[UA] Creepy Paramedic

[Anthony H.]

Making this an avatar is just too easy for anyone to do for it to be any
fun.

Rather, let it be a curse for a someone who crossed the wrong person in the
Underground. Maybe he let someone die, and now he really, really regrets it.
Now he has to pay by the magickally induced compulsion to act like a
paramedic for the rest of his life. I can only imagine the torment that goes
through his mind as he dons the uniform he doesn't want to wear, but feels
that he must. I'm sure he loathes it.

He's likely insane in ways not apparent.

Even taking this concept vanilla and unaltered, it's freaky.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Scott Dorward <scott at microwavesushi.com>
wrote:

> Once again, a first aid course has proved to be a fine source of Unknown
> Armies inspiration.  My instructor for this one was an ambulance
> technician who works in the Midlands, and he recounted a number of
> anecdotes throughout the course.  One in particular set my UA sense off.
>
> Apparently he and a colleague responded to an incident and found another
> ambulance already in attendance.  This other ambulance was manned by a
> single paramedic, a volunteer like themselves.  My instructor mentioned
> that he thought there was something a little off about the paramedic, but
> couldn't put his finger on it immediately.  His partner had similar doubts
> and, as they were working, asked the paramedic what courses he'd attended.
>  The paramedic rattled off a list of qualifications, so the partner asked
> him who had been the instructor on his most recent course.  This led to a
> quick change of subject, which set off alarm bells.
>
> To cut a long story short, the apparent paramedic was nothing of the sort.
>  He had printed out a bunch of fake certificates, painted a van to look
> like an ambulance, put official-looking decals on it and had bought
> himself a paramedic's uniform off eBay.  It was this last part that had
> been nagging at my instructor, as the uniform was fresh out of the packet
> and still had folds in it.
>
> The more I thought about this, the more freaked out I was.  What makes
> someone get up in the morning and think, "I'm going to go pretend to be a
> paramedic"?  This man had an emergency radio scanner, and was driving out
> to emergencies, all for his own private reasons.  How creepy is that?
>
> The worst part was the little coda that the instructor threw in: "This was
> the first time I'd heard about this happening in the UK, but apparently
> it's quite common in the US".
>
> *shudder*
>
> - Scott
>
> --
> "I am perplexed."
>  - Aleister Crowley's last words
>
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