Dumbest Situation Emergency Personnel Have Been Dispatched To

emergency personnel of reddit what's the dumbest situation you've been dispatched to not quite in the same vein but i worked at a vet clinic that received a report from the local overnight emergency vet for a dog the owners thought was having a seizure in the middle of the night the dog was diagnosed with dreaming that's adorable as crap briefly shadowed a small town fire department lady called in that some dude was impaled by a branch while pruning trees rushed over there it was all makeup they were shooting a film all the neighbors had been notified but she forgot apparently god called for a child who her grandfather and legal guardian was actively abusing her notes said screaming and crying was heard in the background as well as don't hit me again and he's trying to kill me turns or a 12 year old girl had snuck to go see her 20 years old boyfriend and came back drunk and stoned reeking of weed and when her grandfather tried to punish her by taking her phone and grounding her she grabbed a knife and tried to stab him in the process of disarming her he pushed her backwards and into a table knocking a lamp over it was at that point she grabbed a phone and barricaded herself in a room and called 911 i'm not the emergency personnel in this situation but i called 9-1-1 because i found my neighbor an elderly lady lying on the ground outside she was slurring unable to get up and generally dizzy looking i thought she had a stroke they got there and were talking to her for a few minutes before telling me that she was just drunk calling was smart if a diabetic's blood sugar gets too low their symptoms mimic being drunk during one of my 24 hours ambulance shifts for emt basic training we got a call to a big lots for a laceration on a finger it was essentially a paper cut from a rough edge of a chipped candle i got to practice my emt skills by applying direct pressure to a non-bleeding index finger even got to put a band-aid on it the girl was acting like she could not look at her finger and was going to pass out from all the blood the gauze strip i held on her finger didn't even have a spot don't worry she sued seriously she did i got called for a woman experiencing stomach pain which she calmly claimed was a 10 stroke 10. it must have been quite the trooper since her husband drove her 30 minutes across the county past the hospital and to urgent care centers to let her mom look at it before calling the wee woo for someone who had been freaking unprotected for seven months she sure was confident she wasn't pregnant the nurse who had to explain to her the way these things work was right on the corner of a muse and pee before calling the wee woo lol never heard it referred to as that upvote not your typical emergency personnel but i work for a commuter railroad and i get called out to inspect the equipment when there are pedestrian vehicle strikes there was a couple making out on the tracks and saw the train coming and decided to play chicken to see who would bail first the girl lost both the game and a leg a mother called 9-1-1 because her son spilled a bottle of tight soap and was walking in it she even called poison control before she called 9-1-1 and poison control told her there would be no side effects the only advantage was the whole house smelled like lavender my favorite part about this is that her entire adult life she assumed she was putting poison on her clothes to wash them 20 something year old guy called 9-1-1 he bought new shoes a few days before they were too tight his feet hurt he was still wearing them when we got there but i successfully extricated him dispatched to a child with seizures who had a history of epilepsy got on scene and the kid was coming out of his seizure and was post ideal package the kid up to transport to the hospital and his mother is screaming at me that he must have his peanut butter balls not sure what she meant i asked her what she was referring to his peanut butter balls he has to have them i have them in a jar here take these peanut butter balls to the hospital she hands me a small pill container i look at the label and read that it is phenobarbital a common anti-seizure medication i asked the mom if this is what she meant by peanut butter balls apparently she never read the pill bottle label and misheard the doctor pronouncing phenobarbital as peanut butter balls i realize this is the second post in one day where i have referred to peanut butter i consider it far more likely that the mother is one of the many adults who have successfully concealed that they are illiterate guy moved out into the country his 1-2 acre lot was surrounded on three sides by farm fields come harvest time he calls 911 and blocks the farmers access to their field with his vehicle wants me to force the farmers to stop harvesting because when he leaves all of his windows open the inside of his house becomes dusty ro seriously frick that guy harvest time is already time sensitive he probably cost those guys a lot of time with their families that they had to waste dealing with him as someone who can look out my window right now and see a soybean field and a cow grazing in a pasture i can attest to the fact that harvest time is a bee sometimes but damn it that's what you get for living out here dispatched for a very strange gas-like smell in the backyard we got there and walked around with our senses all levels were normal well miss everything is normal what's that smell then she asks all we smell is some mulch she exclaims is that what that smell is they just had mulch put in behind us yesterday how long is that smell going to be around are we going to have to keep our windows closed for that long i'm sure i could come up with many more but that one sticks out lady with alzheimer's called 9-1-1 for a spider in her kitchen they described it as someone in her kitchen as if that isn't silly enough the spider didn't even end up being a spider it was a dead fly on her windowsill she needed a bird to catch the spider to catch the fly fire fighter and 9-1-1 dispatcher here once as a dispatcher took a call for suspicious activity what was suspicious there was a bicycle in the front yard of her neighbor's home she told me i've never seen a bike there before and it just seems weird we didn't even bother to dispatch that one as a firefighter once during a huge rainstorm we were dispatched for a vehicle in the water this intelligent gentleman has decided to try to afford a river that was several foot high in his small toyota car with his girlfriend in the vehicle he drove into the water and predictable got stuck he immediately jumped out and swam to shore leaving her standing in the trunk with the vehicle stuck at an angle upward in the water as we got his girlfriend out he tried to pass it off as her fault she slapped him and none of us said a word about it another time we were called to a police assist when we arrived on scene the officer directs us to the guy in the back of his cruiser the guy shows us his finger and says it hurts the finger is covered in a paper towel held on the finger by a rubber band when he removes the rubber band we see that the top two thirds of his finger has been amputated and has been unattached for a couple days he had just been walking around with his amputated finger held onto his bloody finger stump for a couple days and just decided when he was being arrested that that was the time to deal with it the river is too deep to forward you lose your girlfriend press space bar to continue my sister was a dispatcher and she would tell me all sorts of dumb calls she got i'll tell you guys one of my favorite stories she told me one time my sister got a call from a woman reporting that a man robbed her during her age deal apparently her dealer ran off with the money and gave her some random substance that doesn't get you high but it looks like h the woman was being serious and acting like she was getting unfair treatment from a legitimate legal business the woman is a sheltered middle-class woman from the suburbs she was genuinely surprised that anyone would have the audacity to act that way in that kind of situation she wanted that man arrested and wished to sue him according to my sister she had the i demand to speak to the manager attitude over the phone the whole time i wouldn't believe this but i work retail in the suburbs and i know better people can be really freaking stupid paged at 3am for an ill person so i'm already tired and being sent to something vague isn't what i want arrive on scene and walk to the front door middle-aged guy opens the door and looks absolutely terrified he rushes us in and we ask what's going on he replies i have the hiccups partner and i are exhausted from a rough 24-hour shift and we are incredibly confused we ask him to clarify and he explains that in his 40-odd years of life he's never had a case of the hiccups and is absolutely positive his life is in danger we do our assessment and then explain that it's normal and really doesn't require the air much less us he demands that we take him to the air so we oblige when i called in the report the hospital asked me to repeat the chief complaint three times we were kicked to trij the second we walked in by some very annoyed nurses luckily they understand that we cannot refuse transport if the patient has a complaint and wants to go dude was absolutely fine paramedic here dispatched to a man with a groin injury arriving on scene i found a 30 year old man doubled over in pain and bleeding quite heavily from his crotch area long story short he wanted to see what happened if he put peanut butter on the tip of his dong and let his rottweiler lick it off i think he was partaking in some sort of masturbatory thing and wanted the dog to give him a form of oral i controlled the bleeding the best i could and got his butt to the hospital he underwent micro surgery to try to save his mangle dong but i understand that it was unsuccessful also the part of his penis that was eating by his peanut butter loving dog was resting comfortably in his dog's digestive tract dog swallowed a good chunk of his dong can't make this stuff up not sure if it was chunky or smooth peanut butter which was the first question my chief asked me upon returning to headquarters microsurgery i see what you did there got dispatched to a nursing home for a guy who was pulseless arrive on scene to find the nursing home staff doing cpr on a guy who had been dead for at least six hours before they found him they couldn't understand why we called it after hooking him up to our monitor and finding he was a sisterly then didn't understand why we weren't gonna transport him to the hospital dumb but tragic situation courtesy my emt best friend take it away things learned from a patient with cc a spider bite on my butt one if normal you'd play just isn't doing it for you anymore the obvious solution to this problem is to order a fancy exotic tarantula from a fancy exotic tarantula cellar and then proceed to somehow coax and or shove said arachnid into your rectum a more accurate cc would have been spider bite in my butt too spiders become very upset when this happens and they will bite you multiple times before expiring lost somewhere in your lower bowel no m's will not look for it for you the pay grade isn't nearly high enough some things are best left to physicians three while it is helpful to know the exact species of said spider you've shoved up your ass because yolo this information is not very useful when you've waited three days after being bitten to call the booboo bus four yes that anal discharge is not normal yes it is probably related to being bitten by the spider geez no it will not go away on its own no there is not something you can put on it but thanks for noticing the four external use-only instructions on the bug bite cream guy ended up losing everything up to the transverse colon not sure exactly what he was going for sadly all of this might have been a little easier to understand if he had irradiated the spider first poop and a bag man is not nearly as catchy as spiderman so he'll shove a spider up his butt but external use only bug cream is where he draws the line tone to her residence for uncontrolled himaj possibly to a dangerous part of the body so my partner and i roll the medic unit rolls the volunteer fire depth rolls so we have nine people respond hot to this house strolling and see a kid sitting on the couch holding a kleenex to his hand he cut his finger on a soup can it was what i would describe as a very aggressive paper cut the kicker they were literally across the street from the hospital apparently the kid's uncle had a track record of abusing the system a lot another one we got a call for a psych patient acting erratic and talking to herself turns out she was perfectly fine just chatting to someone on a bluetooth headset not a paramedic but work in healthcare and they train us in emergency care at university guy told us on a training day that they were dispatched to a house after a woman called in hysterics claiming her baby had been violated turned out her pet dog was meeting with a neighbor's dog in the back garden and she got upset when she saw it that so sounds like my aunt 45 year old male locked inside car called 911 my buddy responded to tell him to unlock it then try the handle another life saved my ride along during emt school had to have a certain number of hours spent working with a rescue squad on a slow night our third call was overshooting that at the time had the victim in critical condition we responded and come to find out the victim put on a bulletproof vest and told his gf to shoot him well she did and missed the vest completely poor guy died later at the hospital no alcohol involved either that's stupid even if you hit the vest you ruin it kid got his head stuck in a fence then he got stung by a bee everyone present that day including the kid found out he was allergic to bee stings so then they had to resuscitate him good times a man on pcp who broke into an apartment stole a pair of women's panties changed into them was discovered and chased away by the woman's boyfriend and we found him running around the neighboring abandoned lot wearing nothing but said panties dispatched to illness for a 90-some-odd-year-old woman she stated that she had eating two bites off leftovers and then realized they were leftovers and wanted us to induce vomiting we are a bls unit we don't do that which we explained and her payoff daughter freaks out and is yelling at the mother about how she made the emts come all the way out here and now she is going to go with us to the hospital to get her stomach pumped at the hospital we stopped her right there adn explained that the hospital isn't going to preform a painful and unnecessary procedure over eating leftovers it ended up being a refusal and we didn't take her to the hospital also in my city units were dispatched to reports of a body in a dumpster in the wee hours of the morning upon arrival they discovered that the body was actually a justin bieber standee well done just stand there resuscitate the justin bieber cutout nine one one call for a for you who had a nightmare parents called specifically for a nightmare and that was how the dispatch went out not trouble breathing not possible seizure etc thought of some others unconscious child arrive on scene to find a kid laying down on the floor in a store no history full day of school was running around the store being a brat when he was reprimanded promptly fell out definitely responsive to pain pupils are good so i loudly announced we're going to have to stick him with needles and draw some blood give him fluids patient regained consciousness and tried to run away unconscious diabetic get on scene and there's a woman laying on the couch with sugar sprinkled on her the woman's son knew it was a problem with low sugar and figured he'd try to help it would have been super cute except the kid was 16 please everyone educate those around you if you have chronic health problems that can become emergencies one patient that wasn't mined but came in on another unit while we were waiting for trigger 17 yo male couldn't get it up with his girlfriend insisted that nothing like that could ever happen so something must be wrong they call nine one one get transported make it to trijon get promptly sent out to the lobby the nurse as they are walking away says to us someone needs to show that girl how to use her mouth my husband was a cop he got called out to an active domestic one night about two in the morning gets unseen guy comes out and says his girlfriend assaulted him with a weapon turns out he threw a hot pocket at him the most devastating of weapons simultaneously frozen hard and molten hot easy one got called for a woman who had a miscarriage on the toilet show up and it's not a miscarriage just a big nasty turd nope no dead baby just a miscarriage of judgment bad and parching so i worked for an m's crew at a major university there's one event that happens every spring where the undergrads get absolutely shit-housed i've never consumed more alcohol in a 24-hour period than as a student during one of these spring flings we got dispatched for a naked drunk kid which wasn't done by itself no what was dumb was that by the time we arrived the kid had run off then we head back to base and every 20 minutes or so we get that call for the same kid in a different location this goes on for a few hours and if you plot the locations we were called to you could see him inching towards campus we finally found him passed out in the freshman dorms you made it home hooray my dad is a firefighter he has a regular who calls 9-1-1 because they get stuck on the toilet no they didn't fall in or get their intestines ripped out by flashing they are so large that they lose feeling in their legs that they cannot get off of the toilet he knows the guy by name now and my dad says he is a pretty nice guy he just needs to not sit on the toilet for so long i can just see how that call goes hey bill it's frank again yeah it happened again okay yay see you in five say can you stop at 7 11 and grab me a big gulp sent to a lady whose two-year-old kid had licked a baby wipe like touched it to his tongue then he made a face and went on with his two-year-old day best part was that mum was a nurse and thought it might have burned his lungs ridiculous as a nurse this bothers me several years ago when i was a paramedic for a volunteer fire department we were dispatched for a possible heart attack arriving upon the scene we grabbed all of our equipment and started to run towards the house we were stopped by the house's owner who was screaming she dead she no move and pointed towards his car he had called 9-1-1 because his car's battery was dead responded to a medical alarm that is life alert activation with the patient not responding to the dispatcher's questions turns out it was an old lady who wanted someone to fix a tv your goddamn right we fixed it cop here got dispatched to a woman in labor at 3am arriving on scene and realized i had been there before with social services before because the neighbors had smelled the apartment through the walls because of all the build-up of garbage got into the place and the lady is running around with nothing but a motley crew t-shirt on and she's screaming that the baby is coming out bear in mind this gal looks like a yeti and it smells like one took a dump in the middle of the apartment i knew right then that i wasn't going to get down there and play catcher my germaphobe partner is standing with his hands as close to himself as possible trying not to touch anything and says wait i got this how far apart are your contractions she says about three minutes i ask him what does that mean he says with a blank look on his face i don't know i saw it on tv it was about 30 f out that morning so i tell labor yeti that she should probably put some pants on because the ambulance is on its way she grabs a pair of vintage zubis out of the closet next to the door and puts them bad boys on i go upstairs to get her four-year-old daughter ready to go to the hospital as the ambulance members arrive they head out the door with labor yeti and all of a sudden i hear that they're enroute to the hospital with mom and baby i get to the hospital and ask one of the emts what happened as he's hosing out the ambulance and he said that she lifted up a leg to step into the ambulance she stops and says something fell out and all of a sudden they're here crying they rushed her into the ambulance and cut the baby out of the zubis and got her to the hospital and bam the story of sweatpants baby was created a nurse here had a call for a patient who came in by ambulance for a flare of restless legs not even the stupidest call i've seen but the most infuriating thing about it was they called themselves rescue to their house in the middle of one of our crazy new england blizzards the kind where we had literally three feet of snow and a state of emergency with driving bands and essential personnel mandated to make sure there were people to provide patient care i brought a crackpot meal and packed a bag so didn't really care i got paid ot and had electricity so it was pretty okay as far as i was concerned but these poor ms medics risked their lives every minute they were on the road to transport a patient with restless legs i would have been less irritated if the patient was demented or otherwise not in their right mind to know how not emergent this type of call was but they were completely with it may have done it just to get a path through their driveway shoveled for free an emt friend says they get several of those every heavy snowfall i was once dispatched to a woman who needed a band-aid she had no working lights in her house so she didn't want to get up and look for a band-aid my dad is a volunteer fire captain i was at his house and he got a call for a guy that flew a powered paraglider like a go-kart with a big fan pushing it whilst being suspended by a parachute into a tree i went on the call with him and the guy was stuck in the top of a tree with a broken ankle it took hours to extricate him for bonus points the tree was in the yard of a trailer house with some very hillbilly people so there was a constant circus of guys in wife beaters and women in mumu's yelling at each other when you said flu i thought you meant how to drive really fast into the tree that's amazing not emt but work an emergency lots of stories but one woman was waiting in the waiting room for a couple of hours after self-presenting she started getting crappy with the weight so went outside onto the street and called an ambulance they came and brought her back inside but through the ambulance bay and wanted to be triggered again her initial tridge was loggers did not wait and the retrage with a new time but the same category and then sent out to the waiting room her thinking was that if she came in by ambulance then she would get a bed straight away nope she just had been put to the bottom of the list again i grew up in a family of medical professionals and i was always taught that if you go to the air and they don't make you wait that's when you should be scared if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

Channel: Updoot Everything

Views: 41,468

Rating: 4.9025211 out of 5

Keywords: emergency, emergency alert system sound, 911 calls, dumbest emergency calls, dumbest, 911, #updootst, updoot, reddit, r/askreddit, askreddit, ask reddit, r/, \r, r\, best of reddit, reddit stories, reddit story, top posts, funniest posts, funny, funny posts, funny reddit stories, funny askreddit, reddit funny, askreddit funny, askreddit stories, people of reddit, sub, reddit cringe, memes, toadfilms, updoot everything, updoot reddit, story, stories, rslash, comedy, fresh, reddit stories 2020

Id: U5ra4mF57J4

Length: 24min 44sec (1484 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 12 2020