They're made by many manufacturers so there are many types all working on the same principle.
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.
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?
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>>“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. :-)
I would be surprised if LA didn’t have a law making interference with an emergency vehicle a criminal offense.
The guy whose trip to the hospital was delayed should own that convenience store.
Whoever booted that ambulance better pray that victim doesn’t die or they’ll be looking at manslaughter charges on top of the law suits.
What is a boot?
Freepers are a tough crowd... Proven once again.
“boot to the head” a wonderful old tune played by Dr. Demento.
It was in the store, that’s where the paramedics were when the ‘employee’ had the ambulance booted. You aren’t accepting just how totally stupid some people are.
“I can see a sick customer suing the hell out of this place. Johnny cashier is toast.”
Not only is the cashier “toast,” so is the owner of the establishment. According to the law, all the employees are “agents” of the employer and acting on his behalf (b/c the cashier was acting within the scope of employment). The owner is going to lose a lot of money if the victim can prove damages b/c of the delay in calling for a second ambulance.
In English this means the owner is a putz.
Why are we surprised. Our own Goast Guard more or less did the same thing to ships trying to save the gulf from the impact of the BP oil spill - making those without proper life preservers stop sucking up oil. This is the government bureaucratic mentality - even though this time it was exhibited by a private sector entry level employee.
I think it is actually pronounced “Nah-leans” or somethings similar when New Orleans is spoken with a mouth full of feces or grits.
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