Ravenwood - 02/16/05 06:00 AM
It's a sad day when you can't even park an ambulance in an emergency zone.
Ireland's major airport pledged Tuesday not to clamp any more ambulances -- after one was disabled while trying to ferry a seriously injured passenger to a Dublin hospital.Saturday's clamping of the ambulance at Dublin International Airport made front-page news Tuesday and fanned public anger at clampers in Ireland's capital, where the practice was introduced in 1997. [...]
The police also refused to accept the ambulance company's credit card to pay the 63 euro ($82) fine. Instead, paramedics were required to withdraw their private cash from an automated teller machine.
I'm in favor of disabling ambulances. They're taking over everything. Let them cool their heels in traffic like everybody else, either that or limit themselves to one hot run a week.
Every goddam thing is an emergency these days. Have an emergency quota.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at February 16, 2005 10:18 AMSee now, here's a question. Is the emergency service state-run or privatized? If it's privatized, it gets clamped for violating space reserved for state-run emergency vehicles. If state-run, then it's a fine example of the wonders of a bureaucratic government, clamping they're own arms.
'Course if the airport and the land it's on was completely privatized, then you wouldn't have a zoning problem would you.
Posted by: Dan Newbanks at February 16, 2005 12:03 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
