Oh, that makes me really cross. Not just the fact that the family whinged about not getting an ambulance for their poor little diddums (I'm used to that), but the sycophantic way the newspaper reported it (agony! yes, broken toes hurt!), and the fact that no criticism was made of the child's father refusing to get a cab because "he couldn't afford it". If he really cared about his son's pain that much, he'd have coughed up. The ambulance service's response annoys me too -- they shouldn't have said he would have got an ambulance, they should have pointed out that this call was a load of old pants. I wish they'd put another article in the paper: "80 year old having heart attack waits 15 minutes for ambulance whilst all vehicles are out dealing with poxy children with broken toes". AARGH! RAGE!!!