Tonight, I was listening to Allan Handelman and heard an interesting discussion concerning a dispute between a paramedic and a state trooper. It seems that an Oklahoma state trooper pulled over an ambulance for failure to yield and for making an obscene hand gesture. The EMT informed the trooper that he was transporting a patient to the hospital but the trooper was blinded with offense to the hand gesture that the driver denies ever making. The enraged trooper began a screaming fight with the EMT, and they waste about five minutes with such foolery, both disregarding the patient who is also screaming. The entire altercation was caught on the police video.

I am purely shocked at this event. Regardless if the ambulance broke any laws or not, once the trooper heard there was a patient in the vehicle, he should have held off on accusing the EMT until after the patient had safely arrived at the hospital. It was unnecessary to argue to EMT at that right moment, knowing there were more important concerns at hand. The patient should be the first priority.

Also, the battle should not be within. Both of these forces are supposed to be working to better our lives; they are both working to the same goal so why fight each other? It does not make any sense. If the person driving the ambulance was being a menace of the road and endangering lives then we would have a situation – but the driver was trying to do just the opposite.

Some people just have a temper and go to ridiculous levels to just pick a fight. It just seemed to me that this trooper was just hothead and the EMT caught the end of the fuse. Thankfully, the patient arrived safely at the hospital, was treated, and released.

No charges have been made yet.

Strange things. Such Strange things.