A Pennsylvania patient aboard an ambulance claims they “got high and admitted to crimes” to dispatch and responders while being rushed to a hospital. They allegedly took an edible that was excessively intoxicating, causing them to hallucinate and say some outrageous things. Now, they fear they’ve been put on watch by the police, though several hundred online users felt their worries were an overreaction.
Posting to r/legaladvice under the name Wonderful_River8702, the person said they called 911 because they believed they were going to die after taking their unexpectedly “powerful” edible. During their call, they said that they “admitted to some heinous crimes they never actually committed.”
After allegedly making a scene for the EMTs, OP was discharged from the hospital later on, but the question in their mind lingers: “Why haven’t I been arrested?” They express fear of how police might be watching them now, but several commenters assure them that emergency patients acting a little ‘excessively’ isn’t uncommon.
Commenters Point Out That Dispatchers and EMTs Often Deal with Patients Spouting Nonsense
“Intoxicated and mentally ill people will say all sorts of things. If there’s zero other evidence connecting you to the crimes, they’re not going to arrest you based on that,” said a Redditor. Another claiming to have worked as a dispatcher said that things would be fine. “You were probably caller #5 with the same rant,” they remarked.
Others shared the same sentiment of how people who are high or mentally unwell “confess to crimes” regularly, so it’s unlikely anything would come of it. As one user put it, “[The] dispatcher probably heard worse stuff that night and knew you were just fried out of your mind.”
Commenters from r/bestoflegaladvice reacting to the same post expressed similar thoughts of how someone admitting to crimes wouldn’t be a big deal, but could mean something else is amiss. One Redditor wrote, “This is a really common thing schizophrenics do and marijuana has been known to provoke episodes in people with diagnosed or undiagnosed issues.”
Regardless, Wonderful_River8702 does seem to be in the clear, at least according to their comment section’s general consensus. Not to mention, they claim it was their first edible ever, a “500mg thca gummy,” a dosage which might better explain their story all on its own.
