Reminds of a time when I was at the theatre with some friends.
We were outside buying tickets when my friend’s kids noticed that a neon sign over the entrance was arching and emitting a small flame at one end.
I noticed that a firefighter I know was in the crowd so I brought him over to look thinking he would get something done. He just said “Oh it doesn’t look bad” and returned to his group. I eventually got the manager to turn off the sign but SHEESH!
What, he wouldn’t do anything unless it got worse? Some firefighter.
No, you asshole. I expect you to provide proof of the statement that you tossed out here as though it were fact. Since you don’t have any such proof, I can safely say that you’re an asshole who tosses out myth and pretends it’s fact.
If it is, in fact, the firefighters who are the ones to issue such citations, then surely there’s a local law, ordinance perhaps, that not only permits it but requires it.
And, no, you jackass, I’m not interested in speaking to someone else who’ll toss out the same myth as though it’s fact. Perhaps you could get off your ass and provide the city code that applies.
Silly me.
I thought that the purpose of writing tickets was to discourage people from parking in fire lanes, thus making life easier for firemen and increasing public safety.
Apparently, though, the only reason to write tickets is revenue enhancement. :rolleyes:
Yeah Monty, I only pass out myth and fancy. No, I am NOT dreging through countless articles of City Ordinance to prove to some upity, known to be a total dickhead, poster on a message board on the internet that what my dad, the FIRE FUCKING FIGHTER says.
Lets see: Random asshole poster vs my dad, A 20+ year firefighter, next in line and in the process of being Fire Captain, and very active in the Union. Lets see: I would have to say that worthless, way too much time on his hands with a bad attitude dickmuncher has less validity than dear old Dad, no matter how reprehensible his attitude is. Or perhaps firefighters now a days, and for the last 20 years has been taught MYTH and carry it out as SOP. :rolleyes:
We know how unions are, don’t we, mhendo? Why does it surprise you that people would place politics over justice.
What is your fucking problem, Epimetheus? I mean besides the obvious that you are a complete jackass.
And now you’ve made another asinine assertion and ought to back it up with citations also: this time, that of me being “know to be a total dickhead.”
And just so’s you know, I don’t give a flaming fuck about your dad’s position unless it happens to be the one responsible for maintaining and quoting the city code you alluded to and have yet to provide.
Sheesh, you’re rapidly turning into the biggest jackass on the boards.
I guess county wandered off to beat some businessmen with axe handles.
This happened to someone who looks a lot like me.
This guy and his girlfriend were in her car. By mistake, she backed up into a car parked in the firelane (who was there all night). The right side door was pretty well mashed in. I don’t think it could have been opened.
So my friend got out of the car, looked around, then left a little note on the window that said “Not the best place to leave your car I guess.”
Considering it was 3am, and no one was around, the two drove off.
I’d like to see these dimwits explain how their door got mushed in to their insurance company (or the police).
Oddly, there were plenty of other parking spaces. It’s not like this guy HAD to park there.
Well, your girlfriends a slut and the guy who looks like you is a dickhead asshole. You don’t fuck with a man’s automobile.
Let’s see…
Say I’m backing out of my garage as I always do, straight out and pull right as soon as I leave my driveway. Cursory glances on all sides, I’m sure there aren’t people in the area, there is a fire hydrant on the sidewalk where I back out, so there should be no car there unless there’s a fire. I back out, noticing that there is no fire, which is good, and slam into an illegally parked car that should not have been there. According to my friend who lives across the street, the asshole who parked there had been parked there the whole day, and it is now 3 in the morning.
I’d agree, you don’t fuck with a man’s car for the most part, but if he’s illegally parked, then all bets are off. Illegally parked cars generally are 1) irritating, 2) dangerous in some situations, and 3) sometimes block the flow the traffic. I’d consider most people who illegally park overnight or for more than a few minutes complete jackasses, and thus, if their car gets fucked with, it’s their own damn fault.
j_kat_251, a man doesn’t park in the damned Fire Lane.
Honestly, would the result have been any different if Seven’s girlfriend sat there and waited for the asswipe to show up?
I’m not an insurance fella, but wouldn’t the illegally parked person automatically be at fault? Wouldn’t he be the one paying for repolishing the chrome on her bumper?
From one of the sites:
“The fire department personnel are going to be certified as code enforcement officers, so they will be able to issue citations when they see people violating the ordinance [prohibiting parking in fire lanes],” said Allen Bush, city manager.
http://www.palatkadailynews.com/pages/09202000/fire.html
From another site:
"Massachusetts law allows fire officials to issue $50 tickets to drivers who park their cars in fire zones, said [Easthampton, MA Fire Captain Dave] Keefe. Police can only issue $10 tickets, he added.
At this point, fire officials have mostly issued warnings, but they will now ticket any cars parked in the fire lane area, Keefe said."
http://www.gazettenet.com/09042003/news/8796.htm
And from Dalton, GA:
DALTON, Ga. – The Dalton Fire Department now [Feb. 2000] has the authority to hand out specially designed tickets for illegal parking in a fire lane. A ticket for parking in the fire lane at Whitfield Square on Cleveland Highway will receive a $74 ticket.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2000/FEB/24FEB00/NEWS1224FEB.html
Only a few minutes of searching indicates that there are indeed a number of places where the fire departments write citations for parking in fire lanes.
Why? You think they would actually TELL the insurance company the car was illegally parked at the time? I’m sure the driver told his agent that he parked at home, exhausted from delivering food and clothing to local orphanages.
And ** j_kat_251**, men also have accidents. Accidents are sometimes called mistakes. FYI.
Because the only people with any credibilty are those that write city code. :rolleyes:
Monty, you are a dumbass. If you can’t look at your past ~9000 posts (get a life) and see that hordes of people think you are a complete and utter dickhead with no social skills or tact, then you are a complete moron. My first few months on this message board brough your name into my notice as being such, and the last few years of reading your vitrol (especially those you think are slighting mormons) gives me the impression that you will eternally be nothing more than an antisocial curmudgeon.
If you want further cites, just hit the search button under any one of your posts.
FTR, Monty has only been pitted 13 times. A simple search reveals them; however, this board works too slow for me to get urls and link them all. Monty reminds me of Collunsbury. Monty has a bit more self control than him, but not nearly the intelligence.
Big whoop, you fucking worthless piece of shit. Somebody else did your work for you. And that work is something you were fucking afraid to do because you know damn well you were just repeating something you heard. This particular board has long had the motto of “cite?” when someone posts something as though it’s fact. YOU were the one who asserted something; therefore, it is inumbent upon YOU to provide the proof of that assertion.
And it’s quite amazing to me that you have to run to the number of times assholes other than you have pitted me and also to my post count to bitch about me calling you on something.
You are neither intelligent nor decent. You are just a stupid jerk.
Whoa, big man Monty! No shit I was repeating what somebody else told me, I didn’t claim otherwise. So what is different from me saying something I heard from somebody else and saying something I read from somebody else? Is something in writing much more valid than somebody speaking?
Here is a hint Monty: This is the PIT, not the fucking Great debates, If I say something that seems credulous and I am called on it there, I will post a cite. I don’t post in threads there unless I am willing to do some research. In the Pit, or MSPIMS or what have you, I don’t. Should I follow you around and claim cite to every simple thing you say?
My father is a Firefighter. He has been for 20 plus years. I was very young when he started his career- perhaps 5 or 6 years old. (been about 21 - 22 years I imagine) Thus I have heard stories, claims and statements all the time. Should I ask “Cite” to everything? A fire truck is red- CITE!!!. :rolleyes: So I make an offhand comment about something my DAD said (see comments in above posts) about how Independence, Mo Fire departments work (note: not Davis, California firedepartments), and you have to open your fatass, shit smelling mouth and call me on it? Please, the pit doesn’t work that way pal, if you don’t like something I say, then contend it, I don’t have to prove every statement I say. If you don’t like it, disprove it. Otherwise get your old, fat, wanna-be ass out of my face.
You’re just a little wimp, aren’t you, Epi? All I fucking did was ask you for a cite, some little bit of proof. I didn’t accuse you of jack until you started freaking out with the pitesque language. Now, you’re all upset and it’s all brought on you by you and from you. And, yes, it works that way: you assert something’s a fact, you back it up.
Well, then back this statement up.
Hey, Jackass; you posted above on page two of this very thread that it’s the firefighters who do the ticketing referred to herein, not the cops. I asked for a citation of that assertion. You got bent out of shape and started cursing. You are now dredging the bottom of the barrel, which appears to be your lair so you must not have far to reach, and still avoid the issue. You asserted that cops don’t write the tickets referred to here. You were asked to support that assertion. You continue to refuse to do so.
Essentially, you’re not much different–and certainly no better–than a troll.