Animals: Today, I was on the job as an ambulance driver, I got a call...

By ambulancedriver - 12/09/2009 18:35 - Poland

Today, I was on the job as an ambulance driver, I got a call about a man who claimed he'd had a heart attack. When I got to the house, it turned out the man was fine. I did however manage to hit a dog on the way there in fear of the man dying. FML

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By badtiming - 15/09/2010 04:15 - United States

Today, I saw a bad car wreck. I pulled over and ran to the car to find an unconscious man behind the wheel. Another car pulled up, and a guy got out. I was relieved to have help, until, to my horror, he started trying to hit on me. I was stuck with him until the ambulance arrived. FML

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By JuniorDetective - 07/05/2009 16:52 - United States

Today, I was in the middle of walking home when I saw an old woman trying to get away from what looked like a mugger. I go over and try to help her out and get the man off of her, which was successful. Turns out she was having a heart attack and the man was a doctor. FML

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No excuses

By ICouldntThinkOfaUsername - 17/01/2023 02:00

Today, my husband had heart attack symptoms on the way to his family event. We stopped, called an ambulance, and he was taken off to hospital. I called his family to update them. They still expected us to turn up. FML

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Save the doggo

By JC - 19/10/2009 06:40 - United States

Today, I was driving down the road when a dog suddenly ran across the street. In attempt to spare its life, I swerved to the side of the road and rear-ended another car. The car I hit belonged the family who owned the dog. Now I have to pay them because I saved their dog's life. FML

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By Anonymous - 11/06/2013 04:12 - Canada - Kingston

Today, as I was walking home, I saw an ambulance pull into my driveway with its sirens blaring. Thinking it could be for my sick father, I started frantically sprinting. I managed to trip on my pant-leg, twisting my ankle in the process. They were just turning around in my driveway. FML

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By AtLeastThereWasAParamedic - 02/03/2017 20:00

Today, I was walking on the sidewalk near my house when a car pulled out of a parking spot in front of a speeding ambulance. The ambulance swerved up onto the grass. Yes, I broke my arm after being hit by an ambulance. FML

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The precious truck

By Anonymous - 05/09/2021 11:00

Today, I got fired because, while responding to an emergency page for the volunteer fire department to help find a man in a field with a gunshot wound, I backed into a rock with the company truck that I drive to and from work. Nobody asked about the guy with the bullet inside him. He's OK now, in case anyone cares. FML

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By Flipside - 02/05/2009 00:46 - United States

Today, as I was driving home, I saw a woman get hit by a car. I immediately parked on the side of the road to assist her. I called an ambulance and stayed with her until they came to get her, comforting her all the while. When I returned to my car, I found a parking ticket in my windshield. FML

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Nightmare fuel

By Traumatized - 12/03/2024 18:00 - United States

Today, at my job as a hotel housekeeper, I accidentally entered the room of someone who hadn't left yet. To my horror, the man inside was having a massive heart attack. I just found out he passed away, despite immediate medical intervention. FML

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By vstan - 25/08/2010 00:48 - United States

Today, I swerved off the road and hit a tree in order to avoid hitting a dog that came out of nowhere. Don't worry, I didn't hit him. The person behind me did, though. FML

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Saturday 12 September 2009 23:12

Wow. What kind of awful person would fake that? FYL, but you probably couldve tried to avoid the dog. F[the dog's owber's]L.

OhhxGoshhxAri 0

Saturday 12 September 2009 23:25

I say FYL. And everyone saying YDI really needs to relax. I understand everyone loves animals. I do too. I would probably cry if I hit one. But where I come from, the first lesson they teach you in driving school is unless you can avoid hitting an animal without putting yourself or anyone else in danger, you have to run it over.

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a2z029_ 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 4:14

Horrible person, take a life to attempt to save one, really pathetic.

m1h1m 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 5:05

kurwa...sorrka dla ciebie man......ale to nie twoja wina,hey, prubowałeś

iplayrugby18 11

Sunday 13 September 2009 5:47

i'm sure he wasn't faking it...either he was having a severe anxiety attack or just angina pectoralis which simulates a heart attack but has certain differences in characteristics (duration, ECG, ect)

LadyMedic 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 19:19

Or it could've been a lot of other things. And if the crew didn't follow up with the patient after he got to the hospital, he absolutely still could've been having a heart attack.

the_stereotype 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 6:06

maybe it was just a false alarm. like, he thought he was having a heart attack, but wasn't. i hear things like that happen a lot

knowsalltruths 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 6:34

Fake on so many levels. nobody who drives an ambulance calls themselves an ambulance driver (paramedic, EMS etc), and anyone who thinks they have had a heart attack is never fine and need to be seen by a doctor anyway. I've seen a man die who thought he heart a heart attack, his family almost had him to the hospital but they turned around when he said he was fine and then has his heart stop 1/2 hour later.

LadyMedic 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 16:55

#78 and #83 - I thought the same thing at first, about him calling himself an ambulance driver. I was going to rip him open right there for that one. But reading on, it really does sound like he has no medical certification whatsoever, and might really be just an ambulance driver. I know I get irritated when I get called an ambulance driver, as do all of my coworkers and people from my volly service, but I think that really might be this suys title.

imsickofstudying 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 6:42

I'm pretty sure everyone here has completely missed the fact that the dog should have been on a leash.

ChickenTenders 6

Sunday 13 September 2009 8:05

nice google.

rihanahawk 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 9:50

Ok, I work in EMS and I don't know of one person that calls themselves an "ambulance driver" because we are able to do much more than just drive people to the hospital. Also any given chest pain call is nothing to get worked up over. They are at least half of the calls that we run and most of the time the people are fine. It could be so many other things that are not cardiac related. We are allowed to give EKG's in the field and can pretty confidently rule out cardiac issues. Sadly many people call EMS out because they like the attention or because they are lonely. A lot of them come from people in nursing homes that just want to spend the night away from that place or because they are trying to get back at the nursing staff. I will say though, that anytime I get called out for chest pain, unless it comes out as a code, I'm not too concerned for the people dying. Very few cases are legitimate, and even if they are, it is your job, if you get worked up over every bad call you are going to be a basket case. Get it together, its not your emergency, and you need to realize that if you are going to make it in this career.

yisrab 0

Sunday 13 September 2009 10:21

Call hatzala next time . For all u ppl hu don't know what that is - FYL- they're the Jewish ambulance service and THEY KICK ASS response time is usually under a minute cuz they have so many volunteers!