NY Patient’s Ambulance Joyride Ends When Police Spike Tires

NY Patient’s Ambulance Joyride Ends When Police Spike Tires
An ambulance arrives at the emergency entrance outside Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in a file photo. Mike Segar/Reuters
The Associated Press
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y.—A patient stole the ambulance that had taken him to a New York City hospital and took it on a 25-mile joyride that ended when state police used a spike strip to stop him, authorities said.

The incident unfolded early Thursday after a 47-year-old man was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in Manhattan for observation, police said.