Beware, Hansel and Gretel.
A Long Island volunteer ambulance service hosted a pervy holiday party with a raunchy gingerbread house and gummy bears arranged in a sugary simulation of an orgy, a federal lawsuit alleged Tuesday.
The 2015 bash also featured an assortment of offensive messages scrawled on the cookie house — including “sexual harassment in progress” etched into its roof, the suit charged.
Plaintiffs Ramis Ruiz, 21, and John Messing, 41, accused their fellow volunteer EMTs at the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Rescue Ambulance of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination.
The two EMTs “haven been extremely humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed and emotionally distressed,” charged the 34-page Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
“Collective defendants’ conduct has been malicious, willful, outrageous and conducted with full knowledge of the law.”
According to the suit, Ruiz was slandered during a election for the service’s assistant chief position by charges that she was “sleeping around with (fellow) members” to win votes for her candidate.
Ruiz complained about sexual harassment and bullying, but gripes fell on deaf ears.
Messing claimed he was suspended after backing Ruiz in her gripes about harassment, and eventually fired from the department.
Messing “was terminated for reporting sexual harassment and for supporting Ruiz, who was intimidated and appeared to need help,” the suit charged.
The pair sued the ambulance service along with four of its officials. Ruiz and Messing requested a jury trial in the case.
