It’s the job of EMS to spring into action, respond to calls and save lives during emergencies…but what about putting someone’s contact lens back in? Or fixing a woman’s haircut? There are a lot of time-wasting “emergencies” out there, so we asked our Facebook community to tell us about the most frivolous ones they’ve ever gotten:
10. “Hemorrhoids! I should have taken the bumpiest street for transporting.” – Yitz Garfinkel
9. “Hiccups at 4 a.m. and he had a doctor’s appointment at 8 a.m. for said issue. Needless to say I canceled police, fire and helicopter... no joke. I really canceled them over the radio as I hiccupped myself while laughing! My chief wasn’t amused!” – J.R. Lunsford
8. “Got called back to the same apartment to change her thermostat... twice.” – Damien Coy
7. “To put a contact back into a dude’s eye. He refused to touch it and wanted a doctor to do it for him. He had LASIK surgery and it was a protective lens.” – Adam Pfiefle
6. “Cramp in the big toe... AND we transported!” – Melissa Epperson Reddin
5. “Get on scene and the patient is waiting at the gate with suitcase in hand and needs to go to hospital as he is due for an operation in two days’ time. Glorified taxi!” – Theresa Cotter
4. “Got called out once because someone didn’t like the haircut they received at Supercuts. No, unfortunately, I am NOT making this up!” – Sara Robinson
3. “Overflowing toilet... came out as “an unknown emergency.” – Mark Bulla
2. “Lights and sirens for a cracked acrylic fingernail.” – Summer Williams Paterson
1. "3 a.m. for a can of soup dropped on a big toe from a countertop. When I got there, they were sitting on the couch drinking a beer asking if I thought it was broken. It wasn’t!” — Dario Guerra
Have you got worse? Tell us about it in the member comments section below: