People are upset over FDNY firefighters breaking car windows for hydrant 

Gotta love it when someone threatens to sue. Filing a lawsuit is like buying a lottery ticket: there’s no guarantee that you’re going to win. Someone who blocks a fire hydrant probably isn’t going to win.

The defense of necessity forecloses any chance of success on such an action.

Pretty sure the lawyers fees are higher than just buying new windows.

@@jamesszalla4274 yeah that lawsuit in particular is like buying a lottery ticket with the numbers "πππππi" and being surprised when they lose

@@FullMetalPanicNL Good luck even finding a lawyer who will take the case. OK, amendment: non-ambulance-chaser. There are doubtless millions of scumbag shysters in America who would take it on a billable hours basis and give you mealy-mouthed assurances that you have a "good chance" but no - not if they are honest.

EXCELLENT!

GET FUCKED, BUREAUCRAT!

😹 nice

Figures.

The rules don't apply to them, until they do.

"Hopefully all this work is wasted. If not I'll be forever grateful I did it."

Exactly the same for us. Fire hydrant right on the corner of our property but luckily we never saw it in action. No one ever parked in front of it even when parties brought in a lot of cars.

Your dad sounds like a great guy.

city people vs suburban/rural people

@@tristanridley1601 Better a warrior in a garden that a gardener in a war and all that.

The fact that people are dumb enough to attempt suing for their illegal parking "I broke the law, I'm suing!" 😂😂 but, they were dumb enough to even park there in the 1st place so I guess its not really all that surprising.

A small part of me feels bad for the guy... but ultimately we are our own worst enemy and he did it to himself.

@arucarddimples1944 Don't feel bad. The fireman said the car was a junker, so that is why they broke the windows. Probably did the owner a favor by breaking the windows.

@@justinhand4518 The fire department would have broken the windows if it was a Cadillac. It is against the law to park in front of a fire hydrant blocking firefighters from hooking up hoses to put out a fire. The Cadillac owner’s claim for damages to his insurance company would be denied.It just pays to obey the law.

@@arucarddimples1944He rolled the dice. He came up short.

Welcome to the age of the Karens.

that's tiktok for ya, everyone is a couch expert

haha no it's just april fools day, people don't actually value some jerk's car windows over human life xD right? right guys?

The people who are complaining have parked in front of a hydrant. That's the only explanation.

@@JamesTK considering it's illegal to park in front of fire hydrants that would be expected

You are the hero they deserved.

I Love a happy ending!

Have seen something similar happen with a dude parked in a fire lane out front of an apartment building during a fire: the ladder truck just rammed it out of the way because they needed that ladder truck near the densely occupied five story apartment building *Right Now* and his sedan was in the way, and empty. He lost the suit, and his appeal for the fines, no idea about his insurance but I would not be surprised if he lost that too.

Some heroes have capes. Some have back hoes. 🙂

Bad water break.. Half the city.. Parked in front of critical control valve.. Any more sci-fi stories?

Good luck on that. It's like telling drunks to stop driving drunk. Never happen.

But I'll only be inside the Starbucks for five minutes! I'm sure it'll be fine to park in front of this fire hydrant that the law says not to park in front of! /s

To some people, it is exactly like rocket science

Imagine how great the world could be if everyone owned up to their mistakes, accepted the consequences, and learned from it like you did.

@@XxThePlaylistxXimagine how great the world would be if everyone was cowed and licked the boots of tyrants. You go against everything America stands for. Keep that attitude when you encounter a cop, it'll save your life. You worm.

I’m honestly shook at someone admitting a mistake so publicly. You are a good human

@@Emjay-ed2se Can't learn from a mistake if you can't even admit you made one. I'm a fan of learning, especially from mistakes.😀

Ehhh I'd still be pissed

"Stupid is supposed to hurt" is GREAT! My FIL said, "If your gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough," but yours seems more generally applicable.

I love grandpa

And as my dad said “you can’t fix stupid”

Life is hard. Life is harder when you're stupid.

Yesssss!!!!

Definition of sacking up and accepting the repercussions of your actions.

What??? Are you implying that actions have consequences? How can you expect people to know that?

This is the correct answer. It's the same answer you give when caught speeding. I got dinged for 28 over in STL. $2k ticket. My fault for not watching the speed limit and my speed.

Yeah way to many people these days don’t take responsibility for their actions

​@@RedlininRednecksnot a new thing

I don’t think the fireman are gonna ask for permission.

​@@brendanflynn5004If the owner is there, you get an excuse to go ramming speed

You know, I wouldn't have called the guy *_stupid_* ... Mainly because it would be an insult to stupid people.

Smart judge, arrogant driver.

@@GopherBaroque61 REMEMBER THERE ARE ALL levels of STUPID!! ( have to agree tho that that IS sort close to the bottom level )!!

And then the court house mysteriously burned to the ground

Maybe he didn’t want the fire to be put out. Looking for an insurance payout.

If only Fire/Rescue had known that car blocking the hydrant was associated with that burning house, they could have called for a tow truck just to prove the point of not breaking windows and waiting for the tow truck is STUPID.

@@FirstLastOne For all fire/rescue knew, there could have been people trapped in that house. The fire, if allowed to spread out of control, could have endangered other property. I can list a hundred reasons why WAITING for anything In a working fire is STUPID.

@@paulstone472 Yeah its not really a firemans job to prove a point or risk the fire spreading to prove said point.

There is probably a number of reasons why I’m not a firefighter. But one of those reasons for sure is in a situation like that. I’d start going real slow. Might light up a cig. Smoke break:)

There are ways to fix stupid, nut those fixes are, at the least, frowned upon.

Should we even wait for a fire to break their windows? Wouldn't it save vital time if the windows were broken ahead of time just in case?

You come from good people and fine heritage indeed.

That is why they have junky equipment and budge shortfall all the time!!!

We rarely have hydrants above ground, and parking atop a hydrant is rampant in some places. Here those same people will protest if we remove a whole parking lane in front of schools and such to ensure nobody blocks any hydrants. If they had respected parking code in the first place, the lane would have stayed. In places where only the hydrant got protected with bollards, people would park right next to the bollards and still block the hydrant. We do have one big advantage over the fixed hydrants though: we can rotate the crane pole away from parked vehicles to avoid nicks or folds in the supply line. So you won't see any broken windows here (in EU)

And complain about Hersey candy wrappers and Dr. Suess books....WTF is that cause it sure as hell is not a real issue in any sane world.....lol

@@desireegoulett69 Did… you just compare pronouns on a wrapper to racism in a children’s book? I’m not even mad I’m just baffled.

@@DeathnoteBB No....ugh...I was comparing the stupidity of the people in an uproar over those things to the people who have the nerve to complain about their windows after parking in front of a hydrant they blocked when there was a F**king fire because those who take issue with Hersey's because pronouns can be extacted or have a problem with making changes to children's books because wrong has always existed sp they fight to keep it that way baffle me in the same type of way where I scratch my head and think WTF is wrong with people? Good Grief Charlie Brown moments....lol

Akin to the people that show up city council meetings to bitch about Red Light Cameras. They're the ones that blow through red lights!

Speaking as a colleague of guys who brought a fairly indestructible PDA/tablet device back looking like they had tried to fold it like a book. I felt that breaking stuff.

@@lizcollinson2692 I was a Damage Controlman in the Navy. We did firefighting, flooding control, structural integrity, decontamination, etc. There was one time that we responded to a fire in a space belonging to Supply department. It was just a trashcan fire, and we got it put out quickly. The Chief Engineer just happened to show up to this fire, which was a bit unusual but not unheard of. As the on-scene-leader, I reported to him that the fire had been put out and we were testing for gases. When he found out it was a trash can fire, he pointed out the two fire extingquishers on the wall outside the compartment and said, "No, Petty Officer Jarboe, that fire is not out. No sailor would call the fire department for a fire that small when there are two unused fire extinguishers available. You obviously didn't find the fire. Get back into that compartment and tear it apart until you find the fire." By the time we left that compartment, not even one piece of furniture was in less than four pieces. Yes, firefighters know how to break stuff. LOL!

*breaking stuff in the way of the former

right hoses dont work unless you feed it into a car window. its not like the same job could have been done probably faster and safer if they just threw the hose over the car

@@timemageatomsk You've obviously never done much hose handling. Going over the car puts too much of a bend in the hose and can crimp it, restricting the water flow. Sorry about your luck with your car but that actually was necessary.

Yes, he is an idiot!

Yeah... I could have taken him much more seriously if he would have just admitted the REAL reason the break out the windows is because they can. And they get off on it.

Yeah, it’s fun to break stuff when you are legally allowed to do so. People will line up and pay at charity events just to get to hit a car with a sledgehammer 2 or 3 times. Now imagine instead, you get to do it for free, and you get to save dozens of lives and prevent millions of dollars in property damages. That sounds like a good time to me.

​@pirtatejoe i mean, of course ! if someones stupid enough, theyre gonna get the consequences. its hard not to enjoy it a little (especially with something relatively obvious here). this is a situation where the illegal action is LITERALLY putting people in danger. they dont just do it because they want to, but when they can, why not laugh at stupid ? youre already in a perilous situation

Remember, you are part of this mass of stupidity!

I don’t care how big you think stupidity is, IT’S BIGGER THAN THAT!

@@kennethjackson7574 😂

What happened to the car?

@@torte007 The dude had had warning notes on his car a couple times earlier. I seem to recall that the drive shaft was bent and tranny was broken. (That was a long time ago.)

Well, at least we know the mill was cleaned pretty thoroughly as there wasn’t a dust explosion. Or the conditions weren’t right or both

@@mikep490 It was a papermill for me, but similar... AND I just put the forks through the windows "being too rushed to think about trying to center the load and lower them properly"... SO you can imagine the reaction of the owner when he found it later. He didn't even believe that was his car, though... ;o)

@@torte007 As a firefighter the answer is; WHO GIVES A F#&K.

Its almost like there is a law that you can't park Infront of hydrants

Exactly

@@ey7290 it's almost like that law exists for a reason and not just to inconvenience these entitled people.

What's great is the city will not then pay for the repairs in many places

@@jomess7879 They shouldn‘t. It was absolutely the drivers own fault for being stupid and they have no obligation paying others for their absent intelligence. They should rather put a huge fine on top for endangering other peoples lives by hindering the rescue forces, so that the lesson is drilled in his skull just a little better.

"Saving lives, and breaking stuff! :D " Joke theory: So Firefighters are pretty much the USMC of emergency response units?

@@jessegd6306 I could see a firefighter saying ”rah-rah” instead of speaking.

We would be expected to quickly try to come up with plan b. Our DC doesn't like paperwork and if we smashed windows he'd have paperwork. That being said we'd only waste about 30 seconds before they'd get smashed

So wonder who's best at breaking stuff - Firefighters or Infantry? I suspect we'll never know...

*we even manage to break our own stuff. Without even trying to do so. That part fit with me, maby i was born to be a firefighter :-O

Well, they lost a lot of their home regardless, the structural integrity was most likely compromised from the fire, in most situations when a fire takes place (this is why most buildings become condemned after a fire takes place). But the saving lives part is the part that matters most.

​@@someweirdoguy6633 someone's life or their property? It REALLY BOGGLES THE FREAKING MIND HUH?

And yet, it seems to be a hard problem for some people...WAY more people than one should think possible.

I would have used the jaws of life to remove the roof, so they should feel honored that they only broke the windows on their illegally parked car🤗

Not for many people sadly. Different perspectives lead to different choices.

You already said the word.... "Education"

Its not that , no one cares about that its that so many of these situations it looks like they didn't need to break the windows or like they went out of their way to bend the hose over to the window when it didn't need to be , that its not about peoples lives or safety its about "teaching somone a lesson" that wasn't necessary, ive seen about a dozen of these events where the hose could have easily gone over the trunk or around the car but they just decided to run it through the car cuz they where dicks , not defending car drivers or people who illegally park infron of hydrants, I fucking hate car drivers I ride a motorcycle lol but there are legitimate reasons why people find this behavior stupid , literally no one is gonna say "you should have let those kids burn instead of busting the windows on tha Honda civic" dont be disingenuous Like saying I drove my truck through your house on my way to the hospital because I was trying to save my moms life you shouldn't have put your house in my way what else was I supposed to do? XD nah I still get charged with breaking your house but if we where kidnapped and held in your house and I had to tear down a wall to escape we would not , one was necessary and one was not do you see?

@@Cold_Cactus you are kinda missing the point, or several really. one: breaking your windows to teach you not to park in front of fire hydrants in the future is the point. two: it teaches others not to Park in front of fire hydrants and three: fireman like to break stuff, it is literately in there job description, give them any excuse and they will, if they can make it a teaching moment all the better. seeing things burn, break, and wanton destruction its often one of the reasons people get into fire fighting! they will let someones house burn to the ground once everyone has been evacuated to safety to protect other peoples homes and party to teach people to not let your house catch fire.

@@Cold_Cactus - You're just so full of shit. Man, just don't park in front of a fire hydrant. It's that simple.

@@Cold_Cactus Firefighters can't spend any time whatsoever deciding whether they can reroute the hose during an emergency. They'll route it through whatever path seems fastest and safest at that instant and not think twice about it. If someone parks in front of a hydrant, they have no one to blame for any damages to their car but themselves. I personally wouldn't care if the firefighters did it completely out of spite. By doing so, they may cause someone to reconsider parking in front of a hydrant in the future and save someone's life.

They used suction line with a hydrant? or was it a dry hydrant?

@@winctrlaltdel I am not a fire fighter, I'm a retired police officer. I was under the impression the line (hose) from the hydrant to the pump in the truck is called the "suction line". It connects to the suction side of the pump. If that is not the correct term for that hose, feel free to correct me.

That was uncalled for. The damn captain hogging the fun. Always let the rookie do it. It's called building morale.

@@larryangrimson7108he was a cop not a fire fighter

I’m sure a cop knows how to use an ax on some windows

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​@@7F0X7 that explains everything

@@7F0X7 My bad^^

​@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich keep calm with this shit arguments. I'm a woman and I can affirm that I drive 1000 better then a lot of men. Especially of my country. So, put down your stereotypes!!

​@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich that's sexist

My parents have a hydrant in front of their house, and the neighbors kept parking in front of it until my dad called the police.

Not surprising considering the country these days

I have seen way too many cars park in red zones. I've also seen cars with no placard or disabled plate park in blue zones. The only time I excused it the guy had a walker, so he was probably waiting on the placard.

People go through the driver's manual before testing. When they pass the test, both written and driving, the rules of the road go in the trash as well as the driver's manual.

Actually he was about 7 to 10 feet from the fire hydrant. In NYC the set the plugs at a 45-degree angle to the street, which makes the harder to hook-up to. NYC demands by statue you must give them 15 feet for their stupidity. If the 5 inch outlet was set to street side, the truck can pull the front bumper even with plug, they could access a lot easier. Less kinks, better water flow. Water department real screwed this up.

but why, what was the point of them doing this

That is not only childish, it's dangerous. Someone's house may be on fire or they may have a medical emergency that they are needed at. They should be fined, and charged for the fire department's time for their immaturity.

​@@nuhrii3449 Instead of calling a locksmith for a fee, they'd call the fire dept for free. That's why they did it.

​@@nuhrii3449Lost their keys or weren't really living there...

Lmao so the public calls you when they need help and you go to the extreme extremes to make sure they don’t call you. They should have chopped my grandmas finger off when she called them to help take her ring that was stuck on her finger off! 😂😂😂

LOL

Needles the say, you still got your heirloom ring in pristine condition? After washing off the blood ofcourse

Theres a string method that works very well for cases like that. Cant tell you the name of it though

@@messagegoeshere741 You're right. But how much swelling can happen and it would still work??

🤣😂lol Slightly terrifying, but a great reaction/question all the same.

Bingo

A new handicap sticker?

Amen, Lia. People like that deserve to have their windows busted.

Sorry, we don't make the rules.

"Welcome back to non-consensual towing"

man I hope he couldn't afford another one.

Can you imagine the look on the face of the driver’s children when they begin to realize they have the same DNA.

sounds like there was more than just a fire going on there.

I love it.

And a messed up transmission for pushing the vehicle against the parking paw. Unless you forced the selector by breaking the key lock.

Is that Feuer und Flamme?

@@malloc7108 Yes, yes it is.

@@malloc7108 you got it 😉

Sadly the Feuerwehr Bochum uses iron Halligan tools :( But I'd love to hear what FDC has to say about the show because I have rewatched every episode like at least 3x now lol

@@Finkelfunk same. 3x for every season except the last one. Haven't restarted that one yet 😂

Or they didn't take drivers ed. It's not mandatory everywhere. I didn't take it.

What country is that not mandatory?

@@chillz5967 at least part of the US, not sure about other countries. It depends on the state and county you live in. I did not have to take drivers ed, I had to do a five hour course. Of course my instructor for that class spent half the time telling us all the horrible accidents she saw when working EMS instead of what she was actually supposed to be telling us. It was a joke.

If I were to find my car damaged by emergency services having to move it or run a pipe through it, my first thought would be "Fuck, I hope my stupidity didn't cause them too much delay." Cars can be replaced, whatever the service was trying to save, probably less so.

To be fair, my school canceled their drivers ed course and the online course for Florida does not mention anything about this

For me the only thing better then seeing just the busted window is the car filled with water... Much harder hit of the wallet to replace everything inside and then top off the windows! LOL oh ya can't forget that little ticket as a cherry on top of it all... Can't fix stupid, but maybe can make the bill so high they can not drive! LOL

Not to mention, being in that close proximity to the fire - I'll bet the smoke and fumes had plenty of time to blow through and settle into every piece of fabric in that car.

@@marcusbardstown505 And that is exactly why if a car is involved in a fire, it goes to a specialist adjuster who handles fire claims specifically (unless it's a catastrophe like a wildfire).

Unfortunately replacing two broken windows isn't that expensive. Fortunately though, the ticket she's going to receive for the felony will be, so rest easy.

@@hannahlanai it's the smoke damage that probably ruined it... windows are a distant thought.

Being in the army it is always an inside joke about people married into the service loves to wear the rank of their partner. It happens a lot and they love to flex it on to others. One wife tried to force other soldiers to solute her in civilian clothes because her husband is a Major.

Oh yeah. That’s a fact as old as militaries. I served as a Corpsman, my partner and I at Naval Station Norfolk got a tone for a woman having a baby at the commissary. Turned out she was just really pregnant and weed on herself, but she needed to be checked out so we packed her up and told her we were taking her to Naval Hospital Portsmouth. At this point she started babbling about how we had to take her to Langley where her fighter pilot husband is stationed and when we explained we couldn’t go out of district she started trying to pull rank. She didn’t have any idea where we were actually going until we unloaded her In Portsmouth and at that point I just let the ED staff deal with it. 😩🤦🙄🤷

Definitely a satisfying story

She must have been an officer's wife. Officer's wives and officer's kids are usually the worst. (I grew up as an enlisted's kid--I saw it a lot.)

A Coastie Karen

I'm sorry you've had to be on the wrong side of a house fire! I hope things have worked out!!

Damn, here I was really expecting some whack job to weep over my broken window! Anyone standing in front of a hydrant, TAKE THEIR FUCKING LEGS. Regardless, your comment magically saved thousands of lives. Just the action of you typing this out has moved millions of cars. Great job citizen!

@@dilfonicz Nobody is suggesting anything against "standing in front of a hydrant." Someone parking their car next to a hydrant, and thus obstructing firefighters when a fire is ongoing, shouldn't be surprised if they find their windows smashed.

@@allisonhoff5805 Kinda wondering, is there a good side to be on during a house fire? :P

@@someguy4915 True, there's nothing good about a house fire. But I would argue that the owner of said house is definitely on a worse side than anyone else.

Time spent bulldozing (and potentially damaging your apparatus) is better spent on just grabbing the plug via whatever means.

Time is a factor. If you're dumb enough to park illegally, you forfeit your windows.

@@rangerman375 as long as the bumper is equal height or higher than the thing being shoved, there's very few vehicles that could do any real damage to a fire engine. They're designed for pushing shit out of the way in the case of a major incident where disabled/destroyed vehicles could be in the way and need to be pushed out of it. Or entitled dipshits leaving their shitwagons in places they shouldn't be and have enough markings that the ISS knows that car isn't supposed to be there. The only way you'll damage that is if you don't slow down before pushing things.

Get out of the car Get Glass management kit Take the Glass punch out(looks like a Metal marking punch) Break window with literally no physical effort (Maybe put on gloves before, or not if you're living on the edge.

@@rangerman375 nah, a firetruck won't take damage pushing a vehicle out of the way.

I love it stupid is as stupid does and this is a great explanation for it in action people vs the firefighters🤣

Damn....that's awesome lol. Not so much the douchebag woman, but that your state doesn't f$#k around with emergency personnel!

Glad she got arrested, but what was the point of threatening her with a gun to her face and pull her out? Was she trying to attack him? Otherwise seems extremely unnecessarily violent. If a police officer in my country did something like that for basically no reason he would be fired

​@@SpacemongerrYou must live in one of the countries that don't have qualified immunity. That must be really nice. In America, where I live, a cop can shoot someone for any reason and not get in any legal trouble for it basically ever, while also not legally being required to even attempt to protect people from a crime.

Tbh, when I heard this story, I was actually just happy he did it to someone who actually did something wrong rather than some random asshole that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

That was then. These days people will side with the car owner over the firefighters.

No they don’t.

I would have appealed the ticket for what the judge did, and had the judge disqualified for being bios The judge is fair, listen to all evidence, and to make a ruling. It is not his job to make to find a person guilty, before court. He showed he did this by having all available so to have driver apologize to them. I would have the judge sanctioned, and possibly removed from the bench. It is not his job to "ream out" people. This is a rogue judge.

This is a rogue judge. He showed he was bios by calling in the firefighter to have driver apologize to them before the court case. He should have been sanctioned, and even removed from the bar. What happened to innocence till proven guilty. He has no right to demand the guy to apologize to the firefighters. The judge duties are listen to both side and then to make a ruling.

​@@marcuslorensen8306 if the judge was a basic input/output system then I'm not sure it would have been able to issue rulings to be honest.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall. When that "important", lieutenant? Tells the wife how stupid she is. Good on you for helping to teach those people decent behaviour, and common sense.

@soul0360 believe it or not, it was usually Colonel and above. Though there was the occasional 2LT's wife.

Her husband would have been at least a colonel. A lieutenant would have told his wife to not park illegally.

I worked for the VA for sixteen years, and I've heard dozens of 'wearing husband's rank' stories. They are 98% chastened by their red-faced husbands, to my understanding. Security Chief's seldom have a problem ccing the base commander about incidents that involve that kind of question. Loved my veteran friend's stories.

I was in the US Army until 1980. When a civilian dependent was given a DR(ticket) by the MPs, the service man had to spend 2 weeks in nighttime drivers' ed. 2 US Supreme Court rulings were behind it. I suspect that it did not apply to officers' wives.

fire don't wait for no one

@@viperhalfdragon Neither do firefighters. 😆

"Women, eh ? Scheesch..." . . . .

@@fjb4932B You think you are smarter than *all women? * I have seen many more men park their expensive cars in front of fire hydrants and in parking spots for people with disabilities. That and the fact that some of us have IQs of Albert Einstein. I have met a lot of men who couldn't understand what I was talking about. Couldn't play loads of instruments with few classes. I mean, I have men who glaze over when I start talking about the latest scientific study or physics that I am looking at or playing with.

@@fjb4932 go back to the 1940s

"I bet those laws were created by men in power to flex their red line all over my vehicle tires!"

"THE GOVERNMENT CANT CONTROL ME!!!!!"

@@giftedfox4748 I know you're pretending to be a Karen, but it actually physically hurts to look at that sentence 😂

we have a bunch of kids at my college throw a fit when they are ticketed. Yea I parked in a no-parking zone, there were no nearby spots. Well then pay the fine. (these arent people just running in somewhere, they literally park there all night)

@@thatrandomnerd6996 The really scary part is Gifted Fox's comment isn't too far off from actual arguments I've heard some people make to defend their speeding and texting while driving habits. I've had people actually tell me that speed limits were never meant for public safety but to generate revenue for municipal organizations like the local city council or highway patrol.

Good job bringing attention to the hydrant problem, fire marshall!

Fire Departments often get the same kind of privilege that railway companies get. If you somehow obstruct/damage any of their infrastructure, you’ll be the one who fixes the problem, not them.

@@OneBiasedOpinion Quite understandable, given that if you mess with the fire department people can die as a direct result. Not that parking alongside a fire hydrant that has been rendered inaccessible by fencing should be a ticketable offense, but it DID expose a problem that needed to be fixed before someone died.

Sorry for the ticket and the friendly, ball busting nickname, but you did a good deed, and as we all know, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished! 😅 Cheers!

@@OneBiasedOpinion Understandable in both cases. Firefighters provide an essential service, protecting people's homes and ensuring proper safety when working with any sort of open flame. Railway companies are slightly less essential, but in their case you don't have an excuse since the tracks and right-of-way is obvious. Stay off the tracks or become chunky salsa, take your pick.

and the stupid attuited he is showing. All things should be on a single item judgement. NOTHING is black and white. He failed to mention that they had to remove the hose from the car as it was too restrictive to get good water flow and placed it in front of the car. I could see this before they broke out the windows. So, all they did waw to cause unnecessary damage. I am sure this will be brought up in court. It sure made me laugh to see them with egg on their face.

and the stupid attuited he is showing. All things should be on a single item judgement. NOTHING is black and white. He failed to mention that they had to remove the hose from the car as it was too restrictive to get good water flow and placed it in front of the car. I could see this before they broke out the windows. So, all they did waw to cause unnecessary damage. I am sure this will be brought up in court. It sure made me laugh to see them with egg on their face.

@@marcuslorensen8306 What part of illegally parked did you not understand? It's ok, take your time, comprehension is hard for children and Karens

But... a parking space is totally worth that risk. Sure your car might be damaged in the fire, but when are you going to find a parking space that good ever again? Priorities... (that was sarcasm btw in case anyone couldn't tell.)

That would make me question the marriage.

​@@IMHip2 The quality of the marriage isn't necessarily in question, just the husband's observational skills.

@@themindfulmoron3790 exactly

@@IMHip2 Y'know, honestly fair point.

My dad told us that exactly would happen, and he also said that we would owe him two new windows, and the cost of the ticket.

@@pbuck11 - Said no one ever.

My father was volunteer FD for over a decade and drilled it into me, my brothers and cousins to never block a hydrant for any reason and said this is exactly what they'll do. Do not risk putting lives in danger just for a convenient place to park.

I'll do the kicking!!!! 😂

definitely, it's a good thing they came out with a quick solution so they could start working, it's very unfortunate they had an obstacle in the way in the first place

Damn, I was just gonna say fine, or jail time but I like the way you think.

They deserve broken windows!

yes but lets not deify them

Interesting. So in Germany, do you have the raised hydrants too? This isn't an issue where I live & I've never heard of it being an issue outside the US, so I thought it was probably an issue with their equipment more than anything else, so interesting to know that somewhere like Germany also requires no parking in front of hydrants. Going by your country's response to emergency vehicles on the roads though, I'm guessing the parking in front of the hydrants would equally not be an issue due to social expectations & acceptable behaviour

@@mehere8038 Most hydrants are "frost free". Meaning the actual valve is underground. So, they're usable in any climate.

@@arthurmoore9488 ok, so why do you have the above ground things? In Australia hydrants are marked by a red "HP" or "HR" (meaning hydrant path or hydrant road) on the nearest power/light pole & a green "H" on the opposite side of the pole & when you find that, you look on the road or path in the red H direction & there will be a metal cover thing that firefighters lift up & attach equipment to the underground water pipe attachment thingy under the metal cover. On quiet streets, they are put onto roads, far enough out to be out of the way of parked cars, on busy streets they are put onto the path/curb instead, again far enough from obstacles & potential parked cars so as to not get blocked in & firefighters do regular checks on all of them to ensure there's no dirt or anything starting to cover them & presumably that also helps them to learn the locations of their local ones. Wouldn't that system of totally underground work better for you guys with any climate? I'm not used to snow, so I'm not sure, maybe that would be worse with the path ones with snow covering them, the road ones shouldn't be an issue though

@@mehere8038 It’s probably something to do with the climate. I live in Canada, and it’s the same type of hydrants here. Here the fire hydrants have to be no more than 244m from each other, and no more than 183m from the closest point of a house, and even closer if it’s anything other than a house. In Toronto, it’s mainly street parking, and they don’t block the area around it with a curb or anything (cuz they built the city before realizing how annoying cars parking on the street was). The renovated streets have physically designated street parking, and it’s literally impossible to park in front of a hydrant, but we have thousands of streets, so it’s impossible to have them all behind physical barriers. Also, it snows here in North America, like a lot. A couple years ago, we had enough snow that shut down Toronto, the snow was nearly 1m high. If it snows, that could easily block/disguise a pipe connection that’s on the ground, and in an emergency, it would take longer to connect (you’d have to shovel your way to the hydrant). It’s probably also easier to knock/kick off ice off a metal post and get it working than to stomp around an icy circular stump. Plus, all of them have a lever, or you can attach one, and get the water moving with easy leverage of your body weight while still standing, rather than getting on the ground and trying to get leverage that way. In icy conditions, the tower fire hydrants are probably the best. We do have flat hydrants, but they’re all usually attached to a building, outside and inside, inside on every floor. But there’s always a fire hydrant on the street regardless if the building has one attached.

Yes. Yes we like to use the rig to push illegally parked vehicles away from the hydrant.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 Especially as the driver jumps out of the crowd screaming "That's my car!". Yes it is,citizen.And you watched without a word as I put the truck in gear & started pushing forward.There's a Deputy over there if you would like to claim ownership.

Look at the fire in CO a few years back, taht sucker was spreading like crazy. Had a friend leave to go to the pharmacy, though he was fine, only to see his place up in flames (it was moving so fast). Don't mess with fire

I was at a festival a few years ago and we stepped out to run to corner store litterally up the street came back own of the builds roof was mostly on fire fire trucks came in right behind us.

Every fire in existence had a moment 5 minutes before the fire. This may be your moment!

If they were already breaking windows, might've as well passed the hose through the front doors. Might be a worse option that window breaking in terms of time, tho

I bet last year you "knew" better than the professionals at the CDC

@@NerdyCatCoffeeee Oh. Some break the doors instead of the windows. Oh, wait. I see, you're assuming that both doors are unlocked. Not in a city, baby. Lock 'em.

@@veramae4098 Why would any sane person leave their car doors unlocked?? That‘s not just in cities a very dumb thing to do. But then again a sane person wouldn‘t park in front of a hydrant aswell… 😐

@@NoFutureZine lol where's that coming from?

Ya, most insurance won't cover 'stupid...'

The good news is that hopefully one experience is enough to teach you a lesson and hopefully they won't park in front of fire hydrants anymore.

They’ll write them off all right, they just won’t pay you anything for them.

And depending on the area you can go to jail couse theirs a chance the glass could damage the hose on top of that your slowing the fire fighter down in my home town if you show up before the fires out the cops arrest you if you don’t they get you when you come in to pay the ticket or complain it’s something like a three mounth sentice that they let you pleaded down but it stays on your record

​@@seanbraley2772 Punctuation please! No wonder people don't understand you😂

I bet that rich prick's car provided plenty of needed traction for that forestry truck.

I've seen similar things happen too. It wasn't an emergency, but there was a snowstorm and an illegally parked car involved. Long story short, the plow won.

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That's halerious😂

I lived in VT where they had the same rule in a lot of places including the place I lived at.... luckily they liked to two like crazy but I'm sure if they couldn't get by a lot of cars were gone (everyone in VT had a snow plow attached to the front so they could help clear)... my dumbass forgot that rule and woke up one morning to look out and go ".... fuuuuuuuuuuuu" and then my only question to the very nice city plow person was "excuse me do you know where they tow the vehicles too?" because I broke the rule and I'm not punishing anyone else for my stupid.

Almost? I hope the judge didn't just throw it out immediately in order to give a false sense of hope to the guy before crushing him under the weight of the 'fuck you'. Much better that way.

Glad to hear this!!

@@AlMcpherson79 The particulars of the case have to be read first, and each side has a chance to give their opening argument before the judge can make an all out arbitrary ruling like that.

@@ruthgar9753 A lot of cases, the judge can toss the suit in pretrial due to lack of merit, especially if one side asks for a summary dismissal.

In my state insurance won’t cover damages if you’re illegally parked. We’ve had a couple cars get damaged as the result of fire ground operations and insurance covered the damage and the city covered the deductible but you’re screwed if parked in fire lane or hydrant

"Meh, what are the odds there'll be a fire when I happen to be parked there?"

You have to much faith to think that people are smarter than a 7 year old.

Your giving people way too much credit, most people aren't very smart.

One would think so, but some so-called "adults" in fact do not even have the intelligence and emotional maturity of a seven year old child.

Sure, but good luck getting your insurance to cover the replacements

Ha! Sounds like a sage gentleman.

@@Dream146 removal is free, no one said anything about replacement.🤣

They have done that on tanked a few times the 1 i remember was a vw bus tank for Gabe "Fluffy" Eglasias

The hose shouldn't leak. That would be grounds for a tag out of service condition for failing pressure testing.

@@t-yoonit You severely overestimate the ability of a pressurized hose to withstand even the smallest of rocks. Or, if you lay it through a busted window, glass

I feel like you've never lost a >$40,000 or more car before. No matter whose fault it is, when you lose that much, you don't care about that kind of thing.

@@enderoctanus Agreed, there are oblivious and selfish people in the world. And the cost of replacing the windows is far less than $40k, and FAR FAR less than the loss of life the brain dead hydrant blockers may cause.

@@derherr65 If you've got a ton of water in your car from the hydrant, you've got way more problems than broken windows. Car might not be a complete write-off, but lemme tell you that if that ever happens to you, you're not going to be in the mood to just go, "Oh, wow, I'm so stupid and clearly deserve this!" You really don't seem to relate at all to other people. That person might not have noticed the hydrant, you're assuming some form of malice. Why do we have to celebrate something super unfortunate?

@@enderoctanus The fire fighters won't damage the hose and lose pressure. The whole point is straightening the hose as much as possible to minimize pressure loss. Did you not watch the video at all? You're awfully hung up on the CRIMINAL parking in front of the hydrant. Been there?

@@derherr65 I'm not hung up on anything. I'm trying to explain why someone isn't going to immediately feel like they should just skip on over to a charity and make a big donation or something to make up for some perceived evil deed. I'm not saying that you should go out of your way to block a fire hydrant, but if you just make a mistake, maybe weren't paying attention and park in front of one, and you come back to your windows busted out, you're going to be having a really bad day. I don't know why it's not allowed to sympathize with someone having a really bad day.

It’s what happens when you give every child a trophy for existing

@@MikehMike01 Welp, whose fault is that though? Boomers and Millenials. I never asked for a fucking participation trophy. I am also a damn good driver and only once got fined because the front of my car obstructed a fire entrance slightly. Not really to a point that in an emergency it would have caused problems but... Eh, paid the fine and learned my lesson to scan my surroundings a little better at night.

​@@peachypet808 😆 🤣 😂 Gen. X trying to pretend they aren't the ones who gave trophies to kids for just showing up. You huys are worse than the Boomers and millennials combined.

@@peachypet808 nah, just the boomers. Millennials got the trophies, too.

@@lordfelidae4505 Eh, half and half tbh. Older Millenials are, in part, responsible for people getting participation trophies, younger ones are the ones receiveing them

Or from ever rexeiving service from the fire department.

@@thomasbell7033 100% agree with you

Or breeding because those kinds of people are honestly far to selfish or stupid to be fit parents.

Alas, the lack of a license is not a deterrent to some people.

I live at an awkward house where it is a HIGHLY parked on road, an my house is about as far from all the hydrants as is allowed... if my house ever catches fire, I'll go break those idiots windows myself!