Told ya No Parking by the hydrant

Zipperfish

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Besides that as an ex-military man you can't afford the hood ornament let alone the car it's attached to. ;-)

Now for the actual story. I think they could have easily run the hose over the roof or hood or under the car. They could have hooked the vehicle to a fire truck and pulled it 5 feet out of the way. What they did was legal but not necessarily justified and someone probably thought it was funny to smash both windows in order to teach a lesson which in my books deserves more than a little contempt. The unfortunate part is nobody will even get a talking to over this so the message is sent to all firefighters that it is just fine to damage personal property even if they don't really have to.

They don't have time to tow the vehicle. There's a fire, remember. They can't run it over teh roof becasue the angle is to steep off the connection and chokes your supply. Smashing teh windows is the fastest way to do it. The down side I would see is that if you did want to move the car at some point, you'd either have to disconnect the hose or cut some structural steel on the car chassis.
 

EagleSmack

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Those firemen; heroes or jerks probably caused ten to fifteen thousand dollars damage to that car, and it wasn't neccessary. Running the hose over the hood was probably the easiest way but they were looking for the most dramatic way for the TV news.


I have a simple solution... don't park in front of the fire hydrant and you don't get a hose run through your car.

Why reroute a hose and miss the opportunity to post the message loud and clear


Exactly Wolf.
 

EagleSmack

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That would be the smart thing but we are talking about Bostonians here....;-)


And that is what I am sort of.


I drive in Boston a lot and there is ZERO chance that this will ever happen to me. I cannot tell you how many times I've driven around Boston looking for a spot and say...


"Oh! There's a spot! ..... damn... a fire hydrant."


Then I keep on driving.
 

#juan

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I have a simple solution... don't park in front of the fire hydrant and you don't get a hose run through your car.




Exactly Wolf.
All wonderful advice. Do you have any advice for firemen who would smash the car windows and put large dents in the car doors and fender when it wasn't needed.?:smile:
 

eh1eh

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I don't understand how this only got on this forum today. CNN has had wall to wall coverage of this fire-hose window break trauma for 47 hours. Boy are you guys out of touch.
 

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I don't understand how this only got on this forum today. CNN has had wall to wall coverage of this fire-hose window break trauma for 47 hours. Boy are you guys out of touch.
I am old, slow and not to quick in my elder years. My apologies.
 

Sal

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A $100.00 fine is an appropriate fine for someone parked in front of a fire hydrant, to encourage them not to do so again.

A $100.00 fine for someone parked in front of a fire hydrant that is needed for a fire is inappropriate. They should have smashed that car into a dinky toy. I do not have any patience or tolerance for this type of blatant egotism.

These same kinds of azzholes are the ones that don't pull over for the fire trucks and ambulance either. I wonder how they would feel if that was their home burning. At the rate fire jumps per second, not too happy I bet. Seconds count. he is drawing some bad stuff to himself.
 

taxslave

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Legal vandalism.......if it is legal

It is not vandalism and is quite legal. Meanwhile parking in front of a hydrant is not and could actually be considered as endangering the public.

Those firemen; heroes or jerks probably caused ten to fifteen thousand dollars damage to that car, and it wasn't neccessary. Running the hose over the hood was probably the easiest way but they were looking for the most dramatic way for the TV news.

What they should have done is take a saw and cut the car in half. That way the idiot that parked there could have been fined twice.

In the video, it seems like a directional adapter on the hydrant......
Why not use one of the side outlets and go around the car???

That is a sixinch hose. The side outlete are normally only 21/2 inch.
Besides anyone that parks a beemer in front of a hydrant doesn't deserve any consideration.
 

relic

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I guess none of you morons yapping about straight hose happened to notice the kinks between the hydrant and the car, kind of puts that theory in the dark what
 

Twila

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I guess none of you morons yapping about straight hose happened to notice the kinks between the hydrant and the car, kind of puts that theory in the dark what

My typing voice is entirely to deep to be considered yapping I'll have you know.
 

PoliticalNick

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I guess none of you morons yapping about straight hose happened to notice the kinks between the hydrant and the car, kind of puts that theory in the dark what

Plus if you look at the pics Eagle posted the one with the SUV has the hos curling under the vehicle only to then come back out and up through the windows....but they couldn't go under it. :roll:

That is a sixinch hose. The side outlete are normally only 21/2 inch.
Besides anyone that parks a beemer in front of a hydrant doesn't deserve any consideration.

Take another look at the pics. You will see a 6" outlet staring you in the face pointing to the rear of the vehicle where they could have easily run the hose without damaging the car. Face it, this was intentionally done to create damage and not for ease or expediency.