Self Important Cops are a Menace!

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"OKLAHOMA CITY – Bothered that an ambulance driver failed to yield to him as he raced to provide backup on a call — and angered further when he thought the driver flipped him an obscene gesture — state Trooper Daniel Martin decided to stop the ambulance and give the driver a piece of his mind. What Martin didn't know then, his lawyer said Monday, was that there was a patient in the back of the ambulance. "He's not this ogre, this depriver of people's rights," the trooper's attorney, Gary James, said. "He's a good man." "http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090616/ap_on_re_us/us_ambulance_stopped I wonder if the attorney would consider this cop a "good man" if it was his mother in the ambulance at the time? Hint to the self-important "police" officer... If an ambulance is running lights and sirens, it's not up to YOU to decide whether or not it's important. There are so many other ways to handle such a situation other than to endanger the life of a patient. ~One would be to get the ambulance service's name and ambulance number and talk to the EMTs at a later time. ~Another would be to meet the ambulance at the hospital and talk to the medics when they are done with the patient. It's important for EMS and police to have a good, professional relationship. Cops who think their egoes are more important than patient's lives are a menace to that relationship.