage to property. According to the police report, the man, Ahmed Sidi Aleywa, claimed that he didn't know that the vehicle was an ambulance and that he doesn't speak English.
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You don’t need to speaky de english to know an ambulance from a normal car. This clown is weapons grade stupid ... and he needs NOT to be in this country
Apperently, he don't think to good neither.
I guess they don’t have anything more sophisticated than donkey carts for transporting people to medical treatment in whatever Crapistan he’s from/s;)
LOL! You’re right. This goes down in the annals of tragic comedy!
I suppose he thought it was a tricked out mommy van.
when did retail establishments get the power to boot vehicles... which belong to someone else? Shouldn’t that be a law enforcement power? Did this employee go through proper channels before seizing or detaining that vehicle?
Apparently they have private contractors doing this. This guy was called the “boot man”. This kinda crap needs to be given the BOOT. Law enforcement should be the ONLY entity authorized to boot a vehicle ... PERIOD.
Or alternatively, he comes from a kleptocracy where shakedowns are a standard business practice.
BTW ... IMO Ahmed the camel jockey is a frickin liar when he says he doesn’t speak english.
So, never mind the no-speeky-de-english BS, what was it about the man treated for chest pains that caused Ahmed Sidi Aleywa to purposely delay the patient's trip to the hospital? Was he buying alcohol? Pork rinds? Was he Jewish? Member of rival tribe? Random American in a position of weakness?
I'd suspect a DIY mini-Jihad-of-opportunity before anything else.
***...Ahmed Sidi Aleywa, claimed that he didn’t know that the vehicle was an ambulance and that he doesn’t speak English.***
Ah yes...the old ‘no speaka de English’ excuse. Problem is vision and common sense don’t require a language.
Enjoy your 99 weeks on the dole, Ahmed.
And the Amish don't believe in using motorised vehicles anyway.
That’s it. Ahmed the gate-keeper perceived a payout from a driver who would need to leave ASAP.
These Muslims are just like a cue ball.
The harder you hit them the more English you get out of them.
Private booting? It is bad enough that the police can do it.
exactly
where is the due process when someone can just boot someone else’s car?
and how come people who came here and aren’t citizens and can’t speak english have these jobs?
I guess they don’t have anything more sophisticated than donkey carts for transporting people to medical treatment in whatever Crapistan he’s from/s;)
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In a place he came from it used to haul mortars. He thought it was a military vehicle.
I’d like a little more DUE PROCESS before cops do it... but this one takes the cake and the plate
Do you mean that you, as a homeowner, don't think that you have the right to have a strange vehicle (Who knows? Drug-dealers?) illegally parked on your property (tresspassing / unlawful entry, anyone?) booted, towed, or otherwise "dealt with?" Ever hear of the "Castle Doctrine?"
The convenience store clerk was only exercising his right as the representative of the store (property-owner). He exercised it stupidly, in that he didn't recognize that it was an ambulance, but...
Regards,
BS!! He knew that in all likelihood the ambulance wasn't in the process of saving a muslim's life at that moment and that, therefore, it was a good opportunity to kill an infidel in an underhanded and cowardly way, their favorite way to kill a non-muslims. So boot the ambulance. Delay it for a bit, and maybe, with any luck, an infidel would die.
Mohammedan filth SHOULD NOT even be in this country. Not for any reason and not for any length of time. None of them. Not one. Zero. Period.
There is a difference between a guy who is annoyed that an ambulance is parked in front of a store with the lights flashing as they are attending to an emergency situation in said store, and a drug dealer illegally trespassing on your property.
was this a house?
I thought it was a store (public accomodation, remember we keep losing these court cases?) and a store employee (not the property owner)
The clerk was not the owner, and was not acting at the direction of the owner- hence the firing. There should be some due process here.
I can imagine the pizza delivery guy dreads your house, he might not have a car when he was done giving you change. lol
“Apperently, he don’t think to good neither.”
That’s what happens to your brain after your “forbearers” had sex with their first cousins for eight or ten centuries. There is a recent study out that says that the Muzzies have decimated their IQ’s with their intermarriage BS. Then again, maybe it has to do with sleeping with their favorite goat.
Why is he in OUR COUNTRY?
There is most certainly a difference. That's why I stated that the convenience store clerk acted stupidly: He should have recognized that it was an ambulance. But that doesn't change the fact that the "Castle Doctrine" also applies to places of business, and that the clerk was probably charged by his employers with the task of attending to order in the parking lot (I doubt that he "boots" falsely parked vehicles just for giggles).
Further, my point is that one usually doesn't know in advance whether a strange vehicle - perhaps parked improperly - belongs to a law-abiding citizen, a drug-dealer, or, e.g., a cop on a stake-out. If I wake up some morning to see a strange van parked, e.g., in my driveway, I am not obligated to investigate in order to find out that it maybe belongs to some harmless old geezer who was suffering shortness of breath and so called for someone to pick him up and take him home, thus leaving his vehicle abandoned. I am entitled to "deal with" it myself. I am not required to wait for law-enforcement officials to come to my aid.
Regards,
No sir ... if someone illegally parks in your drive way ... you call the cops and they have it towed ... you do NOT have the right to confiscate other peoples property even on your own. If someone was involved in an accident an winds up on your lawn you DO NOT have the right to confiscate that vehicle.
Mark
Even if the ambulance crew had simply stopped in for a snack, I'd think this dude should have had some common sense to not boot ANY vehicle. Not like an ambulance with lights flashing would be there very long in any case.
Did this guy just have a jonesing to boot a vehicle at the drop of a hat? Does he keep a boot behind the counter "just in case" he needs one at a moment's notice?
He won't get that either if he was terminated for cause.
No, but it would help to know the meatwagons here don't have a red crescent on them. Probably saw a red cross and figured it was a chance to mess with some infidel...
Sometimes “DUH” is just not enough
Well said. That crap was getting annoying:)
Apparently to drag it down into the same sh*thole he crawled out of. I think Slings had it right... Ahmed figured he could pull a shakedown, same as he did in his cave of origin. (And then hit some sleazoid bar or goat brothel before heading home to beat the wives.)
Did this guy just have a jonesing to boot a vehicle at the drop of a hat? Does he keep a boot behind the counter "just in case" he needs one at a moment's notice?
He didn't do it. He called the "Boot Man." The boot man must be even more stupid than the muzzlem.
He's from Chicago? Is he related to Jesse Jackson?
Our diversity is our strength.
In New Orleans, in *that* neighborhood... yeah, this is probably a made-up Muslim-ish name. Possibly one of Calypso Louie's boys.
I am guessing that the boot man just got some free advertising that won't be doing his business much good.
Actually, I don’t think anyone, including police, should be allowed to immobilize a vehicle. This is an example of what could happen - rightly or wrongly.
If the police have a reason to boot a vehicle, then they have another reason to locate and charge the owner for the offense. Booting the vehicle is something akin to calling a weapon the perpetrator.
convenience store employee boots an ambulance? Do convenience stores now stock Denver Boots? I have seen this story a couple or three times and still do not understand how or why a convenience store employee would just happen to have a Denver Boot handy.
Those things are pretty darned unwieldy and probably pretty clumsy for a convenience store employee to put on a vehicle.
I sure hope someone here can help me out.
If you park your vehicle on my private property without my permission, I can do most anything to it that I wish, short of major damage.
Depends upon how you define "confiscate."
I am not a lawyer - I don't even portray one on t.v. (heh-heh). But...
I do believe that I am the king of my castle, as well as having the right to protect me and mine, which means that - after the trespasser has illegally parked his vehicle in my driveway, maybe even in my carport, where my kids normally play hopscotch - I could, e.g., simply close and padlock the front gate of my driveway and release the Dobermans, as a security measure, like I do every night (heh-heh), thus effectively depriving the trespasser of the use of his vehicle, at least until I get back from my all-night lodge-meeting.
Or are you saying that, due to the trespasser's illegal actions, I am not permitted to lock up my property, or let "Fang" and "Killer" run free on my fenced property, while I'm away?
You have a very strange concept of "private property," my FRiend!
Regards,
That’s a horrible thing to say about a decent upright criminal.
If you LEAVE the property, your vehicle will be booted.
So to avoid the boot, you must "stay"?
And "accept" the boot?
Talk about contradictory.
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