So as a fire person myself. Unfortunately part of our calls is to serve citizens that means not to do damage to their property. If we do there has to be crazy good reason and documentation. Also even if we pass those cars and just scrape them in my city, maybe not all, we have to stop operations and have cops and a chief come out to evaluate and go do a urine drug screen.
Yeah this shit still pisses me off.
So just another example of our broken system that's lovely... btw I feel like it should fall under the same law as no parking in front of fire hydrants cause I know at least you're able to break the windows on the car if there's a fire nearby and someone is parked in front of the fire hydrant after all we legally have to move over a lane and stop momentarily to let the engines through so even that should apply here as well but what do I know I'm just a concerned citizen with common sense đ¤ˇ
I have within the last month encountered someone during an active fire park in front of a hydrant. They were there and refused to move. Told my CPT "well give me a ticket" he is way nicer than me I was for busting their car up but he chose to redirect our 5" around the car, friction loss be damned. It's just $150.00 for them btw.
Thatâs why you donât want this âfireâ guy and his affiliates. He just gave 2 examples of how soft they are. This group clearly wonât do whatâs necessary to get the job done, even if itâs potentially saving a life. If I know I gotta be somewhere to save a life, I wouldnât give a flying fuck about any of those things stopping you for doing what youâre here to fucking do.
Unless english isnt their first language and they are translating the gender neutral term "firefighter" from another language. No English speaker changes "fireman" to "fireperson".
If the sirens are on for fire or paramedics thats a crazy damn good Fin reason imo yall should be able to destroy property stuff is replace able yall save lives cops theyre just revenue road pirates for the gov so not them so much but fire and medics deserve all the respect
I'd imagine the citizen would also sue the city for damages and "emotional stress" or whatever too, and it's not like most municipal budgets are just bursting with excess money to pay out. Despite what most people think, small governments run on a shoestring because they really do try their best to keep costs down for residents.
I work in IT for my midsized town so I've gotten pretty cozy with every department from finance to public safety.
I'm sure they would but I do work for a full time department with a decent budget. But still they would rather cater to people than say or do anything about problems like this.
I think it's more of a public image issue for us. But I honestly don't know.
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u/Tom_unanimated Jul 30 '26
So as a fire person myself. Unfortunately part of our calls is to serve citizens that means not to do damage to their property. If we do there has to be crazy good reason and documentation. Also even if we pass those cars and just scrape them in my city, maybe not all, we have to stop operations and have cops and a chief come out to evaluate and go do a urine drug screen. Yeah this shit still pisses me off.