“I just need to run in for a few minutes.”
Damn, cyclist blocking the emergency vehicle again!
Bike lanes can be e-lanes if cars aren’t In them and there is enough space
“Walkable streets means it’s harder for first responders to get places” MFers when the cars are the things that end up blocking emergency vehicles:
Oh no I’m standing in the middle of the road with a fire engine coming for me. I guess I will stand over here and let them past.
Surely that’s two double parked cars?
3 I think, pretty sure there is a light coloured car behind the small Peugeot
I don’t understand why the fire fighters are upset, he clearly has his park-anywhere lights on.
Video ended too soon! They smashed that dumb fucker, right? Right?
I live on a narrow 1 way road, which unfortunately means cars tend to park all the way up on the sidewalk, generally an inch from my fence. (Which gets smashed once a ywar on average, but thats another story) One day someone decided to park over the yellow line, completely blocking off one of my houses 2 exits, and the one I needed to take my mom out to get her to a post surgery follow up. I tried to get the landscapers to move the truck and they refused, so I called the local FD, explaining someone was blocking my house entrance off.
They had a truck full of firemen over there in like 10 mins, with those steel breaker bars. Smashed the windows and passed a rope through the cab, Then climbed over the truck, rolled it over with the bars, then attached the rope to their hitch so they could drag it out and clear for the waiting flat bed wrecker to pick it up.
The vehicle owner had come back out after they smashed the windows and tried to move it himself but the fireman in charge wouldnt let him. Told him it was too late, and his guys ‘needed the practice’
That’s absolutely wild. I bet that was really something to see. And you know the firemen loved it.
The bumpers on American fire engines are huge, and built to push cars right out of the way.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who don’t (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
The rest of them are pyros. But fun to hang out with.
Firefighters= bears. With furniture.
I think it’s important to note that they don’t just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They aren’t using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Don’t park in front of fire hydrants!
True.
The ones I’ve seen also have had a fair amount of water damage. Which might be accidental, but seems a bit passive aggressive at best.
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
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Based on the look of it, there is no “out of the way” you could smash that car, except stacking the car on top of another one belonging to an innocent.
One could consider breaking in and drive the car out of the way, but that’s a technically complicated operation. Their best hope is the noise will get the driver’s attention, and record the plate to send that driver a large fine.
They could push it forward and weave through.
But this engine doesn’t seem to have much protection in the front so they’d likely risk breaking the front (radiator, fans, belts, other important components).
Update:
I asked an actual fireman and they said if their crew got in this situation they’d likely winch the car backwards. Alternatively they’d get out and drive/push the car forward by hand if possible.
Pushing the with the engine is a last resort.
If neither works they reroute.
Huh, so it’s not just Palermo…
100% chance it’s someone delivering crappy overpriced food
Could be a dealer dropping off?
Yeh, fast food is like drugs. highly addictive and destructive to your body.
The dilveroo app is asking for ID on the vappes the guy ordered from the local tescos
They should have sent somebody out to check on the person and forcefully move the car, break a window if they have to.
have seen firetrucks in the US literally push cars out of the way. not good for either but lives are at stake. same with idiots that block hydrants - they want to do that, just open the doors (after popping a window or 4 to gain access) and run the hoses through the interior. if people want to play stupid games, they can win stupid prizes.
Not a fire fighter but I do work on hydrants in the US. I’ve def blocked a few people in and flushed hydrants at their cars before. They get big mad. I tell them to call the police and then they usually walk away.
I hope you break a window first so the car floods. Then maybe report the CSR to the police so their insurance gets voided
Lol I wish. I’m a private contractor so the business insurance would be very mad…
I’m sure that they are allowed to here, too.
Gently push/ram it and send the owner a repair bill.
Exactly what I wanted to say!
Not sure why you hate cats so much when it’s people that are clearly the problem. I hate people so damned much.
We love cats.
If people are dumb then maybe they shouldn’t be trusted with these deadly machines
Maybe not but I live two miles from the nearest village so I have no choice. The idea of getting rid of cars doesn’t work for people that are in my situation, it’s not practical.
Cars are difinitely thing of convenience. But as long as public transport exists, it is not a necessity. On another note - 2 miles is a walking distance, or at leats it should be for a healthy individual. If you had said 20 miles probably would have gotten more compassion in community against cars.
There’s probably about 4 buses in and out of the village every day. It’s not practical at all. I have a new born baby and walking 2 miles to get to a bus, to get to the next biggest village and on to another bus to get to the doctor’s for her vaccines is a ridiculous idea. It would take most of the day just for that one journey. Then try to do a family shop under those conditions. Cars in the UK countryside are essential, not luxuries.
Cars make people dumber
