Shropshire AS do 1000-1100 a day? I find this a bit hard to believe, having worked there. I know you have a bigger area, but most of your jobs are, at least, genuine. WMAS run at an average of 1200-1400 a day. New Years Eve saw a quiet evening with most city centre based crews wondering if someone had blown up a phone exchange somewhere - personally, my crewmate and I did only 2 calls between 1900 & 0002. Ambulance Control were reputed to be very worried as they had more vehicles than calls to send them to :-) At 0002, it went berserk and we'd exceed 350 calls in the first two hours or so - extrapolate THAT for twenty-four hours. Oo-err... And yes, mainly alcohol induced stuff, but also including one stabbing, one shooting and a firework blown up in a kids face. Shed loads of assaults, alcohol induced injuries and some combined - witness a houseful of pissed Polish twenty-somethings where the supposedly injured party had been the one throwing a kitchen knife at her boyfriend, he himself covered in minor lacerations and abrasions. Why was she injured? "You take her away, she mad, she not normal" He became enraged when I explained that we couldn't take her as she did not want to go. We withdrew and requested urgent Police backup.