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Imagine that you are lying on a stretcher, in horrible pain, with only minutes to live. Your ambulance driver is almost frantic to get you to the hospital because he knows that your life is ebbing away, and the only way to save you is to take you to the emergency room where the doctors and nurses are waiting to help you.But, he cant make much progress because the vehicles around him are not yielding to the ambulances flashing lights. Other drivers barely budge as the emergency vehicles siren blares futilely; your driver feverishly honks the horn, but his path remains blocked.

Youre dying, and few blocking the way of the emergency vehicle seem to care.

What if that was your child in the ambulance? Your mom or dad, sister or brother, or your best friend?

Minutes, seconds, make a difference.

Ask Bob Baker, the Gateway High basketball coach, what that trip is like. He made it last week, and barely survived. Baker suffered a major heart attack, a widow maker in medical jargon, that sees about 90 percent of its victims perish. Baker beat the odds, literally, by minutes. But, not because his emergency vehicle driver got much cooperation from drivers between Bakers Lakeside home and the hospital.

I dont remember much about that trip, but I do remember the driver honking his horn and cursing because people wouldnt get out of the way, Baker said. Idiots.

We couldnt agree more with Bakers description of those thoughtless individuals who fail to yield to emergency vehicles.

Idiots, they are.

Idiots who should be caught and punished. Wed like to ask them if it really ruins their busy day to pull to the curb to let an emergency vehicle pass. Or, are they too wrapped up in their music or their cell phone conversations to even know what is happening around them?

Idiots, indeed.

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