A teenage boy has been charged after allegedly throwing rocks at an ambulance on an emergency call in Melbourne.
Police said the male was allegedly observed throwing rocks from a multi-storey residential building in Nicholson Street, Carlton, about 10.40pm, on Thursday.
A number of rocks struck pedestrians and vehicles passing by, including a metropolitan ambulance with its lights flashing and siren blaring, police said.
Police quickly arrived at the scene and arrested a 16-year-old and a 19-year-old male.
The 19-year-old was cleared of involvement in the incident, but the 16-year-old was charged with reckless conduct endangering life, discharging a missile, unlawful assault and criminal damage.
He has been bailed to appear before a Children's Court in April. One of the paramedics in the ambulance at the time of the alleged incident, Shaun Urie, said a a rock the size of a tennis ball smashed into the windscreen.
'It's incredibly frustrating. We're going to someone who was potentially critically unwell on a lights-and-sirens job and someone just decided off their own bat they would throw rocks at cars passing by,' Mr Urie said.
'We're very thankful it didn't go through (the windscreen), given that the projectile would have entered my left chest area had it actually penetrated the windscreen.'
The ambulance was on its way to treat a man who'd had a seizure and another ambulance had to be sent.
