Firefighters let home burn

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Flexin

Does that trailer park not have cable, internet or newspapers? It happen to someone else. Pay the damn fee or move into the area that is covered by the station.

I'm glad we don't have that hear. I would hate ride the fire truck to a fire and not be able to fight it.

James

I couldn't do it.

Legal/financial shit aside, if I'm there with the means to save somebodies house from burning down, there's no way I could just stand there with my thumb up my ass.

JC

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I couldn't do it.

Legal/financial shit aside, if I'm there with the means to save somebodies house from burning down, there's no way I could just stand there with my thumb up my ass.

JC

Even if said person was well known for saying, "You guys are all suckers. We'll get the same service, without paying for it"?

[RACER X]

and who knows, maybe the fire chief said, fight the fire , loose your job.

[askmrjesus]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Even if said person was well known for saying, "You guys are all suckers. We'll get the same service, without paying for it"?

Yes.

My compulsion to do the right thing, is not dependent on the inabilities of others to do so.

Ed- Fuck the fire chief. If he was worth a shit at his job, he would have anticipated this scenario, and had a contract in hand, that would guarantee reimbursement for services rendered. Instead, he has a public relations nightmare. Schmuck.

JC

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Yes.

My compulsion to do the right thing, is not dependent on the inabilities of others to do so.

JC

My compulsion to do the right thing frequently stops at the point where I would be rewarding people, for being assholes. I wouldn't let them die, but their 52" flatscreen can burn in hell.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Even if said person was well known for saying, "You guys are all suckers. We'll get the same service, without paying for it"?

The fireman are getting paid anyway and most of the firefighters i know are prety highly motivated to fight fires (bunch of local volunteers and a handful of FDNY guys) so I would think that they were ready to go fight the fire but govt/politics played into it.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by tommymac

The fireman are getting paid anyway and most of the firefighters i know are prety highly motivated to fight fires (bunch of local volunteers and a handful of FDNY guys) so I would think that they were ready to go fight the fire but govt/politics played into it.

Now we know why I'm not a police constable or a fireman.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by papa_complex

my compulsion to do the right thing frequently stops at the point where i would be rewarding people, for being assholes. I wouldn't let them die, but their 52" flatscreen can burn in hell.

qft.

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

Yes.

My compulsion to do the right thing, is not dependent on the inabilities of others to do so.

Ed- Fuck the fire chief. If he was worth a shit at his job, he would have anticipated this scenario, and had a contract in hand, that would guarantee reimbursement for services rendered. Instead, he has a public relations nightmare. Schmuck.

JC

well this is the 2nd time this has happened in as many yrs, so it wasn't his first rodeo

contracts are worth the paper they're written on. dude couldn;t pony up $75 a yr ago, ya think he'll have more $ after his double wide burned up?

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by RACER X

well this is the 2nd time this has happened in as many yrs, so it wasn't his first rodeo

contracts are worth the paper they're written on. dude couldn;t pony up $75 a yr ago, ya think he'll have more $ after his double wide burned up?

Bet you they had no compunction against going out and buying a carton of cigarettes every week, too.

One carton = fire protection.