View Full Version : Call 000! I've got a blister...
dilemma
08-03-2005, 02:52 PM
Did anyone else get alarmed after reading this? :eek: :confused:
(From www.smh.com.au)
NSW ambulance crews are dealing with a rocketing number of non-emergency calls - such as blisters in new shoes and helping fix broken kettles.
The number of cases where ambulance officers do not deliver patients to hospital has increased from 80,000 to 114,000 in the past four years.
Among the ridiculous calls for assistance reported by officers last year were:
- help removing contact lenses
- a suspected cat scratch
- an eyelash in the eye
- blisters in new shoes
- checking a house alarm
- helping fix a broken kettle
- running a patient to the shops to buy Panadol
- a mother worried about her daughter's runny nose
- A jogger wanting his blood pressure checked before and after running
- turning off a heater
- removing ants in a kitchen
- a plaster for a cut finger
- recovering keys locked in a car
- phoning for a pizza because the phone was cut off.
kalem
08-03-2005, 03:03 PM
- phoning for a pizza because the phone was cut off.
oh man that's awesome, simply awesome.
Techno Destructo
08-03-2005, 03:04 PM
It should be made legal for ambulance crew to slap anyone who calls up for stuff as trivial as that.
Unbelievable.
konasaurus
08-03-2005, 03:09 PM
It should be made legal for ambulance crew to slap anyone who calls up for stuff as trivial as that.
Unbelievable.
Slap or beat them to the point that they actually have to take them to hospital ??
SNYKE
08-03-2005, 03:22 PM
Slap or beat them to the point that they actually have to take them to hospital ??
Hell yeah! What kind of idiot would actually call and ambulance to help fix a kettle. This sort of shit pisses me off because they could be out their saving people's lives but some moron thinks their kettle is more important.
99Coconuts
08-03-2005, 03:58 PM
jeeeezuz :eek:
no shit, ppls actually do this? i'll volunteer for beating the crapola out of these dumbasses till they need hospitalization. krikey, all the uproar that happens when an ambo is a few minutes later than normal response time and yet some ppls are getting these poor buggers to FIX THEIR FUGGIN KETTLE??????? reading that article, i think that the ambos might need a change in the rules that stop them from saying no.....
tho i totally understand the pizza thing, mans gotta eat :p thats a ripper
ashhash
08-03-2005, 04:48 PM
Bwaaahaa....
This was on JJJ this arvo, damn theres some morons around...
Kammy
08-03-2005, 05:19 PM
oh no i broke a nail get me the phone im calling 000 cause they will fix it. far out people in todays society are so selfish what happens when someone actually needs the ambos and there busy putting a bandaid over a cat scratch :mad:
jakie
08-03-2005, 07:50 PM
On triple J this afternoon some ambo's rang up who had odd calls.
- A man got some new blue PJs and rang up to help wash off the dye from hands and neck
- People ringing up at 3am, "I cant sleep"
sxereturn
08-03-2005, 08:16 PM
- phoning for a pizza because the phone was cut off.
This person deserves a medal. Pure gold. I reckon it's better to get the bludgers a pizza rather than saving some Cabramatta junkies life until the next time it OD's.
dilemma
09-03-2005, 09:36 AM
Haha yeh, I thought the pizza one was pretty funny. But in my case, I'd be calling for chocolate :D
There was (still is?) a girl where I used to live who used to pretend to OD on the footpath, some kind hearted person driving/walking by would call an ambulance (my mum did once until she realised it was a regular thing) and she would score a free lift home - which was up a pretty long hill... :( She was a bit messed up (mental health issues, drug issues) and was notorious for scabbing off the ambos.
There's a fella from the roadie bunch who is an ambo and he was often the one who had to pick her up and drop her home. It was always like "yeh, yeh, it's just Monica again..." as soon as he got the call, he knew it was her. She pulled a knife on him one day, so there's definitely some problems there.
W2ttsy
09-03-2005, 11:10 AM
dont the 000 operaters filter this stuff out when they process the call? im sure some common sense would prevail and allow the operator to tell the blister person that they are not dying and dont need an ambo...
when i rang in to 000 a couple of weeks ago to report an accident (powerpole vs car, headon) i had to jump thru hoops before they would send an ambo out.
lucky for me i am level 2 first aid, and knew exactly how to assess the situation and give the right details. not to mention i was the only person to actually call in the accident, even tho iwas about the 20th person on the scene. people seem to be more interested in watching than helping.
W2ttsy
man that shit is hilarious....wat is wrong with those people!
johnny
10-03-2005, 12:10 AM
This person deserves a medal. Pure gold. I reckon it's better to get the bludgers a pizza rather than saving some Cabramatta junkies life until the next time it OD's.
Ever had a friend OD and die? Life aint that black and white dude.
I think all ambo's Fire engines and.....actually no not the cops, should have one of those old triagular cow bars the steam trains used to have so they could MOVE the ignorant drivers off the road that don't get out of their way. I've seen in car vids from ambos where people just give them the finger and go on their merry way! :eek:
I had a friend working in ST Vincents hospital emergency ward. Apparently on weekends, something like 15-20% of inbound would be sexual injuries between 11pm-3am (or something like that) "I slipped and fell with my penis landing in the vacuum cleaner tube, which happened to be on at the time......which was 2am in the morning". "I slipped and fell in the shower resulting in this shampoo bottle being stuck in my colon". etc.
Emptey
10-04-2005, 09:36 AM
Smackies and Crackheads.......nuff said.
wombat
10-04-2005, 01:45 PM
Smackies and Crackheads.......nuff said.
Enough said for what? To make you look like an idiot?
As for cars getting out of the road, there's one upside to driving an big off road truck on the road, people tend to move when they see something in their mirrors that looks like it could run over their car. :)
Metro boys don't have that luxury, although their trucks do tend to go harder. :(
Dicko888
10-04-2005, 02:03 PM
i think its stuped how people call up for little things. One of my mates that went to school with me had hart problems and one day he had some sort of a hart fit and past out because his hart was beating iradicly. anyway we called the ambos' and they called back to say they werent coming because some old bag kicked her little toe and they thought that was more important. he was lucky his parents live across from the school and had some medication they could give him to help till they got him to hopital.
Walpiri
10-04-2005, 06:00 PM
First off its heart.
Secondly I have worked as a 000 call taker and these things do get filtered out. Some people are very persistant though. I had someone screaming for the Police one night beacuse someone had driven into their driveway and then reversed out and driven off. This person was told not to ring 000 for that, but rang back three times.
I have also had someone ring 000 asking for Police so they could get a lift home.
I would rather be riding.
Wal.
W2ttsy
10-04-2005, 08:12 PM
Walpiri, how does one become a 000 operator? is there a training course you have to do? im sure there would have to be some sort of triage training?
W2ttsy
Walpiri
11-04-2005, 09:34 AM
Where I work is mostly Police / Fire, the Ambo guys are just that Ambulance Officers who get rostered on to Communications.
Wattsy
11-04-2005, 01:14 PM
oh man, this has gotta be some funny shit
Did anyone else get alarmed after reading this? :eek: :confused:
Among the ridiculous calls for assistance reported by officers last year were:
- help removing contact lenses
- a suspected cat scratch
- an eyelash in the eye
- blisters in new shoes
- checking a house alarm
- helping fix a broken kettle
- running a patient to the shops to buy Panadol
- a mother worried about her daughter's runny nose
- A jogger wanting his blood pressure checked before and after running
- turning off a heater
- removing ants in a kitchen
- a plaster for a cut finger
- recovering keys locked in a car
- phoning for a pizza because the phone was cut off.
what about if you were removing a contact lense, didnt see the cat,
trod on the cat who in turn scratched your leg,
making you stumble back... only to poke yourself in the eye...
leaving an eyelash behind.
with one good eye.. you find your new running shoes,
only put one on to kick the cat... dont tie the laces...
and get a blister hopping around the house the house after the cat.
when you finally corner your feline companion.. you swing...
miss and your new blister creating running shoe flies off....
hits the alarm sensor...
breaks the alarm sensor and rebounds into the kettle.
you are now that irate you fumble...
blistered and one eyed around the house... find the cat...
throw the cat out the window, only to have it land on a paranoid mother.. jogging to the shop to buy panadol for her daughters runny nose.
the mad as hell mother now opens a can of wh00p arse and finds your other stray running shoe lying in the front yard...
throws it back through the window...
hitting your kettle, breaking your kettle,
causing water to spill on the floor
which in turn you slip on,
while you are trying to find a plaster to fix the alarm
sensor back on to the wall with.
stumbling back, you land on the heater...
realise that you havnt turned you heater off,
burn your hand, realise that your spare
(now burnt) hand still had the other contact lense stuck to it..
and is now ruined.
you reach into the pantry.. try to find some burn cream...
but with only one eye partially working...
you grab the "ant rid" by mistake...
you apply liberally to your hand... and returning it to the cupboard,
you bump a tin of cat food.. which falls on your blistered foot...
forcing you to hop back into the water from the kettle...
slip, stumble, and trip over the heater cord that you had plugged in and land on the car keys you needed to get the plaster to fix the alarm sensor...
in despair... you think...
f**k it... i want a pizza....
having only 1 hand...
partial vision in one eye...
a blistered foot...
a p*ssed off cat...
you dial 000 by mistake....
is that ok ??
^^^ spikken gold, as they say on Neighbours. :D
dilemma
12-04-2005, 08:02 AM
R33F: you, my friend, take the cake :D :D :D
R33F: you, my friend, take the cake :D :D :D
* reaching for the cake...
R33F stumbles... causing cake to flick from unburnt thumb..
into good eye... now blind... falls back.. through window...
onto irate wh00p arse weilding mother returning from chemist
with panadol for runny nose daughter....
:D
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