Woman Arrested After Calling Ambulances for Free Rides Downtown

A woman is arrested for calling ambulances for free rides.

Gas is way too expensive these days. A woman in South Carolina came up with a solution, albeit an illegal one, to that problem.

51-year-old, Audrey Ferguson reportedly called Emergency Medical Services roughly 100 times over the course of seven years. According to the Dorchester County Sheriff's Office , the sneaky lady was pretending to be ill so she could get free, Medicaid covered rides to the downtown area of Charleston.

Ferguson would reportedly ask ambulance drivers to take her to the hospital, but suspicions were peaked when she would decline treatment at the facility and would take off on her own. On April 2nd, 2013, she called for one of her ambulance rides and arrived at the hospital. A deputy was waiting for her and took her away in the back of a police car for misusing 911.

Earlier this year, a 67-year-old granny from Queensland, Australia landed in court for excessively calling the national emergency call line, triple-zero. In five years time, the woman dialed the ambulance service nearly 1,000 times, causing taxpayers to shell out roughly $1 million.

The elderly woman was found guilty of 302 charges and the court banned her from telephoning triple-zero.