Eventful morning ended in calling the cops! (long)

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Eventful morning ended in calling the cops! (long)

I've had an eventful morning...

I'm working from home today because Cablevision was coming to check out my internet connection - it's been pretty bad lately.

I hear the Cablevision truck pull up and go to the door and see a medical center Ambulette across the street. Then I see my neighbor's elderly father come to the door and fall on the front steps!

I ran across the street and helped the Ambulette driver stand him up, expecting her to take charge - tell me how to lift him, what to do. But she just stands there with a deer-caught-in-the-headlights look on her face.

So I took control, told her how to hook her arm under his armpits to lift him. Once he was standing, she went to release her arm and I told her not to! He was unsteady on his feet and needed to get himself oriented.

Then she starts to pull him to walk in the house and again, I had to stop her because he only had one slipper on - he was trying to put his foot back in.

So we helped him into the house and I noticed the sectional carpet at the door was all out of place and knew what happened - he must have slipped on it as he was coming out the door. He kept telling me he was sorry, that he wanted to come to the door to tell us he wasn't going to the hospital today. She again, just stood there.

So I checked to make sure he didn't have any injuries and walked him to his chair to sit down. He said he was ok; didn't want to go to the hospital. He thanked us and we walked out.

She asked me how I knew to do all that. I told her that I was a medic for many years, and cared for the elderly on ambulette/ambulance runs. It appears that the Long Beach Medical Center doesn't train their drivers on how to act in the case of an emergency.

And the whole time, the Cablevision driver just watched. He was standing at my door, within full view of everything that happened.

I find it amazing, that even your very basic ethical kindness doesn't prompt you to act in some way. Ask to help, something. When I walked up to him, he said, "You're having trouble with your internet connection?" Chat Icon

So a few minutes later, as he was leaving, he mentioned that the construction crew that's building a house next door has their extension cord plugged into my house.

Through numerous conversations with the guy working there and my landlord, I find out that the building contractor had already been told NOT to use the outlet.

So my landlord tells me to call the police! Chat Icon

My first instinct was to tell HIM to call the police - it's not my house! But I did anyway, and the police said, sorry it's not your house. Have the landlord call. So I told my landlord and he said he was getting on the phone with the police and would stop by later.

In the meantime, the construction guy comes back over and says that the tenants upstairs made a deal with the builidng contractor. The contractor paid him $100. to use the electricity.

Back on the phone with the landlord, and he said but YOU are paying for that electricity, not the upstairs people. So I turn off the breaker for my floor but the outlet still works. So it really is the people upstairs.

All this, and it's not even noon. I'm waiting for the police, the landlord, or the upstairs tenants to knock on my door any minute... Chat Icon

Message edited 9/28/2006 11:14:11 AM.

Posted 9/28/06 11:13 AM