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AN ENGLISH DRIVER has been fined more than £1,000 (€1,170) for turning his car into a fake ambulance.
Shaun Scandle, 31, was handed a fine of more than £1,000 and nine points on his licence when he appeared at North Shields Magistrates Court following the incident on 9 September last.
He had fitted his car with blue lights and a siren in a bid to turn the vehicle into a fake ambulance has appeared in court. Police were called by staff at the Tyne Tunnel near Newcastle who were concerned at the speed the vehicle was travelling through the rush hour traffic.
Officers made enquiries with the North East Ambulance Service who said they had no record of one of their vehicles being in the area at the time.
Northumbria Police visited Scandle and found his white Renault Megane had been covered in livery to make it look like a rapid response vehicle.
They also discovered he ran a business called Hadrian Medical Services offering first aid at events across the North East for which he used the vehicle.
He had been providing first aid for the Tour of Britain cycle race and had been travelling to Blyth to attend a medical incident he had been called to.
He pleaded guilty in order to avoid a lengthy driving ban.
The judge also approved an application by Northumbria Police to destroy the equipment he used to create his fake ambulance.
Sergeant Alan Keenleyside, of the Operations Department, said:
“This may seem like a bizarre story but the reality is Mr Scandle was putting lives at risk through his behaviour on the road”.
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Well named…
Scandle…..classic. Where would you get that? Fools and Horse maybe. What a PLONKER!
Rapid response vehicle and Renault Megane don’t belong in the same sentence.
But when fitted with ‘les bleus’ it probably could get around rapid enough!
That’s scandleous.
Making the first pun in relation to this scandle
Scandleous behaviour.
Was he also impersonating and actual first responder or was he a trained first responder who turned his car into a rapid response vehicle?
Manys a time i did the same in GTA – those were the days – i remember when it was top down running over the hare krishna’s LOL
And yet it’s OK for four to stick lights and a siren on their car, carry strange guns and shoot at innocent ghosts?
i ain’t fraida no ghosts
Slimer wasn’t an innocent ghost either Sean C, greedy little messer is what he was,
…and then he got sucked into the box. You can’t mess with the box though, open the lid of Pandora’s box at your peril.
Mr Ryanair never thought of this , he just bought a taxi
He runs bars and niteclubs as well as providing First Aid services.
http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/hexham-nightclub-dontinos-reopen-sports-4412868
What a numpty, is there such thing as the Walter Mitty Awards?
Yeah – in Lisdoonvarna every year…
Very inventive. But very immoral.
We could do with him here….
Non sensical as always Goings
What a ledge
I’ve converted my bicycle to look like a postmans. Means I can cycle on footpaths.
Is he a magician?
Not a believer in nominative determinism but every now and then you have to wonder…
He should have been jailed. It really is a scandal this carry on.sorry scandle!
I blame his m
But job
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