The Chicago Tribune has an article detailing a man stealing a Cicero Fire Department ambulance from MacNeal Hospital … because he needed a ride home.
A 77-year-old man told police he stole an ambulance from MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn because he had just left the hospital and “needed to get home,” authorities say.
Officers caught up with John Neal just before midnight Tuesday on the South Side of Chicago, about 10 miles from the hospital and two miles from his home in the 6800 block of South Claremont Avenue, according to a police report.
There was damage to the passenger side mirror and the undercarriage of the ambulance, which is owned by the Town of Cicero. Neal has never had a driver’s license, police say.
The ambulance was parked outside the hospital, apparently idling with a door open, while two paramedics were inside MacNeal, said Ray Hanania, a Cicero town spokesman. Neal had been “kicked out” of the hospital where ambulances were parked, and may have been intoxicated and angry, Hanania said.
The entire article is HERE.
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