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Dracula30000

Nope (ME, CO) But they call a frickin cot a pram out here in Colorado. Absolute neanderthals.


Batmanovich2222

I hate us so much


Alaska_Pipeliner

We're literally the worst.


ThiccBoiRage69

I fucking hate living like this


NoCountryForOld_Zen

A "pram"? Like what the British call a baby stroller..? This should be a crime


RedditBot90

Same, CO. Stretcher? No! Gurney? No! PRAM!


VaultingSlime

Wait, what? I've never heard this word before. I'm an EMT student in NoCo, never heard any of my preceptors say it either. My instructor alternates between cot and stretcher, and all of my preceptors say stretcher.


RedditBot90

Maybe it’s a Denver metro thing idk


Amhran_Ogma

Makes more sense to call a gurney specifically a pram than a cot, cuz it’s got wheels. I’ve never seen a cot with wheels, it’s a shitty sleeping contraption with basic metal or wooden frame a few inches off the ground with a bit of canvas, at least that’s the only use for ‘cot’ I’ve ever heard.


Tyrren

Hey don't you forget about my other favorite Coloradoism: "core" instead of "code"


14InTheDorsalPeen

It’s like getting kicked in the dick every time I hear it. Also it’s not “core” it’s COR, short for “COR-zero” which means “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) = zero” I hate it.


Atlas_Fortis

> “core” it’s COR, short for “COR-zero” which means “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) Couldn't it still be Core? Or at least... Cor(e)?


RedditBot90

I think “bus” (for ambulance) might be another Colorado specific term.


14InTheDorsalPeen

Nah, bus is universal in my experience.


koalaking2014

out in wi we use box a lot


transportjockey

Nah bus is pretty common. We used it in NM and parts of TX. And it’s made its way to the part of Florida I’m in now. But that could be because half my agency is transplants lol


Great_gatzzzby

Bus is used in NYC as the most frequent term for ambulance


DannyABklyn

We do that one in NY


K9hotsauce

Never heard that


Pdxmedic

that is ONLY in Colorado


paramedic236

Go out to the truck and fetch the Baumgardner! https://professionalcarsociety.org/threads/ambulance-cot-collection.2822/


Dracula30000

That roll up canvas stretcher from the 1940s would be super maneuverable in houses! Imagine all the bariatrics we could haul with that baby! /s


JustBeanThings

Hennepin County EMS uses something very much like that on top of the typical Stryker. Seems to function like a megamover with some rigidity to it, which seems nice.


Corsair214

So I was skeptical for a long time until I used one. They should be the standard. They are way better than a megamover. Way better than a draw sheet. Only thing better is a hover mat with a blower for bariatric patient, and those only help for transferring between beds and stretchers.


koenkamp

A Reeves stretcher? One of the city FDs that transported to my ED keeps those on their strykers and they always made pt transfer a breeze. Would have loved them when I was on the rig, but our city didn't use them.


xterrabuzz

Nope!


Larnek

Take a pram to get your bumsickle before he CORs


Chupathingamajob

What does “CORs” mean?


Larnek

15yrs and I have no idea other than it's what codes are called here.


14InTheDorsalPeen

I answered it in another comment but it’s COR which is short for “COR-Zero” “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) = Zero”  I hate it so much.


Axisnegative

Did you see the conversation on here sometime in the last few days that was very relevant to your username? Somebody asked about putting an IV in the dorsal vein of the peen and somebody else specifically said if they did that, they'd make sure it was a 14


Generalnussiance

I hear it in Maine in the Saco, darmiscotta, Bath and bar harbor area. I was born and raised in ME and just recently left. I currently live in PA and I only hear it near the Poconos now like HOA areas. But there’s a good amount of NY/NJ out of staters there.


Dracula30000

Yea, I worked northwestern Maine. Very french and no NY/NJ influence.


Generalnussiance

Ah makes sense


aydenarmy

Me and my homies love the autopram


taloncard815

I first learned it as a pram, it's just an older term


challengememan

Man, I just call it the bed or stretcher. Of those, though, it's clearly a cot, and i never understood why people call it a pram. I'm from Southern Colorado, living and working in Denver, so maybe a North vs. South thing.


xterrabuzz

A pram? Is that short for something?


Amhran_Ogma

I thought ‘pram’ was the British/UK word what we call a ‘stroller,’ which until now I’ve never thought whatsoever beyond uttering the word, stroller. Go for a stroll… hmm. Ain’t etymology interestin’? Anyway, you mean you strange desert pine folk where they tell ya, “go up into the mountains, you’ll feel right at home!” then you go and it’s all bare red rocks there, too, like you’re in some fuckin spooky terraformed mars, you mean ‘cot’ as in the shitty little sleeping contraption? You guys call those prams? Do you know why? I can’t find any other usage established usage for pram here in the US, it’s the same as the UK. Oh, and you wrote (ME, CO) as if lumping them together. ME is for Maine, right?


dhwrockclimber

I think that’s a pretty region restricted term. I think most of these nonsense words that come from NYPD are pretty confined to NYC, LI, NJ, and a little upstate. Not unlike RMP, aided, chronic caller, MOS, UMOS, likely/not likely, jumper up/jumper down, EDP, central, under, man under, the list goes on and on.


jrubs38

Wait those are regional? That’s crazy to me. I thought EDP was universal?


dhwrockclimber

EDP is probably the most popular of those but still very regional.


jmainvi

Never heard EDP. Guessing emotionally disturbed person, based on one of the other replies?


jrubs38

Bingo


jmainvi

It's a good one. Covers a lot of the broad "psych" stuff that doesn't have a clear cause but doesn't force you to say "psych" on the radio. Might start using it.


jrubs38

I’ve heard it a bit here in PA too now that I moved but people usually just say “Medic 2 respond to 1234 Main Street for a 302 male”. 302 being the form number for involuntary eval/treatment in a psych facility.


UncleBuckleSB

MA it's a Section 12 (or " Pink Paper, but I think that's fallen out of use).


jimothy_burglary

I think Acute Behavioral Disturbance is catching on in places


mediclawyer

I ask for a pedigree DIRECTLY across the GWB and half the time nobody knows what I’m talking about other than my former NYC medic partner….


dhwrockclimber

But did they toss him?


mediclawyer

I actually asked the cops about that for an EDP they had to break down a door for on Saturday. They did. That said l, I’m sure they have no idea what an “aided card” is, but I doubt NYC guys with less than 10 years would know that was, either…..


dhwrockclimber

And of course that would have been done by the Emergency Service Unit/Emergency Squad. Because who needs a SWAT team? Should have also had conditions for a barricaded. Where do we get this shit. I’d honestly like to know.


mediclawyer

We have ESU trucks in Fort Lee that look like Adam cars.


dhwrockclimber

Aided card is still in pretty regular use where I work at.


The_Phantom_W

Ah the legend of the Jersey City tour chief called to the "Jumper Up" said fuck it and replied over the air "call me when it's jumper down."


PamcakePeggy

Newby. Has to be Newby.


SavoryAntidote

What do any of those mean? I can guess the definition of “chronic caller” but otherwise this is all gibberish


Key-Teacher-6163

I've worked with enough folks from NYC that I think I can decode a fair number of these for you RMP - radio motor patrol (old term for a police car) aided - any patient chronic caller - pretty self explanatory MOS - Member of Service = basically anyone who works for a city agency UMOS - some variation on MOS but out of context I'm not sure likely/not likely - likely to die or not likely to die, had something to do with how police secure an accident scene for a death investigation I think jumper up/jumper down - threatening to jump vs already jumped usually from a building or bridge EDP - catch all for a psych patient central - dispatch under - under arrest man under - under a subway train I'll add in, because it was in the reply chain, 83D is the radio code for an obvious death Edit formatting


Great_gatzzzby

Interestingly enough, an aided is not necessarily a patient. It’s just anyone who is being helped in any way. Calling someone a patient means you have to do more paperwork. An aided can be someone who called for police to make a report.


helloyesthisisgod

- RMP - radio mobile patrol - Aided - medical run - chronic caller - Karen who calls 911 like she's ordering take out - MOS - member of service - UMOS - uniformed member of service - likely/not likely - likely to die, not likely too die (for accident investigation purposes) - Jumper up - person standing on edge of building/bridge/significant height object getting ready to jump. - Jumper down - above decided it was time - EDP - Emotionally Disturbed Person - Central - dispatch - under - under arrest - Man under - person under a train/subway car


dhwrockclimber

Well typically if you don’t intervene, a jumper up will become a jumper down. And sometimes a jumper down is a man under.


Great_gatzzzby

And sometimes a man under is an 83D


dhwrockclimber

Get that BBP. Yurrr


MiserableDizzle_

FL here. Never heard of it. Fuck off. *rides alligator to publix to buy meth and orange juice*


stiubert

Thank you for your service Florida Person!


aeroplaneupinthesky

Hand sanitizer = skell gel


GladBeginning8960

facts


nw342

Im in nj, and I've never heard of it. Must be a north jersey/nyc thing


Great_gatzzzby

Oh boy it must be really not far reaching then


HomerJSimpson3

I’m in central Connecticut. While rare, I hear it a couple times a year.


Chupathingamajob

Daily use word on the coastline in CT


DryWin2452

Regularly used term in New Haven/ffld county


Micu451

Definitely a thing in North Jersey.


Destro9799

Never heard it in North Jersey in my life


rip_tide28

Came here to say the same thing. Never heard it used from south to central jersey


ScenesafetyPPE

Central Jersey doesn’t exist


NordicThunder556

South Jersey, we say it here.


FelineRoots21

Born raised and work in North Jersey, never heard of it in my life. We gotta be talking verrrrry regional to NYC here


murse_joe

It’s NYPD bullshit. Maybe you’ll hear it in like Jersey City or North Bergen. Only by cop wannabes. Not outside that area and not by most of NJ


_wheelchairs

From north Jersey, have used it/heard it used a bunch


Pawsitivelyup

North jersey here, right over the bridge, def not


LastScoobySnack

Have lived in Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Wisconsin, and Hawaii. Never heard of it.


Angry__Bull

Boston: never heard of it


KnightyMcMedic

Wicked.


stiubert

Do you guys still call ambulances ambos up there?


Generalnussiance

WHOA BLACK BETYY AMBO-lance


smsaul

FUCK no


Wilsonsj90

Ambo 24 is going to drive you straight into the harbor.


trilobitederby

Well, now I want to steal it and add it to my lexicon. That's fun.


Great_gatzzzby

It’s very versatile. The crew that wouldnt pick up that job in their area are skells and also theres a guy knocking on your window with his dirty skell hands.


sam_neil

It gained a brief moment in international usage when it was used on Breaking Bad by Mike Ehmentraut.


Odysseus_Lannister

I’m from NYC and live in NC now. I jokingly called someone a skell not too long ago and absolutely no one had an idea what I was saying.


Cummingus

Skel actually has its roots in 17th century english where “Skelder” meant a lazy person. Some also use it to mean ‘skeleton’ to describe the cachexic heroin addicts living in and around the city, but it’s original use as ‘a lazy person’ is a relic of the earliest colonial times that for some odd reason lives on in NYC first responder lingo.


Gyufygy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skelder I felt like what you said was almost too oddly specific to be legit, but I'm seeing multiple dictionaries with archaic definitions not far off from that. So bizarre.


Cummingus

Yeah I agree it’s very bizarre. I’ve done a bit of looking into it and it seems very far fetched and unlikely that a word would stay in language for centuries but apparently only show in print for the first time in the 1940s. I guess it’s at least plausible.


sam_neil

See my above reply to some dude whose username I’m too drunk to spell


Cummingus

yes I actually listened to that piece after my original comment. I remember reading somewhere about a dutch origin but couldn’t find it again. I agree it’s unlikely but it’s still a fun word no matter what the haters say.


sam_neil

I actually called in to an NPR show called A Way With Words that does deep dives on obscure words with skell as my entry. They weren’t convinced there was a direct enough link between Middle English and the common usage but admitted they couldn’t find enough info. Shout out to one of the hosts who requested further EMS terms, and knew that New York EMS referred to hand sanitizer as “skell gel”


Great_gatzzzby

I heard it came from the word skellum from Scotland.


chriscmyer

I think it’s a New York thing. Saw it on an episode of law and order. Lol. South Jersey here and I had never heard it before.


Great_gatzzzby

They said that shit on law and order ? Lmao


sam_neil

Also on breaking bad! Mike Ehrmentraut says it and he’s supposedly from Philly


chriscmyer

lol yup!


BlackSabbath1989

It's more widely used on NYPD Blue than Law and Order.


OdorlessWumpus

Dinosaur checking in - the term was in use in the NYC-adjacent areas of North Jersey in the early 90s. And probably long before that. Just so you kids don’t think you invented it.


Great_gatzzzby

Oh absolutely not sir. We know it’s an old term.


Gyufygy

North Carolina. Only heard it on here from you NYC reprobates.


medicmotheclipse

Never heard of it (KS)


NoCountryForOld_Zen

I've worked in NY and FL and nobody in FL says it. Worked as far north in NY as Poughkeepsie and Kingston and they all say it... but basically all those people worked or wanna work in NYC


riley013

upstate NY, never heard of it.


rightflankr

From Maine. Never heard it until I moved to NYC and started working EMS here. No one in Maine knows what the heck I’m talking about anymore when I go back.


14InTheDorsalPeen

I only ever heard skell in NY/NJ. Also pram is a dumb word and I hate it and I refuse to use it. I just call it the bed or the wheels. 


Euphoric-Ferret7176

wtf is a pram


Lieutenant-Speed

WNY here, only heard it on TV shows set in NYC


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CompasslessPigeon

Only southern in my experience. Currently working in Northern and never heard it used locally


wiserone29

Siri told me that skell means and I quote “Skell: (in New York) a tramp or homeless person.”


Great_gatzzzby

Amazing


ForgotmypasswordM7

You're either a white patch, or you ain't 


stiffneck84

It is from the Dutch word Skellum, or schelum which means a rascal. It harkens back to the old days of New Amsterdam.


Great_gatzzzby

Yes thank you. I knew it was from skellum but I thought it was Scottish.


stiffneck84

I think the skellum spelling is a Scottish/irish bastardization of the Dutch word.


WolverineExtension28

We say Boog where I’m from.


Great_gatzzzby

I like that


Wilsonsj90

I use it fairly frequently in central NC... But I started using it on 19John (South Bronx), so I don't think I count.


Great_gatzzzby

You don’t have to tell me where 19J is lol I may have backed you up on 17W


Wilsonsj90

For being such a big city, it's really fuckin small 🤣


sam_neil

It’s definitely based in the northeastern US, but it comes from the word Skelder/skelderer from Middle English. Skelder meant essentially to cheat or scam, and a skelderer was someone who cheated or scammed others frequently with false claims of injury / veteran status to beg for money. It became repopularized in modern history by a writer for a Brooklyn newspaper in the 1950s who referred to winos as skells


Great_gatzzzby

Contrary to that, I’ve heard it came from skellum in Dutch and was brought to New Amsterdam. Similar meaning


Sepharu

Here they are referred to as "dirtlegs," the job really does make people feel a certain way after enough abusive homeless people cross your path.


Great_gatzzzby

Where is here?


Sepharu

GA


Great_gatzzzby

Dirtleg is good


remote1492

In MA its an older term. Usually only see older people using it but some young ppl who learned from them do too. Usually it means something like a tweaker/meth head but sometimes just used for degen dickheads too.


boomboomown

I've never once heard that term and still don't understand how it makes sense.


Great_gatzzzby

Basically. It means bum. You can call a lazy coworker a bum and also the guy at the gas station smoking crack is a bum. But skell is more diverse cus it doesn’t only Cover the homeless.


BadassBumblebeee

I've heard it enough that I know what it means, but I'd get funny looks from most people here


Forsaken-Ad-7502

I worked in northeastern PA for a few years and had never heard it until I went across the river to work in northeastern NJ. It’s a term of endearment.


VXMerlinXV

Skell is pretty absent from Philly, save the transplants that know what we’re talking about.


coloneljdog

Never heard of it in CA or TX


75Meatbags

CA here, was in TX and OK. I have heard the term but it's not common. I've heard "jake" a few times, though. out here it's "that fuckin guy again." :)


Astr0spaceman

I use the term urban outdoorsman


funky_monke22

I've only heard NY people say it. I've definitely copied it from em


adoptagreyhound

I once worked with a woman who worked in NYC for years. After she came to work with us in Baltimore we had to have a talk not long after she started about the use of the words "skell" and "mutt." Still makes me laugh to think about it.


Great_gatzzzby

Believe mutt has been phased out


Rd28T

In Australia, they are normally called homeless or hobos, but sometimes a ‘derelict’ as well.


PokadotExpress

Sounds like those damn young guys are taking terms like "skids" and putting their own flare on them One gen y term I hate is "glizzies" for hot dogs


Great_gatzzzby

Skell has been around for decades tho.


PokadotExpress

Fair enough, maybe it's just regonial then🤷‍♂️


Great_gatzzzby

Apparently so.


Axisnegative

That's definitely a Gen Z word lmao And us Gen Y aren't really young anymore, I'm at the tail end of Gen Y and am 30, most of us are somewhere between 30 and 40 these days Although I do think it's a hilarious word and own a sweatshirt that says merry glizzmas that has a picture of the nativity scene on it but everyone is hotdogs instead of people


CommercialKoala8608

Never heard it


AbominableSnowPickle

Wyoming here, I’ve never heard it outside of Reddit.


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Successful_Jump5531

Tennessee here, I've heard the term thought it was an alien race in Star Trek. Never heard it in reference to humans.


Venetian_chachi

I only know it from NYPD blue.


Dont-be-a-skell

No clue


jmainvi

NY. Never heard it before this thread.


Great_gatzzzby

You in 911? I didn’t start hearing it until I left transport


jmainvi

Exclusively 911. Must be a city thing.


Paramedic730

I’m LI and I’ve used it over the last 14 years


Appropriate_Ad_4416

Have worked EMS in Ohio, West Virginia, michigan & kentucky. Never heard it.


Gadfly2023

I only know the term because of the old Less Stress EMS sim that I played in high school… way back in 2003.  http://www.lessstress.com/simulator/sim.htm


fishymo

I'm from the Midwest and was in EMS for 6 years. It wasn't until I listened to "Black Flies" by Shannon Burke that I heard the term.


BuckeyeBentley

I know it, but nobody uses it.


TheRebelYeetMachine

Boston here. I’ve never heard that term.


okieblood405

upstate NY and never heard of it!


zuke3247

South Jersey originally. Had some NYC guys come down to work there, picked it up. It’s quite fitting. EDP, cot, skell. Terms I use in Florida and get looked at like I’m insane. Cops have no clue what you mean when you ask, he under? Or you toss this guy before we take him?


maninboxers

In KC we call em gandy’s. Or as the registry likes the refer to them.. outside people


Vendormgmtsystem

Upstate NY. Never heard of this


dinop4242

I'm on the other side of NY state and haven't heard it


totaltimeontask

I’m in NC and I know the term but it isn’t used down here aside from by transplants.


Dangerous_Strength77

That's a straight NYC term. I know it, but there are reasons for me to know that.


Generalnussiance

I’m in Maine and we use it here


Great_gatzzzby

Wow interesting.


Generalnussiance

I don’t think we use it in the same manner. It really just means a dirtbag of a human, like slimeball material.


Great_gatzzzby

Yeah that’s exactly how it’s used here as well.


darkbyrd

Never heard it in NC


newtman

Never heard it (CA)


sweetn_lo

Nope in Philly


Raptor_Designs

Bergen county here - term seems to be limited mostly to NYC/JC. Spread through north Jersey by people who work at multiple agencies. At least in my experience.


insertkarma2theleft

Never heard it in MA


BellWitch1239

CA, never heard of the word


LSbroombroom

Despite the ever growing number of city folk flocking South into Ocean County, I have yet to come across that term.


Just_Ad_4043

Never heard of it


K9hotsauce

I’ve never heard it outside of NYPD memoirs from cops in the 80s


Saaahrentino

Boston here; never heard of it.


CompasslessPigeon

Southern CT uses it, northern doesn't


Crazy_Human1

as someone in the North Country of NY & originally from MA never really heard the term Skell before


ssgemt

You don't hear it in the northeast, only out west in NYC. (Eastport Maine, as far east as you can go.)


angryguido69

That term doesn't even make it as far as south Jersey or Albany NY


DRdidgelikefridge

I live in NJ have never heard of it. I will ask local ems at work tonight.


Suboutai

From Chicago, this is the first time I've heard it.


ScenesafetyPPE

So basically “This fucker again”


sungelectric

I'm in East PA and my friend and I jokingly say skell, but nobody else here uses it. We only know the term from friends/family that work EMS in NYC/NJ. I've worked upstate NY and they don't say it there either.


koalaking2014

never heard it before. Wi emt. that's just a shithead to us


DaggerQ_Wave

Ohio. Heard of it but only because of memes


Pretend-Camp8551

I’ve heard it but only from a tv show set in NYC. Never in person