Frustrated Paramedic

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Here is another weirdo who pretended to be a paramedic.

article said:

A man has been jailed for dressing as a paramedic and disguising his Renault estate car as an emergency response vehicle, complete with flashing light, to run errands for his wife, a court has heard.

Phillip Lemonheigh, 60, attached the light to the roof of the car and had an “emergency response” sign stuck to the side. Though he had no driving licence, he travelled at up to 73mph and ran red lights during shopping trips until he was caught by a speed camera.

Jailing him for 20 months on Thursday, Judge Peter Griffiths said that, in his legal career, he had “never come across something so bizarre”.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/driver-jailed-disguising-car-ambulance-caring-sick-wife

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Mr Trophy said:

Medic-one said:

Good example here, and this clown even had a marked up car...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeuJ_6skbF4

holy st !

How do we know that the police pulling him were genuine?

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I have known Southwest ambluance run high spec cars unmarked other than lights for senior paramedic types I was at an incident last year when an unmarked golf GTi rocked up.

However there are alot of private individuals on facebook with unmarked ambulance cars for sale or not its alarming how many people have blue light cars and do not seem CQC reg.

One guy I have met runs an unmarked volvo v50 and sells the lights and sirens but his use of the lights is for the local blood bike group allegedly.

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Medic-one said:

Our managers all have the hidden blue lights fitted to Trust vehicles, which are mainly boring estates, however the BASICS guys can use their own vehicle's, fitted out with hidden blue lights.

Basically they are specialst paramedics and doctors that normally work on the helicopter, and in their spare time they can sign up (via the 999 call centre) to be available for calls. So if something really serious was to happen, or if us ground crews would need some assistance during the night (when the helicopter doesn't fly) they can send out a BASICS crew, who will respond in their own personal vehicle.

2 of my mates work for them, 1 drives a VW T5 campervan which does look a bit odd arriving on blue lights, but the other one drives an Audi RS6 which must be great fun to drive at night when he gets called.

Sorry to bump a thread that's over a year old but this could explain what I saw last week. Stuck in traffic and saw blue lights coming up in my mirror, it was an Audi A4 with grille blues and a roof light bar. Also had a private plate which I'm guessing makes it more likely it was a personal car. Did wonder if it was a senior fire/ambulance officer but could well have been an on call BASICS docto