Usually, when an ambulance is parked in front of a residence, there's a possibility it's a matter of life and death, but a woman did not care about that and left an angry note for paramedics who parked an ambulance in her resident's parking bay.
Paramedics revealed someone left a note on their ambulance saying, "I couldn’t give a shit if the whole street collapses. Now move your van."
They were responding to a 999 call-out in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and left the vehicle in a resident’s parking bay yesterday morning. But a woman became angry with this and started verbally abusing them, before leaving the foul-mouthed message.
Paramedic Katie Tudor, tweeted the image with the caption: "So upset to be sent this by one of our crews this morning!"
She later added: "Along with this note left on their ambulance, they received a load of verbal abuse! They weren’t blocking the road, they were in a parking space… just obviously annoying someone that an ambo was outside their property."
She later added: "Along with this note left on their ambulance, they received a load of verbal abuse! They weren’t blocking the road, they were in a parking space… just obviously annoying someone that an ambo was outside their property."
The paramedic, who is based in Stoke-on-Trent, then went on to ask: "Is there anything that can be done about this? It’s becoming a regular occurrence."
Nick Adderley, Assistant Chief Constable of Staffordshire Police, responded to her and said: "Criminally Katie it would be a matter for the CPS to consider if they have committed a public order offense, which in the purest sense they may have under section 5 Public Order Act. The threshold may not have been met with that note though."
He added: "Sadly we have to ‘tolerate’ those in society who only ever think about themselves until such time when they need you/us. Then it’s a different story. Just know that 99.9% of the public really value and appreciate what you/we do."
Paramedic operational manager Mike Duggan also shared a picture of the note and said the emergency services were increasingly facing growing level of hostility.
He tweeted: "Very angry to see yet again people getting grief for doing their job. We don’t block the road for something to do."
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