OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma-

This is downright hilarious and definitely something you don’t often see. Judge Wapner’s People’s Court TV show in the 1980s would have titled it, “The Case of the Policeman on a Power Trip.”

An Oklahoma State Trooper was racing to provide backup on a call when he came up on the back of an ambulance that was also in a hurry to get somewhere. With apparently minimal effort the trooper seemed to easily pass the ambulance and within a minute arrived at his destination. The trooper stayed at the call for a minute or two then quickly pulled back out on to the road and chased down, and pulled over, the ambulance. Just as the ambulance came to a stop the parametric in the back exited quickly and confronted the trooper, explaining that he was in charge of the ambulance. The trooper pushed him aside and started yelling at the driver telling him he was going to give him a ticket for failure to yield and giving him hand gestures as he initially drove by.

What the trooper didn’t know at the time was that the ambulance also had somewhere to be in a hurry…..it was transporting a patient to the hospital. You would think that once that was discovered the trooper would send the ambulance on its merry way, so no further danger was faced by the patient. This was not the case at all. I will not get too heavily into the details of this one because luckily the son of the woman being transported was in the ambulance with her, and using his cell phone so graciously caught the whole incident on video for our viewing pleasure and the dash cam video in the police cruiser was released (Both YouTube videos are below). Watching the trooper power trip is fairly entertaining. Watch him as he attempts, but apparently fails, to arrest the parametric in charge. Aren’t these guys supposed to be on the same side of the law and helping each other?

The moral of the story: Someone definitely needs some anger counseling.

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