Attacks on ambulance parking

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To not understand what is WRONG with people?

A paramedic has been attacked in what was thought to be a row over where the ambulance had been parked.

The unnamed paramedic had been called to Sparkhill in Birmingham to help a woman with chest pain when he was attacked, leaving him injured.

Crewmate Tasha Starkey said she was also threatened and verbally abused.

A 49-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of assault and a public order offence and remains in police custody.

The assault is the latest in a string involving West Midlands Ambulance Service staff.

Friday's attack, in Stratford Street at 10:40 GMT, led to the woman suffering chest pains being taken to hospital by a different ambulance crew while the two original paramedics gave statements to police.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-43260532

What needs doing to stop this? And, please, don't say ambulance crews need training in parking.

Absolutely disgusting. An ambulance can park on my foot if it helps them save someone's life. It's just completely selfish.

The CPS or whoever is appropriate should announce that anyone doing this will be prosecuted and they will seek the maximum sentence every time. It's disgraceful.

I've never understood this. Or attacks on firefighters either.

Makes me very

There's no justifying it, is there? It's a worrying lack of empathy.

Don't know if it's the same one I saw in the news last week, but YANBU as it's awful and I also wonder what on earth is wrong with people.

Attacks on emergency service personnel need to be treated much harsher imo.

You assault a paramedic then you go to prison imo. Even if it's a short time as a 'short sharp shock'. And I don't buy any bollocks about moments of madness abd not ruining people's lives for one mistake. If you assault a paramedic, or a fire fighter or a police officer then you should be jailed for it.

It makes me savage, tbh.

This is a good thread that rehearses some of the discussions about 'inconvenience' and how you need to chill (but assault is a whole nother level of fuckwittery).
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3066640-what-s-the-done-thing-ambulance-blocking-me-in

Reading through some of the opinions on that thread is making me fucking angry! Twats!

(Sorry for the bad language.)

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult the OP in that quoted thread: they were asking a question about protocol, which is always OK.

It may be unwelcome to ask an ambulance driver politely to move, because they're busy saving someone's life and you didn't realise that, but everyone knows it's never OK to assault them.

The OP and 99% of the replies are completely reasonable. A couple of people need their heads banging together.

Dalek, me too. I think lots of people just don't get it. They haven't been there, they don't know the urgency and fear and shock, how something like getting to the cinema on time is trivial. To the OP's credit on that link, she quickly appreciated the scale of things and priorities. For many people that would have been so automatic it requires no thought but it doesn't work that way for everyone, and some brave souls know who they are and they are right to ask.

Wondering if you can ask an ambulance crew to move is one thing. Assault is a different level altogether.

New legislation needs passing. Any attack on Police, Fire or Ambulance crew minimum 5 year prison sentence.
That might give some of them something to think about.