Saturday, 22 November 2008

An Ambulance Ride to the Nearest Shopping Centre

Australian authorities have launched a radio advertising campaign designed to “stop people calling an ambulance for ‘crises’ such as broken fingernails, dropped pillows or pizza cravings”. It gets worse:

Paramedics are reporting increasing instances of callers faking symptoms so they can be taken by ambulance to hospital, only to skip off to the nearest shopping centre after enjoying a free ride.

What’s wrong with people?!

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