11-17-2004, 11:30
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Might as well yell CLEAR !
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David Lee Roth's new gig: Paramedic
09:17 AM CST on Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Associated Press
Would you want your life in this man's hands? NEW YORK - Rocker David Lee Roth, the former Van Halen frontman, is taking up a new trade.
Instead of screaming "Jump," he'll be yelling "Clear!"
Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday.
"I have been on over 200 individual rides now," said Roth. "Not once has anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me."
The singer, who spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo career, except for a collaboration with the band for two new songs on a greatest hits album, has been riding along with crews in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn several nights a week.
His training seems to be going well.
Several weeks ago, Roth saved the life of a heart attack victim in the Bronx by using a defibrillator.
Roth takes his work so seriously that he did not want publicity so that it would not "diminish what I am trying to do here." He has said that he did not want the neighborhoods he was working in named so that he would not draw attention to himself or co-workers.
"You would never know you were dealing with a rock 'n' roll guy," said Linda Reissman, Roth's EMT consultant and tutor. "His commitment really is touching. He wants to help people."
Roth told the Daily News earlier this year that his father was a surgeon and that he worked as a surgical orderly in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
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Diamond Dave as an EMT ?
Good for him
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11-17-2004, 11:45
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Well, it certainly is an alternative method to get access to drugs.
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11-17-2004, 12:31
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Can you imagine his bedside manner? LOL!
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11-17-2004, 13:22
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I can see it now,
"UH, Mr Roth, this works different than an amplifier, you don't turn it on HIGH to start out"
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11-17-2004, 14:01
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Do defibrillators go to 11?
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11-18-2004, 13:15
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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Do defibrillators go to 11?
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Classic! 
Only in "Spinal Tap".
TR
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11-18-2004, 13:29
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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Do defibrillators go to 11?
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He won't need one - imagine the shock to look up and see Diamond Dave as your EMT
That would be enough to startle anyone back to a normal heart rate
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