ARSE ABSCESS MAN HIJACKS AMBULANCE
A MAN frustrated that paramedics would not treat an abscess on his arse hijacked their ambulance and crashed it into a motel.
Levi Ihimaera was on a court-imposed curfew at the time he smashed his way into the vehicle which was parked at the Microtel Motel in Hamilton, New Zealand, on November 26.
His lawyer, Elisa Saunders, told Judge Paul Mabey, KC, in the Hamilton Court that he wasn’t sure whether he was allowed to leave his home on medical grounds so called an ambulance.
However, paramedics who attended said the infection wasn’t worth going to hospital for and instead told him to go to his GP.
Thirty minutes later the staff went back to their ambulance.
Ihimaera followed them so they locked themselves inside the ambulance, concerned about his behaviour.
He sat on the metal step, at the back of the ambulance, for about 10 minutes.
He then got up, grabbed a metal grille from a nearby manhole, and threw it through the front left passenger window, shattering it.
One of the victims, in the driver’s seat, got out and fled.
Ihimaera reached inside the window and unlocked the door before getting in the driver’s seat.
However, unknown to Ihimaera another medic was hiding in the back of the vehicle. Ihimaera reversed the vehicle out on to the street before driving it forward and crashing it into the motel.
He did that again, causing “significant” damage to the ambulance. The second victim managed to get out through a side door and run to safety.
Meanwhile, Ihimaera got out and sat on the footpath where he was arrested by police a short time later.
The 33-year-old appeared for sentencing in court on a raft of charges, including 13 for shoplifting and theft, but also intentional damage and theft of an ambulance.
Battling to save him from a prison sentence, Ms Saunders told Judge Mabey that her client had spent every year since he was 17 doing stints in prison, rather than getting the help he needed.
“It’s complicated offending because he’s a complicated person.”
Extreme
Saunders said the ambulance offending came about as Ihimaera had quite a “bad abscess” around the site on his buttocks where he gets his medication injected.
Judge Mabey said he was prepared to give Ihimaera a chance but told him if he didn’t start addressing his “extreme need for help” for his issues he would go back to jail again.
Ihimaera, who had already served four months in custody, was sentenced to two years’ intensive supervision.