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Ambulances are for life-threatening and serious injury situations ONLY AND ALWAYS. If your injuries are not serious (immobilising) or life-threatening, an ambulance shouldn't be called. Ever.

That's first and foremost. Not to be heartless but, an ambulance shouldn't be sent out to someone with minor facial injuries even if there were 10 sitting doing nothing at all. It's not what ambulances are for. If there were signs that he had a concussion etc. then yes, an ambulance would be appropriate.

An ambulance would be sent for a severe panic attack because it's impossible to know that that's what it is, and isn't a more serious heart or respiratory problem which would be a medical emergency.


Secondly... neither the dispatcher nor the ambulance services would have had any idea that the person they were sent for had just mugged someone else, let alone that that person had (rightly) been refused an ambulance. As mentioned above... it's not like they turned up, told the victim to **** off and sat tending to the attacker.


Hate to say it Kirk but this is "fake news". Tabloid outrage-trash. The facts;

1) The cabbie DIDN'T need urgent medical attention, and was able to get medical attention by other means

2) The attacker was arrested and charged.



That is the 100% correct outcome, and literally nothing else in this story matters.