Guest guest Posted September 1, 2000 Report Share Posted September 1, 2000 Wasn't he one of the " Riders of the Purple Sage " ? Barry, Blackwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2000 Report Share Posted September 1, 2000 That was a different one. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2000 Report Share Posted September 2, 2000 Mark, Just a little side info.....Ted Felds, the Great-Great Grandfather of modern day EMS in the Houston area...could not stand Ransom !!!! I knew Ted a long time....and he went to his grave not liking Ransom Scarborough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2000 Report Share Posted September 2, 2000 In a message dated 9/2/2000 21:15:38 Central Daylight Time, sremtp20@... writes: Mark, Just a little side info.....Ted Felds, the Great-Great Grandfather of modern day EMS in the Houston area...could not stand Ransom !!!! I knew Ted a long time....and he went to his grave not liking Ransom Scarborough Did ANYBODY like Ransom? I can't recall anyone ever saying so. His mother, perhaps? :~) GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2000 Report Share Posted September 2, 2000 In a message dated 9/2/2000 19:07:41 Central Daylight Time, bmcclung@... writes: Rancid Swill, err, uhh, I mean Ransom Bill was dumped by HCEC long before I was even dreaming about riding on an ambulance. He started the " Volunteer Mercy Corps " (yeah, right...), and ran in the Ship Channel area. Pretty good at scamming, if you ask me. The last time I saw one of his rigs (late 87, I think), it was a Ford Type II, painted some nauseating combination of green, orange, gold, and dirty white. It had more lights, horns, and sirens on it than several COMPLETE FLEETS that ran in Houston around the same period of time. GG: YEEHAW!!! That's it EXACTLY!!! It also rattled and made so much noise and emitted so much smoke that people would duck and run when it passed because they thought one of the refineries had blown up. Also, as I recall, there were about 10 antennas of different sorts, mostly CB type LARGE fishingpoles. I think he had something like 10 or 12 ads in the Yellow Pages, all with the same phone numbers, but with different names! :-) Eeeek!!! What nitemares this brings back! Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief North Blanco County EMS City, Texas When I was in Denver there were companies with multiple listings also, like A Acme Ambulance, AAA Ambulance, AAA Emergency Ambulance, AMBULANCE SERVICE CO., AID Ambulance, First AID AMBULANCE, AIDS Ambulance (this was, of course prior to HIV), and so forth. GG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2000 Report Share Posted September 2, 2000 Rancid Swill, err, uhh, I mean Ransom Bill was dumped by HCEC long before I was even dreaming about riding on an ambulance. He started the " Volunteer Mercy Corps " (yeah, right...), and ran in the Ship Channel area. Pretty good at scamming, if you ask me. The last time I saw one of his rigs (late 87, I think), it was a Ford Type II, painted some nauseating combination of green, orange, gold, and dirty white. It had more lights, horns, and sirens on it than several COMPLETE FLEETS that ran in Houston around the same period of time. I think he had something like 10 or 12 ads in the Yellow Pages, all with the same phone numbers, but with different names! :-) Eeeek!!! What nitemares this brings back! Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief North Blanco County EMS City, Texas [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > You're not an EMS Turtle unless you can answer this question: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 Yes i know-i was one of Ted's students in the early days of EMS (69-73) . Worked at the Astrodome, Houston Fire Academy and Texas A & M with Ted in the early days. He (Ted) use to give us some 4X4s and a wheelchair to take care of the people at the dome. He had lost his hearing the the Texas City Disaster, he used to wear a hearing aid that didn't work but hurt our ears when he tried to turn it up lol. Avery good man, I can't say the same of R B.. You are a real EMS turtle if you can remember who Fred Nailer was. Mark L. Hill, AAS, LP Gemini Training Services Houston, Texas www.geminitraining.com Stay Safe-Be Happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 Sorry i forgot to sign the post on Fred Nailer. Mark L. Hill, AAS, LP Gemini Training Services Houston, Texas www.geminitraining.com Stay Safe-Be Happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 I didn't get my start in Texas as most if not all of you did, but I remember Chuck Curtis when he was in Shreveport La, before he graced the State of Texas with his presence. That was back in 1972, when I came South. Ed Brando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 Gene, Even that was questionable! GS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:11:09 EDT emsbrando@... writes: > I didn't get my start in Texas as most if not all of you did, but I > remember Chuck Curtis when he was in Shreveport La, before he graced the > State of Texas with his presence. That was back in 1972, when I came South. > What say Gene- Turtle, Grade 2? " Leadership is action, not position " Larry RN CFRN NREMTP ....and some other stuff (including survivor of the VMC 1976) ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 3, 2000 Report Share Posted September 3, 2000 Yeah, Brando is definitely at least a Turtle Grade II. Anybody who remembers Chuck Curtis is right up there with those who remember Ransom. For you young pups and pupettes, Both Chuck and Ransom were famous for bad quality in innumerable ways. They were most famous probably for jumping calls and developing ingenious ways of tricking people into calling them, e.g. multiple yellow page listings and monitoring every frequency known to man. Does anybody still have a returned check signed by one of them? Gene Gandy, Turtle Advisor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2000 Report Share Posted September 4, 2000 When I worked with him in Shreveport, he was also a cameraman for Channel 3, KTBS. He carried a camera with us in the unit and if we heard anything going down, we went, he filmed, and after we dropped the patient off at the hospital, we went directly to Channel 3 to drop off the camera and get another one. Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2000 Report Share Posted September 4, 2000 I can maybe go one better. Worked for Chuch Curtis on one of his trucks for a few days part time when he came to Tarrant County and took over Lake Worth. He was only here for about a week. He had 2 units only one of which had any " real " equipment on it and he never let anyone but himself and his partner go anywhere in it. After about a week we came in and all of the equipment was gone, and he had vanished as well. It made for an interesting day as we called the news media and the city to tell them what had happened. Have a bounced check from Chuck,, No.. I never even got that far...... Still livin and learning... Randy FF/EMT-P and all of that other stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 5, 2000 Report Share Posted September 5, 2000 I remember Chuck " Cut Throat " Curtis, he ran in the Dallas area in the mid-eightes. It was rumor that he would offer bounty's to his employees for such things as competitors tire stems, mirrors, and various other ambuli parts. If I remember right the Dallas Ambulance Assoc. wouldn't let him be a member. Shiplet Whitewright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2000 Report Share Posted September 6, 2000 I remember a few years back when Chuck had the VA contract in Houston and we had the aeromedical transport contract for Texas VA patients. Such rattle-trap, crummy rigs I never saw. Such doofus-ignorant medics you wish you never saw. They were never on time and, more than once, the rig didn't make it to the VA hospital without a breakdown. Supposedly, if I have the story right, Mr. C also had a brief foray up in the Ft Worth-Dallas (no way, no how is Ft Worth a suburb of Dallas!) area before his Houston gig. So the story goes, he had to leave town due to allegations of pedophilia which were apparently not substantiated, and may not have been justified. Back in 1989-90 he resurfaced with a new EMS service to handle calls for some of the lake cities that had decided they didn't like MedStar anymore. It was typical; almost all the meds were expired, a lot of the equipment didn't work, and they pulled a scam to get past the TDH inspections that were required at that time. Came the first pay day for the medics, Mr. Curtis and the bank accounts couldn't be found. A little later that same morning came a police officer (I think a county constable, actually) with a writ to impound the vehicles and equipment, completely dumfounding the medics, one of whom was she-who-is-my-wife. He stiffed them all for two weeks pay and rooked the small cities he'd contracted with, too. To this day, I still itch to demonstrate to Mr. Curtis that I've kept up with some of the quaint barbarian customs of my Celtic ancestors. >:^\ Dave Re: [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > > I didn't get my start in Texas as most if not all of you did, but I remember > Chuck Curtis when he was in Shreveport La, before he graced the State of > Texas with his presence. That was back in 1972, when I came South. > > Ed Brando > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2000 Report Share Posted September 7, 2000 Dave My ish and Welsh ancestors taught me some interesting techniques, too! Maybe we can get together over lunch and compare notes? I'm sure that between the two of us, that Chuck would get the " point " .;-) Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief North Blanco County EMS City, Texas Re: [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > To this day, I still itch to demonstrate to Mr. Curtis that I've kept > up with some of the quaint barbarian customs of my Celtic ancestors. >:^\ > > > Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2000 Report Share Posted September 7, 2000 But do you have a kilt, and drink Guiness Stout? Only then can you call yourself a Celtic Cowboy. Barry E. McClung wrote: > > Dave > > My ish and Welsh ancestors taught me some interesting techniques, too! > Maybe we can get together over lunch and compare notes? > I'm sure that between the two of us, that Chuck would get the " point " .;-) > > Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief > North Blanco County EMS > City, Texas > > Re: [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > > > To this day, I still itch to demonstrate to Mr. Curtis that I've kept > > up with some of the quaint barbarian customs of my Celtic ancestors. >:^\ > > > > > > Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2000 Report Share Posted September 7, 2000 Actually Mike, I do own a kilt. ;-) And as for Guiness, it's one of my favorites! As a notorious and historic " Pub Crawler " , I order it any time I have a chance. And considering it consistently rates a score of 20 (of a possible 20 points) in most simplified beer scoring scales, you can see why! Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief North Blanco County EMS City, Texas Re: [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > But do you have a kilt, and drink Guiness Stout? Only then can you call > yourself a Celtic Cowboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2000 Report Share Posted September 7, 2000 I gotcha on the Guiness, although me better half claims it makes her ill to watch me drink it. My solution? I tell her to look the other way. Guiness, BTW, makes a fair substitute for tractor oil, if yours is running low. As to the kilt, my grandparents were, with the exception of one grandmother, all from Ireland. I don't ever recall the subject of kilts coming up, although I recall seeing such sported at some gatherings when I was a kid. They weren't a tartan pattern thought. Guess I'm a kiltless Celt as things be now. Dave Re: [texasems-L] EMS Turtles > > > > > To this day, I still itch to demonstrate to Mr. Curtis that I've kept > > > up with some of the quaint barbarian customs of my Celtic ancestors. >:^\ > > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2000 Report Share Posted September 7, 2000 Dave, You ought to see the way it works as oil in a Ford Powerstroke! Better than Chevron Delo! ;-) And I've actually got Scot, Welsh, AND Irish ancestors. Besides, tis better to be a kilt-less Celt, than a britches-less Briton! :-) Barry E. McClung, Paramedic/Crew Chief North Blanco County EMS City, Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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