ididwhat's Blog

You certainly had an angel with you on that ride!

i believe by law that the emergency vehicles need to have their lights and sirens on while going on an emergency call. great job on the posting of this blog, ididwhat.

Did you call Bell Ambulance to complain? I had a concern once, and they were very nice when I called. They explained the situation, and even called me back a few days later to tell me how they changed their policies to make sure the same thing wouldn't happen again.

Something simular happened to my cousin almost 8 years ago now, and my story does not end like yours. My cousin was walking across the street and he had the right away when out of no where a Greenfield cop in an SUV was racing to a man with a gun call, the cop had on no lights or sirens and before my cousin could react he was hit by the cop and had no chance. He was still hanging on to life when he got to the hospital, but died minutes later. The hardest thing is I was watching the 6 oclock news waiting for my husband to come home from Southridge mall that same night ( and this was before we were notified) and I remember thinking how bad I felt for that poor mans family. Just as the story was ending my husband came home and told me that he saw a man walking across the street at south 76th street and Layton ave. get hit by a cop, and we did not find out till the next morning what had happened. I just want you to know his name was Armin Henie. So Armin I will love and miss you forever.

Not long ago, I was heading east on Janesville road. I was in the left lane, sitting at a stop light. The light had JUST turned red, I stopped. It was heavy traffic, with cars behind me and to the right of me. DIRECTLY behind me was an ambulance (Hales Corners ambulance). My truck no sooner stops and the ambulance driver decides to turn on the lights and siren! I freaked out and looked around for a way to get out of his way as he began blaring his horn for me to move. I had hoped that the light would have changed to green so I COULD get out of his way, but instead, I checked to make sure there was no cross-traffic coming, and I went through the red light to clear the way for him. I was pissed to say the least. I'm in my truck with 5 of my kids and this hotdog pulls a stunt like this??? I think it was stupid of him to do. Didn't he realize that by hitting the lights and siren and his horn at this point MIGHT have caused someone to panic and make a DEADLY mistake?