First of all, just a quick hello, I've been following your blog for a few months, and it's brilliant. Regarding the post, I don't know how often ambulances are vandalized in Portugal, though I guess it won't be much different, especially considering the "treatment" crews must get from most of pacients, but I remember that last year, everybody was mighty angry when an ambulance parked open, waiting for the pacient to be loaded inside, was stolen. Of course that the alert went out and police caught the guy 10 minutes later, a few kilometers up the road, and luckily another ambulance arrived a few minutes later to carry the pacient and no harm was done, still... If I was the family of the patient I would surely have to be manhandled from punching the guy! And I would press civil charges against him.