Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11708797)

I'm sorry but your post doesn't make much sense to me. Why would they call for an ambulance for someone already deceased. Surely an undertaker would have been more appropriate. And where were the police in this situation? Wouldn't such a sudden death have precipitated action by them such as calling in a coroner and arrangement of a postmortem?

Originally Posted by SchnookoLoly (Post 11708121)

I am completely guessing, but I think part of the ambulance fee is to deter people from calling the ambulance for every little thing, when an ambulance may not otherwise be needed. If it were fully covered, I can see people calling for literally anything. "I have a hangnail, send an ambulance!"

Originally Posted by plasticcanuck (Post 11708797)

I'm sorry but your post doesn't make much sense to me. Why would they call for an ambulance for someone already deceased. Surely an undertaker would have been more appropriate. And where were the police in this situation? Wouldn't such a sudden death have precipitated action by them such as calling in a coroner and arrangement of a postmortem?

Originally Posted by sharkus (Post 11709500)

Schnooks, oh I can understand the reason from the deterrence aspect, however, there should be slightly better guidelines around when the fee is applied. For example, if some idiot does call EMS out for a hangnail, they are charged the full fee. When you find your child having a seizure in the middle of the night, and, as to be expected, you're somewhat freaking out, perhaps a charge is unwarranted. I think the term would probably be "if medically necessary".

I do recall some mention of them thinking about introducing a fee in the UK, for exactly the type of situation you mention. I also think stupid calls to 999 / 911 should be subject to a charge as well.



Well, let us hope you don't find yourself in the position of being on the floor unable to respond to someone and people assume you're dead and then pop you in a bodybag, or perhaps just decide to totally cut out the middleman, dig a hole and throw you in it.

As others have said, if you find someone unresponsive, then it's always best to call in the professionals (no, not Bodie and Doyle - they would just drive Cortina through your font room :D ) and let them do their thing.

Originally Posted by HGerchikov (Post 11709502)

Bodie and Doyle drove Capris. The Sweeney had Cortinas.

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11709515)

Bodie drove a capir, Ray Doyle drove an Escort RS type thing (silver I recall)

Originally Posted by HGerchikov (Post 11709502)

Bodie and Doyle drove Capris. The Sweeney had Cortinas.

Originally Posted by neilg14 (Post 11709563)

Regan had a mk1 Granada, Carter had a Cortina.

Originally Posted by HGerchikov (Post 11709538)

I think it might have been white - its a little embarrassing that we know this.

Originally Posted by sharkus (Post 11709500)

Schnooks, oh I can understand the reason from the deterrence aspect, however, there should be slightly better guidelines around when the fee is applied. For example, if some idiot does call EMS out for a hangnail, they are charged the full fee. When you find your child having a seizure in the middle of the night, and, as to be expected, you're somewhat freaking out, perhaps a charge is unwarranted. I think the term would probably be "if medically necessary".

I do recall some mention of them thinking about introducing a fee in the UK, for exactly the type of situation you mention. I also think stupid calls to 999 / 911 should be subject to a charge as well.



Well, let us hope you don't find yourself in the position of being on the floor unable to respond to someone and people assume you're dead and then pop you in a bodybag, or perhaps just decide to totally cut out the middleman, dig a hole and throw you in it.

As others have said, if you find someone unresponsive, then it's always best to call in the professionals (no, not Bodie and Doyle - they would just drive Cortina through your font room :D ) and let them do their thing.

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11710609)

Just come back from a long weekend in Vancouver. I personally have no idea how or why it gets onto the "Top cities in the world to live" list. I thought it was dirty, flat, roads were a joke, parking was, indeed, extortionate! I know Richmond is strictly speaking a separate city, but that seemed a dump to me too. Downtown was OK, but nothing out of the ordinary. So you can see some hills in the distance - big deal. There's lots of hills in Canada - famous for them. I know the island is considered a bit dull by some, but we couldn't get on the ferry fast enough! Victoria has pretty much everything we need on a general living front.

We did enjoy the $1 breakfast at IKEA though. That was great. You can keep the rest.

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 11707427)

I don't mean to pick on you, Juggernaut, as others on this thread have said more or less the same thing, but this is nonsense.

Suppose the hospitals did what various supermarkets have been doing for years. You park, you take your ticket with you into the hospital, and you get it validated (or exchanged for a token, or whatever) at a reception or customer services desk on your way out. That then entitles you to exit the car park without paying; meanwhile those who don't have a legitimate reason to be in the hospital can't get their ticket validated and have to pay significant fees to raise the exit barrier. .

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11710609)

We did enjoy the $1 breakfast at IKEA though. That was great.

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 11710637)

Did you have to assemble it?

Originally Posted by rivingtonpike (Post 11710609)

We did enjoy the $1 breakfast at IKEA though. That was great. You can keep the rest.