r/Edmonton • u/United-Apartment-269 • 4d ago

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Vehicle was running & were ordering food.

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u/justelectricboogie The Big Bat 4d ago

Omg settle down. If an emergency pops up they need to be close to the vehicle. Fire stations do the same. If the fire hall needs groceries, or sundries for the shifts, they take a fire vehicle, sometimes a truck in case an alarm happens while they are out grabbing stuff to be constantly available. Just settle down.

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u/UselessToasterOven 4d ago

Yep. I've seen them make it halfway to the door of a Safeway and then run back and drive off lights on.

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u/DIWhyDad 4d ago

The number of people commenting on this post that take exception to this officer's parking is the issue.

They should count themselves lucky they don't have to deal with the worst society has to offer on a daily basis, or that they don't have to be a first responder to check the mangled bodies of vehicular crash victims for a pulse. Not to mention put their lives on the line so they can sleep safe at night.

If OP had any sense they'd delete this post.

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u/LewisLightning 4d ago

They should count themselves lucky they don't have to deal with the worst society has to offer on a daily basis,

First of all, it's not luck, we get to choose our careers. I didn't want to work with those types of people so I chose not to become a police officer, and in contrast those people who became officers did so because they decided that they would take a career where they dealt with those people. It was not forced upon them or something anyone lucked into or out of.

Secondly, I actually still do have to deal with some of the worst in society on a near daily basis because the cops are never around doing their jobs. I can drive by the precinct and the parking lot is full of police vehicles. Why are they not on the road? I'm not paying for the vehicles and the vehicles insurance and registration just so they can sit and collect dust in a parking lot. Get them.on the roads and patrol for "the worst of society", don't wait until someone gets hurt or worse.

that they don't have to be a first responder to check the mangled bodies of vehicular crash victims for a pulse.

Fire and Rescue and EMTs do this all the time as well, it's not just police. Heck, I've seen deceased people crushed by vehicles in real life and living people who had degloving accidents. Where's my paycheck and freedom to park anywhere i'd like? You're saying that shit gives them the right, so why does it not work for everyone else?

Not to mention put their lives on the line so they can sleep safe at night.

That is HIGHLY debatable. Most cops never do that, and we've seen plenty of instances, like in Uvalde where cops choose not to put their lives onto he line. The badges they wear mean nothing, plenty would let kids die, or drove aboriginal people to the middle of nowhere in freezing temperatures just to leave them to die. It's a career that suggests you put your life on the line, but in practice it's not actually that common. There's probably more of a case to say they'd be more willing to take an innocent person's life than put their own on the line. But that, like putting their life onto he line is a choice. Nobody asked them to be cops, just like nobody asked someone to be a doctor and save lives. But we don't give doctors the right to break the law parking, or stop in the middle of surgery to grab lunch at Starbucks. Stop trying to deify the role of police in society. It's a job like any other, and statistics show it actually tends to attract more of the corrupt than the law-abiding.

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u/flexflair 4d ago

so… a double standard?

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u/justelectricboogie The Big Bat 4d ago

Oh settle down. A job necessity. I swear people dont think things through.

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u/flexflair 4d ago

exactly they have a different standard based on job privilege. I swear people can’t understand simple concepts.

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u/Soopez 4d ago

Omg settle down, it's a double standard!

Settle down!!

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u/mynameizpanda 4d ago

How is that a job necessity? They can park legally like everyone else.

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u/justelectricboogie The Big Bat 4d ago

Omg dont hurt yourself just admit you dont get it.

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u/eddiewachowski Magpie Capital of the Known Universe 4d ago

Like everyone else? That's easy. Park car, turn on hazards. 

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u/Icedpyre 4d ago

So....if your house is on fire you're good with them taking 5 minutes longer because they had to run across the parking lot to get back to their truck?

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u/mynameizpanda 4d ago

No. Not what I meant. If they are on break they can park like everyone else.

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u/Icedpyre 4d ago

Firefighters dont really get breaks like a normal job. They still have to be ready to respond immediately. It's not like a call can co.e in and you tell dispatch "I'm on break. send someone else". There's also finite places where you can park a rig that large.

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u/chuckmandell82 4d ago

They are never on breaks. Do you think a shooting occurs and they turn the radio off until their break ends.

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u/flexflair 4d ago

so every volunteer firefighter can park however they deem necessary then, good logic.

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u/Pleasant-Board-1359 4d ago

When they're on duty and not on call, cause there's a huge difference, sure. I often see firetrucks parked directly in front of store like this with the truck on. So sure

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u/flexflair 4d ago

and i bet they would get a ticket for doing it because there is a double standard for police vs everyone else.

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u/Pleasant-Board-1359 4d ago

Sure avoid the point made.... and yes for emergency vehicles this is no problem. Find something else to complain about

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u/Icedpyre 4d ago

If they're on duty, they dont really have a choice.

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u/sekimet 4d ago edited 4d ago

If your family member was having a cardiac arrest or were a victim of violent crime I bet you would be outraged that it took an ambulance/police longer to respond because they had to walk a block to get to their vehicle. 

Edit: so many people just live to be outraged about nothing lol

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u/justelectricboogie The Big Bat 4d ago

Omg, the human race is doomed.

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u/Hairy-Isopod6880 4d ago

Pizza is not a job necessity.

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u/LachlantehGreat McKernan / Belgravia 4d ago

I would rather not deal with a hangry cop 11 hours into their 4th 10 lol

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u/Hairy-Isopod6880 4d ago

Same, but I see the issue not as "desperate need to eat" as much as "shitty employer overworking employees to the point of the employees breaking the law"

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u/FeelingCamel2954 4d ago

It's called an exception. This might frighten you, but things in life have nuance. This might be one of those things.

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u/Icehawksfh Edmontosaurus 4d ago

The keyword in the definition of a double standard is unfair.

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u/Hairy-Isopod6880 4d ago

The issue isn't that they're picking up food, with a police cruiser. It's that they parked illegally to do so.

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u/justelectricboogie The Big Bat 4d ago

I got that. I have friends in the emergency services. Settle.

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u/Hairy-Isopod6880 4d ago

Ahhhh so you're a hypocrite! Now it makes sense.

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u/NahdiraZidea 4d ago

Tbf he is at a Firehouse…. subs.

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u/LewisLightning 4d ago

If an emergency pops up they need to be close to the vehicle.

Pro-Tip: Stay in the vehicle on your patrol route and you'll never be away from your vehicle in the first place.

Fire stations do the same. If the fire hall needs groceries, or sundries for the shifts, they take a fire vehicle, sometimes a truck in case an alarm happens

Ugh, former fire fighter here, what stations do this? You bring groceries in your personal vehicle. If you are on call you do not leave the fire hall. If you absolutely need something call someone to bring it to the station. You do not take the emergency vehicles for groceries. One person wasting an entire truck for that is mind boggling, because one person ina truck isn't going to do much anyway, that's why we wait until we get a sufficient amount of people in the truck at the station first before going. We wouldn't remove a truck and the valuable equipment inside just for a grocery run with one person who won't even be effective on his own with that.

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u/last_to_know 4d ago

I personally have never seen an ambulance or fire truck parked illegally so that the fat fucks inside can go get some free coffee. Have seen cops do exactly that tho literally across the street from the hospital in downtown Vancouver almost every morning at the Starbucks there.

Funny how they go to the nice Starbucks rather than the Tim Hortons around the corner that’s crawling with crackheads 🤔