Moron Parks in Front of Fire Hydrant

[RickB]

Many of the comments were if I have a chance and reason to legally damage a car I will

My take is that too many keyboard jockeys are disrespecting first responders. I bet their tune would change if their house caught fire. There’s more morons here than in the OP’s photo.

 

[aczlan]

Many of the comments were if I have a chance and reason to legally damage a car I will

And if I were stupid enough to park in front of a hydrant and a nearby building caught on fire, I would expect the FD to place the building, the lives of anyone in the building and the lives of the firefighters over my illegally parked car...

Aaron Z

 

[Jstpssng]

And if I were stupid enough to park in front of a hydrant and a nearby building caught on fire, I would expect the FD to place the building, the lives of anyone in the building and the lives of the firefighters over my illegally parked car...

Aaron Z

That seems to be the attitude of many anyways. Me first, the rules only apply to other people.

 

[k0ua]

Here is what I have learned from this thread. Some of us really do park in front of fire hydrants, and if there was a fire and the firemen had to break out your windows to run their feed hose, some of you would pizz and moan about your broken windows and suggest that the firemen have a meeting, or call a wrecker to tow your car instead of fighting the fire in the most expeditious rapid method possible. My personal opinion is that if you are stupid enough to park in front of a hydrant, and your auto suffers some kind of damage you should be man or woman enough to shut the "heck" up and accept what ever happened to your vehicle. And by the way, pushing a car with an automatic transmission with a fire truck will possibly do more monetary damage to the transmission (parking pawl breakage) than two broken side windows. Rant off.

 

[aczlan]

Here is what I have learned from this thread. Some of us really do park in front of fire hydrants, and if there was a fire and the firemen had to break out your windows to run their feed hose, some of you would pizz and moan about your broken windows and suggest that the firemen have a meeting, or call a wrecker to tow your car instead of fighting the fire in the most expeditious rapid method possible. My personal opinion is that if you are stupid enough to park in front of a hydrant, and your auto suffers some kind of damage you should be man or woman enough to shut the "heck" up and accept what ever happened to your vehicle. And by the way, pushing a car with an automatic transmission with a fire truck will possibly do more monetary damage to the transmission (parking pawl breakage) than two broken side windows. Rant off.

Yep, if you have to replace windows, rollup windows can be pulled at the junkyard and put into your car without much to do.
A transmission, door, hood, trunk, etc is more difficult to replace...

Aaron Z

 

[Diggin It]

instead of fighting the fire in the most expeditious rapid method possible.

That isn't always the first priority:

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...ving-fire-safety-post5366273.html#post5366273

 

[Streetcar]

The website about damaged cars had many responses from people claiming to be firemen. Many liked the damage and were called out by other firefighters. Any profession that involves a lot of adrenaline will have more than average number of idiots. Police fire and military come to mind. Most are good but some are bad.

 

[lilranch2001]

Diggin it, every time you post on this thread you seem to lose a little more respect.......

 

[ruffdog]

Diggin it, every time you post on this thread you seem to lose a little more respect.......

Diggin a hole.....diggin a hole.....


ps...I've NEVER parked in front of a hydrant....most likely never will.

 

[Garandman]

This happened in Boston in 2014. New BMW (my shocked face) blocking a hydrant nearest an 8 alarm fire.