Last night a 25 year old drug user died because other drug affected people would not let officers treat him,
Belly,
as dreadful as this is, it does go some way towards cleaning the shallow end of the Gene pool.
I don't have the words as to what my feelings are to describe people who take drugs.
Assaults on Ambulance should mean mandatory flogging. I suppose a very tiny sharia & a tiny Hitler would do the trick.

Well another day and another story about the event is being told, yes it seems the victim was Lebanese, maybe Muslim, maybe Maronite Christian, so maybe was the crowd, some will now vilify them and change their view on the whole even, some well one, will demand Ambos and police take film crews with them, so we can view the whole thing! the best of us, most of us, will demand far better for our first responders.some of us, in my view the best of us, will call the crime criminal. not a race or faith,we are a better country because most will be in that last group.and? hopefully some who got in the way of these folk at work will be considering their actions and asking them selves questions this morning

When will people realise that if there were a National Service, 99% of these young hoodlums would not be on the streets at night. They'd be sleeping in barracks & camps from tired from the day's activities & too tired to even think about causing trouble.
After 18-24 months of National Service, the insidious indoctrinations from school would have departed their minds & replaced by common sense & a sense of belonging.
Why govt are continually dragging their feet in not introducing this service can only mean they don't understand what society needs to function.

Its about authority and particularly 'outside' authority. Ambulance, police, whatever...the presence of any infidel authority is not welcome in some quarters.

While this is unusual here (for the moment), its more usual elsewhere when a certain un-namable religion predominates. There are parts of Stockholm, Oslo and Paris where ambulances refuse to attend without a police escort and individual police units refuse to attend without backup support.

We are about a decade behind such wonders of multiculturalism. But fear not...we'll catch up.

//the presence of any infidel authority is not welcome in some quarters.//

Quarters like the King Street Wharf Bar, mhaze?

//While this is unusual here (for the moment)//

Yeah, it's not that uncommon, it's just a lot of assaults on ambos don't require the intervention of the riot squad and thus aren't dramatic enough to make the news. Nevertheless, the prospect of being assaulted whilst they are simply trying to do their job rendering medical assistance to those who have suffered mishaps is a prospect that ambos face on a daily basis.

It shouldn't be.

//its more usual elsewhere when a certain un-namable religion predominates.//

Yeah, I don't think this is really a religious thing. Maybe in a vanishingly small minority of cases.

But my suspicion is that in a vast majority of cases, this is an ethanol thing. The cowards attacking our ambos are intoxicated, and get it into their stupid sozzled brains that attacking ambos is a terrific idea. Lock 'em up.

Yeah, I don't think this is really a religious thing. Maybe in a vanishingly small minority of cases.
Toni Lavis,
How about offering a solution ? Sympathising & excusing is exactly the wrong way to go. And, I don't believe you're an ostrich because as far as I'm aware no ostrich has as yet successfully operated a keyboard.