LONDON’S AMBULANCE SERVICE HAS BEEN RUNNING a special weekend unit that only handles “drunk out of their mind” calls.
While in service, the “booze bus” as they are called, is not dispatched on normal ambulance emergencies. They’ll spend all night patrolling the nightclub districts with an eye out for people who have passed out or are otherwise helpless.
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As they patrol around town and take drunk calls from dispatch, the “vomit comet” will gather several drunks at a time and take them to the hospital where they lay around sobering up.
The Daily Mail reports:
November was the busiest month ever in the history of the London Ambulance Service and in an effort to cope with the Christmas party season, the service set up a field hospital opposite Platform 10 on Liverpool Street (railroad) Station to deal with the flood of drunk City workers.
Inside this inflatable green tent, there are blood pressure monitors and saline drips everywhere. Nick Lesslar, 39, the duty officer in charge, has two fully-equipped ambulances and three fast response cars at his disposal.
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This well-written and lengthy article tells the full STORY.
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