After I take my noun off I'm gonna verb all over your noun.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
>> ^imstellar28:
Whats the difference between a dead cop and a trampoline?
You take off your boots before jumping on a trampoline.


Somebody been playing madlibs?

What's the difference between a dead _profession and a _noun?

You take your _noun off before _verbing on a _noun

>> ^KamikazeCricket:
>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^imstellar28:
Whats the difference between a dead cop and a trampoline?
You take off your boots before jumping on a trampoline.

Somebody been playing madlibs?
What's the difference between a dead _profession and a _noun?
You take your _noun off before _verbing on a _noun

What's the difference between a geologist and a car?
you take your hair off before swimming on a shoelace.
Your mockery fails

I think it was brilliant, poetic, and probably pretty fun, no?

I've got another one:

Why don't you go f_{the letter u}ck yourself

The patient in the back was not in fact suffering from heat exhaustion. According to the paramedic's report, his professional opinion was that she was suffering from emergency cardiac problems.

Lights and sirens are not generally used for transporting patients with heart troubles. They have a nasty tendency to exacerbate them.


>> ^joedirt:
Technically the ambulance had NO lights or sirens and entered in intersection with a cop with sirens, and then proceeded not to pull over. However after they should have just proceeded to escort ambulance and then deal with them at hostpital.


That's not what happened. The police car did not have its siren running--just its lights. According to all the reports filed, it pulled up behind the ambulance at a very high speed and kept pace with it three feet from the rear bumper. The police car had approached too quickly for the ambulance driver to have noted his approach, and given the boxy shape of an ambulance, it's impossible for the driver to see someone so close. (This is also why you don't pull up that close behind semi-trucks, as well.) The first the driver saw the cruiser was when it whipped around the ambulance and passed.

The police cruise had been en route to assist another officer, but the situation was apparently resolved before they arrived; a couple of miles later, the cruiser pulled the ambulance over. It was not unreasonable at all for the paramedics to assume that there was some sort of emergency in the cruiser itself; it is not standard practice to pull over ambulances. Instead, the procedure is to contact the operator to find out what hospital the ambulance is going to and meet them there.

The rest is on the video.

>> ^rottenseed
What's the difference between a dead _profession and a _noun?
You take your _noun off before _verbing on a _noun


I'd prefer it if you kept your noun on, thank you.

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EMT: Trooper's Dash Cam Will Clarify Everything
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0509/627284.html

Tulsa - The paramedic involved in a confrontation with an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper caught on a cell phone camera says he doesn't expect any charges to be filed against him.

Maurice White, Jr. is the critical care paramedic seen in the video that has created quite a stir not only here in eastern Oklahoma, but all over the nation.

The video shows the aftermath of a traffic stop that took place while the Creek Nation ambulance was taking a patient suffering from heat exhaustion to the hospital. The ambulance was pulled over by the trooper because troopers say the driver failed to yield to his patrol car.

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White posted a message on NewsChannel 8's message board Friday morning, responding to the many questions our viewers have had.

He says quote, "I assure you that time and the trooper's dash cam will clarify everything."

He says the reason he got out of the ambulance in the first place was because he believed a person in the trooper's car was in need of medical attention.

"It was the fact that the trooper was approached at such a high rate of speed, and driving so erratically, I assumed that the woman in the front seat of the cruiser dressed in civilian clothing needed immediate help," white says. "That is why I initially stepped from the rear of the unit."

Troopers have accused White of assaulting them prior to the confrontation caught on the cell phone camera. That's something only the trooper's dash camera may be able to clarify.

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>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^imstellar28:
Whats the difference between a dead cop and a trampoline?
You take off your boots before jumping on a trampoline.

Somebody been playing madlibs?
What's the difference between a dead _profession and a _noun?
You take your _noun off before _verbing on a _noun


What's the difference between a geologist and a car?
you take your hair off before swimming on a shoelace.

Your mockery fails

You are doing the right thing.

In reply to this comment by HadouKen24:
I live in Oklahoma. I will probably be making a phone call or two to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol tomorrow, and possibly my representatives, to express my dismay.

This is completely unacceptable.

>> ^joedirt:

Lights and sirens do not mean you can break the law, regardless of what cops think.


Im not sure how it works in the US, but in Australia, that's not the case.
There a special provision in the roads act that allows emergency vehicles to disregard all road rules in the event that they are en` route to a critical situation. Rushing someone to hospital covers that.

>> ^imstellar28:
Whats the difference between a dead cop and a trampoline?
You take off your boots before jumping on a trampoline.


Somebody been playing madlibs?

What's the difference between a dead _profession and a _noun?

You take your _noun off before _verbing on a _noun

Interfering with an EMT who is performing patient care is a felony crime, even for cops. The EMT was reciting the law to the officers, and that made them more mad.
These cops are clearly in a rage. Checkout that choke hold, is that one that is taught at the academy? And the cop says "your under arrest", then he lets the EMT go, thats not how its supposed to work. If your under arrest, then thats it, theres no unarresting.
Also, the police never ask about the patient... they dont care! They are mad with rage thinking that the ambulance driver disrespected them by not getting out of their way.
Fire those cops before they kill somebody, if they havent already.

>> ^Jinx:
Yup, definitely torture.

That is not torture. To prove it, I'm willing to go on national television in front of a live studio audience, and have my string taken away from me repeatedly. I think it'll prove my point that this is merely an "enhanced interrogation technique", and that the term "torture" to describe this method is a misnomer.

*seconds later, Simple_man was tortured in front of a live audience as they point and laugh at his futile attempts to keep his pitiful piece of string*

"You look pale, Simple_man. Tell us what happened."

"You know, I didn't know how bad it was going to be. Look, all that's been done to this country, and I heard that string was being dangled in front of people's faces, only to have them take it away afterwards, I never even considered torture. I thought I could hold out, but it was hideous and horrific. If I knew it was going to be this bad, I wouldn't have done it. How long did I hold out? 5 seconds? And what was the average? 10? Damn, now I feel like a complete pussy. I want to thank Videosift, I want to thank my family for praying for me, and I'm going to go to the EMT to check me out, because I'm feeling kinda nauseous. My hands, Christ, look at my hands! They're SHAKING."

All EMT's look like Donovan too.

I think dag's question about how firefighters are paid makes me wonder how privatized EMT's get paid for today.

I know if an EMT actually takes you to a hospital, you're charged for the service. But, no one asks for your credit card beforehand, or ascertains your ability to pay. I doubt this is a simple matter of business contract -- I bet it's forbidden by law. Furthermore, if it turns out the person cared for is completely unable to pay, what happens then? If I take politicians' word for it, the state winds up paying the bill.

I don't see any reason why firefighting couldn't work the same way (with a mix of government regulation and private service providers), but I think I'd rather go the other direction.

See, if your house catches on fire, the fire dept will put out the fire without charging you a direct fee of any kind. You pay tax money that funds them, but there's no added penalty-costs for having the fire dept put out the fire in your house. That leaves you without a temptation to do something irresponsibly selfish, like not call the fire department if you think your house is a total loss anyways. It also means the cost-risk gets spread amongst the entire community, instead of having to be shouldered entirely by those who have fires break out on their property.

I want health services to work the same way. The sick shouldn't have to worry about shouldering the costs alone, nor should they have a cost-incentive to avoid checkups, or worse still avoid treatment for illness or injury.