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- sabotank, on 10/11/2007, -15/+416god, i'd love to do that. we actually have permission from our chief to do it, but stupid douchebags won't park in front of a plug......
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -7/+289Holy *****, I saw this in 1992..
Why are all these email forwards making front page?! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -20/+163that picture is about as old as the internet
- reddevil3, on 10/11/2007, -3/+122Hmm douchebag's car's windows or possibly saving many lives?
I think the answer is pretty clear. - myszkin, on 10/11/2007, -11/+103well, he asked for it.
- ahknight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+78Because the posters weren't born yet in 1992...
But, yeah, I was about to say the same thing. This is ancient. - cfd339, on 10/11/2007, -2/+64You break a car window with a window punch. It looks like a screwdriver or a leather punch. Most are spring loaded. We keep them in our gear. You press it against the lower corner of a window, at the right pressure the spring pops and it punches with that point very hard into the corner of the window and the safety glass shatters into a million squared off pieces which just fall. There's probably as much glass inside as out. Then you take your gloved hand and rake out any remaining glass still standing shattered in the window frame. Most of that ends up on the ground at your feet.
I'm a bit surprised they didn't use a floormat from the car to put under that supply line in the window frame to protect it. It will need to be pressure tested when its put away. - modsuperstar, on 10/11/2007, -8/+64He's probably one of those douches that parks wherever he wants just because he drives a BMW.
- spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -2/+56Uncool people have this printed in their cubicles at my office.
- carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45scooby doo clues don't apply as well as it seems. they probably hit the window with an axe, then pulled whatever didn't fall inside out onto the street
- mistermusic, on 10/11/2007, -11/+47how did they break the glass on to the street and not into the car ?
- chapium, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38And they probably printed it out in 1997.
- carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36no, they couldn't run it *anywhere* else. those hoses are under high pressure, so you can't really bend them. This wasn't so much retaliation for parkin-in-our-way as it was that there was a building on fire and it was better to put the hose there, rather than kinking it or putting it over the car where it wouldn't flow as well.
- photobeatsfilm, on 10/11/2007, -8/+41Ummmm.... Has anyone seen "Backdraft"?
- Hawk2007, on 10/11/2007, -8/+41That picture's almost as old as teh internet.
- bacchus101, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35copyvio: ARPANET called and wants it picture back.
- CharliesRevenge, on 10/11/2007, -4/+35*sar·casm
harsh or bitter derision or irony
See, xrisnothing, learning is fun. - Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28Digg is now Google's cache by pop demand :p
- dweeb79, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33"I feel bad for the owner of this car, it can be hard to find parking space, but I bet from now on he will use the time to find a legal parking space."
***** NUB, all fire departments have the legal right to do this. There is a reason you don't park in front of the hydrant. - Braxo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23You really can't tell 5" firehose to go anywhere. It goes where it wants and there is no moving it once its under pressure, especially that close to the plug. If there is a kink in it your screwed and there won't be enough pressure to fight the fire.
I've never done this but have blocked people who park in the firelane like at a strip mall and run into the store real quick. Their thinking of saving time by not finding a parking space turns into a 2 hour ordeal for them as they have to wait until the call is over and they get police tickets on top of that. Lazy people these days. - fnaqzna, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Apparently not.
- bigmrjohn, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25they had to feed the hose in so they probably broke one side from the inside.
- Rekzai, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21pretty much
- Rekzai, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21pretty much
- xadious, on 10/11/2007, -9/+27Very VERY old. Must be all the little kids who are seeing it for the first time.
- Red5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18It seems we should expect 'classic' Internet posts like these to repeat every ten years or so. When is Mahir going to start making the rounds again?
I'm cutting my cat5 when hamster dance returns... - idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17You can say that again.
- dimanorcal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17This is seriously from so long ago, that the E30 on the picture was probably still a current model.
- marko_tomas13, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Fire Departments can do a lot of things legally when getting to a fire. Someone blocking the hydrant? They can do what was done in the picture to get hoses through. Someone blocking the fire lane? They just keep on driving and plough whatever car happens to be there so they can get to the right place.
They didn't want to "punish" this guy, they were just doing their jobs...those hoses have to remain straight for the most part and going overtop or underneath a car doesn't allow the water to flow as freely in those high pressure hoses.
Moral of the story is obey parking laws, it could be your house on fire next time. - AngelBunny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16isn't it standard procedure to do that if a car is in the way?
a friend years ago told me that is what happens - AceLy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Or... they could open the doors.
- usafkisser, on 10/11/2007, -4/+18OKAY. WE GET IT. THE PICTURE IS OLD.
- seventoes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Thats right. Windows are expensive these days.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Actually, they were being nice if anything. To really straighten out the hose which optimizes the flow of water, they would have had to tear the doors off, a fate they spared the guy.
- ravan46, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13You son of a bitch
- Kikkoman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15yes?
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13I should burn you at the stake for even mentioning Hampster Dance.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+13We're the reason you young people have the tubes in the first place.
- danmanx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14I was in front of a hydrant once during a fire...man...I should've moved....I couldn't sit down for a month!!!!
- bobcrotch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12You should be thanking us, you didn't have to deal with ***** like Anglefire and Geocities... oh wait MySpace.
- voetsjoeba, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Common sense will tell you that you don't want a high-pressure water supply line getting ripped open by remaining pieces of glass in the window frame.
- miriclaire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11And that is NOT punishment! It is "consequence".
- seventoes, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11But thats no fun.
- Nerfdude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9good call, people only drive new cars.
- dolemite5005, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13That trick was funnier the first time I saw it while watching "Backdraft" back in 1991.
- mandark, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I believe so. You can do whatever you need to really to open a hydrant, and if somethings in the way, you can "move" the obstruction, or break 2 windows :-)
- RpgActioN, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9You can say that again.
- brian1625, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11The "old" comments are getting old.
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7If you park in front of fire plugs... you are.
Put it this way, would you rather them smash out someone's windows who's parked illegally, or would you rather them run around and try to find the guy while something/someone goes up in smoke? - dbr_onix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7..for putting out a fire (I assume) near the guy's house? Sure, it's maybe a little.. excessive, but I don't imagine the guy will ever park in front of a hydrant again..
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