3 UMDNJ paramedics fired in KKK hazing incident

[dougd]

This situation is going to put a negative spin on the EMS system (at the very minimum, in that community) for a long time to come. It's sad as hell that providers working in that system are in a situation where they feel they HAVE to get body armor to go to work.

It's not just EMS getting a black eye recently:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...EWS03/810056107

"Two Ohio Highway Patrol troopers in Sandusky have been fired after one was photographed by the other while dressed in a Ku Klux Klan-like costume..."

[firedoc5]

Do these people thing that the KKK is a joke? Do they think it's something from the past that doesn't exist anymore, so make fun of it? Believe me, they are still very active. It's sort of gone underground in some areas, but there are so many groups that have branched off of it that are very public. You've got the "skin heads", neo-Nazis', all kinds of white supremacy groups, etc.

I'm not going to get started, but I have an unique hatred for the KKK and these other groups.

[letmesleep]

I totally agree with you FIREDOC, but it isn't just the groups of racist that I have a problem with. It's the everyday crap the comes out of people's mouths that gets under my skin, but even worse is those of us who "care" for the sick and injured and/or "keep the peace" that bothers me.

[firedoc5]

I totally agree with you FIREDOC, but it isn't just the groups of racist that I have a problem with. It's the everyday crap the comes out of people's mouths that gets under my skin, but even worse is those of us who "care" for the sick and injured and/or "keep the peace" that bothers me.

There's too much of that also.

[Don1977]

Uncalled for, there is no need for this kind of stuff in EMS.

[CBEMT]

Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), chairwoman of the Assembly Human Services Committee, and Sen. Ronald Rice (D-Essex), chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, said a legislative solution should also be weighed.

"I think the state is going to have to step up to the plate," Oliver said. "People are just in shock."

Here we go, another attempt by socialists to legislate thought.

[Eng542ine]

CB... knowing this state, it's probably just another way to punish the masses for the sins of the few... Welcome to the People's Democratic Republic of New Jersey...

[pfdffemt82]

i am now happy i saved 12 grand not going to northeastern for my medic all jokes aside alot of my friends are in that class when they come home have to find out so of the stories

[p3medic]

never mind

[bxemt325914]

Tis is really the stupitest thing that i have heard a medic to do...... in nyc their are medics that do stupit things.... like at my job some medic stole some narcs. Why cant't the medics just grow up in ny/ nj. And why cant we all grow up with the "hazing" come on do anyone like it when it was done to you...... NO. leave people alone and, expecally when it will effect their cert and their job...... You all do know now that thoes guys will never have a job in EMS agian. My firend works at UMD he said that the local police and state oficials where involved...... This was a huge mess.... and now it is giving EMS workers a bad name.