I had to attend “traffic class” to get a speeding ticket dismissed. The cop teaching the class told us if we park in front of a hydrant, he will personally write us tickets after watching the firefighters break our windows and run hoses through our cars. One guy who thought he was pretty smart said, “I’ll just sue them for property damage,” and the cop said, “wow, I bet nobody else has ever had that idea! Good luck!”
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.
@@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.
I lived in a building where the owner parked in the fire route and the building caught fire. They pulled up behind his car, pushed it out of the way and the transmission was destroyed. The owner tried to sue, got fined by the judge and was required to pay legal fees "for your stupidity" according to the judge.
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.
Had a fire hydrant in the front yard of my house growing up that my dad took care of. He painted the curb yellow in front of it and shoveled it out when the snow plow piled snow over it. We never had a house fire on our street, thankfully, but growing up with a hydrant so close and my dad handling it the way he did, I can’t imagine the mindset of someone who casually parks in front of one.
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.
I work in a water department. Had a bad water break that was affecting half the city. Car was parked in the way overc a critical control valve. No biggie. Not like the owner knew there would be a break. Asked the owner to move his car. He said no. Escalated by calling the police, but the owner was still being obstinate. Tow truck was going to take an hour or two till he got there. Normally not an issue but this water break was bad and was already damaging the road and could threaten to destabilize buildings on either side if it ran much longer. Supervisor told me to use the back hoe to move the car. Guy lost both his insurance claim and civil suit against the city.
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.
My buddy's dad was a fireman. He was only involved once in breaking a car window. The car owner ended up losing his lawsuit against the fire department for the damages, received tickets for parking by the fire hydrant, had his car towed, was charged storage fees for the towed car and paid fines from the tickets. The bottom line total for all was more than what the car was worth.
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.
@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.
I worked in a wood mill in maintenance when a pile of sawdust caught on fire. The mill's supervisor announced a car was blocking the hydrant while my boss sent me for the big forklift. The car's owner came strolling out 25 or 30 minutes later to find his car moved to a new location. Unfortunately cars don't like being lifted by forklifts.
@@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.)
@@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)
people defending someone who illegally parked blocking a fire hydrant is bad enough as it is but the fact that so many ppl expected the firefighters to hold off in responding to a literal emergency to call a tow truck or track down the driver to get them to move their car makes me scared of the future
My uncle was the fire chief of our local department when I was young. A man, who had walked up street to visit a neighbor, and found his car, which was parked in front of a fire hydrant, with both front windows busted out and a hose running through it. He was furious. He started ranting and screaming at the firemen. He was so worked up he didn't even notice it was HIS HOUSE the fire was at. When this fact finally sunk into his thick skull, he completely changed his tune. He forgot about his car and started ranting and raving at the firemen for not responding fast enough. You just can't fix stupid.
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.
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:)
I made this mistake in California once, they did the same thing. I couldn't even be mad because I knew it was my fault. That cost me a lot. New window, new driver side door, new seats, lots of electrical issues, a VERY large citation cost, almost caught a charge, and I managed to piss off the fire department, and the police. Not a smart move. Lesson learned.
@@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.
As a volunteer firefighter i can confirm. We know how to break stuff very well. Lots of times, we even manage to break our own stuff. Without even trying to do so.
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
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)
@@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
I began a 36 year career with the Chicago Police Department in 1973. During my field training, in the first couple weeks on the job, we were sent to a house fire for traffic control. I was directing traffic on a detour around the street. Someone had parked a car in front of a fire hydrant across from where the fire was and just a little up the street from the corner where I was standing. The Captain of the the engine company, very calmly, walked over with an axe and SMASHED the windows on each side of the car and the firefighters ran the suction line for the pumper right through the car. 😲 He handed the axe to one of the fire fighters and walked over to me and said "Give that guy a ticket!" Yes, sir, Captain!
@@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.
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
make the fire hydrant plug into the ground and not elevated above the ground so you can go under cars... It's not rocket science it's basic engineering. If they didn't make money from giving out tickets and breaking people's cars then they would have changed it long time ago
My friends dad is a retired chief. One time they couldn’t even get the hose through the window because it was too high. The chief said ram it. So they got a truck, rammed it ever so gently because there was an open driveway in front. The drive returned back to his SUV to smashed windows, f’d up brakes, damaged bumper, flat tires and a ticket for illegal parking on top of no insurance payout.
"If there's two things firefighters are really good at, it's saving lives and breaking stuff." I love it. It's both true and hilarious. That line is awesome!
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!
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.
When I was 15 and taking drivers education I was told never to park in front of a fire hydrant because the firefighters will break your car windows and run their hose through your car. Putting out a fire is more important than your illegally parked car. Why is this a surprise to people?
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 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.
I find it weird that no one has built a firetruck that you connect to the hydrant and it goes through the truck So that your whole car is totalled because the firetruck had to ram it outta the way so it could access the hydrant
It definitely sucks to have your windows broken. I have to imagine it would be a whole lot worse to know someone died or lost their home because the fire department had to wait for a tow truck to remove your improperly parked vehicle. This trolley problem is not hard.
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.
@@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.
The actual horrific thing is not only that they are blaming firefighters for breaking windows to save lifes - They are defending a guy who might be responsible for several deaths because he parked where he hopefully learned NOT to park!
@@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!!
As a retired engine chauffeur ( not FDNY) I had my share of obstructed hydrants. Depending on the orientation of the hydrant and the position of the vehicle this must be done. sometimes however kinks may result in either situation and may be worse with a pass through situation. Sometimes it was actually quicker to go around the vehicle. It was a decision that had to be made for each individual situation but as was mentioned in the video my primary concern was obtaining a water source as quickly as possible for the nozzle team.
That is crazy as heck that someone parked ILLEGALLY in front of a fire hydrant, something we ALL have been educated to NEVER do, would think they have ANY right to complain if it is actually needed.
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.
A buddy of mine was a firefighter/emt for many years. He said the exact same thing..."Man, we can break anything". I jammed a knuckle one day and had a finger swelling and a ring stuck. I just stopped by a station knowing they have all the stuff. Walked in, "Howdy" and held up my finger. Cap'n says "Aha! We got the tool for that! Which one do you want to come off?"
A friend of mine was a firefighter and said one time they had an issue with a nearby apartment block. Turns out residents discovered if they phoned in saying they were locked out of their house and couldn't remember if they turned their stove off, the fire department would respond and unlock the door. Then "oh, i guess i did turn it off, ha ha". So the Chief said to quit responding with their lock pick set and instead bring the axe. If there was no stove left on the tenant would have to pay the landlord for the repair to the door. After the 2nd door was broken down the calls stopped lol.
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.
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! 😂😂😂
About two decades ago, when I was living in an apartment downtown in my home city, there was an annual HUGE festival going on. Tourists flood our city during that (miserable-for-locals) time, parking pretty much anywhere they want....and getting towed when their vehicle is in the wrong place. I was out on my balcony when one woman stupidly parked in front of a clearly visible fire hydrant, so when she and her squad of brats got out of the car, I called down to her that she needed to move it because the police were towing cars that violated the law, which she was doing. She had the gall and audacity to shout and swear at me that she was "a Coast Guard wife," which only meant she was married to a Coastie, which carries no weight whatsoever where parking is concerned. She screamed that the police "wouldn't dare" to tow a service man's car. She hauled her bunch of brats about one block before the ever vigilant police came by, saw the car, called their tow truck, and towed the car away. It was hilarious when the Coastie wife came back 3 hours later and there was no vehicle....and no person on the balcony to scream at. A police officer was soon there---they patrol the city heavily during the 8-day festival---and she was shouting at him about the "missing" car. It was deeply satisfying listening to him tell her the what/why and where of her vehicle, and that no, he had no idea how she could get to the impound yard other than calling for a cab. If she'd listened, and just been obedient to the law, she'd have had a car without any hassles.
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. 😩🤦🙄🤷
The last statement is so true. In Germany there's a tv series that accompanies firefighters during their work. Counting broken axes became the viewers' hobby within the first season, so much so that it has turned into an "insider joke"
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
I parked in front of a fire hydrant once: I had no idea until I got a ticket. However, the hydrant was literally painted green and entirely inside an evergreen bush that had grown around it. I got that ticket overturned with a photo (when I went out to take it, another car was parked there), and they later came out and cut the bush and painted it red. But beats me how it got painted green in the first place.
Kinda sounds like bitchy homeowners didn't like the ugly red post and got the township to camouflage it, at the expense of creating problems like yours.
In driver's ed, we were literally taught that if you park in front of a fire hydrant then the firefighters will break your windows and run the hose through your car. I'm guessing all these people who think that the hose should be rerouted somehow must have slept through that day or are probably the same ones who have suddenly forgotten what a speed limit is.
@@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.
As someone who has been on the losing side of a house fire, don't expect me to weep for your smashed window. Personally, anyone parked in front of a hydrant should lose their car and be liable for any damages caused by the fire, both civil AND criminal. In other words, MOVE YOUR F-ING CAR.
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.
@@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.
Fun fact: auto insurance in the USA doesn't cover damages to your vehicle if they are caused by the fire fighters or police responding to an emergency. The owner of that vehicle is going to learn a very expensive lesson that his/her selfishness cost them.
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.
The fire department should never stop doing this. People should be happy that only their windows were broken; the fire department could choose to push your car out of the way with their truck, no problem. If I park in from of a fire hydrant, I deserve everything I get.
I was an Air Force Security Policeman in the late 80's. When we would respond with the fire department there was always a good chance that a car driven by Mrs "do you know who my husband is?" Would be parked in front of the hydrant. I always took great pleasure in writing the ticket on the car with 2 fewer windows on it.
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.
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.
My mom saw this on the news, she commented; "why didn't the FD just find the owner to move it? I replied: "There was a building on fire!! Time was a factor." She realized the problem. Thankfully
@@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.
I worked as a clerk at a district court for three years and was a volunteer firefighter during that time as well. I remember one day a car was parked at a hydrant and we busted out the windows and ran the hose to the pumper. Later that week, the owner tried to sue the fire department for the damage to the car. The judge called all the volunteers in the building to hear what he had to say. About half of the volunteers for the fire department worked in the building. (Including myself) The judge then proceeded to read the guy and his lawyer the riot act. This was a judge I already had immense respect for and he certainly didn’t lessen it that day. This was a judge who if a cop gave you a bull$hit ticket would make the cop come to court and apologize. Bull$hit tickets stopped real fast. This judge reamed the guy a new one for a solid five minutes before dismissing the case with prejudice. Then the judge demanded the guy apologize to all the volunteer firefighters present. This happened in a small town in Washington state in 1985. I still respect that judge to this day. I wish that all judges would live up to his example but most just plain don’t. He retired from the bench in 1995. So if firefighters have to break the windows on your illegally parked car, go ahead and try to sue. At least the clerks will get some entertainment out of seeing the judge ream you out.
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.
My father and great grandfather were both Chicago Fire Fighters. My great grandfather was killed in the Chicago Stockyard Fire due, in part, to low water pressure. Since I was a kid my father always told me not to park in front of fire hydrants or my windows would be broken and the hose run through the car. Or, if there was room, that they would use the fire truck to push the car out of the way, which would likely involve the bending of the car's body panels. He said he had done both many times in his 20 years on the Fire Department.
In the Navy living on base I ended up parking next to a fire hydrant without realizing it because it behind a fence . . .. Parking lot was fully marked with numbers and lines, and the spot I was in was numbered. Some MP's came rolling up to my door in the middle of the night demanding to know why I had parked in front of a hydrant. Off we went to go look. Yup. Hydrant BEHIND a solid metal fence. MP's didn't care, and gave me a ticket. On base you HAD to go before the base court to explain yourself. So I did. With photos. No problem paying the ticket, I parked there, but that magistrate must have made a stink because in a few short days that fence came down and the parking spots in front of it and to the sides were all yellow lined and marked for firefighters. I'm sure firefighters rag on their own like police do, but sailors also love to rag on folks. I was called Fire Marshall Bob for months after that.
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.
@@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.
Ah yes, the classic "I know I did something seriously illegal, but there shouldn't be any serious consequences for my actions, right? It's not like the reasons for these laws are anything but petty, people just shouldn't think they can control me, because that's not fair."
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.
As a kid, my dad worked with EMTs and my best friend’s dad was FD. It was made very clear to us that this was exactly what would happen if we were ever this stupid.
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 have 30 + years in the fire service and I've personally seen this done once. It was a 3 alarm fire and the hose leaked into the inside of the vehicle. By the time we tore the hose down, the water level was up to the top of the doors. Then the officer that the car owner summoned for us breaking the windows, gave him almost $1,000 in fines.
I had a friend who was a fire chief and he demonstrated an alternative solution: Turns out the front bumper height on a pumper truck is perfect for adjusting the parking position of a Porsche.
@@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.
My dad is a firefighter and has had to bust car windows open to get the hose hooked up. Not only do you get a fine and broken windows, those hoses are not water proof so your car floods too. Most insurance companies will not write off/repair vehicles that block first responders doing their job, last I checked.
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
When I was learning to drive, going through all the traffic laws, the instructor who was retired police was very, very clear about not parking in front of hydrants, because not only is it illegal, but specifically because the firefighters would break the windows of your car and you would be SOL because it's illegal to park there to begin with, and if you tried to "sue" or something you'd probably be laughed out of court after having a fine slapped on you (if a lawyer didn't laugh at you for having the idea first).
My 26 year old neighbor, and her two babies, burned up in a house fire, today. I have no empathy, or sympathy, for people who do things to endanger other’s lives! 😢
I always hated the people who think they can drive over my intake LDH that I had to lay crossing the street for a working house fire. One driver decided that she wasn't going to listen to me when I told her she couldn't proceed. Her front wheels went over the LDH and a cop jumped through her window, slammed it in park, pulled her out of the car at gunpoint, face planted on the ground and handcuffed. In the state where I live, driving over fire hose is the same as assaulting emergency personnel, class D felony.
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.
My parents have a story from just after their marriage, they were driving into San Francisco to fill out the final paperwork and my dad finds a spot RIGHT outside the courthouse, unheard of, nigh impossible find. My mom protests saying to find another spot, my dad asks why, and she yells “did you not see this building is on fire?!” And sure enough, the building he was parking in front of was on fire. He almost tried to argue.
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.)
Had a neighbor in Germany who drove the tank/pumper truck for the local fire department. When asked in a home owners meeting what he thought of people parking in front of the hydrant he told them no worry. He had no problem either using his truck and pushing cars out of the way or using a chain to drag them. The grin on his face told everyone he rather enjoyed that part of the job. :-)
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
@@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.
My dad had to do this when he was a firefighter. The guy whose car it was tried suing the city for damages to his car…the judge threw it out almost immediately 😂
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.
@@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.
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
For those who say “there isn’t a fire now, I’ll be in and out so quick!” Let me tell you, I once left my apartment complex to go somewhere super local super fast, I must’ve been gone for like 5 minutes tops, when I returned the fire dept was there actively putting out a dumpster fire in the parking lot… LESS THAN 5 MINUTES!!!
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.
Grandpa use to be a firefighter and every time my mom saw a some idiot park in front of a fire hydrant she would tell us kids that was a great way to get new windows, removal done at no costs to us
Did that once, as we were picking up the owner came up to me raising all kinds of you know what. Told him he could speak to the police officer. What made it better is the car was a very expensive Mercedes.
I used to live up in the mountains, where we could get a lot of snowfall (most I've seen was 8 feet in a week). There were rules about parking there, specifically no street parking on some of the more major streets. This was to allow plows, and emergency vehicles, access to those streets. This area, being a mountain resort, also had it's share of wealthy people who thought the rules didn't apply to them. One of them decided to park their Buick on one of those major streets, and in came a massive snowstorm. This street also just happened to have, if memory serves (it has been several decades now), the fire chief living further down it. An emergency cropped up, and the buick was parked in a way that was blocking the plow, preventing the road from being cleared. So the fire fighters took one of their forestry trucks and drove it over the buick, to get the chief, and then back over it again on the way out. Nobody in the area had any sympathy for the car owner. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is why rules exist in the first place. Don't park in no parking zones.
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.
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.
It astounds me how people will think they both know better than professionals, and would see the windows smashed like that and think it was done out of convenience: passing the hose over, under, or around the car would be faster than feeding it through so clearly there is going to be a good reason to choose the slower option
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
@@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… 😐
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
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
There’s no fixing stupid! I still remember the first time we had to do this in Queens back in 1980. The owner came down after the fire was out and tried to take the 4” 21/2” supply lines off the hydrant so he could move his car. The hydrant was still charged! A cop on the scene ended up locking him up for outstanding warrants. His car was then towed. It was a win-win-win!
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking I reckon he'd have done that pretty good all on his own if he'd actually managed to remove a supply line from a charged hydrant... (bonus: I have to assume that his car wouldn't have had a good time in that scenario)
The correct response of a car owner in this situation is "OMG I'm such an idiot. I deserved every bit of that, and a ticket on top. I'm sorry my obliviousness/self-absorption/stupidity could have cost someone their life and also that it slowed down the fire team. Please allow me to buy the fire house's next meal as a token of my sincere regret. You guys like any of the local drive through places, my windows are already down."
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.
As a kid, i saw that happen to someone's car on the news. The fireperson explained why. If I could understand at 7 years old why you shouldn't park in front of fire hydrants, adults can understand.
I feel like one important thing to note about running the hose under/over too is that it doesn't teach the car owner anything. If someone is parking in front of hydrants illegally, and they come back to something on fire and the hose is just going around their car, they'll probably do it again because that's kind of just showing them nothing actually happens if you do. If you smash their windows to run the hose through it, it'll be the last time they try that.
You smash their windows, they sue the city, they lose the lawsuit and have additional tickets for parking illegally. They also lose their insurance and have to pay for all damages themselves in addition to the lawsuit and tickets. It leaves them broke. It's a hard lesson to learn, but the only way stupid people do learn.
Yes! Its the hard lessons people remember! Give them a hydrant ticket, pfft, most of these mutts arent gonna pay the fine, but bust out some windows? THAT gets peoples attention. 😭😂
Those “no parking” signs are there for a reason. You give these people too much credit. They don’t care about procedure or protocol. They live in a happy go lucky fantasy world, where for example, grocery stores magically restock their shelves and don’t realize trucks deliver them.
That is a fact about the "magic grocery shelves": Mom was doing some substitute teaching in late 1980s and one day came home absolutely flabbergasted that 5th graders had no idea, zero idea, that the food had an existence before it appeared on the store shelf.
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!
I would leave a personalized little note on the windshield if I broke the windows. "I am, truely, from the bottom of my heart, not sorry for breaking your illegally parked windows. Your supposed to think twice before doing something. You forgot to think, period."
My husband used to work for a company that built fire engines. The engines were very beefed up in front for the very purpose of being capable of pushing a parked vehicle out of the way. There goes the transmission.
@@shane99ca Lock both axles on the car, guarantee the wheels aren't going to rotate at all, and the truck will still push it around no worries. Grip is proportional to vehicle weight, and a fire truck weighs a LOT more than a car. And from what Joan's saying, the trucks are designed for exactly that.
I used to be a volunteer firefighter in a small community. The first time I saw a picture like that there were turnout coats on the sill. Someone said "that was nice of them to protect the paint' then realized they were protecting the hose from broken glass. Thanks
Why are so many people outraged by the consequences of their own actions? It seems like more and more people are lacking personal accountability as time goes on.
Because they are in America. After they have lived there for so long all they can think about is their own personal rights and freedoms. Anything outside of that scope is unfair to their daily life.
Because there are idiots in this country who think they can have all the rights without any of the responsibilities that come with them. A good chunk of people LOVE to scream about the First Amendment and they can't even define it properly!
Any moron trying to sue a Fire Dept for breaking out their car windows to access a blocked hydrant is going to lose. There is no judge in this country that will say you have a right to block a hydrant. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The major issue here is that there are so many people out there who feel they're entitled so they do what they want. I feel if some prick parks in front of a hydrant when firefighters need to get access to it, that idiot should be 100% liable for all damages done to their car & any extraneous damages or loss of life that occurs as a direct result to them illegally parking in front of the hydrant.
@@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.
@@lordfelidae4505 Eh, half and half tbh. Older Millenials are, in part, responsible for people getting participation trophies, younger ones are the ones receiveing them
To be fair, the people who say they could've passed it over/under the car, probably simply don't understand how the lack of pressure would be detrimental... But what is wrong with people who said they should've just get the car towed? They... Do understand what firefighters are using the hose for, right? "Just call to get the car towed, you can put out the fire in 15 minutes, no big deal"
They won't pass it under the car because the pinch welds can/will cut the hose and with that much pressure behind it, it'll hurt someone, and destroy a hose.
@@roachymart2318 except it wouldn't pinch or kink going under the car. You can see plenty of extra space that would allow it to go under the car without a kink in the video.
@@jadecoolness101 the angle coming from the hydrant to the ground will produce a kink that can affect water flow. Going up through the window is usually a lower angle resulting in less restriction. Also the pinch weld under a car can cut the hose and destroy it. I personally think the hose through the car dripping on all the stuff inside is the "find out" part of fucking around and will act as a lesson on what not to do in the future. The driver should also be charged for the hose in case any of the window glass or the angling needed to circumvent their stupidity damaged the hose in any way. Stupid needs to be painful, either physically, financially, or both.
High school driver's education: my teacher said that we can park in a red zone if we want, but we do so with the understanding that fire fighters can turn our cars into aquariums if they want. I'm still waiting for that episode of Tanked.
@@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 work with parking enforcement and we deal with blocked hydrants all the time. Thank you for putting out this helpful PSA about what's really going to happen to these cars when there's an emergency - if anything, it's a greater deterrent than the fines and tows we can inflict.
I was a Philly cop for 30 years, PFD did this all the time. If I was on the scene the car owner got a parking ticket and possibly towed too. The fireman are responding to an emergency that potentially could include the loss of life, they don't have time to play around. Every driver knows not to park on a hydrant and knows if they do what can happen.
And this is why everyone hates the police now. You are making excuses for the violent, completely unneccessary destruction of citizens property, and we all know this was just a dick-waving move. This had nothing to do with safety, people like you just like to flex your authority and act like @ssholes to prove you're a big shot. You are what is wrong with the world. You are why everyone on both sides of the political aisle hate the police and see you as an enemy now. You have proven us right to despise you.
Ya drivers should know from taking written driver test not to park beside a fire hydrant and even before driver test they should even know that. As a driver if I parked by a fire hydrant by a mistake and if I found my windows were broken cause of them dealing with the fire I would be mad at myself for the idiot move by not checking more closely before parking, but in the end result I rather have them doing it then them having to play games trying to save people lives. I say lives is more important then one's property.
@@shawnbottomley6381 You'd be surprised. You'd also think that drivers would know that a non-functioning traffic signal is a 4 way stop, but observation proves that is not the case.
@@roachymart2318 What's weird is that there was this article where the Michigan State police were asked about that. The law here reads that the road with the greatest traffic flow has right of way. (How we're supposed to figure that out isn't addressed.) Absolutely no one follows that law and treats it as a 4-way stop. Well, except in Flint, where traffic controls of any type are apparently optional.
I wish my brother -- a firefighter since he could walk almost -- were still alive so he could watch these. It amazes me that people are stupid enough to think that firefighters can just run around in every conceivable location looking for the one idiot who parked their car illegally and WAIT for them to pay for their mochaccino and saunter back to their car ... while letting a person die or a building burn for want of water.
It's the same people who say stupid shit like why did the cops have to kill the knife wielding madmad... couldn't they just shoot it out of his hand or hit him in the leg , you know like TV told them.
My husband is a Retired Battalion Captain Firefighter/Paramedic. I'm Retired NYPD officer. My husband has told me many times he's had to break car windows because of ( entitled people thinking they can park in front of hydrants. Once he broke the windows of a brand new Mercedes. The owner tried to sue the fire department and the sheriff office. Not only did the entitled idiot lose in court but had to pay $1.500 in fines plus court cost and pay for the damages to his car. Lol!!!! In every state it is totally illegal to park in front/block a hydrant.
My Dad retired as the Battalion Chief (a specific type of assistant chief) of our fairly large city's fire department. He had to make the call to destroy a lot of things and send a lot of guys into danger because people are insanely stupid. Fortunately none of his men ever got killed on his watch, although a few people who they were trying to rescue did because they panicked and didn't obey the firemens' orders. He was also a huge animal lover and would always take the time and extra risk to get the animals out of the house back when he actually went inside himself. When he was BC, he always made sure they had O2 and even CPR when they need it. He said the one thing that he really dreaded, other than sending his guys into a bad situation, was having to shut down a major interstate--and we have three that intersect in the city. It's a felony to interfere with interstate commerce, and him doing it as part of his duty didn't make him totally immune from that. He always had to do a ton of paperwork justifying his decision after the fact.
In all fairness, there have been people blocking interstates and slowing/stopping transports over politcial motivations. Those federal laws tend to come from someone fucking around.
@@Aereto Yeah, there definitely are. But you've heard of those volunteer firemen who set fires so they have a fire to put out? There are also some who enjoy shutting down major roads--usually because of a wreck, the professionals like my dad were pulled in for hazard materials spills--just because it's a power they'd never have in the rest of their life. This makes it more tricky for the professionals when there's a legitimate reason to shut down an interstate. Like, for example, a full coal barge delivering a direct strike to a support pillar of an interstate bridge. The interstate has to be closed until engineers can certify that the structural integrity of the bridge hasn't been compromised. But then that decision comes with a ton of paperwork to justify the decision. I'm not saying that every VF is power tripping, just that some of them are. And there's definitely a huge difference in a PF Assistant Chief who's taken classes and scored the highest on tests to rise up to his rank and a volunteer. Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a rant against volunteers. Just pointing out why it's not as simple as it seems, and firemen are typically personally liable if the decisions they make cannot be justified. Therefore they don't break out windows lightly, but only when it's obviously the right course to get water to a fire.
@@morrigan908 firemen are personally liable for shutting down a road or destroying a vehicle to save lives, but cops are immune from murdering innocent people.... Christ, our system is broken.
Thank you for explaining how problematic the proposed "solutions" were. I was not aware of how high a cost is associated with kinks in the supply line.
My mum's car was on fire once when I was a kid and we shouted for the across-the-street neighbor to get some water while we wait for the firetruck. Dude comes out in his bathrobe with a little glass of water. 🤣
@@moonbear5929 Sure I did, but not that often and it has been years since I've lived somewhere that had a garden. So it's just not automatic knowledge to me currently. Also then I usually did it full-on to annoy my siblings, so I never thought about the effects smaller kinks might have. Also I don't know whether I would have automatically applied every piece of knowledge I have about garden hoses to firefighter equipment. Like, don't get me wrong, I totally understand why you'd think knowledge would transfer from one to the other. But it didn’t automatically for me. Or maybe the first piece of knowledge wasn't available enough to be transferred? In any case, I appreciate knowing this now.
We had a 3"x10' "car pipe" that was for this reason. 1 break glass 2 unlock and open doors. 3 pass hose through open doors onto seats. 4 charge line. 5 notify LE of actions. Oddly enough that section was dirty and leaked. Many complaints filed and city council would say "you broke the law and you can't be compensated for damages while breaking the law (insert state laws here)." That was it.
I have a hydrant right in front of my house. There have been several occasions where I've told people not to park in front of it because "If there's a fire, it's open season on your car." Most stop and think, then move.
I appreciate these videos where professionals explain to the armchair experts why their opinion is not only wrong, but fantastically so, much more than I appreciate the blasé "well maybe both sides have a point" approach of some other commentators.
I love it when these armchair experts are so wrong, they're "fractally wrong". They're wrong no matter how you look at their answer or how closely you examine it.
Huh, I never really thought about how much pressure you get from a hydrant and how much friction is involved You do a really good job in educating in an entertaining way
There's not necessarily pressure, just flow. At least in our area hydrants are color coded based on the expected pressure a hydrant is expected to provide (ours vary from 30psi to 180 psi.) The lower the pressure the easier it is to kink and cut off the flow through the hose. The flow is kept up by using large diameter hoses reducing friction loss and a pump on the truck brings back the pressure.
Reminds me of the time Karen parked her car in front of my dad's driveway. He told her to move or he'll have her towed. Her response was a sarcastic "well that's very nice of you". Unsurprisingly he had her towed. How dumb can you be?
She was the same blond that went to the parts store and asked for a Part 710....You know that thingy on top of the engine I pulled it and lost it. Is your car her miss, can you show me? Upon opening the engine compartment he immediately new what she was talking about because there was OIL = 710 all over the engine compartment. The OIL cap upside down says Part 710😂so he proceeded to also sell her oil, a funnel, and a roll of paper towels....with the OIL cap🤣
Something similar happened to me. It was Fourth of July and I had just gotten off of a 12 hour shift. I was going to my grandparents house in the middle of the night when I noticed a car blocking their drive way with barely enough room to scrape by. I was way to tired to care, so I drove right through it, scratching up the bumper on my way in. I then called a tow truck and went to bed. Honesty I don’t know what happened to that car, but when I woke up it was gone.
I've been driving 50 years. Of all the rules, two of the really Cardinal Rules are NEVER pass a loading school bus and NEVER park in front of a fire hydrant. "I just know somebody tried to drill those rules into your thick head. Sorry about the windows pal, and oh yeah, you got a ticket, now scram!" That's what I'd say.
Even if the only reason was: "This is the fastest way to run the hose to the water supply." That's enough reasoning to explain why emergency services did something inconvenient for someone who is parked illegally.
Can confirm on the second thing firefighters do best. I work as a civilian in my fire department fixing the power equipment. That's chainsaws, the K12s, fans, anything like that. I get to see the tip of the iceberg since all that stuff comes into my shop when it needs repairs and I gotta say: When it comes to breaking stuff... firefighters are talented AF.
I once worked at a hotel in a small town with a Casino. People kept parking in the fire lanes at the hotel despite clear signage and verbal warnings. One guy who was particularly rude to the Fire Chief (who was also the Chief of Police) was told: "If I have to bring my fire trucks to the hotel for a fire, my big firetruck will just move your vehicle out of the way and we won't pay for any damage. That Chief had also helped in New York after 911.
I was driving a semi in NYC, couldn't go where I needed to because of a double parked vehicle, I was instructed to move by an officer because an emergency vehicle needed to get through where I was and I did my best to avoid damaging my truck as I made the turn, a cop intercepted a very angry owner as my trailer did some ungodly damage to their very nice German car though. People will always be upset when their sense of entitlement is threatened.
I'm just astounded at the number of people who somehow managed to get this far in life without knowing that parking in front of a hydrant is an excellent shortcut to needing new windows. I thought that was just something we all knew!
As it happens, I've never encountered firefighters feeding the hose through a car like that. I just know parking in front of a hydrant is stupid and wrong. And have little sympathy to spare for idiots that can't get that straight.
Kind of not worried about having my windows broken. More worried about the likely parking ticket, or towing fees. Having my windows broken would have to mean I was parked in front of a hydrant during a fire. A possible but unlikely set of circumstances. A parking ticket only requires a police officer to see my car and have enough time to bother writing a ticket or towing my car. A much more likely scenario. Although if you're having a really great day, you might get broken windows and a parking ticket or towing fees.
When you have a team of folks skilled in the art and science of breaking cars to get people out in a hurry, don't tempt fate by being stupid enough to park there.
In my career as a cop. General public has no idea or concern other than their own selfish views. And when try to explain the realities of expedient action, their brain shuts down. But if they need police or fire then they ask what took so long.
The same people complaining about busting out these windows are the same people that would be wanting to file a lawsuit because their house burned to the foundation because we were unable to get sufficient water supply by wasting time if we went around it or laughably waited half an hour for a tow truck to show up and remove it, I'd use the bumper to push it before I wasted time on a tow truck.
A few years ago, it was announced that a bunch of traffic cameras were being placed around the city. I just knew that all the people complaining about it were just mad that they wouldn't be able to get away with speeding and blowing lights/stop signs anymore.
@@MonkeyJedi99 Not if you don't speed, run red lights, stop at corners instead of rolling through stop signs.... anything else? Traffic cameras have been around for some time and I've yet to get a ticket from one.
@@Cookiofshadows2 Yeah, the old "Just another way for THE MAN to generate revenue!" while conveniently ignoring that they only generate revenue from - say it with me, class - people who break the law.
As a former firefighter myself. I believe if you are blocking a fire hydrant, and firefighter need to use that hydrant. You will be replacing your window. Plus, you can not fix stupid.
Yeah, I would not hesitate to bust your windows. When we pull up and need a hydrant, we have work to do and lives/property to protect, including our own. The hose is our lifeline, and our lives a WAY WAY WAY more important than your car. The same goes for cars parked in fire lanes alongside buildings. We have big nasty bumpers on the trucks for a reason. Also, it's illegal, so don't complain when you have to handle consequences for breaking the law...
People saying they would sue for property damage. If this happened while I was at work and more of my stuff burned than had to or God forbid my pets were killed when they could have been saved, because the firefighters towed the car or lost pressure putting the hose over it, I would sue them and the jackass who parked in front of the hydrant, and I promise I would have better odds of getting damages.
I had to attend “traffic class” to get a speeding ticket dismissed. The cop teaching the class told us if we park in front of a hydrant, he will personally write us tickets after watching the firefighters break our windows and run hoses through our cars. One guy who thought he was pretty smart said, “I’ll just sue them for property damage,” and the cop said, “wow, I bet nobody else has ever had that idea! Good luck!”
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.
I lived in a building where the owner parked in the fire route and the building caught fire. They pulled up behind his car, pushed it out of the way and the transmission was destroyed. The owner tried to sue, got fined by the judge and was required to pay legal fees "for your stupidity" according to the judge.
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.
Watched one guy on a show that had this happen. He just shrugged and said, "I'm the idiot that parked it there. I deserved it." Best response ever.
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
@@GFRnationnot a new thing
Had a fire hydrant in the front yard of my house growing up that my dad took care of. He painted the curb yellow in front of it and shoveled it out when the snow plow piled snow over it. We never had a house fire on our street, thankfully, but growing up with a hydrant so close and my dad handling it the way he did, I can’t imagine the mindset of someone who casually parks in front of one.
"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.
Had to do this once in my career. Best part was it was a city councilman’s car.
EXCELLENT!
GET FUCKED, BUREAUCRAT!
😹 nice
Figures.
The rules don't apply to them, until they do.
In every municipality in the Untied States it is illegal to park in front of a fire hydrant. As Grandpa always said, "Stupid is supposed to hurt!"
"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!!!!
I work in a water department. Had a bad water break that was affecting half the city. Car was parked in the way overc a critical control valve. No biggie. Not like the owner knew there would be a break. Asked the owner to move his car. He said no. Escalated by calling the police, but the owner was still being obstinate. Tow truck was going to take an hour or two till he got there. Normally not an issue but this water break was bad and was already damaging the road and could threaten to destabilize buildings on either side if it ran much longer. Supervisor told me to use the back hoe to move the car. Guy lost both his insurance claim and civil suit against the city.
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?
My buddy's dad was a fireman. He was only involved once in breaking a car window. The car owner ended up losing his lawsuit against the fire department for the damages, received tickets for parking by the fire hydrant, had his car towed, was charged storage fees for the towed car and paid fines from the tickets. The bottom line total for all was more than what the car was worth.
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.
I worked in a wood mill in maintenance when a pile of sawdust caught on fire. The mill's supervisor announced a car was blocking the hydrant while my boss sent me for the big forklift. The car's owner came strolling out 25 or 30 minutes later to find his car moved to a new location. Unfortunately cars don't like being lifted by forklifts.
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.
people defending someone who illegally parked blocking a fire hydrant is bad enough as it is but the fact that so many ppl expected the firefighters to hold off in responding to a literal emergency to call a tow truck or track down the driver to get them to move their car makes me scared of the future
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
My uncle was the fire chief of our local department when I was young. A man, who had walked up street to visit a neighbor, and found his car, which was parked in front of a fire hydrant, with both front windows busted out and a hose running through it. He was furious. He started ranting and screaming at the firemen. He was so worked up he didn't even notice it was HIS HOUSE the fire was at. When this fact finally sunk into his thick skull, he completely changed his tune. He forgot about his car and started ranting and raving at the firemen for not responding fast enough. You just can't fix stupid.
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.
I made this mistake in California once, they did the same thing. I couldn't even be mad because I knew it was my fault. That cost me a lot. New window, new driver side door, new seats, lots of electrical issues, a VERY large citation cost, almost caught a charge, and I managed to piss off the fire department, and the police. Not a smart move. Lesson learned.
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
As a volunteer firefighter i can confirm.
We know how to break stuff very well. Lots of times, we even manage to break our own stuff. Without even trying to do so.
"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
The people saying the car should not have had the windows broken are the same people that park in front of fire hydrants
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!
I began a 36 year career with the Chicago Police Department in 1973. During my field training, in the first couple weeks on the job, we were sent to a house fire for traffic control. I was directing traffic on a detour around the street.
Someone had parked a car in front of a fire hydrant across from where the fire was and just a little up the street from the corner where I was standing. The Captain of the the engine company, very calmly, walked over with an axe and SMASHED the windows on each side of the car and the firefighters ran the suction line for the pumper right through the car. 😲
He handed the axe to one of the fire fighters and walked over to me and said "Give that guy a ticket!" Yes, sir, Captain!
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
All the public has to do to eliminate this problem is DON'T PARK IN FRONT OF FIRE HYDRANTS. IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.
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
make the fire hydrant plug into the ground and not elevated above the ground so you can go under cars... It's not rocket science it's basic engineering. If they didn't make money from giving out tickets and breaking people's cars then they would have changed it long time ago
@@jansonshrock2859 then they'd have to bend the hoses at a 90° angle, which severely decreases the water pressure, which is not good.
My friends dad is a retired chief. One time they couldn’t even get the hose through the window because it was too high. The chief said ram it. So they got a truck, rammed it ever so gently because there was an open driveway in front.
The drive returned back to his SUV to smashed windows, f’d up brakes, damaged bumper, flat tires and a ticket for illegal parking on top of no insurance payout.
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.
"If there's two things firefighters are really good at, it's saving lives and breaking stuff."
I love it. It's both true and hilarious. That line is awesome!
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.
When I was 15 and taking drivers education I was told never to park in front of a fire hydrant because the firefighters will break your car windows and run their hose through your car. Putting out a fire is more important than your illegally parked car. Why is this a surprise to people?
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.
"no, you cant break my window to get to the fire hydrant!"
"Fine... RAMMING SPEED!"
I don’t think the fireman are gonna ask for permission.
@@brendanflynn5004If the owner is there, you get an excuse to go ramming speed
I find it weird that no one has built a firetruck that you connect to the hydrant and it goes through the truck
So that your whole car is totalled because the firetruck had to ram it outta the way so it could access the hydrant
@@millo7295 A fire engine hooks up to the hydrant. The fire truck ladders the building.
@@millo7295 I don't really understand your idea
It definitely sucks to have your windows broken. I have to imagine it would be a whole lot worse to know someone died or lost their home because the fire department had to wait for a tow truck to remove your improperly parked vehicle. This trolley problem is not hard.
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.
This is literally what will happen to you. It's not just FDNY, every department will do this.
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.
The actual horrific thing is not only that they are blaming firefighters for breaking windows to save lifes - They are defending a guy who might be responsible for several deaths because he parked where he hopefully learned NOT to park!
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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
As a retired engine chauffeur ( not FDNY) I had my share of obstructed hydrants. Depending on the orientation of the hydrant and the position of the vehicle this must be done. sometimes however kinks may result in either situation and may be worse with a pass through situation. Sometimes it was actually quicker to go around the vehicle. It was a decision that had to be made for each individual situation but as was mentioned in the video my primary concern was obtaining a water source as quickly as possible for the nozzle team.
That is crazy as heck that someone parked ILLEGALLY in front of a fire hydrant, something we ALL have been educated to NEVER do, would think they have ANY right to complain if it is actually needed.
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.
A buddy of mine was a firefighter/emt for many years. He said the exact same thing..."Man, we can break anything".
I jammed a knuckle one day and had a finger swelling and a ring stuck. I just stopped by a station knowing they have all the stuff. Walked in, "Howdy" and held up my finger.
Cap'n says "Aha! We got the tool for that! Which one do you want to come 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.
A friend of mine was a firefighter and said one time they had an issue with a nearby apartment block. Turns out residents discovered if they phoned in saying they were locked out of their house and couldn't remember if they turned their stove off, the fire department would respond and unlock the door. Then "oh, i guess i did turn it off, ha ha".
So the Chief said to quit responding with their lock pick set and instead bring the axe. If there was no stove left on the tenant would have to pay the landlord for the repair to the door.
After the 2nd door was broken down the calls stopped lol.
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! 😂😂😂
>does the wrong thing
>faces consequences
>THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!
Greentext
That's typically how criminals and Karens work, lol
About two decades ago, when I was living in an apartment downtown in my home city, there was an annual HUGE festival going on. Tourists flood our city during that (miserable-for-locals) time, parking pretty much anywhere they want....and getting towed when their vehicle is in the wrong place.
I was out on my balcony when one woman stupidly parked in front of a clearly visible fire hydrant, so when she and her squad of brats got out of the car, I called down to her that she needed to move it because the police were towing cars that violated the law, which she was doing. She had the gall and audacity to shout and swear at me that she was "a Coast Guard wife," which only meant she was married to a Coastie, which carries no weight whatsoever where parking is concerned. She screamed that the police "wouldn't dare" to tow a service man's car.
She hauled her bunch of brats about one block before the ever vigilant police came by, saw the car, called their tow truck, and towed the car away. It was hilarious when the Coastie wife came back 3 hours later and there was no vehicle....and no person on the balcony to scream at. A police officer was soon there---they patrol the city heavily during the 8-day festival---and she was shouting at him about the "missing" car. It was deeply satisfying listening to him tell her the what/why and where of her vehicle, and that no, he had no idea how she could get to the impound yard other than calling for a cab.
If she'd listened, and just been obedient to the law, she'd have had a car without any hassles.
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
If you park in front of a hydrant, in a red zone, in a handicapped zone (and you're not handicapped), you get what's coming to you 🤷♀️
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"
The last statement is so true. In Germany there's a tv series that accompanies firefighters during their work. Counting broken axes became the viewers' hobby within the first season, so much so that it has turned into an "insider joke"
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 😂
I parked in front of a fire hydrant once: I had no idea until I got a ticket. However, the hydrant was literally painted green and entirely inside an evergreen bush that had grown around it. I got that ticket overturned with a photo (when I went out to take it, another car was parked there), and they later came out and cut the bush and painted it red. But beats me how it got painted green in the first place.
Kinda sounds like bitchy homeowners didn't like the ugly red post and got the township to camouflage it, at the expense of creating problems like yours.
Probably some property owner
In driver's ed, we were literally taught that if you park in front of a fire hydrant then the firefighters will break your windows and run the hose through your car. I'm guessing all these people who think that the hose should be rerouted somehow must have slept through that day or are probably the same ones who have suddenly forgotten what a speed limit is.
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
As someone who has been on the losing side of a house fire, don't expect me to weep for your smashed window. Personally, anyone parked in front of a hydrant should lose their car and be liable for any damages caused by the fire, both civil AND criminal. In other words, MOVE YOUR F-ING CAR.
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.
Fun fact: auto insurance in the USA doesn't cover damages to your vehicle if they are caused by the fire fighters or police responding to an emergency. The owner of that vehicle is going to learn a very expensive lesson that his/her selfishness cost them.
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.
The fire department should never stop doing this. People should be happy that only their windows were broken; the fire department could choose to push your car out of the way with their truck, no problem.
If I park in from of a fire hydrant, I deserve everything I get.
I was an Air Force Security Policeman in the late 80's. When we would respond with the fire department there was always a good chance that a car driven by Mrs "do you know who my husband is?" Would be parked in front of the hydrant. I always took great pleasure in writing the ticket on the car with 2 fewer windows on it.
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.
My mom saw this on the news, she commented; "why didn't the FD just find the owner to move it?
I replied: "There was a building on fire!! Time was a factor."
She realized the problem. Thankfully
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 worked as a clerk at a district court for three years and was a volunteer firefighter during that time as well. I remember one day a car was parked at a hydrant and we busted out the windows and ran the hose to the pumper. Later that week, the owner tried to sue the fire department for the damage to the car. The judge called all the volunteers in the building to hear what he had to say. About half of the volunteers for the fire department worked in the building. (Including myself) The judge then proceeded to read the guy and his lawyer the riot act. This was a judge I already had immense respect for and he certainly didn’t lessen it that day. This was a judge who if a cop gave you a bull$hit ticket would make the cop come to court and apologize. Bull$hit tickets stopped real fast. This judge reamed the guy a new one for a solid five minutes before dismissing the case with prejudice. Then the judge demanded the guy apologize to all the volunteer firefighters present. This happened in a small town in Washington state in 1985. I still respect that judge to this day. I wish that all judges would live up to his example but most just plain don’t. He retired from the bench in 1995. So if firefighters have to break the windows on your illegally parked car, go ahead and try to sue. At least the clerks will get some entertainment out of seeing the judge ream you out.
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.
My father and great grandfather were both Chicago Fire Fighters. My great grandfather was killed in the Chicago Stockyard Fire due, in part, to low water pressure. Since I was a kid my father always told me not to park in front of fire hydrants or my windows would be broken and the hose run through the car. Or, if there was room, that they would use the fire truck to push the car out of the way, which would likely involve the bending of the car's body panels. He said he had done both many times in his 20 years on the Fire Department.
You come from good people and fine heritage indeed.
That is why they have junky equipment and budge shortfall all the time!!!
In the Navy living on base I ended up parking next to a fire hydrant without realizing it because it behind a fence . . .. Parking lot was fully marked with numbers and lines, and the spot I was in was numbered. Some MP's came rolling up to my door in the middle of the night demanding to know why I had parked in front of a hydrant. Off we went to go look. Yup. Hydrant BEHIND a solid metal fence. MP's didn't care, and gave me a ticket.
On base you HAD to go before the base court to explain yourself. So I did. With photos. No problem paying the ticket, I parked there, but that magistrate must have made a stink because in a few short days that fence came down and the parking spots in front of it and to the sides were all yellow lined and marked for firefighters. I'm sure firefighters rag on their own like police do, but sailors also love to rag on folks. I was called Fire Marshall Bob for months after that.
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.
Ah yes, the classic "I know I did something seriously illegal, but there shouldn't be any serious consequences for my actions, right? It's not like the reasons for these laws are anything but petty, people just shouldn't think they can control me, because that's not fair."
"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.
As a kid, my dad worked with EMTs and my best friend’s dad was FD. It was made very clear to us that this was exactly what would happen if we were ever this stupid.
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 have 30 + years in the fire service and I've personally seen this done once. It was a 3 alarm fire and the hose leaked into the inside of the vehicle. By the time we tore the hose down, the water level was up to the top of the doors. Then the officer that the car owner summoned for us breaking the windows, gave him almost $1,000 in fines.
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.
I had a friend who was a fire chief and he demonstrated an alternative solution: Turns out the front bumper height on a pumper truck is perfect for adjusting the parking position of a Porsche.
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.
My dad is a firefighter and has had to bust car windows open to get the hose hooked up. Not only do you get a fine and broken windows, those hoses are not water proof so your car floods too. Most insurance companies will not write off/repair vehicles that block first responders doing their job, last I checked.
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😂
When I was learning to drive, going through all the traffic laws, the instructor who was retired police was very, very clear about not parking in front of hydrants, because not only is it illegal, but specifically because the firefighters would break the windows of your car and you would be SOL because it's illegal to park there to begin with, and if you tried to "sue" or something you'd probably be laughed out of court after having a fine slapped on you (if a lawyer didn't laugh at you for having the idea first).
If a lawyer actually took that case, they are either fleecing you or are stupid enough to be fleecing themselves.
My 26 year old neighbor, and her two babies, burned up in a house fire, today. I have no empathy, or sympathy, for people who do things to endanger other’s lives! 😢
I always hated the people who think they can drive over my intake LDH that I had to lay crossing the street for a working house fire. One driver decided that she wasn't going to listen to me when I told her she couldn't proceed. Her front wheels went over the LDH and a cop jumped through her window, slammed it in park, pulled her out of the car at gunpoint, face planted on the ground and handcuffed. In the state where I live, driving over fire hose is the same as assaulting emergency personnel, class D felony.
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.
My parents have a story from just after their marriage, they were driving into San Francisco to fill out the final paperwork and my dad finds a spot RIGHT outside the courthouse, unheard of, nigh impossible find. My mom protests saying to find another spot, my dad asks why, and she yells “did you not see this building is on fire?!” And sure enough, the building he was parking in front of was on fire. He almost tried to argue.
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.
Had a neighbor in Germany who drove the tank/pumper truck for the local fire department. When asked in a home owners meeting what he thought of people parking in front of the hydrant he told them no worry. He had no problem either using his truck and pushing cars out of the way or using a chain to drag them. The grin on his face told everyone he rather enjoyed that part of the job. :-)
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.
I’m not a firefighter, but totally agree. The mass of entitled human stupidity is suffocating.
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 😂
My dad had to do this when he was a firefighter. The guy whose car it was tried suing the city for damages to his car…the judge threw it out almost immediately 😂
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
For those who say “there isn’t a fire now, I’ll be in and out so quick!” Let me tell you, I once left my apartment complex to go somewhere super local super fast, I must’ve been gone for like 5 minutes tops, when I returned the fire dept was there actively putting out a dumpster fire in the parking lot… LESS THAN 5 MINUTES!!!
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!
A lot can happen in five minutes. One of those things is fire spreads quickly with plenty of oxygen.
Grandpa use to be a firefighter and every time my mom saw a some idiot park in front of a fire hydrant she would tell us kids that was a great way to get new windows, removal done at no costs to us
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.🤣
Did that once, as we were picking up the owner came up to me raising all kinds of you know what. Told him he could speak to the police officer. What made it better is the car was a very expensive Mercedes.
I used to live up in the mountains, where we could get a lot of snowfall (most I've seen was 8 feet in a week). There were rules about parking there, specifically no street parking on some of the more major streets. This was to allow plows, and emergency vehicles, access to those streets. This area, being a mountain resort, also had it's share of wealthy people who thought the rules didn't apply to them. One of them decided to park their Buick on one of those major streets, and in came a massive snowstorm. This street also just happened to have, if memory serves (it has been several decades now), the fire chief living further down it. An emergency cropped up, and the buick was parked in a way that was blocking the plow, preventing the road from being cleared. So the fire fighters took one of their forestry trucks and drove it over the buick, to get the chief, and then back over it again on the way out. Nobody in the area had any sympathy for the car owner. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is why rules exist in the first place. Don't park in no parking zones.
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.
It astounds me how people will think they both know better than professionals, and would see the windows smashed like that and think it was done out of convenience: passing the hose over, under, or around the car would be faster than feeding it through so clearly there is going to be a good reason to choose the slower option
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?
All I have to say is those firefighters are heroes, and whoever criticizes their decision to break those windows deserve to get kicked in the groin.
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
The way he said “saving lives and breaking stuff” made him sound rather happy about the latter.
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
@@pirtatejoe The real reason is what he said. Getting to break stuff is just the icing on top.
There’s no fixing stupid! I still remember the first time we had to do this in Queens back in 1980. The owner came down after the fire was out and tried to take the 4” 21/2” supply lines off the hydrant so he could move his car. The hydrant was still charged! A cop on the scene ended up locking him up for outstanding warrants. His car was then towed. It was a win-win-win!
So not only was he a Chad, we was a wanted Chad. Crime makes you stupid,
Is it legal to blast these types with the hose?
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking I reckon he'd have done that pretty good all on his own if he'd actually managed to remove a supply line from a charged hydrant...
(bonus: I have to assume that his car wouldn't have had a good time in that scenario)
@@patheddles4004 Probably would have tipped the car over on its side
@@chuckwadnofski7147 and given that the windows were already broken, I reckon the car would be a write-off just from water damage.
The correct response of a car owner in this situation is "OMG I'm such an idiot. I deserved every bit of that, and a ticket on top. I'm sorry my obliviousness/self-absorption/stupidity could have cost someone their life and also that it slowed down the fire team. Please allow me to buy the fire house's next meal as a token of my sincere regret. You guys like any of the local drive through places, my windows are already down."
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.
As a kid, i saw that happen to someone's car on the news. The fireperson explained why. If I could understand at 7 years old why you shouldn't park in front of fire hydrants, adults can understand.
"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.
I feel like one important thing to note about running the hose under/over too is that it doesn't teach the car owner anything. If someone is parking in front of hydrants illegally, and they come back to something on fire and the hose is just going around their car, they'll probably do it again because that's kind of just showing them nothing actually happens if you do. If you smash their windows to run the hose through it, it'll be the last time they try that.
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 smash their windows, they sue the city, they lose the lawsuit and have additional tickets for parking illegally. They also lose their insurance and have to pay for all damages themselves in addition to the lawsuit and tickets. It leaves them broke. It's a hard lesson to learn, but the only way stupid people do learn.
Yes! Its the hard lessons people remember!
Give them a hydrant ticket, pfft, most of these mutts arent gonna pay the fine, but bust out some windows?
THAT gets peoples attention. 😭😂
Those “no parking” signs are there for a reason.
You give these people too much credit. They don’t care about procedure or protocol. They live in a happy go lucky fantasy world, where for example, grocery stores magically restock their shelves and don’t realize trucks deliver them.
That is a fact about the "magic grocery shelves": Mom was doing some substitute teaching in late 1980s and one day came home absolutely flabbergasted that 5th graders had no idea, zero idea, that the food had an existence before it appeared on the store shelf.
In my personal opinion, people complaining about the car damage in this situation should be barred from ever receiving a driving license.
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!
I literally LOVE the fact that the car windows were smashed. Park in front a hydrant and you get what you get!
I would leave a personalized little note on the windshield if I broke the windows.
"I am, truely, from the bottom of my heart, not sorry for breaking your illegally parked windows. Your supposed to think twice before doing something. You forgot to think, period."
My husband used to work for a company that built fire engines. The engines were very beefed up in front for the very purpose of being capable of pushing a parked vehicle out of the way. There goes the transmission.
Fire engines?
And i cant Talk about IT but i gues IT Had Take longer to do that
@@timo4463 just google it if your English is that bad
Unless it's a stick.
@@shane99cathat fire engine don’t give two shits about a stick it’s called “I’m bigger than you, move out the way!” *slams on gas*
@@shane99ca Lock both axles on the car, guarantee the wheels aren't going to rotate at all, and the truck will still push it around no worries. Grip is proportional to vehicle weight, and a fire truck weighs a LOT more than a car. And from what Joan's saying, the trucks are designed for exactly that.
I used to be a volunteer firefighter in a small community. The first time I saw a picture like that there were turnout coats on the sill. Someone said "that was nice of them to protect the paint' then realized they were protecting the hose from broken glass. Thanks
Why are so many people outraged by the consequences of their own actions? It seems like more and more people are lacking personal accountability as time goes on.
Because they are in America. After they have lived there for so long all they can think about is their own personal rights and freedoms. Anything outside of that scope is unfair to their daily life.
Because there are idiots in this country who think they can have all the rights without any of the responsibilities that come with them. A good chunk of people LOVE to scream about the First Amendment and they can't even define it properly!
I like to think that its just that its called out more
@@giftedfox4748 liberals and dems are just much at fault as anyone else
Personal accountability, self awareness, common sense. We’re in the #meonly era
Any moron trying to sue a Fire Dept for breaking out their car windows to access a blocked hydrant is going to lose. There is no judge in this country that will say you have a right to block a hydrant. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The major issue here is that there are so many people out there who feel they're entitled so they do what they want. I feel if some prick parks in front of a hydrant when firefighters need to get access to it, that idiot should be 100% liable for all damages done to their car & any extraneous damages or loss of life that occurs as a direct result to them illegally parking in front of the hydrant.
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
To be fair, the people who say they could've passed it over/under the car, probably simply don't understand how the lack of pressure would be detrimental...
But what is wrong with people who said they should've just get the car towed? They... Do understand what firefighters are using the hose for, right? "Just call to get the car towed, you can put out the fire in 15 minutes, no big deal"
They won't pass it under the car because the pinch welds can/will cut the hose and with that much pressure behind it, it'll hurt someone, and destroy a hose.
@@roachymart2318 replied to the wrong comment?
@@ravenanne1734 Nope
@@roachymart2318 except it wouldn't pinch or kink going under the car. You can see plenty of extra space that would allow it to go under the car without a kink in the video.
@@jadecoolness101 the angle coming from the hydrant to the ground will produce a kink that can affect water flow. Going up through the window is usually a lower angle resulting in less restriction. Also the pinch weld under a car can cut the hose and destroy it. I personally think the hose through the car dripping on all the stuff inside is the "find out" part of fucking around and will act as a lesson on what not to do in the future. The driver should also be charged for the hose in case any of the window glass or the angling needed to circumvent their stupidity damaged the hose in any way. Stupid needs to be painful, either physically, financially, or both.
High school driver's education: my teacher said that we can park in a red zone if we want, but we do so with the understanding that fire fighters can turn our cars into aquariums if they want. I'm still waiting for that episode of Tanked.
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
From the time you start learning to drive they tell you don't park in front of a fire hydrant for this reason
I'm not even american or living in a country with hydrants like america and i know not to park there, for the above video stated reason.
I work with parking enforcement and we deal with blocked hydrants all the time. Thank you for putting out this helpful PSA about what's really going to happen to these cars when there's an emergency - if anything, it's a greater deterrent than the fines and tows we can inflict.
I was a Philly cop for 30 years, PFD did this all the time. If I was on the scene the car owner got a parking ticket and possibly towed too. The fireman are responding to an emergency that potentially could include the loss of life, they don't have time to play around. Every driver knows not to park on a hydrant and knows if they do what can happen.
Remember the garment factory scene from back draft?
And this is why everyone hates the police now. You are making excuses for the violent, completely unneccessary destruction of citizens property, and we all know this was just a dick-waving move. This had nothing to do with safety, people like you just like to flex your authority and act like @ssholes to prove you're a big shot. You are what is wrong with the world. You are why everyone on both sides of the political aisle hate the police and see you as an enemy now. You have proven us right to despise you.
Ya drivers should know from taking written driver test not to park beside a fire hydrant and even before driver test they should even know that. As a driver if I parked by a fire hydrant by a mistake and if I found my windows were broken cause of them dealing with the fire I would be mad at myself for the idiot move by not checking more closely before parking, but in the end result I rather have them doing it then them having to play games trying to save people lives. I say lives is more important then one's property.
@@shawnbottomley6381 You'd be surprised. You'd also think that drivers would know that a non-functioning traffic signal is a 4 way stop, but observation proves that is not the case.
@@roachymart2318 What's weird is that there was this article where the Michigan State police were asked about that. The law here reads that the road with the greatest traffic flow has right of way. (How we're supposed to figure that out isn't addressed.) Absolutely no one follows that law and treats it as a 4-way stop. Well, except in Flint, where traffic controls of any type are apparently optional.
I wish my brother -- a firefighter since he could walk almost -- were still alive so he could watch these. It amazes me that people are stupid enough to think that firefighters can just run around in every conceivable location looking for the one idiot who parked their car illegally and WAIT for them to pay for their mochaccino and saunter back to their car ... while letting a person die or a building burn for want of water.
Salutations and condolences foe your brother. Thank you for sharing his story too. All the best!
Condolences my friend. believe me people don't understand the struggles firefighters have to go through
It's the same people who say stupid shit like why did the cops have to kill the knife wielding madmad... couldn't they just shoot it out of his hand or hit him in the leg , you know like TV told them.
My husband is a Retired Battalion Captain Firefighter/Paramedic. I'm Retired NYPD officer. My husband has told me many times he's had to break car windows because of ( entitled people thinking they can park in front of hydrants. Once he broke the windows of a brand new Mercedes. The owner tried to sue the fire department and the sheriff office. Not only did the entitled idiot lose in court but had to pay $1.500 in fines plus court cost and pay for the damages to his car. Lol!!!! In every state it is totally illegal to park in front/block a hydrant.
My Dad retired as the Battalion Chief (a specific type of assistant chief) of our fairly large city's fire department. He had to make the call to destroy a lot of things and send a lot of guys into danger because people are insanely stupid. Fortunately none of his men ever got killed on his watch, although a few people who they were trying to rescue did because they panicked and didn't obey the firemens' orders. He was also a huge animal lover and would always take the time and extra risk to get the animals out of the house back when he actually went inside himself. When he was BC, he always made sure they had O2 and even CPR when they need it.
He said the one thing that he really dreaded, other than sending his guys into a bad situation, was having to shut down a major interstate--and we have three that intersect in the city. It's a felony to interfere with interstate commerce, and him doing it as part of his duty didn't make him totally immune from that. He always had to do a ton of paperwork justifying his decision after the fact.
In all fairness, there have been people blocking interstates and slowing/stopping transports over politcial motivations. Those federal laws tend to come from someone fucking around.
@@Aereto Yeah, there definitely are. But you've heard of those volunteer firemen who set fires so they have a fire to put out? There are also some who enjoy shutting down major roads--usually because of a wreck, the professionals like my dad were pulled in for hazard materials spills--just because it's a power they'd never have in the rest of their life. This makes it more tricky for the professionals when there's a legitimate reason to shut down an interstate. Like, for example, a full coal barge delivering a direct strike to a support pillar of an interstate bridge. The interstate has to be closed until engineers can certify that the structural integrity of the bridge hasn't been compromised. But then that decision comes with a ton of paperwork to justify the decision.
I'm not saying that every VF is power tripping, just that some of them are. And there's definitely a huge difference in a PF Assistant Chief who's taken classes and scored the highest on tests to rise up to his rank and a volunteer.
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a rant against volunteers. Just pointing out why it's not as simple as it seems, and firemen are typically personally liable if the decisions they make cannot be justified. Therefore they don't break out windows lightly, but only when it's obviously the right course to get water to a fire.
@@morrigan908 firemen are personally liable for shutting down a road or destroying a vehicle to save lives, but cops are immune from murdering innocent people.... Christ, our system is broken.
@@Lolwutfordawin Stay focused Shecky, we get it, you don't like cops...
@@marchellochiovelli7259 They did make an intriguing point though.
Thank you for explaining how problematic the proposed "solutions" were. I was not aware of how high a cost is associated with kinks in the supply line.
I was hoping someone would have suggested the firefighters to use the lawn hose instead, same water right?
@@giftedfox4748 🤣 Next person should then suggest pissing on the fire for all the good either of those options would do.
My mum's car was on fire once when I was a kid and we shouted for the across-the-street neighbor to get some water while we wait for the firetruck. Dude comes out in his bathrobe with a little glass of water. 🤣
You've never kinked a garden hose? Same effect, very little to no water coming out.
@@moonbear5929 Sure I did, but not that often and it has been years since I've lived somewhere that had a garden. So it's just not automatic knowledge to me currently. Also then I usually did it full-on to annoy my siblings, so I never thought about the effects smaller kinks might have. Also I don't know whether I would have automatically applied every piece of knowledge I have about garden hoses to firefighter equipment. Like, don't get me wrong, I totally understand why you'd think knowledge would transfer from one to the other. But it didn’t automatically for me. Or maybe the first piece of knowledge wasn't available enough to be transferred? In any case, I appreciate knowing this now.
We had a 3"x10' "car pipe" that was for this reason.
1 break glass
2 unlock and open doors.
3 pass hose through open doors onto seats.
4 charge line.
5 notify LE of actions.
Oddly enough that section was dirty and leaked. Many complaints filed and city council would say "you broke the law and you can't be compensated for damages while breaking the law (insert state laws here)." That was it.
I have a hydrant right in front of my house. There have been several occasions where I've told people not to park in front of it because "If there's a fire, it's open season on your car." Most stop and think, then move.
I appreciate these videos where professionals explain to the armchair experts why their opinion is not only wrong, but fantastically so, much more than I appreciate the blasé "well maybe both sides have a point" approach of some other commentators.
I mean in this case it‘s quite obvious that there is no ‚other point‘.
There’s little to no compromise when it’s about saving lives.
I love it when these armchair experts are so wrong, they're "fractally wrong". They're wrong no matter how you look at their answer or how closely you examine it.
"There were good broken windows on both sides of the car." - Fire Department Chief candidate at a debate.
Fencesitters have no part in actually solving problems
Yup, Some things have no two sides. It's always worth checking but some people choose to go all devil's advocate over dumb shit
Huh, I never really thought about how much pressure you get from a hydrant and how much friction is involved
You do a really good job in educating in an entertaining way
personally I find the extreme level of snark to really get in the way of any entertainment value
@@lexacutable I guess that's just a matter of taste, hope you can enjoy it anyway
found the petrolheaded carbrain @@lexacutable
There's not necessarily pressure, just flow. At least in our area hydrants are color coded based on the expected pressure a hydrant is expected to provide (ours vary from 30psi to 180 psi.) The lower the pressure the easier it is to kink and cut off the flow through the hose. The flow is kept up by using large diameter hoses reducing friction loss and a pump on the truck brings back the pressure.
Reminds me of the time Karen parked her car in front of my dad's driveway. He told her to move or he'll have her towed. Her response was a sarcastic "well that's very nice of you". Unsurprisingly he had her towed. How dumb can you be?
She was the same blond that went to the parts store and asked for a Part 710....You know that thingy on top of the engine I pulled it and lost it.
Is your car her miss, can you show me? Upon opening the engine compartment he immediately new what she was talking about because there was
OIL = 710 all over the engine compartment. The OIL cap upside down says Part 710😂so he proceeded to also sell her oil, a funnel, and a roll of paper towels....with the OIL cap🤣
Something similar happened to me. It was Fourth of July and I had just gotten off of a 12 hour shift.
I was going to my grandparents house in the middle of the night when I noticed a car blocking their drive way with barely enough room to scrape by. I was way to tired to care, so I drove right through it, scratching up the bumper on my way in. I then called a tow truck and went to bed.
Honesty I don’t know what happened to that car, but when I woke up it was gone.
Every time a vehicle gets "hosed" an angel get its wings.. 😊
I've been driving 50 years. Of all the rules, two of the really Cardinal Rules are NEVER pass a loading school bus and NEVER park in front of a fire hydrant. "I just know somebody tried to drill those rules into your thick head. Sorry about the windows pal, and oh yeah, you got a ticket, now scram!" That's what I'd say.
I wouldn't say sorry as denoted guild or remorse
Another rule; Don't park on a railroad track with a prisoner in the back of your police car. It's not going to be pretty. Just sayin!
@@oldandintheway9805 don't stop on tracks anytime nor out your leg under a stopped train
Even if the only reason was: "This is the fastest way to run the hose to the water supply." That's enough reasoning to explain why emergency services did something inconvenient for someone who is parked illegally.
Can confirm on the second thing firefighters do best. I work as a civilian in my fire department fixing the power equipment. That's chainsaws, the K12s, fans, anything like that. I get to see the tip of the iceberg since all that stuff comes into my shop when it needs repairs and I gotta say: When it comes to breaking stuff... firefighters are talented AF.
Can confirm, my childhood friend is in training to become a firefighter. He has always had a talent at breaking stuff
I once worked at a hotel in a small town with a Casino. People kept parking in the fire lanes at the hotel despite clear signage and verbal warnings. One guy who was particularly rude to the Fire Chief (who was also the Chief of Police) was told: "If I have to bring my fire trucks to the hotel for a fire, my big firetruck will just move your vehicle out of the way and we won't pay for any damage. That Chief had also helped in New York after 911.
I was driving a semi in NYC, couldn't go where I needed to because of a double parked vehicle, I was instructed to move by an officer because an emergency vehicle needed to get through where I was and I did my best to avoid damaging my truck as I made the turn, a cop intercepted a very angry owner as my trailer did some ungodly damage to their very nice German car though. People will always be upset when their sense of entitlement is threatened.
@@tailgatecarpenter26 No, it was a Mercedes-Benz
I'm just astounded at the number of people who somehow managed to get this far in life without knowing that parking in front of a hydrant is an excellent shortcut to needing new windows. I thought that was just something we all knew!
Sky is blue.
Water is wet.
Let’s see… What other astounding revelations can we provide for people silly enough to park like this? 😸
As it happens, I've never encountered firefighters feeding the hose through a car like that.
I just know parking in front of a hydrant is stupid and wrong. And have little sympathy to spare for idiots that can't get that straight.
Kind of not worried about having my windows broken. More worried about the likely parking ticket, or towing fees.
Having my windows broken would have to mean I was parked in front of a hydrant during a fire. A possible but unlikely set of circumstances. A parking ticket only requires a police officer to see my car and have enough time to bother writing a ticket or towing my car. A much more likely scenario. Although if you're having a really great day, you might get broken windows and a parking ticket or towing fees.
yet here in europe, thats not the case, we run the hose under or over the car just fine. we have no laws against parking in front of a hydrant.
They do... They are just really important and rules that save lives don't apply to them :/
When you have a team of folks skilled in the art and science of breaking cars to get people out in a hurry, don't tempt fate by being stupid enough to park there.
well said\
In my career as a cop. General public has no idea or concern other than their own selfish views. And when try to explain the realities of expedient action, their brain shuts down. But if they need police or fire then they ask what took so long.
The same people complaining about busting out these windows are the same people that would be wanting to file a lawsuit because their house burned to the foundation because we were unable to get sufficient water supply by wasting time if we went around it or laughably waited half an hour for a tow truck to show up and remove it, I'd use the bumper to push it before I wasted time on a tow truck.
ALWAYS the same people!
A few years ago, it was announced that a bunch of traffic cameras were being placed around the city. I just knew that all the people complaining about it were just mad that they wouldn't be able to get away with speeding and blowing lights/stop signs anymore.
@@Cookiofshadows2 Traffic cameras are just revenue machines.
@@MonkeyJedi99 Not if you don't speed, run red lights, stop at corners instead of rolling through stop signs.... anything else? Traffic cameras have been around for some time and I've yet to get a ticket from one.
@@Cookiofshadows2 Yeah, the old "Just another way for THE MAN to generate revenue!" while conveniently ignoring that they only generate revenue from - say it with me, class - people who break the law.
As a former firefighter myself. I believe if you are blocking a fire hydrant, and firefighter need to use that hydrant. You will be replacing your window. Plus, you can not fix stupid.
Yeah, I would not hesitate to bust your windows. When we pull up and need a hydrant, we have work to do and lives/property to protect, including our own. The hose is our lifeline, and our lives a WAY WAY WAY more important than your car. The same goes for cars parked in fire lanes alongside buildings. We have big nasty bumpers on the trucks for a reason. Also, it's illegal, so don't complain when you have to handle consequences for breaking the law...
Is it faster to go around? No? Then we go through it
People saying they would sue for property damage.
If this happened while I was at work and more of my stuff burned than had to or God forbid my pets were killed when they could have been saved, because the firefighters towed the car or lost pressure putting the hose over it, I would sue them and the jackass who parked in front of the hydrant, and I promise I would have better odds of getting damages.