MEDIC MOUSE whispers the real story of his mousenapping
and return to Kim Pelton, 11, of Sidney. She was one of the
youngsters who attended a reception at Sidney municipal
hall Thursday to welcome the rodent back fo B.C. from New
York.

There are two sides to the Medic
Mouse story.

The mouse’s employers, B.C.
Ambulance Service, maintain the
righteous rodent was mouse-
napped by dastardly villains from
New York City’s Emergency Med-
ical Services.

But New York’s deputy chief
Paul Maniscalco, explaining him-
self Thursday to Sidney mayor
Norma Sealey, local ambulance
staff and a circle of youngsters,
claimed Medic Mouse came to
New York for a holiday.

A skeptical Sealey opted for the
B.C. Ambulance Service version,
issuing a proclamation welcoming
Medic House home “after having
been mousenapped by the New
York City Emergency Measures
Service.”

In honor of Medic Mouse’s
return, she ordered that the day
“be marked with merriment and
the eating of copious quantities of
cheese; and be it further resolved
that the use of mousetraps shall be
discontinued while Medic Mouse
is a visitor in Our Community.”

Medic Mouse vanished after an
emergency medical seminar in
Yakima, Washington, last March.
The grieving B.C. Ambulance Ser-
vice learned through the Chicago
Emergency Services Department
that the B.C. service mascot had
been spirited away to the Big
Apple, probably by Maniscalco,

who was a speaker at the seminar.
When the mouse returned to the
B.C. Ambulance Service Thursday,
he was wearing a New York Emer-
gency Medical Services uniform
in place of his B.C. Ambulance

Service uniform.
Maniscalco glibly claimed

Medic Mouse had applied to join
the New York Service, was certi-
fied as a New York dispatcher, had
started a pension plan and aided in
the rescue of some people trapped
in a collapsed building, crawling
through spaces too small for a
human to bring medical aid to the
victims.

He also claimed the mouse
spent his first three weeks in New
York partying and visiting rela-
tives in the rodent house at the
Bronx Zoo. Displaying a bandaged
arm, he claimed Medic Mouse
became violent when told he had
to return to B.C.

Maniscalco announced he was
dropping any assault charges
against the mouse and that the B.C.
Ambulance Service had dropped
charges of being absent without
official leave against the nghteous
rodent.

“T need my name cleared,”
Maniscalco declared, but later
admitted to Sealey that he had to
prevent co-workers from removing
the mouse’s ears during the nego-
tiations for Medic Mouse’s returm.

That admission cast doubt on

Mousenapping: the inside siory

The Big Apple’s Emergency
Medical Services bit off more than
it could swallow when deputy
chief Paul Maniscalco heisted B.C.
Ambulance Service mascot Medic
Mouse from a conference in Yak-

The mousenapping — coordin-
ated between Maniscalco and B.C.
Ambulance Service public rela-
tions officer Lynn Klein —
included a little good-humored
one-upmanship as Klein proved to

‘Give us back our mouse, you raf’

ima, Washington last March.

“T got hate mail from third
graders,” Maniscalco said Thurs-
day, during a Sidney reception
welcoming the mouse back to B.C.

One group of children sent a
large banner to Maniscalco
demanding “Give us back our
mouse, you rat.”

the New Yorkers that B.C. rustics

could apply a lot of pressure to get _

their mouse returned.
Maniscalco admitted he began

fearing for his pension when mes-_

sages from the B.C. government
and the Canadian consul drew the

Continued on Page B6

the vacation story as did the 90-
minute detention by customs offi-
cials when Maniscalco entered
Canada and the waming Manis-
calco received from a red-coated
RCMP sergeant.

However the B.C. Ministry of
Health decided not to press
charges, said B.C. Ambulance Ser-
vices public relations officer Lynn
Klein.

“Chief Maniscalco was given a
Stem reminder by the RCMP that
on his departure from Canada, his
luggage will be closely scrutin-
ized,” Klein said.

Klein said the reception to wel-
come the mouse was held in
Sidney because Medic Mouse was
originally conceived in the com-
munity.

Klein hopes the New York City

emergency services will reimburse
the Ministry for the cost of re-
outfitting Medic Mouse in a B.C
Ambulance Service uniform.

_ Now I have to make a formal
request to the Minister of Health
for funds for a new uniform. Only
Medic Mouse’s running shoes and
identification card were returned,”
Klein complained.

In a prepared statement, the
metre-high stuffed mouse claimed
he was under a gag: order from the
B.C. Ambulance Service because
of the negotiations between New
York and the B.C. government.

“However it would appear the
B.C. Ambulance Service will
adopt the Big Apple as a natural
companion to Canadian cheese,”
the mouse said, referring to the
twinning of the B.C. Ambulance

TheReview Wednesday, September 5, 1990 — B

Service with the New York Emer- {
gency Medical Service.

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