Attacks on Ambulance Crews?

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I recently had to call an ambulance overnight. One of the questions the 111 operator asked was 'Is it safe for the ambulance crew at your location'.

Sad tines indeed.
 
It just beggars belief. We’ve heard for years about nurses, doctors and surgeons getting attacked and even killed in hospitals. As mentioned earlier, it seemed to be the police who first bore the brunt of inexplicable rage, followed by firemen. The Tottenham riots in the mid 80’s spring to mind. Is it their perceived association with authority; the same authority that these scum so publicly despise? Or is it a generally increasing decline in moral attitudes. I really don’t know.
 
It just beggars belief. We’ve heard for years about nurses, doctors and surgeons getting attacked and even killed in hospitals. As mentioned earlier, it seemed to be the police who first bore the brunt of inexplicable rage, followed by firemen. The Tottenham riots in the mid 80’s spring to mind. Is it their perceived association with authority; the same authority that these scum so publicly despise? Or is it a generally increasing decline in moral attitudes. I really don’t know.

There's little or no stigma attached to being scum these days.....scum used to be scummy individuals or scummy families bringing a street down but now scum are entire streets and whole neighbourhoods with no-one challenging their attitudes, behaviour or choices.

They have been allowed to choose idleness as a career for generations now. They refuse eduction and reject civilised standards, replacing them with their own fluid rules about respect whilst all the time looking for the next kick, the next fix whether that be by way of stimulus or adrenalin in their otherwise dull, unfruitful lives.

Is there a drop in moral standards generally? Yes, and some of the posts on this forum demonstrate this, albeit it at the thinner end of the 'immoral wedge.'
It's clear there are those who choose which laws to ignore or dismiss them as unimportant and excuse their behaviour by setting their transgressions low on the table of seriousness whilst simultaneously being hyper-critical of those who enforce the rules. And that's amongst educated, hard-working 'normal' people.
 
There's little or no stigma attached to being scum these days.....scum used to be scummy individuals or scummy families bringing a street down but now scum are entire streets and whole neighbourhoods with no-one challenging their attitudes, behaviour or choices.

They have been allowed to choose idleness as a career for generations now. They refuse eduction and reject civilised standards, replacing them with their own fluid rules about respect whilst all the time looking for the next kick, the next fix whether that be by way of stimulus or adrenalin in their otherwise dull, unfruitful lives.

Is there a drop in moral standards generally? Yes, and some of the posts on this forum demonstrate this, albeit it at the thinner end of the 'immoral wedge.'
It's clear there are those who choose which laws to ignore or dismiss them as unimportant and excuse their behaviour by setting their transgressions low on the table of seriousness whilst simultaneously being hyper-critical of those who enforce the rules. And that's amongst educated, hard-working 'normal' people.
I have a friend that retired from the fire brigade 14 years ago ( and yes his engine got "bricked " during the Bristol riots) and another that retired from the police about 11 years ago. Both of them loved their jobs , neither would want to join as a young recruit today! Largely for the above reasons.
 

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