You're not getting in my ambulance, lard arse...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2190306.stm 
Is there something about stupidity and motor vehicles when it comes to those who run public services in Bris'l??
quote:Eh?
Overweight patients face ambulance ban
Heavy patients could be banned from riding in emergency ambulances in the Bristol area.
The public service workers' union Unison has warned ambulance crews they risk breaking the law by exceeding vehicle weight limits.
Union leaders are raising the prospect of a ban on anyone over 18st 8lbs (260lbs) travelling in an emergency vehicle in the Avon Ambulance Trust area.
They claim each time a crew exceeds the limit in one of the trust's Mercedes 312D vehicles, they are breaking the law and, as such, risk prosecution.
The bid to enforce the strict limits could also mean patients are forced to travel without accompanying relatives while midwives may be banned from travelling with pregnant women.
On Monday night, all 300 Avon-based members of Unison were balloted on a motion of no confidence in their management.
Unison officials told crews they had broken the law thousands of times since the 312D range was commissioned in 1994.
Mark Parish, Unison health and safety officer, said: "The onus of responsibility is on the driver.
"If you drive an overladen vehicle and are involved in an incident warranting police investigation, you will be prosecuted, as will the employer."
A spokesman for the Avon Ambulance Service Trust said a vehicle, fully-laden with staff and equipment still left "sufficient leeway".
'Safety limits'
Karen Higginson, of the trust said: "Mark Parish wrote to us expressing his concerns and sent a copy of that letter to the Western Daily Press and the Bristol Evening Post, before he had given us a chance to respond."
Terry Hayward, Director of Operations at the trust said: "The figures Mr Parrish quotes are wrong.
"The trust monitors the weight of its vehicles to ensure that they operate within safety limits.
"The day we received Mr Parrish's letter one of the vehicles in question was weighed, fully laden, with staff, on a licensed weighbridge, and it was well within safety limits."
Is there something about stupidity and motor vehicles when it comes to those who run public services in Bris'l??I remember reading a story in New York where they had this enormous fella who couldnt leave his flat because he couldnt get out of the door.
Ambulance crew arrived, got in, saw his plight, called the Fire Brigade. They arrive and proceed to knock the front window out. Five firemen and two orderlies attempt to get him on a gurney to no avail.
They then call another fire truck with one of those kubota type excavators and wheel that into the flat.
They then pick him up with the crane and carry him to the ambulance that creaks under his weight, they think bollocks to it and strap him on the back of a fire truck!
The moral of the story, well when you cant see your knees stop eating the buns!
Matt.
Ambulance crew arrived, got in, saw his plight, called the Fire Brigade. They arrive and proceed to knock the front window out. Five firemen and two orderlies attempt to get him on a gurney to no avail.
They then call another fire truck with one of those kubota type excavators and wheel that into the flat.
They then pick him up with the crane and carry him to the ambulance that creaks under his weight, they think bollocks to it and strap him on the back of a fire truck!
The moral of the story, well when you cant see your knees stop eating the buns!
Matt.
reminds me of the one where airlines were charging fat people for 2 seats (one for each buttock). quote:
I remember reading a story in New York where they had this enormous fella who couldnt leave his flat because he couldnt get out of the door.
Ambulance crew arrived, got in, saw his plight, called the Fire Brigade. They arrive and proceed to knock the front window out. Five firemen and two orderlies attempt to get him on a gurney to no avail.
They then call another fire truck with one of those kubota type excavators and wheel that into the flat.
They then pick him up with the crane and carry him to the ambulance that creaks under his weight, they think bollocks to it and strap him on the back of a fire truck!
The moral of the story, well when you cant see your knees stop eating the buns!
Matt.
I think I remeber that, or something similar from one of the Americasn talk shows, they had to demolish the front of his house to get to the bloke, he hadn't left his bed in 2 years as he couldn't move, then the rescuers got a specially made trolley and rolled him onto it so they could take him to hospital to have his stomach stapeled. He died.
Claire
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Eh?
YES! MOST DEFINATELY YES!!!!
I started to make a list of the stupidity demonstrated by BCC regarding transport & parking but had to give up (a) because its depressing and (b) the list was getting so long that ...
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Eh?
YES! MOST DEFINATELY YES!!!!
I started to make a list of the stupidity demonstrated by BCC regarding transport & parking but had to give up (a) because its depressing and (b) the list was getting so long that ...
The incompetence these people demonstrate beggars belief. I too could write an essay about these idiots. Take the "Showcase Bus Route". They have failed to notice that it is the buses that cause most of the congestion. The answer is not urban clearways/electronic bus proximity indicators/little platforms or any of the other expensive pointless gimmicks they're installing.
Just stick a conductor on the bus so the sodding thing doesn't block the road for five minutes at every stop while people pay the driver. And don't even start me on that Noddy goes to Novograd abortion down in the centre...
quote:Sure did, I was in the states when it happened. He was buried in a SQUARE coffin. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself.
He died.
You have to wonder. He obviously couldn't leave the house for food, so who was feeding him? Or did he just wait for small children to pass his window and scoop them up?
The old Talbot and Daimler ambulances used by the LCC were designed to carry multi patients, somewhere along the line the specifiers have lost sight of what the ambulance service is for.
Sorry if I offend any Unison members but their officials do seem to have some sort of monopoly on being utter pillocks.
Sorry if I offend any Unison members but their officials do seem to have some sort of monopoly on being utter pillocks.
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...and rolled him onto it so they could take him to hospital to have his stomach stapeled. He died.
Claire
Ahh, the old multiple-stapelers-but-all-empty syndrome. Dont you hate that, if someone actually replaced the staples he would be alive.
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They probably could only find a stapler with one staple left, so when they tried to use it the staple just bent and didn't go in properly, so they had to pull it out again. Hate it when that happens.
So are we to expect, plod to set up in a convenient lay-by with his mobile weighbridge and rubber hammer,to look out for ambulances with splayed wheels,coming up the road,"What you carryin' Driver?"
"Oh dear, you seem to be about (£50) overweight matey,
can I see your licence and insurance documents"
"Oh dear, you seem to be about (£50) overweight matey,
can I see your licence and insurance documents"
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