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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Ankh-Morpork Ambulance Guild strikes again.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Bikes: a transportation vehicle with health benefits. Ambulance: a transportation vehicle for the unwell.

Bikes are the natural enemy of the ambulance. A war between the bike clan and the ambulance clan is on the horizon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Like brothers and sisters

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

It's called a 'for profit business', look it up, people!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they couldve gotten way more than $1,800 if they hit a few more cyclists on the way. theres plenty of room in the back of an ambulance

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A new way to make money! Much easier than waiting for someone to need an ambulance!

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[–] [email protected] 214 points 1 month ago (12 children)

This is one of the most American things I've ever read.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

If America the legal battle will cost the EMS a huge part of their budget.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lacks guns and burgers but I'll take it

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The driver was distracted because he was eating a Big Mac while cleaning his pistol.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This also feels like a good fit for Not The Onion.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's an interesting business strategy, I'll give 'em that

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Like firemen setting fire to extinguish.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Pro gamer move

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like a pretty straightforward lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Is this fuck cars or fuck the us?

Show of hands, who pays for ambulances regardless of why?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

My intention is definitely "fuck cars." The fucked-up thing here is that even ambulance drivers, who should know better more so than almost anybody, are incompetently right-hooking cyclists. Billing him for it is merely the icing on the shit-cake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So your alternative would be that ambulances should no longer use cars? From my perspective all kind of emergency services such as fire department, law enforcement, ambulances should be the very last cars we get rid of as a society. They have to be fast and they need to transport a lot of stuff and people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (26 children)

The rest of the world does without GIANT and dangerous emergency vehicles for one. They still put out fires and transport sick people. How american fire departments are getting people killed (video from "not just bikes")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fun fact, many if not most of those ambulances are made in Canada, and not the USA.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (15 children)

The rest of the world often also builds better infrastructure, like a protected bike lane, to signifcantly reduce the conflicts between cars and not cars.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A lot of EMTs work 24-hour shifts, and 48-hour shifts are not uncommon. The thought that the ambulance driver on the road next to me might be at hour 46 is... frequently worrying.

The problem isn't the EMTs being incompetent, the problem is with the industry standards and the employers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was forced to work a few 24+ hour shifts in healthcare and working on zero sleep fucked me up. It gave me migraines, vomiting, insomnia, manic depression and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.

It is beyond cruel and inhumane that employers can force people to work without sleep. It is so fucked that not allowing someone to sleep is considered a form of torture by the Geneva convention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My former roommate is an EMT and he spent 90% of his 48 hour shifts sleeping and playing video games.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

That again sounds more like a shithole country problem tan a car problem.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Exactly this. They transported someone, they filled out a PCR for billing to send to insurance and the patient.

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