LEMONT, Ill. — An Illinois father says he can't believe his son received a speeding ticket while rushing him to the hospital because he was having a heart attack.
William O'Neil, 60, suffered his first heart attack in 2011, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Four years later, on Sept. 27, he was grocery shopping when, he said, "I got this strange feeling, disoriented."
O'Neil said he went home, went to bed and started having chest pains.
"I told Mike, 'We're going to have to go to the hospital,'" O'Neil told the paper.
So his son, Michael O'Neil, 30, hopped in the driver seat, and they started heading to a nearby hospital.
They were driving down the interstate when an Illinois State Trooper pulled them over.
"Mike was kind of waving out of his window for the guy to come as soon as possible," William O'Neil told the Sun Times. "I was just sitting on the passenger side."
William O'Neil said the trooper approached the car on the passenger side.
"So I rolled down the window, and he said, 'What's going on?' And I said, 'I think I'm having a heart attack. We're on the way to the hospital.' I said, 'If you will allow me, I will reach down onto the floor for my bag of medication.'"
"So he told me to lift up the bag. I lifted it up, and he said, 'You don't look like you're having a heart attack,' which, you know, was pretty rough. I mean, that's pretty rough."
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The trooper ended up calling an ambulance to take William O'Neil the rest of the way to the hospital, and the trooper left Michael O'Neil with a $1,500 speeding ticket for going 82 mph in a 55 mph zone.
The next morning, on Sept. 28, William O'Neil underwent surgery for another stent for a blocked artery, hospital records show.
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