MickeyFinn
02-02-2006, 04:49 PM
Alright, a quick precursor to the things you might read here. Everything posted is "alleged" until proven to have actually happened, just in case it might be illegal. And just because these are told in the first person doesn't mean that I was necessarily involved... Yeah.......
Anyway. Fire departments are notorious for knowing how to relieve the stress from what you see on a daily basis in many ways. These events are a few of the best.
#1 (personal favorite)
We have a guy at our station that dishes it out but cannot take it. We took an empty box, put a couple of full soda cans in it to weigh it down. We tied it to his back bumper with some string. We then wrote on it with black marker "FREE KITTENS".
He left the station that morning and was pulled over about ten miles down the road. He said the cop at first was furious, but then saw that it was a joke and couldnt stop laughing. He told us the next day that he was trying to figure out why people kept pulling up beside him yelling. Little did he know he was dragging a box of "kittens" behind him.
#2 (another personal favorite)
This is a bad blooper as told by my battalion chief. "Many years ago, I ran an 11/2 line into a garden style apartment building, into what we thought was one of the fully involved apartments, and crawled down a hall full of smoke. A glow became flames as I got closer, so I opened the nozzle and let it rip. The fire didn't change. More water. Fire still bright. More water. Still no change in fire. I was washing the heck out of a Mirror at the end of the hallway. Whoops."
Anyway. Fire departments are notorious for knowing how to relieve the stress from what you see on a daily basis in many ways. These events are a few of the best.
#1 (personal favorite)
We have a guy at our station that dishes it out but cannot take it. We took an empty box, put a couple of full soda cans in it to weigh it down. We tied it to his back bumper with some string. We then wrote on it with black marker "FREE KITTENS".
He left the station that morning and was pulled over about ten miles down the road. He said the cop at first was furious, but then saw that it was a joke and couldnt stop laughing. He told us the next day that he was trying to figure out why people kept pulling up beside him yelling. Little did he know he was dragging a box of "kittens" behind him.
#2 (another personal favorite)
This is a bad blooper as told by my battalion chief. "Many years ago, I ran an 11/2 line into a garden style apartment building, into what we thought was one of the fully involved apartments, and crawled down a hall full of smoke. A glow became flames as I got closer, so I opened the nozzle and let it rip. The fire didn't change. More water. Fire still bright. More water. Still no change in fire. I was washing the heck out of a Mirror at the end of the hallway. Whoops."