Firstly. If this concerned son hadn't of had inside knowledge This wouldn't of been a story. It would of been ambulance arrives. Ambulance picks woman up. Women gets taken to hospital. Most people wouldn't spot the difference. but taking the article apart get the following You'll note in the intro the woman says that she expects paramedics to turn up every time she phones 999. They make it sound like it was passed to SJA without being looked at by LAS personel. He appears to be acusing the 'first aiders' of impersonating "paramedics". Am I guilty of impersonating a paramedic when walking around a first aid event in a big yellow and green jacket with "First Aid" written on it and people call me a paramedic? Am I guilty of impersonating a police officer for those times I have been called a police officer when on duty. I blame the media, calling everybody with any ambulance conection a paramedic. I saw a news of the world story about some celeb that had a minor accident go carting. The story said she was checked out by paramedics when the picture shows two johnnies with black (non HCP) rank slides. Now everybody expects a paramedic to everything and if its not a paramedic it might as well be a cubscout who once did a frist aid badge It did make me wonder, that bloke wasn't that old but apparently he was worked his way up to both paramedic and Detective Sergent in this time. I think SJA made a mistake in chosing that member to use in the footage (asuming it was chosen by then and not just library footage), since he does live up the the old image of a johnny. Ok thats my spleen vented