Address: PIZZA WORLD TAKEAWAY, 200 HIGH STREET, NE20
Diagnosis: CALLER STATES HE IS THE KING OF ENGLAND AND WISHES TO GO TO PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.
Special Instructions: CALLER WILL WAIT INSIDE PIZZA SHOP AS HAS ORDERED A PIZZA.
From: LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE
To: METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE
Message: PLEASE CAN WE HAVE YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH MALE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT, POSSIBLY VIOLENT, STATING HE IS KING OF ENGLAND AND WISHING TO BE TRANSPORTED TO PSYCH UNIT.
From: MPS
To: LAS
Message: SORRY, NO POLICE AVAILABLE AT PRESENT. WE ARE ON CHANGEOVER.
From: LAS
To: MPS
Message: NO WORRIES – APPARENTLY PATIENT HAS ORDERED PIZZA WHILE HE WAITS.
From: MPS
To: LAS
Message: NO ANCHOVIES FOR US PLEASE.
Twenty minutes later.
From: LAS
To: MPS
Message: PLEASE CANCEL. PATIENT HAS RUNG BACK STATING PIZZA NOW READY. IS TAKING BUS TO LOCAL HOSPITAL.
From: MPS
To: LAS
Message: WE ARE VERY DISAPPOINTED. OFFICERS WERE HUNGRY AND LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING KING OF ENGLAND.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Bwahahaha!
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
That is very funny! Don’t you just love the MPS?! haha
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Thanks – I needed a good laugh today. Congrats on the book deal.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Fantastic!
BTW congrats on the book deal – and I was amused to know you are not Mark but Markette!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Now if he’s said he was the king of Scotland Id have been there because I’m a big fan of Forest Whitaker.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thanks! I needed that laugh this morning! I would’ve loved to meet the King of Jolly Ol’ England in the pizza shop.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
How come the police cant attend on changeover? I have the same problem at work. Why cant they send a couple of officers out and brief them later or whatever?
Not a criticism to the police, but just curious.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
At changeover there’s always a bit of a dip in performance – it’s the same for us. The reason is that you don’t want to end the crews/officers who are about to finish their shift out, because it’ll make them late off, but the ones who are due to start in ten minutes aren’t ready to leave yet – so you end up holding on to the call unless it’s really urgent. The answer to this problem is staggering shift end times, which I know the ambulance service is trying to do more and more these days.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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February 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Very entertaining – thanks for sharing that!
Congratulations on the book deal
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
Hehe, gotta love police control!
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Fantastic – just what I needed to cheer me up this morning!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Certainly made oi larf!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I like the police control down this neck of the woods.
us: can we have your assistance to a psyc patient who is threatening to cut himself and has a stanley knife.
them: no units avaliable at the moment, if he attacks your crew call us back and we’ll attend.
I mean what the hell!
Although there is one good guy there who always announces themselves as: “Hello ambulance, pigs here”
makes me smile everytime
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Hilarious,and further proof that ambulance workers and police need (and have) a great sense of humour to survive all the craziness at work!
February 4th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Hahaha! I needed that laugh
February 11th, 2009 at 1:04 am
[...] From: MPS To: LAS Message: WE ARE VERY DISAPPOINTED. OFFICERS WERE HUNGRY AND LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING KING OF ENGLAND. Source: NEE NAW [...]
February 12th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
That is very funny
February 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Hahahahaha! Sure made my day.
MPS are correct to stay away from the anchovies!
Keep posting!
February 28th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Probably the funniest post I have read in a while.
*chuckles*
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Is this for real! Very funny indeed.
March 16th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
haha! That’s brilliant!
April 5th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
The issue with the police is that the entire shift work the same hours, and all start at the same time.
They do all have the briefing at the same time which is considered important.
There is also the issue of not having handed over the vehicles yet, so the vehicle might still be out committed somewhere.
Personally, it would be a good idea to stagger it a bit, but with shifts as small as ours tend to be (ie <6 PC’s) its hard to do much.
I guess that the “If they attack call back” comment is based on the idea that if the wheel becomes so loose its going to “come off” people can be diverted to a more important job.
Hants amb seem to be pretty good, but they do seem to be suffering from “no free units” a lot more now which is concerning.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
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