You failed. Too obvious.
Man, I’m glad no fires or emergencies cropped up in this store while you guys all sat around in the FIRE LANE trying to decide who has the right to be here!
As I feared.
sniff
wipes away a tear of joy
Makes me want to become an arsonist, that does. Only in buildings with cars parked in the fire lanes, of course. And only small fires.
Now that’s just stupid! What a way to teach those kids to be dishonest.
They could just as easily have simply designated them as “No Parking” spots.
But like most cities, they probably get more money from a Fire Lane ticket than a simple No Parking zone ticket.
So the city is both dishonest and greedy!
Well, I suppose this did teach those students something about how the world works. But not a good lesson.
I think it’s clear that the free market should determine things. Really, if your store has a fire lane and that other guy’s doesn’t, I’m more likely to die a screaming, painful death in his store. So I’ll shop at yours.
See, the free market fixes everything!
-Joe
When it comes to hydrants and fire lanes, I think I’m in favor of the following policy: “you parks your car, you takes your chances.” If you’re parked in one of these spots and your car is actually impeding the fighting of an actual fire, you can be sure that the firemen will effectively destroy your car in their effort to move it out of the way as fast as possible. Here in NYC, at least, I think we’re better off accepting the 20 or 30 extra seconds it would take the FDNY to respond to fires in exchange for the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of extra parking spaces.
ETA: you could even give the FD special car moving equipment. Maybe some kind of giant lever that flips the car over into the street, where it can be pushed out of the way (upside down) by the fire engine.
I wish to state, for the record, I have never done such a thing.
The guilty ones always deny it.
Well, the driver parking their car thus has to accept that there are consequences!
“Who is driving the car shooting poisonous venom? Oh my God, GrizzRich is driving the car shooting poisonous venom! How can that be???”
According to the Wikipedia article about the movie, these were actual LAX announcers at the time.
They have that already - it’s called a 450 horsepower engine. As someone on the other page said, put the transmission in first gear and you can move small buildings. Cars are no problem.
Ok, tell me how to move this cop car with just a fire truck without damaging the legally parked cars in front of it.
It may be an urban legend, but supposedly, some fire departments have master keys for all of that city’s emergency vehicles - fire trucks, ambulances, cop cars and meter maid’s buggies.
Otherwise, it looks like at least one outlet of that hydrant is unimpeded, so it’s not a huge crisis.
Failing that, they’ll just throw a chain on the car’s bumper or axle and drag it out.
Not an urban legend.
Really? It is everywhere I’m familiar with…
Seems like just common sense would tell you this is untrue.
Fore example, my city has hundreds of cop cars alone. From at least 2 different automakers. How could they possibly have a master key that would work on all these cars? Especially when they come from different car companies? (I know that the city does NOT replace all the door locks when new vehicles are put into service.)
Last winter, a cop accidentally locked the car door, with the keys in the ignition & the car running. He had to get another cop car take him back to the station to get the spare set of keys. This was at a scene where several Fire Department vehicles were present also. If they had ‘master keys’, why wouldn’t they have just unlocked the door for this cop?
And this just doesn’t make sense in the first place – what reason is there for the Fire Department to have such super master keys? What benefits are there to justify the amounts this would cost? No significant benefits that I can see!