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- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+39How does avoid paying the ambulance bills?
- p3ngwin, on 07/06/2008, -0/+32i remember working in a restaurant when the customer calls us over to complain about a hair in her food.
we walk over and find a blond hair neatly laying on top of the plate of food......in a Chinese restaurant full of Asian workers! - dashdingo, on 07/06/2008, -0/+25Sounds just like Chuck Palahniuk's Choke - the guy would fake choking on food to get his meal for free.
- reed77, on 07/06/2008, -0/+20When I waited tables people would try to get free food all the time by putting stuff in their food.
Everything from fake bugs to pieces of mop. Usually they ended up getting comped even if they were obviously lying. - patbon, on 07/06/2008, -3/+20Anyone else thinking about that episode of curb your enthusiasm where Larry David fakes a heart attack to avoid a fight
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+17Reminds me of Fred Sanford always having the big one.
- zyklon, on 07/06/2008, -7/+23@imbob
Yeah, because social healthcare will TOTALLY turn us into the Soviet Union. - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -1/+14i usually have someone call me and I pretend I'm a doctor who just received an emergency call. works every time.
- DocHoliday22, on 07/06/2008, -0/+12"He could get up to nine months in prison and a $10,000 fine."
Did you not read? - DaDrake, on 07/06/2008, -4/+15Fairly well known fact about the US health care system.... if you can't afford for emergency care, you don't pay for it. This is why 11/12 of your ER bill in CA is from other patients (mostly illegal) who didn't want to pay.
- Jenadae, on 07/06/2008, -0/+11Seems to be the new "in" thing...
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+11You hear that Elizabeth? I'm comin' to join ya, honey!
- ZeroFive1, on 07/06/2008, -2/+12I LOVE how freethinking capitalists get insulted at the thought of treating sick people for free.
- mikephimikephi, on 07/06/2008, -2/+12@TheKrillr
I like this thread - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -2/+10sad.
- t4stringer, on 07/06/2008, -3/+10clever...
- NoDisk, on 07/06/2008, -0/+7Astoundingly, these are two separate stories, chronicling two separate idiots, faking two separate heart attacks, for two dumbass reasons.
- Shownarou, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6That's exactly what I was thinking when I first read this..
- CosmicJustice, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7You guys have a queen?
- avnerlevit, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6dude.....
- gowingsgo, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7I'm coming to join you, Elizabeth, this is the big one!
- Mazrin67, on 07/06/2008, -1/+6Nope.
The sue-happy individuals are now loaded. It's the rest of us poor folks that have to deal with it.
One of the -many- cases of the few ruining it for the many. - DocHoliday22, on 07/06/2008, -11/+16You guys have to pay ambulance bills?
Man I love England.... - saxreturns, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Actually, in the book, he doesn't get his meals free - the people who save him begin to feel responsible for him and send him letters and cards with money attached afterwards.
- jb0nd38372, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5So there are some older diggers on here after all!
- mootnote, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5According to the Encyclopedia Dramatica article on digg, there's this guy what's his name (forgot and ED is down now) who copies everyone's content that failed to get on the front page and then gets it on the frontpage because he has over 9000 digg friends.
- maexus, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5If I remember correctly, he was looking for money from the person who saved him more than just a free meal.
- betona, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4Look on the bright side: He'll get 3 square meals a day for free for up to nine months.
- alpine75, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4Here's a more complete story about the faker.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=769144 - KilGil27, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4applebees? you'd think he could come up with something classier
- slimnickyy, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5You'd assume the ambulance and hospital fees would far exceed the $20 scams he's pulling. He'd been smarter to simply dine and ditch.
- pak314, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5Are you implying one of the asian workers is dying their hair?
- DulcetTone, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4He should be cardiac arrested for this infarction of the law.
- DaDrake, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5If you can't pay for it, the hospital won't be able to charge you. Instead, the hospital adds the cost to other patients, with insurance, and "lucrative" practices that are non-essentials but pay well (Births, plastic surgery, etc are examples of practices that tend to fund other non-profit parts of the hospital)
- MacParrot, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4Yeah keep waiting for that. You can stand over there by the same guys waiting for yet another 2000 election recount
- zyklon, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5Half of us simply don't get it. While I'm in the US Army and have Tricare (A universal military comedy system), I still have to walk off my injuries.
- nyx210, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5The insurance usually covers it. But what happens if you don't have insurance? You're ***** buddy!
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4A great follow-up to this story will come when he dies, hopefully of a heart attack. Oh sweet irony.
- ScionX, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4It's because he was being sarcastic and other people picked that up while he, and now you as well, didnt....
- loaff, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3Larry David?
- lead2thehead, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3And when he has a real heart attack, nobody will believe him.
- atbnet, on 07/06/2008, -1/+4I know when my grandmother had to be transported from her nursing home to the hospital in an ambulance it was about a $1000 trip. But yeah, people who don't have insurance are usually *****. The hospitals realize this and just pass the expenses on to those who have insurance. But you are still on the hook for the bill.
- madcowalien, on 07/06/2008, -5/+8people are such idiots. this is one of the reason prices to go up. if someone wants cheaper food, clothing, insurance, medical care, etc, he/she should have thought about that before we became sue-happy as a nation. we've made our bed, now we've got to sleep in it.
- iizh, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sarcasm
- DejectedRobot, on 07/06/2008, -1/+4Once I had taken an ambulance ride to the emergency room, and a week later it turned out my insurance wouldn't cover it. I was under my father's insurance which is for retired FDNY firefighters. I had to cough up about $600, just for a being knocked unconscious.
- maddawg08, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Choke anyone?
- Sihing, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2Hahaha... I'm glad someone else has read that book. I was going to say that then I saw this comment posted!
- Kvasaari, on 07/06/2008, -2/+4Dupe. Buried
- gryphon50, on 07/06/2008, -1/+3insurance pays for it. If you don't have insurance, then you are billed astronomical sums. Of course, some people simply can't pay them, so hospitals charge everyone else extra to make up for it.
- ortucis, on 07/07/2008, -0/+2Is that supposed to be a question? If yes, then no.
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