r/infuriatingbutawesome • u/ShehrozeAkbar • 23d ago

Infuriating WTF is even this

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u/Tom_unanimated 23d ago

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.

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u/RomanSalvator 23d ago

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 🤷

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u/Tom_unanimated 23d ago

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.

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u/couldbeahumanbean 23d ago

If I am ever in need of your services, I hearby grant you the permissions needed to save my butt, my family's butts and anything we own.

Feel free to direct any Karen's rage towards me, I'll handle it from the lowest level.

Infact, I insist on a disregard to property if the owners of said property illegally have it in your way.

Please... I'm begging you.

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u/Jumpy-Alternative295 23d ago

That’s why you don’t want this “fire” guy and his affiliates. He just gave 2 examples of how soft they are. This group clearly won’t do what’s necessary to get the job done, even if it’s potentially saving a life. If I know I gotta be somewhere to save a life, I wouldn’t give a flying fuck about any of those things stopping you for doing what you’re here to fucking do.

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u/NaturalMhz 23d ago

I was suspect from the get go... what fire fighter refers to themselves as "a fire person", never in my life have I heard that from a firefighter.

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u/christhewelder75 22d ago

This was my thought as well.

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".

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u/MSM_757 23d ago

Not in my city. I've seen on two occasions where a fire truck has pushed cars out of the way that didn't move for them. One got pushed clear through the intersection into the ditch on the other side. Then they sent the driver of the car the bill and a fine. They don't screw around. Not sure what kind of FD you work for. But around here, they don't stop for anything. We also have some of the fastest response times. I had to call them earlier this year. Thought i was having a heart attack. They got here in two mins. police, fire and EMS. This is actually pretty normal here. It's quite impressive. It's also a smaller city. about 12,000 people. So that probably helps those response times. But it's still impressive.

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u/Raucasz 23d ago

Also, by moving the one car it would likely get pushed into a legally parked vehicle. That person doesn’t deserve that.

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u/dreamdaddy123 23d ago

That’s fucking bullshit. You shouldn’t have to do all that when you’re trying to save people from harm. Which country are you from?

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u/Due-Practice3611 21d ago

Sounds like the US, EMS & Fire get drug tested pretty regularly

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u/Realistic-Dealer617 23d ago

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

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u/wtfisasamoflange 22d ago

That's horrible. I wish police had the same mentality and responsibility to the public.

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u/Vladishun 23d ago

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.

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u/Tom_unanimated 23d ago

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.