‘Thanks for blocking my drive with your ambulance, **** hole’
AN angry driver left a message, branding paramedics ‘a***holes’ for blocking them in as they fought to save a life.
The note was left on the windscreen of an ambulance in Manchester as a crew treated a critically-ill patient.
The person was miffed that they could not get out of their driveway as the 999 officers were assisting a neighbour, so they left a message scrawled on a piece of paper.
They wrote: “Thanks for blocking me in **** hole.
“Just took me 20 mins to try and shunt out of drive along pavement.
“So inconsiderate... whole road empty and block driveway. Your [sic] an **** hole and I’m going to be late for work thanks to you **** head.”
The note was posted on social media by the North West Ambulance Service.
The NWAS posted a picture of the not on Twitter.
A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service said: “This note was left on an ambulance in Manchester whilst ambulance clinicians were treating a critically-ill patient.
“We hate to get in the way but the needs of our patients are our number one priority and abuse like this is absolutely uncalled for.”
A campaign has been launched by the ambulance service calling for people to #GetBehind999 and pledge their support to help stop abuse against emergency services.
Pledges can be made on the NWAS website using the link https://www.nwas. nhs.uk/stop-abuse/