OK here's a clue

I had a real sh1tty night at work again so I am gonna vent here for just 1 minute . . . please either deal with it or ignore it . . .

Airhorns - Airbrakes they run of the same compressed air tank.
Emergancy vehicles pounding on the air horn to get through traffic are using up their stopping power to get you to notice them.

What to do on the approach of a emergancy vehicle: If you are drive down a street or highway with a median and the emergancy vehicle is on the other side of the street do nothing, if they are on your side of the street to, pull to the right and stop. If you are on a street without a median pull to the right and stop reguardless of which side.

What not to do on the aproach of an emergancy vehicle: do not stay right alongside the emergancy vehicle, do night tailgate an emergancy vehicle, AND FFS DO NOT F'ING STOP RIGHT INFRONT OF AN EMERGANCY VEHICLE WHEN IT'S BLASTING IT'S AIR HORN AT YOUR RETARDED ARSE TO GET OUT OF THE F'ING WAY FOR THE LAST 12 BLOCKS

BTW I dont give a Flying F that your 80 years old, living on a fixed income and deciding if you want to eat cat food or get your presciption medication. I am still writing you a ticket for $368. If things are that tight YOU SHOULDNT BE DRIVING A $50,000 CAR THAT YOU CANT SEE OVER THE DASHBOARD OF ANYWAY!!

I realize it's probably to late and you probably have already bred, and probably already have grandkids, but please do us all a favor and HURRY UP AND DIE ALREADY! You are just using up oxygen that could better serve humanity if it was consumed by a chicken with "Bird Flu", some cattle with "Mad Cow", or a mosquito carrying the West Nile Virus

ok I'm done I feel better I think . . . if not I'll go play some kitten baseball

Well said. Saw an article today about Las Vegas' new ambulances. They have power stretchers that can lift 800 lbs and the first call they took it out on, that wasn't enough.

I feel your pain Pumbaa. Been there, done that. Had an a$$hole that would not yield in a TransAm at an intersection and the flipped me off. He had the T-Tops out, so I mashed on the ol' Q (which was mounted on the left side of the front bumper) and as I made my turn, it took it right by his face. Priceless!

Man, I loved the Q!

EdWort said:

I feel your pain Pumbaa. Been there, done that. Had an a$$hole that would not yield in a TransAm at an intersection and the flipped me off. He had the T-Tops out, so I mashed on the ol' Q (which was mounted on the left side of the front bumper) and as I made my turn, it took it right by his face. Priceless!

Man, I loved the Q!

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Please elaborate on the "Q". I gotta know what this is.

One more thing . . .
If you are in a "Hospice" it's because you are going to die . . . soon.
If your famly member is in a hospice they are basicly dead already their body just hasnt realized it yet.
If your family member is in a hospice and they die while you visit DO NOT CALL 911, ignore the EMS crew when they show up, then freek out when we sart to work, then tell us that you dont want us to do anything, then go ghetto nutz when you realize your family member has passed.

I realize you are going through a traumatic situation but to be brutally honest at 3AM I really dont give a flying F and I refuse to pay more attention to you because you feel like being a little attention whore then I would pay to your now deceased relative. BTW WHO FREEKING GOES TO A HOSPICE AT 3 AM TO VIST?!?!?

OK maybe I should find some kittens . . . .
oh yeah "Q" = air horn, I dunno why either

Pumbaa said:

BTW I dont give a Flying F that your 80 years old, living on a fixed income and deciding if you want to eat cat food or get your presciption medication.

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Offended.
That's like half of us on the board. The nerve.

Pumbaa said:

ok I'm done I feel better I think . . . if not I'll go play some kitten baseball

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Make sure to use a taped up wiffle ball bat instead of wood or aluminum, it's slightly less satisfying but you get a little more mileage out of the kittens...

I was am EMT-S for more than 20 years. It's easier to start an IV in a code in a moving ambulance than to get some people to even notice you're behind them. I hated driving- I've had people pass me on the right, pass on the left, dead stop right in front of me, and the worse ever- hit the brakes right in front of me from the sheer shock of finally noticing me in the rearview mirror with the lights and siren on, after 6 miles. The Q doesn't always do the trick, either.

Anyway, lots of us can empathize with you. Can't fix it, but can empathize!

Pumbaa said:

... and deciding if you want to eat cat food... HURRY UP AND DIE ALREADY! ...

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If they decided on any of these, you might just get your wish!

I am not an EMT, don't ever wanna be. I have seen things like that though, like where people think that the ambulance or fire truck is their own personal police escort. What sucks is that they know that the people that are able to ticket them for being such a$$holes are usually too busy to get them, so they usually get away with it. I'm having a homebrew for you, Pumbaa, cuz I got a feeling you're on duty and can't have one for yourself

Pumbaa said:

Airhorns - Airbrakes they run of the same compressed air tank.
Emergancy vehicles pounding on the air horn to get through traffic are using up their stopping power to get you to notice them.

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I sympathize with your frustrations Pumbaa...but this stuck out to me. WTF? You guys can figure out how to save hundreds of lives and put out multiple story fires, but you can't put an extra compressed air tank into the rig?

If my grandfather was still alive (40 years at FWD Seagrave plant, Clintonville, WI), I'd let him know to talk to the designers to get that little problem rectified.

Dude said:

I sympathize with your frustrations Pumbaa...but this stuck out to me. WTF? You guys can figure out how to save hundreds of lives and put out multiple story fires, but you can't put an extra compressed air tank into the rig?

If my grandfather was still alive (40 years at FWD Seagrave plant, Clintonville, WI), I'd let him know to talk to the designers to get that little problem rectified.

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they can figure it out but ya have to remember the Fire Department is now a political tool much like the police or the military seems to be so everything is done on the cheep and not because it makes sense.

I got some sleep so I'm a bit less grumpy . . . but just a bit

**EDIT**
btw the rig I ride now is a "Taylor Made". If I ever get down to Arkanasa and meet the guys who built it I guarentee you that your going to hear about a psycho fireman who went on a homicidal rage and killed everyone person at the factory. Wisconsin has atleast 5 companies that build fire engines and IMHO build the best fire engines in the world yet we would contract out to buy POS E-ones and Taylor mades just to save a few pennies . . .

BTW we are looking at getting a new Chief . . . the top 5 are

1. a dick we sent to St Pual (the guy is horrible and I get bitched at by any fireman I meet from St Paul about him)
2. Some Schmuck from Washington DC (Yippie, all he knows about Milwaukee and how we do things is that Milwaukee is about 90 miles north of Chicago)
3. Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)
4. Some Schmuk who has been the chief of 2 other departments for one term each (yeah cuz he does such a great job his old departments wanted to keep him around)
5. and our current chief who we voted "no confidence" on about 4 years ago

Things are going to get VERY ugly, VERY soon

Dude said:

WTF? You guys can figure out how to save hundreds of lives and put out multiple story fires, but you can't put an extra compressed air tank into the rig?

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Not a paramedic but I did do the volunteer ambulance thing. We had all electric sirens and appliances in the rig. It had a custom made alternator system to support all the load, but we never had any problems. I loved it when cops got out of the way when I went through the city!

all our sirens are electric and we do have an option for an electric "air horn" the only problem is we run with 1 siren so when you activate the electric "air horn" the siren stops while the horn is going off . . . maybe i's just me but I prefer to have both at one time. BTW we run with 2 alternators too and about 6 normal sized car bateries but every now and again I still have to get a jump start because none of the ER's have shore lines and if we gank a driver from one of the engines or trucks they tend to forget to throw the main power switch and our computer or lights suck the batteries dry

Pumbaa said:

BTW we are looking at getting a new Chief . . . the top 5 are

1. a dick we sent to St Pual (the guy is horrible and I get bitched at by any fireman I meet from St Paul about him)
2. Some Schmuck from Washington DC (Yippie, all he knows about Milwaukee and how we do things is that Milwaukee is about 90 miles north of Chicago)
3. Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)
4. Some Schmuk who has been the chief of 2 other departments for one term each (yeah cuz he does such a great job his old departments wanted to keep him around)
5. and our current chief who we voted "no confidence" on about 4 years ago

Things are going to get VERY ugly, VERY soon

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It seems strange to me that a libertarian would be a government employee. It's got to be positively maddening. I know I couldn't do it.

Yeah, but he's not working for the Social Security Administration.

I wonder how many people die because some JA won't get out of the way.
On the other hand, a friend of mine is a fire fighter and he says 90% of his calls are bogus or not really emergencies and the other 10% are domestic violence. His whole station dreams of a real fire. I'm sure each time they get a real one, the regret it...

Heading out to drink on for you...

Oh, and thanks for working a thankless job, I personally appreciate it.

Hey Pumbaa, since you don't hear it enough and since it sounds like you need to hear it right now:

Thanks for being an EMT my man, it's much appreciated!

Pumbaa said:

I had a real sh1tty night at work again so I am gonna vent here for just 1 minute . . . please either deal with it or ignore it . . .

Airhorns - Airbrakes they run of the same compressed air tank.
Emergancy vehicles pounding on the air horn to get through traffic are using up their stopping power to get you to notice them.

What to do on the approach of a emergancy vehicle: If you are drive down a street or highway with a median and the emergancy vehicle is on the other side of the street do nothing, if they are on your side of the street to, pull to the right and stop. If you are on a street without a median pull to the right and stop reguardless of which side.

What not to do on the aproach of an emergancy vehicle: do not stay right alongside the emergancy vehicle, do night tailgate an emergancy vehicle, AND FFS DO NOT F'ING STOP RIGHT INFRONT OF AN EMERGANCY VEHICLE WHEN IT'S BLASTING IT'S AIR HORN AT YOUR RETARDED ARSE TO GET OUT OF THE F'ING WAY FOR THE LAST 12 BLOCKS

BTW I dont give a Flying F that your 80 years old, living on a fixed income and deciding if you want to eat cat food or get your presciption medication. I am still writing you a ticket for $368. If things are that tight YOU SHOULDNT BE DRIVING A $50,000 CAR THAT YOU CANT SEE OVER THE DASHBOARD OF ANYWAY!!

I realize it's probably to late and you probably have already bred, and probably already have grandkids, but please do us all a favor and HURRY UP AND DIE ALREADY! You are just using up oxygen that could better serve humanity if it was consumed by a chicken with "Bird Flu", some cattle with "Mad Cow", or a mosquito carrying the West Nile Virus

ok I'm done I feel better I think . . . if not I'll go play some kitten baseball

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Come on, man. Don't hold back. Just let it out and say what you feel. It'll do you good!

I had a buddy who used to say, " I hate people." . He wasn't kidding. It doesn't take long to start hating people in general for the dumb crap they do. If you could kill just two a year, all the BS would stop.

sudsmonkey said:

Come on, man. Don't hold back. Just let it out and say what you feel. It'll do you good!

I had a buddy who used to say, " I hate people." . He wasn't kidding. It doesn't take long to start hating people in general for the dumb crap they do. If you could kill just two a year, all the BS would stop.

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Darwinian police? IQ < 100, splat.

One of my co-workers was an paramedic in NYC prior to joining the Navy. He has some wild a#s stories. I never realized what you guys go through until listening to him. As for people not pulling over for ambulances and fire-trucks, that sh@t pisses me off as well.

dibby33 said:

Darwinian police? IQ < 100, splat.

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Now there ya go! We don't have enough natural weeding going on. Maybe Puumbaa could just run a couple down with the ambulance?

Notice:
Silica gel comes in a packet marked " do not eat"
There's warnings on plastic bags and buckets warning you not to let your kids play with them, they could suffocate/ drown.
There's warnings on beer bottles to let you know that alcohol could impair your judgement. Isn't that the point?
They put High Voltage signs on a fence surrounding a bank of transformers bigger than your house. Who knew?



We spend far too much time keeping the stupid ones alive.

[*]Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)

It seems to me that someone who only has to work two days a week should be in a better mood. I appreciate what Firemen do but if you're gonna whine about it quit. It would take someone from Iowa to straighten you whiny a$$ Cheesheads out. I'm sure he'll teach you alot.

Hmmm, i was enjoying reading this thread until that last comment. Seriously dude? He's a goddamn EMT.

Do whatever you gotta do Pumbaa, it's a job i couldn't handle.

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We spend far too much time keeping the stupid ones alive.

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I hear ya brother :rockin:

How about having to do an IQ test prior to getting medical attention?

I'm from Iowa and when I see a stupid comment like:

[*]Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)

How can that mean no offence? Maybe in Wisconsin they don't know what an insult is.

How about this. No offence but when I hear Wisconsin I picture inbred, sheep chasing toothless Hillbillies. No offence intended.

I think Pumbaa's ***** is about the fact that it's someone coming in from outside, not that it's someone specifically from Iowa. I mean, he bitched about someone coming in from DC and St. Paul, as well. Pumbaa's scared of outsiders...

Snakebone said:

[*]Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)

It seems to me that someone who only has to work two days a week should be in a better mood. I appreciate what Firemen do but if you're gonna whine about it quit. It would take someone from Iowa to straighten you whiny a$$ Cheesheads out. I'm sure he'll teach you alot.

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I'm going to keep this civil . . .

I work an average 51 hours a week before overtime. It's not uncommon for me to put in 120 hours in a 7 day period.

I am a Firefighter / Paramedic. I am supposed to provide EMERGANCY services. Not services for morons who should have called a cab

The guy from Iowa is coming from a department that is about 1/5th the size of this department and has zero experiance running a department that any given weekday is providing services to 1million + people. He is known for being a hatchet man. Milwaukee is a VERY densly populated city becuase of that, believe it or not, firefighting in Milwaukee is not like firefighting in Iowa. We do things Iowa cant, Iowa does things we cant. About the only thing this guy will teach us is how to reduce our staffing even more and how to go to funerals of firemen and watch more civilians die in fires because we wont have the staffing to do the agressive interior attack style of firefighting we do. (I defy you to name 1 department more agressive then MFD except maybe FDNY) We go into every fire. We move to the seat of the fire and put it out while at the same time ventalate the building and preform search and rescue operations . . . well we used to until the last round of staffing cuts . . . now we get to decide to find people or ventalate so we can put the fire out to save the people

If you would ever like to come up for a ride alng and get a clue about what I do let me know I'll set it up

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I'm from Iowa and when I see a stupid comment like:
[*]Some schmuk from Bumfuct Iowa (It's Iowa, no offence but IOWA to me stand for Idiot Of the Week Award)

How can that mean no offence? Maybe in Wisconsin they don't know what an insult is.

How about this. No offence but when I hear Wisconsin I picture inbred, sheep chasing toothless Hillbillies. No offence intended.

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If you were to watch the news lately I would agree with ya, We got Avery, Ed Ghean(SP?), guy digging up dead chicks and screwing them and other a$$hats setting their dicks on fire

BTW the Idiot Of the Week Award is from a local radio station where both broadcasters, and thier producer are from <gasp> IOWA . . .wanna guess what they call the award?

Thank you for keeping it civil. I appreciate it. I want to quote Rodney King- "Can't we all get along?"

I'm glad we have a place to talk and discuss things without it dissolving into personal attacks. I've vented a few times on here myself, and I always appreciate my empathizers (is that a real word?). Having a high stress job and a family is tough, no doubt about it. Unfortunately, I also work in a place (hospital) where management sometimes bites. I'm glad we can vent to each other because I sure can't do it at work, and my family can't listen anymore sometimes.

Thanks for all you do- you firefighters, EMTs, doctors, police, etc. You keep us safe even when we don't realize it.

In my first post I said I appreciate what Firemen do, I just didn't appreciate the no offence dumb a$$ comment. You can get back on your soapbox now.

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In my first post I said I appreciate what Firemen do, I just didn't appreciate the no offence dumb a$$ comment. You can get back on your soapbox now.

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Soapbox? WTF did I do?

Yeup - it is good to rant. Pumbaa also stated,"please either deal with it or ignore it . . ." at the start of the rant. so if you don't want to read it FOAD please.

Lorena, not you. Pumbaa's right before your post.

Why did the mechanic sleep under his car.
Because he wanted to get up oily in the morning!

ok, got you. Well, you guys can agree to disagree.

Knock, Knock,,,,,,

Snakebone said:

How about this. No offence but when I hear Wisconsin I picture inbred, sheep chasing toothless Hillbillies. No offence intended.

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None taken. That was easy. Now you try.

Yooper Chick said:

ok, got you. Well, you guys can agree to disagree.

Knock, Knock,,,,,,

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Who's there?

(Cmon you know how to play...)

Yooper Chick said:

Who's there?

(Cmon you know how to play...)

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Well, never mind then. But it was funny. Trust me.

Alright, Yoops...

"Who's there?"