TxMedic wrote:frankie_the_yankee wrote:
As I was doing so, one of the EMT's called out to the driver, "You need to call ahead and have a cop meet us at the ER. This guy we just picked up is carrying a gun."
I did not like the way that had sounded. So I lifted the oxygen mask off my face and said (loudly), "Excuse me! Tell the guy to call ahead to the ER and tell them to have a cop meet us there because the gentleman you just picked up was licensed to carry a gun and that he needed a cop to take custody of it while he was temporarily incapacitated. And I want you to say it just like that."
Honestly, it doesn't matter how you want him to say it. The EMT figures it'll all get sorted out at the ER by PD. He needed PD at the hospital to take care of your weapon, because he's not going to do it, nor is he qualified to determine whether or not you're legal to carry. We in EMS tend to keep it simple and that's what he was trying to do. No reason to make the guy give a dissertation on the radio when all you need a cop at the ER.
But remember, this happened in RI, not Texas, and probably at a time when legal carry was even less common than it is there now.