Thread: Necessary Warning

Originally Posted by cosperryan

Its like the hot coffee lids at mcdonalds, somebody would use it as a way to sue them

Somebody did, hence the warning.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Somebody did, hence the warning.

Yup, and later when the money ran out she admitted it was a hoax.
~Richard

There are a lot of people out there with absolutely no common sense, and many of them are well educated. It's pretty scary.

With that, my firefighting helmet has a warning in it saying something to the effect that firefighting is inherently dangerous and can result in
injury or even death. Damn, I wish I knew that 20 years ago!

John

Originally Posted by kerryman71

There are a lot of people out there with absolutely no common sense, and many of them are well educated. It's pretty scary.

With that, my firefighting helmet has a warning in it saying something to the effect that firefighting is inherently dangerous and can result in
injury or even death. Damn, I wish I knew that 20 years ago!

John

You're a firefighter - interesting, a buddy of mine is a Captain in the Fire Department. Told me a story of how he and a huge crew went on an alarm at a housing project area for a laundry fire. It was a lot of smoke, nothing else. When everything was under control, it was the lint in the container that backed up and started smoking. He asked the women, pointing to the sign that said, "clean and remove lint before each use", why it hadn't been cleaned, from what looked like months, her response was that it wasn't her job to do that with a large dose of attitude.

He scoffed at her, made some remark that she took the wrong way, and promptly filed a complaint against the department and him. No thought "ping" bouncing around her empty head that a) her and others could have caused a major fire with potential injuries and property damage, and b) that to dispatch two ladder trucks and dozens of personnel for a potential fire at a housing complex probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.

I couldn't believe it, was stunned, but he said he see's it all the time and that basically, "you just can't fix stupid."

Originally Posted by Phrank

I couldn't believe it, was stunned, but he said he see's it all the time and that basically, "you just can't fix stupid."

Yup, to paraphrase Forest Gump, sometimes life seems to be a box of stupids and you never know which one you are going to get.

Bob

Originally Posted by kerryman71

There are a lot of people out there with absolutely no common sense, and many of them are well educated. It's pretty scary.

With that, my firefighting helmet has a warning in it saying something to the effect that firefighting is inherently dangerous and can result in
injury or even death. Damn, I wish I knew that 20 years ago!

John

About 20 years ago one of the guys in my zone on midnights, about 3am, rolls up on Lincoln Road Mall (outdoor mall about 10 blocks long)on Miami Beach. He gets on the radio & tells the dispatcher that there's a 3 alarm fire at the corner of Lincoln & Washington business on fire, about 4 seconds later he screams into the radio, "There are at least 5 businesses on fire, tell the fire department to send everything they've got." The police dispatcher sits next to the fire dispatcher in the comm center, so of course the fire dispatcher hears this as its being broadcast. She does her job & tells Miami Beach Fire to send all they have, she then presses a button that links her with the rest of South Florida & asks for help from Miami. The trail of engines at 3am crossing the bay from Miami alerted the media helicopters & they flew toward the scene.

Before the response could be halted , I had counted 11 engines, that's just what I could see. What my zone partner had failed to notice from the beginning, was an Orkin fumigating truck about 4 business down, parked on the mall, with a large diameter hose running into the door of the business, pumping in bug killer,,, so much that it filled the business traveled the shared ceilings of the other businesses & filled those businesses too,,, the excess fumes rolling out from under the doors of the other businesses.

We rushed the zone cop who called it off, out of there before the firemen could get to him. The next night at roll call , the fire chiefs from two cities attended & presents him with a kid's fire hat & made him Honorary Fire Marshall,,,,, he retired 15+ years later & firemen from that night were there & made sure he didn't forget that night.
Stupid knows no limits.

Originally Posted by Phrank

You're a firefighter - interesting, a buddy of mine is a Captain in the Fire Department. Told me a story of how he and a huge crew went on an alarm at a housing project area for a laundry fire. It was a lot of smoke, nothing else. When everything was under control, it was the lint in the container that backed up and started smoking. He asked the women, pointing to the sign that said, "clean and remove lint before each use", why it hadn't been cleaned, from what looked like months, her response was that it wasn't her job to do that with a large dose of attitude.

He scoffed at her, made some remark that she took the wrong way, and promptly filed a complaint against the department and him. No thought "ping" bouncing around her empty head that a) her and others could have caused a major fire with potential injuries and property damage, and b) that to dispatch two ladder trucks and dozens of personnel for a potential fire at a housing complex probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.

I couldn't believe it, was stunned, but he said he see's it all the time and that basically, "you just can't fix stupid."

You can't fix stupid, but you certainly get to pay for it.

Originally Posted by Phrank

You're a firefighter - interesting, a buddy of mine is a Captain in the Fire Department. Told me a story of how he and a huge crew went on an alarm at a housing project area for a laundry fire. It was a lot of smoke, nothing else. When everything was under control, it was the lint in the container that backed up and started smoking. He asked the women, pointing to the sign that said, "clean and remove lint before each use", why it hadn't been cleaned, from what looked like months, her response was that it wasn't her job to do that with a large dose of attitude.

He scoffed at her, made some remark that she took the wrong way, and promptly filed a complaint against the department and him. No thought "ping" bouncing around her empty head that a) her and others could have caused a major fire with potential injuries and property damage, and b) that to dispatch two ladder trucks and dozens of personnel for a potential fire at a housing complex probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.

I couldn't believe it, was stunned, but he said he see's it all the time and that basically, "you just can't fix stupid."

In the "Furnace Problems are dangerous" thread I mention a few things such as that. Sometimes when you tell someone how their waiting for someone else to
do it may cost them or their family their lives or at the very least destroy their belongings they get it, but not always. The key is to let them know how it will
affect them, because they generally don't really care about anyone else.

John