What were they thinking?

So every once in a while you run one of those calls that just makes you stop and say, "What on earth were they thinking?" The next few calls I depict are true and are not exaggerated.

The latest one was this past week when we got tones out for a 59 year old man that was vomiting and having difficulty breathing. Once on scene we found out that his problems were caused when he went outside in his front yard, saw a mushroom, took it inside, cut it up, and ate it! He had poisoned himself!

A man wanted to cut a large branch off of a tree out in his field. He had to use a long ladder to reach it so he propped the ladder up against the branch that he was cutting off. I won't even go into the details.

A woman needed to reach something on the top shelf and thought that it was a good idea to put a small step stool on top of a rolling office chair. I think everyone gets the picture.

And then there is the people who I say, "What were you thinking?" when they call us. Like the woman who called us when she dropped a can of Lysol on her toe or the lady that called us at 6 in the morning to take her to the hospital because she had an appointment that day and she didn't want to be late!