Idiot Alert!!!

Wow, I knew there were some weird people out there. I had the...pleasure(?)...of meeting one of these special people yesterday morning.

05:50... Respond to 789 Somewhere Rd, near the church, on a vehicle accident with injuries.

Approaching the intersection, there is a guy standing on the corner flagging us down. He said the accident was just down the side street on the left.

Pulling up to the scene, there is a single 4-door white vehicle sitting in the grass about 30 ft from the street. Both front doors are open and there are small star-patterned places in the front wind shield, one on each side. There was some blood in the driver's seat, but no one in or near the vehicle.

A few moments later, a male approaches us covered in blood. His nose appeared to be broken and by his stagger and smell, I believe he was also a bit drunk.

Insert PD here...

The guy claims he didn't remember anything, yet strangely was positive that he wasn't driving (remember, no blood in the car anywhere except the driver's seat?).

As we got the guy into the ambulance to check him out, a female walks up and said she was in the accident also. She was wearing a white shirt and white pants. One side of her body was covered in blood, turns out it was all from our driver. She had a small bump on her forehead but refused to let us check her over.

Insert PD Sergeant here....

Since the driver had some head/facial injuries and was not sure what happened during the accident, he needed to be placed on a backboard in case he had some form of spinal injuries. Due to the blood coming from his nose, he wasn't able to tolerate being on his back. We removed the backboard and pulled out the KED. Getting our driver strapped into the KED was not a problem. He was allowed to sit up so he was happy- he was properly immobilized so we were happy.

As my partners were starting an IV, getting the driver set up on O2 and taking another set of vitals, I went to talk to the Officer for a moment. We were just about ready to leave for the hospital and I needed to see if the Officer was going to give the guy's driver's license back or if he was going to have to meet us at the hospital.

At this time the driver starts yelling and screaming at my partner's inside the ambulance (we still had all the rear doors open). I looked at the Officer and made the joke to start shaking his OC so he could spray the guy.

The Officer and Sergeant got out of their cars and went over to the back of the ambulance just in time for the driver to pull the tape off the top of his head (where he was secured into the KED), jump up and start trying to swing at my partners.

He somehow came flying out of the ambulance backwards and both the Officer and Sergeant caught him mid-air and he landed facedown, still in the KED. When the guy first started going nuts, the Sarge called for 1 more unit, 3 or 4 showed up.

Moments after hitting the ground, the guy was under control thanks to police tactics and a wonderful thing known as handcuffs. The guy was placed on his stomach on the backboard and loaded into the ambulance. Still cuffed.

We started the transport and he was still screaming and trying to fight. That is, until I hit some construction and accidently jumped the rear of the ambulance nearly a foot off the ground. I found out the guy came almost 2 feet off the stretcher, and the stretcher even came off the ground. They said after his flight, he was quiet the rest of the ride to the hospital.

At the hospital, he wanted out of the handcuffs and claimed his arm was now broken. The Officer that met us at the hospital let the guy out of the cuffs after warning him against trying to fight. The Officer also wrote the guy 5 tickets and brought a blood-alcohol test kit to be sent off to the state lab.

After DECON, we went back to the station and were 2 1/2 hours late getting off work.

What a day!

Be safe and take care