Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:49:18 on
Sun, 15 Feb 2009, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
you've decided that someone's life was risked.
Where did you get this information?

From the extremely clear and detailed evidence given by both Colin
and the driver in the PDF of the hearing whose link was posted by
Richard Kettlewell.

Unlike the rest of you, I actually downloaded it and read it.
I read it too - dislocated kneecap iirc.

Yup. clear straightforward info from a professional versus a highly
odd account from Our Esteemed Councillor.

Did Colin claim that a dislocated kneecap wasn't life-threatening, but
the ambulanceman disagreed?

From memory, Colin wasn't really interested in what the ambulance was
doing there, and in fact denied that he thought it was an ambulance at all.

The substance of the two stories is that the ambulance was there to
attend a potentially limb threatening event: A disloacated patella that
could, if left, cause potentially severe bleeding to the extent that if
it were not treated, the leg itself was at risk.

Now that is patently hindsight, and could not have been known by the
driver at the time of the first altercation with Colin. The situation
there was that an ambulance - or paramedic vehicle, fully equipped with
all the paraphernalia designed to make it apparent what it was, was
blocked by colin and involved in an argument.

Colin claims that in a clear summers evening in broad daylight, he
didn't know it was an emergency vehicle. Despite apparently having
conversation with the driver who told him it was.

Then after this initial piece of pinball wizardry*, he accosts the
vehicle AGAIN on leaving..


*One can only account for this by either concluding the Colin is in fact
a deaf, dumb and blind idiot, or a liar, or possibly mentally ill. Or
all three. Now whilst one can feel deep sympathy for Colin, on account
of his problems, it still does NOT justify his retention by the council
in any position of authority.