Fireman Arrested During Rescue
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03-10-2008, 02:19 PM
Fireman Arrested During Rescue
This blew my mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGvgy8lbPO0
FYI, this will NOT turn into a police bashing thread. I do not agree with this cops actions, but I will repeat: this will NOT turn into a police bashing thread or I will kill it myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGvgy8lbPO0
FYI, this will NOT turn into a police bashing thread. I do not agree with this cops actions, but I will repeat: this will NOT turn into a police bashing thread or I will kill it myself.
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03-10-2008, 02:26 PM
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RE: Fireman Arrested During Rescue
Wow, I'm with you. No need to bash, I think the Fire Department was doing the safest thing for everyone invloved by creating a safety barrier. Looks like a case of who has the authority here, type of mentality. Its just too bad everyone did not agree with the procedure. This just made the extraction of the injured that much more difficult, along with wasted time.
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03-10-2008, 02:32 PM
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03-10-2008, 02:35 PM
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03-10-2008, 02:50 PM
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RE: Fireman Arrested During Rescue
Guess the guy who got arrested ended up getting $17.5k after suing the city citing the arrest caused "anxiety and humiliation." But I don't know, I've found a lot of these cases where the cop(s) (supposedly) did something wrong, there's actually more to the story then what is presented or shown on video and actually the actions were justified. Now, I don't particularly care for cops (mainly the ones in WA state that just hand out tickets for traffic violations i.e. revenue), but I do think they have a hard enough time as is with all this second guessing crap that goes on.
Does seem like the fire truck was in the right though, but at the same time, I've never seen emergency vehicles blocking the road like that unless the wreck (or emergency) they're responding to is blocking the road also. Most of the time traffic will just slow down and bunch up from the lookey loos so there really is no danger to the responders. The cops that get hit while sitting on the side of the road is usually when one of them pulls over someone for a traffic violation and traffic continues to move normal speed or near normal speed. They just get hit cuz of some idiot either target fixates on the cop car or is drunk, or both.
I don't know, maybe the cop just didn't want the fire truck to block traffic?
Does seem like the fire truck was in the right though, but at the same time, I've never seen emergency vehicles blocking the road like that unless the wreck (or emergency) they're responding to is blocking the road also. Most of the time traffic will just slow down and bunch up from the lookey loos so there really is no danger to the responders. The cops that get hit while sitting on the side of the road is usually when one of them pulls over someone for a traffic violation and traffic continues to move normal speed or near normal speed. They just get hit cuz of some idiot either target fixates on the cop car or is drunk, or both.
I don't know, maybe the cop just didn't want the fire truck to block traffic?
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03-10-2008, 03:05 PM
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03-10-2008, 03:25 PM
