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NYC EMS story.
Cab driver gets in a fender bender with a 911 ambulance.
After arguing with the crew and supervisor he decides he has neck and back pain and he must go to the hospital.
A second ambulance is dispatched and, following protocol, fully immobilizes him and takes him to the hospital.
En route the cabbie complains about how slow the ambulance is going.
"Everyone else is like you, none of them get out of the way."
He’s a comedian.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
He's exactly what I'd expect of a German comedian.
I’ve seen some videos of his act. IMO he’s not very funny, his comedic style is mostly the one where it’s shitting on everything. So it’s not surprising to see him picking a situation like this and shitting on it.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Because USA is a shithole.
You're looking at one incident, on one block, in the one city in America that is radically different than all of the others.
And that said, NYCs response times are around 10min, which is target that Germany also tries to hit. https://www.nyc.gov/assets/operations/downloads/pdf/mmr2025/2025_mmr.pdf
Exactly. He's criticizing the country, not just those drivers. We keep voting for people who want our cities clogged with excessive cars.
Huh? How is there not? At least on the video there is. People just are not using that place.
Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and "influencer" (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
I ain't saying NYC doesn't have a problem with what he's saying, but I am saying you can see how he's not being entirely honest and he's incentivized to be dishonest.
No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.
NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.
It really doesn't, because in Germany cars always move out of the way. Even if the street is completely full of cars waiting at a red light for example.
Berlin is the capital of Germany, but NOT the densest city of Germany
Even if they did eventually move out of the way, it would still be way slower than what happens in Germany (and many other European countries). Cars would begin to move out of the way as soon as they notice it approaching.
I mean, there are about a thousand people that can coroborate the fact that people block ambulances in NYC all the time.
Is he German? I couldn't tell, ja?
Achtung! Snel! Snel!
The stereotypical Indiana Jones German 😁
I've never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it's the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you're not out off Manhattan by 3pm your travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.
I think the difference in Germany is that you are required by law to make space beforehand. When you are in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, there are rules for how to make a "Rettungsgasse" (rescue alley). A few years ago they bumped the penalty up to 320€ and suspend your drivers licence for a month. This penalty isn't only applied when you actually hinder an ambulance or the like, but when your actions could affect them in theory. I love that.
As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there's space, but there's so much congestion that you physically can't move, there's no shoulder or anything.
And there's also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can't widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.
His jokes about Germany and being German gets repetitive, but i can't deny that he still makes me laugh everytime!
I dunno, The last time we let Germany march places it didn't go well.
"No one moves out of the way!"
(Cuts camera as people start moving out of the way)
Yup, but they mostly did not. That's why the ambulance got stuck so far behind.
Also, their making way is reeeally sluggish!
That is just america in general
Not just NYC. I see the same kinda shit in California too.
We have entirely too many entitled fuckfaces in this country and all of them drive.
This is Mario Adrion right? A stand up comedian.
The transcription is almost correct all the way except for one part.
When he says, "Whoever needed it, they're dead".
The transcription reads, "Whoever needed it, they're okay".
because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the "bad stuff".
welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say "unalive" instead of "kill".
we're so fucked.
It's way worse. They don't ban you and they don't delete your content. TikTok ads don't pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.
The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don't have guidelines, they don't have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You'll just say "Fuck ICE" in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you're never quite sure why some of your videos "make it" and some don't. So maybe you're being paranoid? You can't tell.
So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you've got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don't want to risk it. Is the word "dead" de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who's to say, and it doesn't cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring...
Isn't the future bright?
If I post that list to all of the social media accounts I made before I realized that privacy is important, will they get deleted?
