The wrong way to acquire an ambulance

[MrNoodly]

Bob is switching to an ambulance and some of you might be inspired to do the same. There are proper ways to get your hands on an ambulance for your conversion. This is not one of them.

[font=ProximaNovaCond,]Woman Splashes Stolen Ambulance Into A Lake After 137-Mile Drive[/font]
[font=ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif]Multiple police chases failed to stop the ambulance before the driver sent the van into a lake[/font]

https://jalopnik.com/woman-splashes-stolen-ambulance-into-a-lake-after-137-m-1847091675

 

[Uncle Todo]

Are you kidding?!
That's the best way, by the time the insurance company writes it off as a loss you can buy it super cheap!
Reminds of the ending of Ruthless People.

 

[john*thomas]

"Not trying to get anywhere quickly". So why not just wait until she stopped to pee?

 

[highdesertranger]

You know what blows my mind? If you watch the video of them pulling the ambo out of the lake, Did anyone else notice all the people standing in the kill zone, even the diver. A lot of people need to get retrained. Some might even need to be disciplined. Keep in mind this is not a bunch of drunk rednecks these are supposed to be trained professionals.

BTW I have nothing against rednecks. I fact I am half redneck. LOL

Highdesertranger

 

[Sofisintown]

https://jalopnik.com/woman-splashes-stolen-ambulance-into-a-lake-after-137-m-1847091675

Very Thelma/Louise ending. What was her name again?

 

[crofter]

Swimming- yet another thing you can do in your van.
-crofter

 

[wayne49]

Vanessa Armstead of Buffalo
No mugshots.

 

[GypsyJan]

" I fact I am half redneck. LOL"

My daughter says for us it should be "readnecks" because we always have our noses in a book.

 

[AeroNautiCal]

That fully fitted out ambulance represents a huge investment on the part of the owner, and an asset to the community which it served.

The thief maliciously stole and destroyed the ambulance and all the specialist medical equipment and supplies on board, in addition to the specialist communication and navigation suite fitted.

In addition to a custodial sentence the thief should be given a financial order compelling her to repay the owner at a set rate, if necessary for the rest of her life.

 

[sneaks]

I’m on the board of our EMS squad. We are starting to prepare to replace out aging 2013 Fords. The cost of a reasonably equipped type 3 - without supplies or radios - will hit $300k. Add things like a PowerLoad and there’s $400k. Add the supplies, a Lucas, McGrath, radios, and you’re looking at a cool half mil. The Type 1 models that we are probably going to go with because our needs are about $50k more.

 

[gsfish]

I'm with HDR on this. I've seen so many near-misses that I'm surprised I haven't seen any serious injuries. Tuggers pulling anchors from concrete while under load, a lift of 20' sections of 2" pipe dropped from a crane (looked like pick up sticks), crane two blocked and dropped the headache ball through a tool trailer that had three people in it, getting no warning from the crane operator and look up to see that a load is coming in directly overhead...

Things can happen fast in those situations and there aren't any do overs. A guy was killed at a boat yard up the street recently while messing with a split rim wheel. Sounded like an explosion.

Be safe, be alert to the mechanical dangers that could be present.

Guy

 

[highdesertranger]

Hey Guy I don't think anybody but you knows what I was talking about. highdesertranger

 

[abnorm]

Headache in the making............

 

[highdesertranger]

Or a decapitation, the shortest headache ever. Highdesertranger

 

[bullfrog]

I'm aware, one of my first jobs at 14 years old was stringing cable and being dead weight on a wrecking crane to keep the cable on the spool straight. At 16 I was running a wrecker on weekends. Cut through more than one set of leather gloves keeping a cable from getting me and found out real quick a chain can explode. I only had to replace one back window to learn! You would think with all the rules and regulations these days not to mention the cost of insurance things like that wouldn't be possible. With all the videos showing people being pulled out with the elastic ropes it won't be long before someone gets a lesson.

 

[crofter]

Hey Guy I don't think anybody but you knows what I was talking about.  highdesertranger

So true.
-crofter