Navy medic charged $60 for doing good deed

PARMA, Mich., April 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. Navy medic who stopped on a highway to help an ambulance in Parma, Mich., said he was stuck with a $60 towing fee after he left his truck behind.

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Tim Moore said he abandoned his truck at the side of an exit ramp to help calm a "hysterical" woman whose husband was being treated for a heart attack inside the ambulance, the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen-Patriot reported Monday.

Moore said he was asked by the ambulance crew to help administer CPR on the way to the hospital.

The man died in the emergency room and Moore said insult was added to injury when he learned his truck had been towed.

Jackson County Undersheriff Tom Finco said abandoned vehicles are usually tagged for about 48 hours before they are towed, but Moore's truck represented a travel hazard because one corner of vehicle was protruding over the line onto the exit ramp.

Moore said the owner of the towing company declined to cut him a break on the $60 fee.

"It was obviously extenuating circumstances," Moore said, "but that's his right."