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The Weird News topic covers offbeat news about EMS, for all the quirky, unusual news that everyone is going to be talking about.

This year’s strangest tales involved a medic who won a lottery, providers treating family members, a heroic dispatcher, unfriendly animals and unique car crashes
The wildest calls of the year included an impaling, cicadas, a turtle, attempts to steal ambulances, and something you should not say to 911 dispatchers
Bizarre crimes, angry animals, a prank gone wrong, and more - these are the most mind-boggling EMS stories from the past year
Officials in Spartanburg note no foul play or CO poisoning
First responders in Exeter encountered an unusual patient st a Christmas Day crash
Police believe the Decatur Township crash, which left a car embedded into the second floor, was intentional
Tulsa firefighters had to cut part of the flagpole off for the victim to fit into an ambulance
The driver in the Lake of the Ozarks crash was arrested on suspicion of boating under the influence
Photos from the Monmouth County crash show the guardrail coming out the back of the SUV
Family members saw the branch fall on the victim and called 911 when he did not come out from underneath it
EMS transported the driver to a Palm Coast hospital to be treated for “ingesting a large amount of narcotics”
Matthew W. Milburn told first responders the unconscious subject was ’10-4' and they could cancel their response
Jennifer Eversole posted on TikTok her mistaking a bottle of super-strength nail glue for eye drops
First responders were trying to talk the man down until he fell, striking objects as he tumbled off the cascade
Bags of cement went flying and one crashed through the windshield of a car, killing a passenger
CAL FIRE crews responded after a Mini Cooper went through the window and injured a customer inside the Placer County store
EMTs responded quickly and transported the girl to a Sarasota hospital
EMS providers transported the patient by air ambulance to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Cheney EMS providers transported the boy to a hospital, where he died
Wake County EMS says the imposter has shown up at multiple calls and once took a patient’s blood pressure
Knoxville EMS providers kept the rig’s siren off in an effort to quietly respond to a medical call
EMS providers with Northern Light Health and Northeast Mobile Health Services were not injured in the crashes
“We’ve got a car continually hitting us from the rear,” EMS providers told dispatchers
Austell Firefighter Bret Langston’s daughter didn’t have time to get to a birthing center – a bunk room would do
Taney County EMS providers treated and transported two occupants of a damaged “Dukes of Hazzard”-style orange Dodge Charger
Central Berkeley EMT Lacey Klein’s video of Barbara Gillespie, 72, touched many after Gillespie fell near Klein’s front door while delivering pizza
The vehicle made an 8-foot by 12-foot hole in the Cleveland building and caused heavy damage on the inside
John “Branch” Walton was in his last day of advanced training as a rescue swimmer when he made his first rescue
The patient was alert throughout the rescue