Whatever happened to 'to serve and protect'?Man on way to hospital for heart attack

[malaise]

pulled over, ticketed
http://wgntv.com/2015/10/12/man-on-way-to-hospital-for-heart-attack-pulled-over-ticketed/
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Man on way to hospital for heart attack pulled over, ticketed
Posted 9:42 PM, October 12, 2015, by Dana Rebik, Updated at 09:53pm, October 12, 2015

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LEMONT, Ill. -- A suburban man has filed a complaint with Illinois state police after his son was ticketed while driving him to the hospital during a heart attack.

“I went to sleep and I laid down for 10 minutes and I started getting some really bad chest pains,” he said. “And I knew immediately this was trouble.”

Bill asked his son to drive him to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove where he had been treated for a prior heart attack in 2011.

“When I saw the lights go on I really wasn't concerned about it,” Bill said. “I thought maybe this guy could help us out.”


“He said, ‘You don't look like you're having a heart attack.’ I think my jaw really dropped at that point.”

The trooper proceeded to write O'Neil's son a $1500 dollar ticket. Then he called an ambulance to pick up Bill.

Once at the hospital, he found out he was in fact having a heart attack and underwent surgery and received two stents.

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Because you see the fugging cop is an expert at heart attacks

[lame54]

1. he's an expert at raising revenue for the city

[Orrex]

2. They're serving and protecting the 1%

The rest of us can go fuck ourselves.

[Downwinder]

3. Practicing medicine without a License.

[cpompilo]

4. WHY aren't such police FIRED???

[hifiguy]

11. Police "unions" that are more like the Mob - including the omerta -

than real unions. Every police union should be broken. People with the arbitrary power of life and death in their hands should not be unionized any more than the military is.

They serve only themselves, not the public, and they protect their own asses at all costs by covering for the huge number of bad and abusive kkkops.

[ncjustice80]

21. AGREED.

Unions are for *workers*- not the 1% and their attack dogs!

[trumad]

5. 1500 hundred bucks for 82 in a 55 ?

WTF!

[MiniMe]

6. $1,500 is a pretty expensive ticket. How fast was he going?

The son, not the dad

[47of74]

7. His son is lucky

Maybe I'm off base here but if the son wasn't white I'm getting the feeling he would've been asked to play catch with a bullet.

[KentuckyWoman]

20. They are white.

and live in a suburban area with good medical response via 911. They should have used it IMHO.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. They've appended something: "...our corporate masters." (nm)

[GummyBearz]

9. Another day

Another cop power tripping, abusing authority, screwing over a good samaritan, and putting an innocent life at risk. I don't feel guilty for being born white, but as this crap has been exposed over the last several years I feel sorry for black people who had to deal with this (and then some) since the get go. And it pisses me off... screw these cops.

[SwissTony]

10. Some years ago, in South Australia

the son of a friend of mine was taking an injured colleague to hospital. He was speeding as his colleague was bleeding badly. A motor cycle cop pulled up to him and indicated he should pull over. He pointed to his colleague and his wounds The cop pulled in front of him and put his lights and siren on and cleared the way to the hospital. At the hospital, the cop didn't even wait for a thank you.

Sensible policing should be the norm.

[Mariana]

13. In 1970, in Massachusetts

a cop pulled over my dad, who was driving my mother to the hospital. She was in labor, and things were progressing very quickly, hence the speeding. This cop did the same thing, said "Follow me!" and escorted them with lights and siren. Good thing, too, or my brother would have been born on the side of the road - as it was, even with the officer's help, they barely got to the hospital in time.

My dad says the cop, who was a young man, seemed to be thrilled to have the opportunity to do a good deed.

[mnhtnbb]

14. Sensible policing would require police with a conscience and compassion.

I am beginning to suspect that anyone with those qualities is now eliminated
from consideration when hiring new police officers.

Something has gone very wrong in the hiring/training/supervision of
police officers in this country.

[malaise]

16. That used to be the norm in America

Way too sad

[DawgHouse]

17. Many years ago, my husband and I were rushing his dad to the ER.

He was having a terrible reaction to some medication and was (we guessed) having a heart attack. A police officer pulled us over, my husband jumped out and said, "My dad is having a heart attack, I'm taking him to the hospital!". The police officer quickly moved his patrol car to the front of us and gave us an escort with lights and siren. He didn't wait either, just led us to the ER entrance and left.

This was in North Little Rock, AR.

[johnson_z]

12. So disappointing

[Glassunion]

15. That's 'Merica for you... The police and ONLY the police™ can determine what is an emergency. Period

Get it through your thick fucking skulls. You proles are not capable of determining what is an emergency.

Wife is in labor? I will shoot you, you piece of shit! Get on the ground!

Are you a trained emergency medic, do you recognize the signs of a stroke? Want to get your wife to the hospital? Fuck you buddy!

So remember, if you are having a medical emergency, call the police first and once on the scene they will give you the once over, make sure you're not too dark to be in public, check for warrants, and then maybe offer medical help.

Epilepsy... How about I put my 400lb boot in your face!

Oh shit, are you blind, and forgot to pay your bar bill? How about I throw you to the ground, and drag your, and your dog's ass out into the street?

[malaise]

18. Sadly this is now reality

[KentuckyWoman]

19. They should have called 911 to start with.

If true the cop took the 20 minutes to write the ticket before calling for a ambulance that's a problem. Cop either needs some retraining or needs to find another line of work. His judgement is not good enough in life and death situations to be a police officer.

That said, please people don't have anyone take you to a hospital in a private car if you are so concerned for your life you feel like you have to blow through suburban traffic. Too many people behind the wheel are only marginally paying attention to what is going on around them. I understand all the reasons why people make that choice but it's a poor choice considering how severe the consequences can be.

Worse is the yutz who thinks they are about to die and decides to drive himself in suburban traffic at double the speed limit or more - blow through lights and fly through an elementary school zone. (Yeah I know this guy - and yeah he did have a car accident that killed him and a kid walking home from school).

The O'Neil family should consider that $1500 ticket an expensive lesson.

[Liberal_in_LA]

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