HIJINX

While working in Commerce City, CO on ambulance 29, me and my partner were constantly at war with ambulances 28 and 27. Most of our mischief consisted of practical jokes and booby traps. One night (around midnight), ambulance 28 received a run. Knowing that they would be gone for a while, my partner and I ventured over to their station.

One of the EMT's on the rig (like clockwork) would get back from a run and immediately go to the bathroom. I was the creative one on my truck.... So, while they were gone, I used 14' of nasal cannula tubing and spliced them all together to make a long tube. I hooked one end of the tubing to the tube in her toilet in her room that filled the toilet bowl. I then ran the tube up the wall and through the ceiling and aimed it over her bunk through the ceiling tiles. The object was, when she got back from their run and went to the bathroom before going back to bed.... When she flushed the toilet the water would go through the nasal cannula tubing instead of in the bowl and eventually travel through all 14' of tubing dumping on her bed at precisely the same time she climbed back into bed for what was supposed to be a restful....DRY sleep.

Just as planned, they coded back in quarters around 1:30 AM. Of course, my partner and I were waiting up for for them to get home. At around 1:50AM the phone at our station rang. I answered it to a screaming yet MAD ambulance 28 EMT. Apparently my plan worked awesome and just as she got all snuggled back into bed the waterfall started... and continued... and continued... and continued... until her bed, her sleeping bag... and herself were drenched.

All I could say through my laughter was GOT YA!