$1500.00 ticket for driving dad to hospital

[tod evans]

Son gets speeding ticket while driving dad with heart-attack to hospital

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/13...?intcmp=hplnws

A Chicago father who suffered a heart attack on Sept. 27 is outraged his son was given a speeding ticket while trying to rush him to the emergency room.

William O’Neil told the Chicago Sun-Times that a trooper wrote a $1,500 ticket for his son, Michael, even after an ambulance came to the scene to deliver William to the hospital. Illinois State Police officials said they’ve looked into the incident and found nothing inappropriate.

“If that’s the attitude in general, we all have a problem,” William said.

"He said, ‘You don’t look like you’re having a heart attack,’ which, you know, um, was pretty rough"

- William O'Neil
Asked about the complaint, a police spokesman told the Sun-Times: “Mr. O’Neil’s recollection of the events [is] not accurate to what occurred on the officer’s in-car video. The officer’s conduct was proper and within policy during the incident.”

William, 60, had a heart attack four years ago, so when he felt chest and shoulder pain again last month, he told his 30-year-old son, “We’re going to have to go to the hospital.”

Michael was allegedly going 82 mph in a 55 mph zone when he was pulled over. The trooper walked over to William on the passenger side and asked him what was going on.

“And I said, ‘I think I’m having a heart attack. We’re on the way to the hospital,” William said.

William then showed the trooper his bag of medication.

“I lifted it up and he said, ‘You don’t look like you’re having a heart attack,’ which, you know, um, was pretty rough,” he said. “I mean, that’s pretty rough.”

Eventually an ambulance was called to ferry William to the hospital and, after he left, the trooper finished ticketing Michael.

“The last thing he said to me was something like, ‘You need to slow down next time,'” Michael said.

[Cissy]

"Oh, you're about to incur expensive hospital bills? The State wants a cut of your money."

[RJB]

Illinois state troopers, laws, and taxes (especially gas tax) are some of the worst. If I have to drive through that state, I'll use the rest areas but otherwise they don't get a dime from me. Some highways are eternally under construction and I don't know if it's for the teamsters or for cops to increase the speeding fines.

[William Tell]

He had a heckuvalot better reason to speed than cops do most of the time.

[luctor-et-emergo]

Pretty hefty fine. 55mph zone doesn't sound like there's pedestrians or things like that around.

[presence]

Eventually an ambulance was called to ferry William to the hospital

And he surely broke 82 mph enroute.

But that's ok. The driver wasn't mundane like the rest of us.

[JK/SEA]

just a ticket?...too bad dad wasn't tazed. Might have brought him out of that heart attack....

[Ronin Truth]

Sounds cheaper than an ambulance. Count your blessings.

[osan]

Ill-Annoy: one of the unwashed anuses of America.

I think you have to be crazy to live in such a dump.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Michael was allegedly going 82 mph in a 55 mph zone when he was pulled over. The trooper walked over to William on the passenger side and asked him what was going on.

Pulled over??? WTF??? Were me more like hit the emergency flashers and FLOOR THE MF! If cell phone handy call 911 and tell them to tell the prick to give you an emergency escort! Lights flashing code 3! Work out the BS once in the ER. Oh, and call the ER and tell them they have a incoming code blue priority case so the crash cart is on the sidewalk when you arrive. Actually, call the hospital first. Calling 911 now tends to lock your cell phone... Though the dispatch can route your call or relay a message if you ask nice...

OK, OK, never heard of a hospital bringing a crash cart to the sidewalk probably against protocol - but they sure will have a gurney there and can get you to one in about 15 seconds.

Just a tip in this kind of situation... treat ALL intersections as if they were a flashing yellow light (unless it's green). No need to add trauma to an already sucky situation.

-t

[angelatc]

Sounds cheaper than an ambulance. Count your blessings.

How dare you suggest that people take care of themselves rather than depend on the state for assistance. Are you trying to put ambulance workers out of business???

[aGameOfThrones]

How dare you suggest that people take care of themselves rather than depend on the state for assistance. Are you trying to put ambulance workers out of business???

I'm going to create an app call Hlyft and Huber just for Hospital rides

[Dr.3D]

"He said, ‘You don’t look like you’re having a heart attack,’ which, you know, um, was pretty rough"

So now the cop thinks he is a physician? Saying something like that is tantamount to practicing medicine without a license.

[Brian4Liberty]

$1,500 is $1,500. Can't let that revenue slip through. Trooper needs his bonus this month.

[RJB]

$1,500 is $1,500. Can't let that revenue slip through. Trooper needs his bonus this month.

That fine alone would give me a heart attack. You'd have to be a tax tick to afford that.