There's always fireman and fishing but those jobs are hard to find, so he interned as a stripper pole but couldn't stand the grind.

Great.

And that makes it funny: *comedy

>> ^artician:

That poor cat. Someone totally threw it onto the fireman pole. Haha.

That poor cat. Someone totally threw it onto the fireman pole. Haha.

>> ^longde:

LOL, why would you want a geriatric fireman running into your burning building to save you?>> ^chilaxe:
Retire at 58? Laziest mouth-breathers in the world.
Cutting-edge medicine is keeping people alive longer, so people have to save more for retirement --even if they work for the government.



Unless they're brain-dead or their hands have been amputated, they're able to work at an appropriate job, same as everybody else.

The idea that medical advances should continually extend the number of decades we spend in retirement but the money for it must be conjured from thin air is why people who are bad at economics bankrupt states like California, even with some of the highest taxes in the country.

LOL, why would you want a geriatric fireman running into your burning building to save you?>> ^chilaxe:

Retire at 58? Laziest mouth-breathers in the world.
Cutting-edge medicine is keeping people alive longer, so people have to save more for retirement --even if they work for the government.

>> ^doogle:

Disgusting. You're not hired by the state to turn against it. You don't like the retirement plan? Learn another trade where you can sit on your ass all day waiting for an incident.


Typically in these cases the state is reneging on a contractual obligation.
I get that it's a "good" job from a financial and employment standpoint, but this isn't CEO's making 500x what the average worker does.
Fireman also enjoy the added perks of pulling shattered corpses out of wreckage and generally risking their lives on a much more frequent basis than you and I.

What is disgusting is "austerity" measures that keep chipping away at the working class, while the current economic shitstorm was caused by the financial industry, who still haven't been held accountable. I dig that these guys aren't taking it like sheep.
I'm kinda impressed by those cops tho too.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

LOL, You guys have got to see this one.
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Thanks Boise, that's what I thought. They had me at, "Running a train."

>> ^raverman:

I'll lift up a car... but I ain't touching anything more than your floppy shattered leg to drag you out.
Move you far enough from the car to be actually safe? What am i a f--king taxi?
But i'll be damned if i sit by you, see if you're breathing, perform cpr or provide any comfort until help arrives.
Good on them I suppose... but that's the least compassionate non-commital rescue i've ever seen.


I have a different take on this. If you were watching people in a normal environment doing something non-stressful then I'd agree with you. But we're not. We're watching people doing something that could well be the most stressful thing they'll ever do. As far as they know the car could explode at any time, or it could fall on them trapping them in the flames or any number of other things. Whether these things are actually likely or not is immaterial, it's all the things that would be running through these people's head. But they overcame that and did what they had to do.

I have a very close friend who is a fireman and he deals with situations very differently to me. He's used to the stress of the situation. He's used to seeing death. It's just his job and he's de-sensitised to it. I'm not. I was driving along behind a truck in rush hour traffic a few years ago. Long story short, the truck in front of the one in front of me braked very suddenly and the truck in front of me didn't notice. Drove into the back of the other truck and crushed the cab. I screeched to a stop, jumped out and ran to the front of the lorry to see what had happened an if I could help. I'm first aid trained so I should be of some use. I was stood in the middle of the road looking at a crushed cab with the driver crushed against the wheel, unconscious. There was blood dripping from the cab. I looked back to the huge queue of traffic that was stopped behind my car and saw the most terrible thing I've ever seen. Just a huge row of people, all just sat in their cars waiting for someone else to deal with the problem. It was probably the worst moment of my life. No-one else gave a shit and I was watching a man die.

My phone was dead so I ran back to the car behind mine and asked the woman driving to call an ambulance, which she did. I ran back to the cab to see if there was anything I could do and I just froze. I couldn't deal with the stress, my brain just tried to shut down. What snapped me out of it was a guy running toward me to help, from about twenty cars further back down the queue. Just having someone else help - not being alone - was enough and we got the guy out of the cab. Eventually a few other people helped, but it took them a while to come forward.

Every one of the people in this video is risking their life to help someone they don't know. They stepped forward and the guy survived. To sit back in your comfy chair and criticise a construction worker in an incredibly stressful situation not doing precisely the right thing is just the wrong way to look at it. They manned the fuck up and saved his life. You've just seen a lot of very ordinary people do something incredible and they deserve credit for that. If I saw a fire crew do the same thing I'd be disgusted, but that's not what they are.

Your mind goes blank and it takes a huge amount of effort to get anything done in that situation. I've got all the time in the world for every one of the people in this video. It wasn't text book, but they saved him, and deserve all the credit for it.

DUDE I wanna become a fireman just so I can do THISFrom personal experience trust me you dont get to do this unless you are in a super metropolis town/city

Seattle big enough?

Actually, it looks to me like training for the Volunteer Fireman's Field Days we used to have in Northern New York. They had souped-up cars with a small fire truck body and held competitions in hose-laying and charging, ladder work, etc. Small town departments with only volunteer firemen found this quite a useful way to stay sharp, and the people enjoyed watching it. Win-win.

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