Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 12/02/2014 6:17:58 AM PST by cripplecreek
Frustrated with a lack of public transportation and in desperate need to reach a certain destination, a homeless man stole an ambulance from a hospital in Pontiac on Sunday.
“He told the deputy he was hoping to go to the Booby Trap to see some pole dancing,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said.
“You can’t make this up.”
The man, who hoped to make it to the Detroit strip club but was stopped by police in Sterling Heights, was asked why he took the ambulance.
“Apparently he said there was no public transportation available,” Bouchard said.
“Again, you can’t make this up.”
Deputies learned of the theft around 11 p.m. Sunday, when they were dispatched to the hospital in the 50 block of Perry. The ambulance had been parked at the entrance after a patient was transported to the hospital, and it was unlocked and had a cell phone inside.
Authorities located the vehicle after tracing the cell phone to an area in Sterling Heights, and Sterling Heights police officers pulled the vehicle over and arrested the suspect, who was cooperative. The ambulance was turned over to STAR EMS.
The suspect has mental health issues, according to the sheriff’s office.
Bouchard said the arrest was good cooperative police work between his department and Sterling Heights.
“Obviously an ambulance not only has expensive items in it, including drugs, it’s an expensive vehicle by itself,” he said
I’d say he would definitely vote Democrat if he did vote
This wouldn’t have happened if there was proper public transportation available. /sarc
Wonder if the stripper he wanted to see was Amber Lamps?
I’ve spoken to inner city EMTs, and many claim that there are “frequent fliers” who think the ambulance service is their own private taxi cab.
Not a ping.
I am quite sure that I do not want to google that name.
He really did have a plan to put those dollars he collected to use.
This screams for an Obama backed strip club czar. The disparity in today’s world.
POTATO SALAD!! d;^) (Guess that Sienfeld)
A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do...
hmmmmm.....so there IS a strip bar in Michigan that is NOT at the corner of Dort and South Saginaw in Flint...
Looking at google earth street view and it appears that the Booby Trap is now the King of Diamonds strip clup. (valet parking $5)
Gotta get there early to avoid the door charge.
Priorities!
You can get arrested for that?
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