Firemen goes for a spin?

I thought it was pretty funny. If they want to do that type of thing fair play to them, it obvioulsy kept them entertained during a night shift or something. Bit silly filming it i guess as others could copy.
 
Within the public services, humour is the only thing that alows you to cope with what you see and deal with.

Theres a very grim sense of humour also attached with the more disturbing sides of teh job, which the public wouldnt want to to know about - its easy to take on the views of the media and condemn such actions but when you think about it, wouldnt you rather that they were on call and playing silly jokes during shifts to keep themselves entertained, or would you rather they got sacked.
 
Also, have to admit, the perceptions of & attitudes to danger are not likely to be the same when you work in a profession like this. I expect that a lot of what we call fun would seem pretty boring to some of these guys & Adrenaline is addictive.
In general I tend to think that, whatever people get up to behind closed doors (so long as no one is getting hurt that doesn't want to) is no one's business but there own.

But putting it on the net... somewhere some kid is going to think that it's a cool thing to do (I can think of a few really stupid things I did as a kid when 'showing off' to my mates).

Or... hands up everyone who hasn't done something equally stupid when p*ssd out of his/her skull & egged on by mates. & in that condition forgetting the padding is a reasonable probability. Not to mention the mates forgetting to turn the thing off again... ("cool... the pizza's arrived.")
 
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Ok points taken ..but what if he was a fresher...bright lights and glamour job i am in !!!. Has not seen any action yet and is getting bored waiting for it to happen ...then thinks hey i know lets tumble around in the washing machine when all the real pro`s laugh at me ???. Was it stupid ...yes totally and im afraid i know some friends who would die to be a fireman and are tryin their best to do so !!! they would not do this..they would play cards or sleep and be a real professional .

Sorry he should accept the inevitable :) The world will move on and gaps will be filled
 
coupla fire brigade memories

18 years old, working as cub reporter for Fleet Street News Agency, doing all night shift covering hard news stories for Evening News and Evening Standard, at the time the two London evening newspapers

a fire broke out in a disused warehouse at St Katherine's dock

I went there, as did about five other reporters and photographers

The fire was raging on the top floor, about six storeys high

Unfortunately, the top floor was where lots of down and outs, tramps, methers, homeless people, call them what you will, slept

The firemen arrived, tackled the blaze and were bringing down the dead guys on covered stretchers. This was about 4am

All the journalists (not me, I hasten to add) shouted for the firemen to whip off the blanket covering the dead bodies 'so we can get a good picture'

After about the seventh body came down, one of the firemen stopped, looked at the reporters and photographers baying and begging to see a dead burnt body, and said 'Ok then' and granted their wish.

He whipped the blanket back, but not one camera flash went off, it went very quiet, two reporters threw up and somebody whispered 'Oh my God'

I've never seen, or smelt for that matter, something quite so hideous.

The firemen, of course, laughed their heads off, they sure enough shut everybody up that night.

Second story was I witnessed a head on car crash at Falconwood, North Kent, at about midnight, was standing outside the pub having a lemonade with the guvnor after just having done a disco. The crash happened where a three lane per side dual carriageway narrowed into a two lane single carriageway on the borders of London. Many European visitors travelled this route.

I rushed up to one car, they hadn't been wearing their seat belts, two adult women in the front, three teenage females in the back. They were all injured, groaning, there was lots of blood.

I picked up two of the girls and laid them on the grass embankment. Local householders brought blankets. The fire brigade arrived, tapped me on the shoulder and said 'we''ll take over now, go back to the pub and try not to think about it.'

So I did, the pub guvnor said '****ing hell, have you seen yourself, you're covered in claret, wanna brandy?'

I accepted the offer of brandy.

So, there's just a couple of examples of what the fire brigade do, I'm sure many of you know of more extreme examples.

Mind you, ambulance crews sure see some strange things as well, one crew told me of the time trying to pick up a suicide victims' severed head, he'd laid down before a train..... :lol:
 
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Mind you, ambulance crews sure see some strange things as well, one crew told me of the time trying to pick up a suicide victims' severed head, he'd laid down before a train.....
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As do the BTP - when someone does that, its called a "One Under"

Picking up pieces of flesh is all part of the job. Your lucky if you have a complete head to put in a bag.
 
It seems a lot of people are making excuses for what these guys have done.

They do a job, fine, the job is stressfull, fine, remember so are a lot of other jobs.

Other public servants save people lives on a daily basis. What these firemen have done is inexcusable. Ontop of all that they record it and leak it onto the Net?!?!?!?!

WTF were they on?

They are not children they are adults with a responsibilty to set an example to young, old and everyone else that looks upto them.

He and all others who were there deserve to be sacked without excuse.

End of.
 
Jesus christ. When I broke my back the car wasn't too much of a mess & they were able to just cut me out so no fire brigade. But when I was in the hospital they brought in a teenage girl, she had a broken neck. When she was finally able to sleep she would wake up wimpering & crying. She talked about the noise of the "Jaws of Life" & the sound of the metal screaming when the firemen unfolded the car to get her out. The sound forever embeded in her head. & the compassion of the firemen themselves.
There had been 4 girls in the car. She was the only survivor. Head on collision. out on the highway to Christchurch. The guy who hit them was p*ssd & speeding & crossed the centerline. He survived.

I don't even want to think about what the firemen saw when the pulled that car apart.


Edit: I started this before your posts went up chris & Trips, I should've used the quote button I suppose but my response was to flopps comment :o
 
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Some of us in this world, don't play by the rules.

Some of us in this world defy logic and laugh

Others in this world are strait laced and see everything from a rule book

Others in this world are cynical and see only bad, only see a half empty glass

I don't give a monkeys that that guy had a laugh

I am slightly concerned some youngsters may see what he done and try to emulate it

However, if they that stoopid to do it then maybe.......

Myself, I think, life's a long song, full of laughs and surprises, not all of them pleasant

Thinking of youngsters maybe copying that fireman's prank, I hope some youngsters with unsupervised internet access don't see those beheadings from Iraq - or worse - and try and copy those

Please give kids some credit, they ain't entirely stoopid

Jeez, reminds me of when I got suspended from school for setting fire to my desk. Whilst I was still seated at it.

That wasn't sensible either was it

Ok, I have no argument.
 
There are worse things in this country, and earth, to worry about other than a man having a ride in a tumble drier for a laugh.
 
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