We were practicing CPR at the fire hall one day with the doors open and the sound of flesh striking flesh caused me to immediately take off outside. The Sgt. was in the middle of the street trying to arrest an intoxicated driver and the driver did not want to go and the fight was on. Even as an EMT the cop was still in me off duty so myself and my partner, a former cop, ran to help. We assisted getting the guy handcuffed and in the patrol car.
The problem being was the guys car was still in the middle of the street sitting kind of cross part of two lanes with the door open. The Sgt. did not want to wait for 30 to 50 minutes for a wrecker to get there so he decided we could just push it off the road and lock it up cause the guy could not afford a tow bill anyway. Well it sounded like a good idea.
The Sgt. got near the door where he could steer and my partner and I got behind the car and started pushing. I looked up and noticed the door was going to hit a tree so I yelled “watch out for the tree!” The Sgt. looked over and saw the tree and jumped back and slammed the door shut where it wouldn’t hit the tree instead of jumping in the car and hitting brakes or steering away from tree. Whew, we missed the tree. He runs up to open the door and it is LOCKED! Oh no, there is a slight downhill slope and the car is picking up speed and we can’t steer it and a steep hill is coming up.
In all of our minds now is pure panic, how are we going to explain to the boss let alone the newspapers why we had just shoved this drunks car that hit us off the cliff. Now is anyone going to believe we were trying to not dent the car. Nope they are thinking we did it on purpose because he was hitting us.
The Sgt. runs to the back of the car and grabs the bumper and starts trying to pull on it and stop the car. Well he might be a big man but he does not weigh enough to stop a car on the down hill slope getting steeper all the time. We are in a panic, it is amazing what is going through your head. We are going to get fired and sued both!
Luckily for us my partner still had a brain left. I am sure it was because he was no longer a cop and our boss could not kill him, he was an innocent bystander just trying to help the mean old cops and he did not know we were going to shove it off the cliff….lol Anyway he kept his brain and ran and got a rock and threw under the tire and the car stopped. So I say thank God for EMT’s, the help in many ways and we saved getting crucified in the newspaper for trying to save the man some money and us some time but we never shoved another car anywhere!
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