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Photo: Ambulance gets boot in NY ticket ‘blunder’

The vehicle’s markings as a volunteer ambulance reportedly raised a question as to whether it was in fact defined as an emergency vehicle

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Photo courtesy MedicTronn Robinson

NY Post

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — This ambulance chaser must have been brain-dead.

A city marshal slapped a tire boot on an ambulance in Brooklyn last week, preventing it from responding to emergencies for hours, stunned corps members like Kelly Gums told The Post.

“Hopefully no one lost their life,” said James “Rocky” Robinson, commander of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps. “I don’t understand how they have the audacity to do this!” The ambulance was parked in front of the Corps base along Greene Avenue on Tuesday morning when city marshal Robert Solimine slapped it with an immobilizing steel boot — placed on vehicles whose owners rack up $350 or more of unpaid tickets.

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