Drunken Limo Passenger Punches Okla. Paramedic
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May 31--Oklahoma City police accuse a Mooreland man who had drunkenly vomited on himself in a limousine of punching a female paramedic in the face, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Braydin Michael Farrow, 22, was among a group of people the limo driver had shuttled between bars late May 21 when Farrow asked for a ride back to his hotel, an officer wrote in the report. Farrow soon started throwing up on himself and the interior of the limo and passed out.
The limo driver called authorities shortly after midnight May 22 from a Ramada Inn, 2200 S Meridian Ave., and firefighters pulled Farrow out of the limo and put him on a stretcher, according to the report. He came to as a female Emergency Medical Services Authority paramedic was evaluating his condition.
Farrow punched the paramedic once in the face with a closed fist, the officer wrote. He was handcuffed to the stretcher, taken to a hospital for medical clearance and booked into the Oklahoma County jail on complaints of assault and battery and public drunkenness.
Farrow was released from the jail on bail and has not been charged, records show.
Farrow is 6 feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds, according to the report. The paramedic was not seriously hurt.
EMSA spokeswoman Lara O'Leary said assaults on paramedics are an unfortunate part of the job and happen "more often than you'd think."
