WHEN AN ACCIDENT VICTIM DECIDES TO REFUSE TREATMENT, you have to believe them when they tell you.
Scene one: An ambulance crew in Edmonton, Alberta, learned that on Friday morning when they responded to an accident involving a truck that ran into several parked cars. When the medics put the truck driver into the back of the ambulance and started checking him out, he pulled a gun out of his holster that was on his belt and pointed it at them.
Scene two: Paramedics jumped out of their ambulance and took off running. The “victim” casually gets out and walks away in the other direction.
Scene three: Medics follow the errant driver about five blocks until the police catch up and arrest him.
“You go to a motor vehicle accident. You don’t expect there to be a gun, but that’s part of working on the job.” EMS Chief Joe Acker said both paramedics –each with less than three years on the job — are shaken up, but otherwise OK.
The Edmonton Journal has the STORY.
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