# WTF? Pay Up or We Let Your House Burn Down? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210 "2010-10-06T03:08:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 49
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/961 "2010-11-18T21:27:06Z")
What if it’s a baptised \*Christian \*bunny, studying his Bible? His \*stack \*of Bibles? His stack of rare, \*expensive \*Bibles that also have great \*personal \*significance? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/962 "2010-11-18T21:27:43Z")
Hop hop hop. Poor little bunny. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/963 "2010-11-18T23:01:55Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Hop hop hop. > > Poor little bunny. ☹ mmmmm braised rabbit. With the smokey goodness of bibles. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/964 "2010-11-18T23:24:56Z")
> [@Turtledove](#): > > This is my first post 🙂 It seems obvious that the only way for a fire department to exist in a voluntary system is that one must pay or no deal, otherwise what keeps a fire department in business? \ Welcome, **Turtledove**!! Since you asked: _Fires!!_ Fires are what keeps a fire department in business! So we all need to go out and start more fires. Otherwise nobody knows what all those firemen will do all day. For your further edification, note that bibles, especially old, dried out heirloom bibles, make great kindling. We need more old bibles with extensive personal significance for kindling. Start a pile right over there. And hassenpfeffer is great when prepared over an open fire. I can’t imagine who won’t have trouble letting go of that! It’s a win / win for everybody!! Except of course for that Debbie-downer fellow **gonzomax**. He really is a glass-is-half-empty kind of guy, poor thing. Don’t let him bother you though; his heart – if not his brain – is in the right place. So come on, grab a chair and a spoon, the stew is almost ready. Hope you enjoy yourself here. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/965 "2010-11-19T01:49:07Z")
> [@Turtledove](#): > > …a special fund could be made available to help the truly unfortunate. (I know…who is to say who is truly unfortunate?) Gosh, hold on, I know the answer to this…we need someone who can point out deserving free-riders to callous, animal-hating fire departments, right? And who can allocate theoretical money to retroactively pay before the house caught fire in the first place? And they also have to be willing to sacrifice real people for dead animals in lost-cause trailer fires? Tall order. But there must be _someone_ like that around. ( **Turtledove** , no offense meant – I know you did not say or mean what I seem to be attributing to you: the quote served only illustrate a much-belabored point. Good to meet you.) ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/966 "2010-11-19T02:36:59Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Hop hop hop. > > Poor little bunny. ☹ Poor wittle bunny wabbit! ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/967 "2010-11-19T03:23:27Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I believe Giraffe you stuck your neck into it too. I tried to let it die a couple times. But you guys are having too much fun. Fun? We’re just waiting for you to man up and pay the $75 to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Unless this isn’t about the money. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/968 "2010-11-19T03:25:31Z")
I never would have guessed this thread would get in range of 1000 posts when it began. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/969 "2010-11-19T04:15:15Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > I never would have guessed this thread would get in range of 1000 posts when it began. :mad: Way to kill the buzz, dude!:mad: 😉 Seriously, this has got to stop; speaking as someone who has made a complete idiot out of himself on this board (more than once, and right here in this forum; what the definition of insanity again?) this is just way too much like a bunch of bullies standing around in a circle playing kick-the-retard hackey-sac. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/970 "2010-11-19T04:28:03Z")
Has anybody told **Gonzo** that when it one finds oneself at the bottom of a hole, you should stop digging? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/971 "2010-11-19T15:53:47Z")
Hey, we’re \*not \*kicking the retard’s hackey-sac. That would be against board rules. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/972 "2010-11-20T07:41:43Z")
I bet we could raise the $75 to pay Cranick’s subscription fee in no time at all if we sold tickets to kick the retard’s hackey-sac! A dollar a kick? Heck, make it 50¢. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/973 "2010-11-20T15:56:44Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Has anybody told **Gonzo** that when it one finds oneself at the bottom of a hole, you should stop digging? > 😕 I am at the top. The hole and digging in the dirt is where you people are. base, cold, nasty people enjoying the misery of another. That is digging son. That is playing and having fun in a low and compassionless place. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/974 "2010-11-20T22:41:26Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I am at the top. The hole and digging in the dirt is where you people are. base, cold, nasty people enjoying the misery of another. That is digging son. That is playing and having fun in a low and compassionless place. So have you showed your compassion by paying Cranick’s $75 subscription fee? What about the others in his area that haven’t paid? Are you going to actually show compassion or just act all high and mighty to a bunch of strangers on the internet? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/975 "2010-11-22T00:18:33Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > So have you showed your compassion by paying Cranick’s $75 subscription fee? What about the others in his area that haven’t paid? Are you going to actually show compassion or just act all high and mighty to a bunch of strangers on the internet? He’s probably just been too busy trying to find evidence of the mythical pets. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/976 "2010-11-22T00:55:48Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > He’s probably just been too busy trying to find evidence of the mythical pets. Unicorn, chimera, or pony? Given what happened, I’m going with some type of [jinn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn) (or maybe too much gin?). CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/977 "2010-11-22T02:35:40Z")
Damn, I was watching Jonah Hex today and what happened? Jonah’s family was burned alive in his house as it burned to the ground. Where is **Gonzo** ’s outrage over that? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/978 "2010-11-22T18:23:47Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > I am at the top. The hole and digging in the dirt is where you people are. base, cold, nasty people enjoying the misery of another. That is digging son. That is playing and having fun in a low and compassionless place. Misery as the result of stupidity rates pretty low on my compassion scale. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/979 "2011-12-07T01:03:58Z")
[It happened again](http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111206/NEWS21/111206010/West-TN-home-burns-firefighters-watch). > [@](#): > > Bell said she was aware of the city fire department’s “pay to spray” policy but did not subscribe because she and her boyfriend did not think they would ever be victims of a fire. No word on whether the couple had pets. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210/980 "2011-12-07T01:20:56Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > [It happened again](http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111206/NEWS21/111206010/West-TN-home-burns-firefighters-watch). > > No word on whether the couple had pets. I can’t believe someone let their house burn down just to resurrect a Pit thread… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-pay-up-or-we-let-your-house-burn-down/556210.md?page=50)