Summary

A Minnesota kid stole an ambulance over the weekend and took it on a joy ride. Sunday morning, paramedics left their ambulance running outside a Kansas City home while they went inside. An 18-year-old from Cokato, Minnesota apparently stole the ambulance. Police spotted it near St. Joseph, MO and an one hour chase ensued. The ambulance was finally brought to a stop when State Troopers spread spikes on the roadway. Ronda Scholting has the story.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 24023
Story Slug Ambulance Stolen (02/10/1997)
Location Kansas City, MO
Format Pkg
Date 2/10/1997
Archive Time 49:43
TRT 1:35
Supers Ronda Scholting, Rptng Forest, Missouri James Bedler, MO State Trooper John Tezon, Paramedic Scott Hoek, Paramedic
Video Description Vo of paramedics getting stuff out of ambulance, sots with troopers and paramedics, vo where ambulance was parked when stolen, vo of ambulance in snowy ditch
Description A Minnesota kid stole an ambulance over the weekend and took it on a joy ride. Sunday morning, paramedics left their ambulance running outside a Kansas City home while they went inside. An 18-year-old from Cokato, Minnesota apparently stole the ambulance. Police spotted it near St. Joseph, MO and an one hour chase ensued. The ambulance was finally brought to a stop when State Troopers spread spikes on the roadway. Ronda Scholting has the story.
Script (SOT) The last time these paramedics saw this ambulance, it was sitting on a downtown Kansas City street. They caught up to it more than a hundred miles later. After state troopers and sheriff's deputies stopped it, just south of the Iowa border. With a teenage driver inside. (FOREST natsnd) The paramedics had answered an emergency call inside this building. While they were taking care of the patient-- the ambulance disappeared. (SOT) Troopers say while the 18-year-old driver sped through 4-counties, they tried everything to slow him down. Including putting out spike strips to puncture the tires. The first try got the front tires, but the driver kept going on the rims. It took another strip that blew the back tires before the ambulance ended up in the median. (SOT) (sot) At the Mast Dispatch Center, paramedics answered calls about the theft and the pursuit. It was up to them to find help for the patient left stranded when the ambulance was taken. (SOT) That patient is in the hospital. The teenage ambulance driver is in jail. sig-out. TAG: The patient who needed the ambulance was not suffering from a life-threatening illness and was taken to the hospital by a second ambulance. --- end ---
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