On May 27, a was responding to an emergency call, and with sirens on, became blocked en route by a pickup truck which would not move over, police reports state. When the pickup truck did pull over, the emergency responders were given the middle finger and treated to the blaring of a hand-held air horn from the pickup’s driver, according to police report. The ambulance crew reported the vehicle’s license plate and a warrant was obtained for the driver.
Nearly one month later on June 20*, two detectives coming back from an area detective conference located in Norwalk spotted the pickup truck—they were already familiar with the driver—and coordinated with Norwalk police in order to execute the arrest, police said.
The driver, identified as Matt Klein, 42, of Rose Lane in Danbury, was charged with breach of peace in the second degree and obstruction of an emergency vehicle, which are both infractions.
Police said that Klein said he was sorry that he had behaved as he did and that he had been upset at a recent bill he had incurred after having had to use an ambulance’s services for undisclosed reasons.
*Erroneously reported as July 20
I'm so tired of picking up all the factual errors in the reporting by Patch "editors" who fail to do their job. I don't care if they don't get paid much for it, I don't get paid anything to read and find their errors either! I think it's time AOL starts investing in some real editorial talent and a copy editing team to go along with it if they want to be taken seriously going forward here. As for the ambulance being blocked by a lunatic truck driver, I hope that the person they were on the way to save didn't die waiting for them to arrive; otherwise that truck driver is looking at a lot worse charges against him.
I view your response as a bit childish. I do believe you make a lot of careless mistakes on the Patch. When called out on them, you usually thank the poster and fix them. Why not in this case? Instead, you poke fun at this poster's screen name, via a mock error. That is disrespectful to the poster and unprofessional in my mind. Hmmmm....could hiring editors like this have anything to do with Patch's financial difficulties?