[NYDAILYNEWS] Frustrated EMTs are sometimes stuck waiting for hours watching over dead bodies -- lengthy delays that make city ambulances unavailable for emergencies for long stretches of time, the Daily News has learned."Lieutanant Doyle! You've come to take over on these dead guys?"
"No! Stick 'em up! That looks like about a 40-ounce soda!"
EMTs are required to stay with deceased patients -- even if they're dead of natural causes -- until the NYPD gets on the scene. But if cops aren't available, then the ambulance crews have to sit there -- unable to respond to the heavy volume of calls.