The Ambulance with the Stripper Pole
What happens to retired ambulances?
There are ambulances for people, of course. There are also ambulances for pets. Poor doggy!
But it doesn’t stop there. You can buy a used ambulance, with lights, off of eBay.
Then what?
Then you get Jambulances/Mobile DJs/Party Medics
Then you get am-brew-lances for beer.
And then it gets weird.
There’s the Funbulance of Wasilla, Alaska
There’s the Ambulimo 8-seater party bus
There’s the Pink Party Bus
And then… there’s the
SLAMBULANCE
The Slambulance Limo Service of Fort Worth, Texas. Looks kind of like an ambulance from the outside (because it was one), has red lights and even the hood looks legit.
But the inside is all party.
For $175 an hour you get cushy seats, wet bar, sound system, and the aforementioned pole. And the services offered are not standard paramedic fare, either.
Needless to say, actual emergency service providers are pretty unhappy about it.
A spokesman for the Medstar ambulance service told NBC News “There is no reason to have a pole mounted here in the center of the vehicle because you can’t even get a stretcher in or out…. Paint it black. Take the red lights and the blue lights off, take the word ‘ambulance’ off of it, take the stars of life off of it and make it a limo, that’s fine.”
It’s cheaper if you just take it to a Rangers game, that’s only $75 an hour. On the other hand, one commenter suggested it should be given to the Health Department and turned into a mobile STD clinic.
Legislation was filed in Texas in 2015 to make operating such a vehicle a crime punishable with a fine up to $500 but the bill did not pass.
Fortunately, real ambulances are at work every day, even using artificial intelligence to predict when and where you will need them.
And what would happen if the Slambulance goes away?
We’ll just have to go to England for the Fire Engine Party Limo.
This article was written by Steven Polunsky for Inside Job and is not intended to represent the official position of anyone or anything other than the author.
Image credits:
Dog in ambulance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pChZJKAizXY
Ambulance for pets http://www.triblocal.com/la-grange-la-grange-park/files/cache/124610_1.jpg/460_345_resize.jpg
Ambrewlances http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2011/09/26/crooked-fence-debuts-am-brew-lance http://ironspringspub.com/?s=ambrewlance
Jambulances http://www.mrt.com/entertainment/article_331bb84c-4bbd-11e3-b43c-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=image&photo=0 http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bu7wc/jambulance/ http://flickr.com/photos/sarah_nestheide/3258663457
Slambulance in parking lot http://media.nbcdfw.com/images/1200*675/ambulance-limo-051112.jpg
Slambulance (multiple images) http://www.emergencylimo.com
Pink Party Bus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT2UzFbk_W0
Fire Engine Party Limo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPjEd08yMp0
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