The note said the ambulance had ‘no right to be parked’ where it was, demanding that it be moved ‘from outside my house’
A woman has been arrested in connection with an angry note telling an ambulance driver to “I don’t give a shit… move your van.”
The message in full read:Â “If this van is for anyone but Number 14 then you have no right to be parked here.
“I couldn’t give a shit if the whole street collapsed. Now move your van from outside my house.”
Given the personal information detailed by the person inconvenienced by attending emergency service people, presumably police did not struggle to identify the source of the threat.
And this morning John Owen, commander of policing in Stoke-on-Trent North, tweeted the following.
We have arrested a 26 year old female for public order offences. Emergency Services must be able to carry out their roles without fear of abuse/intimidation of any kind. https://t.co/xHSbdtl54S
— CI John Owen (@NewcastleLPT) February 19, 2018
The paramedics were responding to a 999 call and had parked their ambulance in a parking bay.
This enraged a local woman, who began verbally abusing them before leaving the note which was tweeted by West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic Katie Tudor. She said the ambulance was not blocking the road and was in a parking space.
“Is there anything that can be done about this? It’s becoming a regular occurrence,” she tweeted to a number of police accounts.
https://twitter.com/wmaskatietudor/status/965212715366211587
Last November a note was left on the windscreen of an ambulance in Small Heath, Birmingham. It read: “You may be saving lives but don’t park your van in a stupid place and block my drive.” Hassan Shabbir Ali, a 27-year-old teaching assistant, later apologised for writing the note “in the heat of the moment.”
