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Re:Accountability Sinks by f1shy on Sunday October 20, 2024 @07:12AM (#41894578)
Yes sir. A friend of mine, the girlfriend passed out, being pregnant. In the moment of total stress, we called 112, and said “passed away“ instead of „passed out“. The guy on the other side “well, if she is dead, why are you calling?!” Very rude. He went on to explain, it was an error, an instead of just dispatch an ambulance, had to hear a 10 minute lesson in english (from a german) after which the ambulance was dispatched. When the ambulance finally arrived, she was “ok” so they had to pay couple of thousand Euros for a “negligent dispatch”…

The level of arrogance and lack of empathy and service is beyond limits.

Re:Accountability Sinks by bmicraft on Sunday October 20, 2024 @02:45PM (#41897563)
> When the ambulance finally arrived, she was “ok” so they had to pay couple of thousand Euros for a “negligent dispatch”

That part seems really hard to believe for me. The only time you should get charged at all is for prank calling. In fact, if you call and tell them and decide you don't need EMS after all they will in fact come anyways because they need to check on every call. And you will not get charged for that.

Re:Accountability Sinks by f1shy on Monday October 21, 2024 @11:56AM (#41905484)
Believe me, it was charged. I could not believe until I saw the papers. This is noones land.