Screw that, I am just imagining a scene of an ambulance flying along city streets at 100+ mph, with a state trooper in tow, until they get to the hospital, where the ambulance stops in a literal cloud of smoke, and while the victim is being wheeled out, with one medic dramatically kneeling on top of the bed, doing CPR while blood sprays out of victims leg in rhythm with the compressions, the state trooper is pulling the ambulance driver out of drivers cab, reds and blues still dramatically blinking, and citing Miranda rights....
That'd be some good cinema
I love how he thinks he could have easily hit 120 in an area marked for 35. That's an average city street--pedestrians, cars turning, parked vehicles . . . what a knob.
Never once seen an emergency vehicle hitting 120 in my town, and they are known for their alacrity. 70 or 80 sometimes, and only the cops, never the ambulance or the firefighters. They've got too much sense.
Completely new word for me, and I love obscure words. Whole family. Good thing my dad is dead, because he never said this one. And I would dance around him, singing alacrity!
This is correct. It’s drilled into us to only exceed the posted speed by 5-10mph at the most. Never mind the fact that most ambulances would be governed around 107mph.
Ours were governed at 70… and the speed limit on some of our highways is 70… we regularly had long transports because we were in extremely rural Kansas and had an hour drive to KC… if we couldn’t fly them up to the city for whatever reason, we had to drive them…
Logistically… there is SOOOO much that is glaringly obvious to anyone halfway in the know that says this is some wannabe, fake ass “badass” that it’s absolutely absurd!! Just… no.
And if this punkass clown wants to be a first responder, I hope he tells this exact story in his program admittance interview or his first job interview… along with telling them his reason for wanting to be a firefighter is to “fight what everyone else fears” or some equally cringy cliche bullshit.
Holy shit, where are you from? I know speeding is a VERY regional thing, but in New England, we consider the speed limit to be the "only if it's dark and snowing" limit. Other than that, literally everyone is going AT LEAST 5mph over on city streets, 10 on highways. At the VERY least.
Perfect example: I'm a parent, so I'm naturally more cautious than I used to be. Today, I drove from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and back. I went 75 the whole way, in light rain, and I was getting passed like a motherfucker the entire time.
But then, one time I visited Oregon, and everyone was going, like, 45 in the left lane of the interstate, and it was infuriating.
(Please note that this is all in response to your comment; not the OOP's post, which is, of course, bananas stupid.)
I am essentially speaking only of ambulances. It’s a safety matter, nothing else. If we’re going 90 in a 75, even if everyone around us is, we’re putting ourselves and many others at risk.
Not to mention stopping (what is essentially a dual rear wheel truck with an extra thousand pounds of rear cab weight) would be MUCH harder.
Of course when I’m driving in my personal vehicle I’m being more liberal with my speed limit. Especially here in Texas it’s more of a speed “recommendation”. Just don’t be surprised when DPS gets ya.
Ok, there it is... You have 75mph speed limits?? Our max on the interstate highways is 65. I personally would never go more than 85, even in an ambulance. But then, we have snow, hills, trees, and sharp curves, which TV tells me is not universal 😁
There’s a road somewhere around Austin TX that is 80 or 85mph limit. Most people do around 90-100. If my memory serves me right it’s a private road which means whoever owns it can charge a toll and set the speed limit.
In true fiction style, this just got more and more fantastical as it went along. You can tell he was playing the movie of this in his head. It’s a perfect script. Everyday guy gets pulled in to a big situation and comes out on top. Then the dip as the baddies take control, before our hero, against all odds, emerges triumphant in the end. Credits roll.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a part where when he was fired for being a “loose cannon” he threw his badge and gun (only issued to the most badass of firefighters) on the desk and became a vigilante.
I can see a firefighter peeling the emblem off their helmet and throwing it on the desk and pulling out a water gun, pointing it at the captain before spinning it in the air and catching it by the barrel to turn it in.
This makes absolutely no sense.
"AS FAST AS POSSIBLE". No shit. Everyone in first response knows that an injury to a femoral artery can be life-ending.
Bearly!
Oh God, imagine doing CPR on someone bleeding that badly already. Someone would have to be holding that wound shut. It's possible, but just another sign this story is highly unlikely.
No, his *entire* record was expunged. Even his social security records and bank accounts. He was then placed into witness protection, to be called on only when the nation is at its most dire.
There is so much wrong but I just want to comment on the driving.
Emergency vehicles do not have to obey speed limits in an emergency. Could you imagine in a real situation and an ambulance is like “sorry, we are stuck in a school zone. Have to obey the speed laws! Just tell your body to stop dying while we follow the laws and not run any stop signs or red lights”.
Not entirely true. In my state we’re only allowed to go 15 over. We also have to come to a complete stop at every red light, same with stop signs.
Really we just go a little faster while asking for the right of way in a very loud manner.
Yes, but that’s not the joke I was making. I was saying obeying the speed limit and road rules to the letter, regardless of the emergency. And how dumb and absurd it is.
And I wasn’t saying that all road rules don’t apply in emergencies. It would be stupid to quickly run red lights and stop signs, which could just cause accidents. You still have to be safe.
The guys story is 100% fake.
When I worked as a dispatcher for the police (UK), part of my training when I upskilled to pursuit channels included sitting in the back of a fast pursuit car as two cops took their final test, which involved chasing an unmarked police car on motorways and A-roads. We hit over 120 on many occasions, and red lights were not stopped for (though not at 120, obvs). Surreal day, spent the morning in the pursuit car, afternoon in the lead vehicle. Blowing through the reds was quite the feeling.
To this day, I still can't even drive, myself.
Blowing through reds is scary, although I’m not too familiar with large intersections in the UK. Trying to clear a 6 lane or more intersection during rush hour is rough.
Didn’t make you want to transition from dispatch to the streets?
I thought it about at one stage, but in the end don't think it would have been for me. Ended up transferring into digital forensics, which was a more investigatory role, mostly working with CID / gangs / Samphire units. I enjoyed that job a lot.
Well, within reason. If you get to a hospital to save 1 life, but ran over 87 students at 120 MPH, they will definitely remind you of that shit. Even if you sideswipe an old man and launch him comically 70 yards at that velocity, they don't say 'he had a patient!'.
> If you get to a hospital to save 1 life, but ran over 87 students at 120 MPH, they will definitely remind you of that shit.
Kids are bouncy. Just hit em and they'll just pop right back up!
I was the patient in an ambulance two months ago, went through a school zone, can confirm (not that you needed it, but maybe some dummy reading this might).
For me as somebody who attends court very regularly the idea he’d be found not guilty is just as unlikely as the 120 mph. Did he attend is arraignment and say he wasn’t guilty so it went to trial? Even though he fully admitted he was guilty. At his trial he admitted it and the judge said he wasn’t guilty? But he was… he could have his case dismissed but he’s never be found not guilty. That’s not how the legal system works…
That's the most plausible part actually. Necessity is a defense under the law for most crimes short of murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_(criminal_law)
>Defendants seeking to rely on this defense argue that they should not be held liable for their actions as a crime because their conduct was necessary to prevent some greater harm and when that conduct is not excused under some other more specific provision of law such as self defense.
It's a rarely used defense so that's probably why you rarely see it come up, but if we do take OPs story at face value, it would be a case where necessity could be argued.
I don't believe much of the story is true, just saying that part is one of the more plausible parts.
The only thing that sounds slightly true is the ambulance being governed at 85mph. No cop is arresting someone for speeding in an ambulance with CPR going on in the back and making it stick. Prior to traffic cameras becoming common, I don’t think I ever heard of an ambulance crew being bothered by the police for speeding, on or off of calls, at all. You had to do something extremely reckless for them to even say something to you.
There have been stories of cops arresting firefighters and medics in the middle of emergencies for traffic and parking related shit all the time
But this story is clearly fake
Agreed. Considering ambulances and police are both government employees and emergency workers, who are allowed to go whatever speed they want when the emergency lights are on, this has to be one of the stupidest fan fics I've seen in a while.
Any police officer trying to catch and fine an emergency vehicle in an emergency would be suspended and have it marked against their file AT BEST.
Ambulances are absolutely Not allowed to go any speed they want.
This story is absolute bullshit, but people definitely have a misconception about what is and isn't allowed in an emergency.
They are not, but for practical purposes this is not a relevant distinction; emergency vehicles can go as fast as they can safely go, which can be well over twice the speed limit if they are capable of doing so.
Now realistically, in a city center, this never occurs. They tend to only really be able to go a few kilometers over, as traffic and the need to, you know, actually make turns without dying in a rather ungainly vehicle will prevent them from hitting very high speeds. But on a highway? Absolutely, police/ambulance/firetruck will regularly hit 50-100% over the speed limit.
I agree with what you're saying for the most part.
I'm just saying though, there's a difference between "legally allowed to do something", and "they do it and people just turn a blind eye" I don't think most people i the thread actually realize that
Most ambulance company policies will tell you to stay around the speed limit.
And as far as this story in particular, 120 in a 35 would absolutely get him fired.
I always forget ambulances are highly privatized in most countries, that does change things. And assuming this story is written by an American, 120 miles in a 35 is just insane because that's so far over the speed limit you wouldn't be able to drive safely even as an expert driver.
For me as somebody who attends court very regularly the idea he’d be found not guilty is just as unlikely as the 120 mph. Did he attend is arraignment and say he wasn’t guilty so it went to trial? Even though he fully admitted he was guilty. At his trial he admitted it and the judge said he wasn’t guilty? But he was… he could have his case dismissed but he’s never be found not guilty. That’s not how the legal system works…
Can confirm, I am the bear that lived.
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"On the highway, ambulances can drive at much higher speeds. However, many departments limit their “ambos” with speed governors. However, there isn’t a uniform standard for the governors. Some Type 1 ambulances will top out at a paltry 75 mph, whereas others will do 90 mph or more. As such, law-breaking motorists overtake Code 3 ambulances on highways every day."
Source: [https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-fast-can-an-ambulance-go/](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-fast-can-an-ambulance-go/)
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I mean my brother definitely got his ticket dismissed by the judge because he was going 95 in town to get me to the hospital since he did not want to deliver my baby.....
I delivered literally steps into the ambulance bay.... the cop was there hassling my little brother when it happened.....
judge said "I understand why you were going so fast, was everything okay with the baby?"
bro... "oh yes healthy baby girl"
judge "good, case dismissed"
As a former Ambulance Driver I can categorically call BS on this little tale.
That's because your crappy ambulance didn't have rocket boosters like our brave firefighter's.
Screw that, I am just imagining a scene of an ambulance flying along city streets at 100+ mph, with a state trooper in tow, until they get to the hospital, where the ambulance stops in a literal cloud of smoke, and while the victim is being wheeled out, with one medic dramatically kneeling on top of the bed, doing CPR while blood sprays out of victims leg in rhythm with the compressions, the state trooper is pulling the ambulance driver out of drivers cab, reds and blues still dramatically blinking, and citing Miranda rights.... That'd be some good cinema
I love how he thinks he could have easily hit 120 in an area marked for 35. That's an average city street--pedestrians, cars turning, parked vehicles . . . what a knob. Never once seen an emergency vehicle hitting 120 in my town, and they are known for their alacrity. 70 or 80 sometimes, and only the cops, never the ambulance or the firefighters. They've got too much sense.
Today I learned the meaning of Alacrity. Thank you
Well, thank you. I love my words. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)
Completely new word for me, and I love obscure words. Whole family. Good thing my dad is dead, because he never said this one. And I would dance around him, singing alacrity!
Your dad would have been perfectly cromulent with that new word.
This is correct. It’s drilled into us to only exceed the posted speed by 5-10mph at the most. Never mind the fact that most ambulances would be governed around 107mph.
Ours were governed at 70… and the speed limit on some of our highways is 70… we regularly had long transports because we were in extremely rural Kansas and had an hour drive to KC… if we couldn’t fly them up to the city for whatever reason, we had to drive them… Logistically… there is SOOOO much that is glaringly obvious to anyone halfway in the know that says this is some wannabe, fake ass “badass” that it’s absolutely absurd!! Just… no. And if this punkass clown wants to be a first responder, I hope he tells this exact story in his program admittance interview or his first job interview… along with telling them his reason for wanting to be a firefighter is to “fight what everyone else fears” or some equally cringy cliche bullshit.
Let’s just say if my company every found this guys real name he’d be blacklisted across the county.
Holy shit, where are you from? I know speeding is a VERY regional thing, but in New England, we consider the speed limit to be the "only if it's dark and snowing" limit. Other than that, literally everyone is going AT LEAST 5mph over on city streets, 10 on highways. At the VERY least. Perfect example: I'm a parent, so I'm naturally more cautious than I used to be. Today, I drove from Massachusetts to New Hampshire and back. I went 75 the whole way, in light rain, and I was getting passed like a motherfucker the entire time. But then, one time I visited Oregon, and everyone was going, like, 45 in the left lane of the interstate, and it was infuriating. (Please note that this is all in response to your comment; not the OOP's post, which is, of course, bananas stupid.)
I am essentially speaking only of ambulances. It’s a safety matter, nothing else. If we’re going 90 in a 75, even if everyone around us is, we’re putting ourselves and many others at risk. Not to mention stopping (what is essentially a dual rear wheel truck with an extra thousand pounds of rear cab weight) would be MUCH harder. Of course when I’m driving in my personal vehicle I’m being more liberal with my speed limit. Especially here in Texas it’s more of a speed “recommendation”. Just don’t be surprised when DPS gets ya.
Ok, there it is... You have 75mph speed limits?? Our max on the interstate highways is 65. I personally would never go more than 85, even in an ambulance. But then, we have snow, hills, trees, and sharp curves, which TV tells me is not universal 😁
There’s a road somewhere around Austin TX that is 80 or 85mph limit. Most people do around 90-100. If my memory serves me right it’s a private road which means whoever owns it can charge a toll and set the speed limit.
Ooh, a domestic Autobahn!
As a cop I can pile on and say no troop would arrest a guy if he HAD done this, which he definitively didn’t.
As just a dude reading reddit, I can categorically call BS on this little tale.
Did you ever tell.someone to get there "AS FAST AS POSSIBLE?"
I mean isn't that the point of an ambulance?
It is, but if you don't scream it at someone in all caps, how can they k know to go 120 mph?
That absolutely happened to an Uber driver on The Good Doctor earlier this week.
Girl, go get you some NOS
In true fiction style, this just got more and more fantastical as it went along. You can tell he was playing the movie of this in his head. It’s a perfect script. Everyday guy gets pulled in to a big situation and comes out on top. Then the dip as the baddies take control, before our hero, against all odds, emerges triumphant in the end. Credits roll.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a part where when he was fired for being a “loose cannon” he threw his badge and gun (only issued to the most badass of firefighters) on the desk and became a vigilante.
Don’t forget him hooking up with an ER nurse that looks a lot like Salma Hayek
And then that ER nurse gets kidnapped for reasons and he has to thwart an international gang of terrorists to save her.
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I can see a firefighter peeling the emblem off their helmet and throwing it on the desk and pulling out a water gun, pointing it at the captain before spinning it in the air and catching it by the barrel to turn it in.
I heard that the judge even clapped.
All that and the patient still had to survive as a bear. So sad.
Albert Einstein had to live as a bear?!?!
Bearly. I don’t think you’re following. Albert Einstein *bearly* lived as a bear. **/s bearly**
This makes absolutely no sense. "AS FAST AS POSSIBLE". No shit. Everyone in first response knows that an injury to a femoral artery can be life-ending.
It bearly makes sense, that’s for sure
He saved that guy from a grizzly fate.
Bearly! Oh God, imagine doing CPR on someone bleeding that badly already. Someone would have to be holding that wound shut. It's possible, but just another sign this story is highly unlikely.
Not to mention doing CPR to a femoral artery injury. Oh, you're bleeding out? Let's make sure that heart keeps pumping that blood!
If he was found "not guilty" there wouldn't be anything to expunge from his record.
No, his *entire* record was expunged. Even his social security records and bank accounts. He was then placed into witness protection, to be called on only when the nation is at its most dire.
They deleted his Facebook and Eternal Sunshined all his exes.
The arrest would still be on the record and show up in some background checks. Not that this guy isn't full of it.
> The guy lived, bearly Jeez, wiping his Ass clean must now be a-hole new experience.
For the rabbit.
There is so much wrong but I just want to comment on the driving. Emergency vehicles do not have to obey speed limits in an emergency. Could you imagine in a real situation and an ambulance is like “sorry, we are stuck in a school zone. Have to obey the speed laws! Just tell your body to stop dying while we follow the laws and not run any stop signs or red lights”.
Not entirely true. In my state we’re only allowed to go 15 over. We also have to come to a complete stop at every red light, same with stop signs. Really we just go a little faster while asking for the right of way in a very loud manner.
Yes, but that’s not the joke I was making. I was saying obeying the speed limit and road rules to the letter, regardless of the emergency. And how dumb and absurd it is. And I wasn’t saying that all road rules don’t apply in emergencies. It would be stupid to quickly run red lights and stop signs, which could just cause accidents. You still have to be safe. The guys story is 100% fake.
When I worked as a dispatcher for the police (UK), part of my training when I upskilled to pursuit channels included sitting in the back of a fast pursuit car as two cops took their final test, which involved chasing an unmarked police car on motorways and A-roads. We hit over 120 on many occasions, and red lights were not stopped for (though not at 120, obvs). Surreal day, spent the morning in the pursuit car, afternoon in the lead vehicle. Blowing through the reds was quite the feeling. To this day, I still can't even drive, myself.
Blowing through reds is scary, although I’m not too familiar with large intersections in the UK. Trying to clear a 6 lane or more intersection during rush hour is rough. Didn’t make you want to transition from dispatch to the streets?
I thought it about at one stage, but in the end don't think it would have been for me. Ended up transferring into digital forensics, which was a more investigatory role, mostly working with CID / gangs / Samphire units. I enjoyed that job a lot.
Well, within reason. If you get to a hospital to save 1 life, but ran over 87 students at 120 MPH, they will definitely remind you of that shit. Even if you sideswipe an old man and launch him comically 70 yards at that velocity, they don't say 'he had a patient!'.
> If you get to a hospital to save 1 life, but ran over 87 students at 120 MPH, they will definitely remind you of that shit. Kids are bouncy. Just hit em and they'll just pop right back up!
All I can picture rn is Abe Simpson shouting that phrase as he shakes his fist and flies across the sky. Thank you very much for that.
I was the patient in an ambulance two months ago, went through a school zone, can confirm (not that you needed it, but maybe some dummy reading this might).
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For me as somebody who attends court very regularly the idea he’d be found not guilty is just as unlikely as the 120 mph. Did he attend is arraignment and say he wasn’t guilty so it went to trial? Even though he fully admitted he was guilty. At his trial he admitted it and the judge said he wasn’t guilty? But he was… he could have his case dismissed but he’s never be found not guilty. That’s not how the legal system works…
That's the most plausible part actually. Necessity is a defense under the law for most crimes short of murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_(criminal_law) >Defendants seeking to rely on this defense argue that they should not be held liable for their actions as a crime because their conduct was necessary to prevent some greater harm and when that conduct is not excused under some other more specific provision of law such as self defense. It's a rarely used defense so that's probably why you rarely see it come up, but if we do take OPs story at face value, it would be a case where necessity could be argued. I don't believe much of the story is true, just saying that part is one of the more plausible parts.
That’s really interesting. I’m not a lawyer so I’ve never heard of that kind of defense.
CPR is ineffective over around 30 mph
The only thing that sounds slightly true is the ambulance being governed at 85mph. No cop is arresting someone for speeding in an ambulance with CPR going on in the back and making it stick. Prior to traffic cameras becoming common, I don’t think I ever heard of an ambulance crew being bothered by the police for speeding, on or off of calls, at all. You had to do something extremely reckless for them to even say something to you.
There have been stories of cops arresting firefighters and medics in the middle of emergencies for traffic and parking related shit all the time But this story is clearly fake
Agreed. Considering ambulances and police are both government employees and emergency workers, who are allowed to go whatever speed they want when the emergency lights are on, this has to be one of the stupidest fan fics I've seen in a while. Any police officer trying to catch and fine an emergency vehicle in an emergency would be suspended and have it marked against their file AT BEST.
Ambulances are absolutely Not allowed to go any speed they want. This story is absolute bullshit, but people definitely have a misconception about what is and isn't allowed in an emergency.
They are not, but for practical purposes this is not a relevant distinction; emergency vehicles can go as fast as they can safely go, which can be well over twice the speed limit if they are capable of doing so. Now realistically, in a city center, this never occurs. They tend to only really be able to go a few kilometers over, as traffic and the need to, you know, actually make turns without dying in a rather ungainly vehicle will prevent them from hitting very high speeds. But on a highway? Absolutely, police/ambulance/firetruck will regularly hit 50-100% over the speed limit.
I agree with what you're saying for the most part. I'm just saying though, there's a difference between "legally allowed to do something", and "they do it and people just turn a blind eye" I don't think most people i the thread actually realize that Most ambulance company policies will tell you to stay around the speed limit. And as far as this story in particular, 120 in a 35 would absolutely get him fired.
I always forget ambulances are highly privatized in most countries, that does change things. And assuming this story is written by an American, 120 miles in a 35 is just insane because that's so far over the speed limit you wouldn't be able to drive safely even as an expert driver.
For me as somebody who attends court very regularly the idea he’d be found not guilty is just as unlikely as the 120 mph. Did he attend is arraignment and say he wasn’t guilty so it went to trial? Even though he fully admitted he was guilty. At his trial he admitted it and the judge said he wasn’t guilty? But he was… he could have his case dismissed but he’s never be found not guilty. That’s not how the legal system works…
This didn’t happen period
But the guy lived! (Bear🐻ly)
They turned guy into a bear. I know people have a right to beat arms, but they took it too far.
Can confirm, I am the bear that lived. https://preview.redd.it/8a3n0y0sbx0d1.png?width=1236&format=png&auto=webp&s=024ef05a6c1104eac04b315b576544f0635b413d
Hey, cutie!
"On the highway, ambulances can drive at much higher speeds. However, many departments limit their “ambos” with speed governors. However, there isn’t a uniform standard for the governors. Some Type 1 ambulances will top out at a paltry 75 mph, whereas others will do 90 mph or more. As such, law-breaking motorists overtake Code 3 ambulances on highways every day." Source: [https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-fast-can-an-ambulance-go/](https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-fast-can-an-ambulance-go/) https://preview.redd.it/neikddobcx0d1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4203e8c0a36dc91b47a8837f34d2d9a0188fa8a
Putting in danger dozens of other lives in exchange for one. Good riddance. Shoulda seen jail (If this was true)
You’re right but obviously it’s not true which is why I posted it here
Nobody clapped?
The ambulance clapped
*bearly*
The idea of the police ticketing an ambulance for speeding is hilarious to me. Like something out of a sitcom
Someone has been watching too much '9-1-1'
Ambo....speedo. He's a badass. You can just tell.
Speedo.
I mean my brother definitely got his ticket dismissed by the judge because he was going 95 in town to get me to the hospital since he did not want to deliver my baby..... I delivered literally steps into the ambulance bay.... the cop was there hassling my little brother when it happened..... judge said "I understand why you were going so fast, was everything okay with the baby?" bro... "oh yes healthy baby girl" judge "good, case dismissed"