Emergency service vehicles

Our emergency service personnel are wonderful and do magnificent, life-preserving work and I would never, in any way, seek to under-value or criticise them but I do wonder if, just occasionally, the drivers amongst them do large it a bit on the old siren front.

For example, at about three o'clock one morning recently, an emergency vehicle came tear-arsing along the main street with sirens on full blast. I'm not entirely convinced that, at that time of day, there were too many other vehicles on the road that required such a deafening indication of what was occurring. Instead, the vehicle's passage simply shattered the repose of a number of residents in the vicinity and sentenced them to spend the rest of the night, awake, uneasy, tossing and turning and tormented by images of sinister BBC weatherman Daniel Corbett.