They don't seem to hand out those tickets any more, around these parts. We've had a guy parking in front of the hydrant by our house for the last two months. Never a peep from any of the cops driving by.

However, if there -is- a fire, the firetruck will immediately push the vehicle out of the way, and they supposedly don't take -any- interest in minimizing any damage. It just breaks my heart to think about the thousands of dollars that asshole will have to pay for repairs, should it come to that.

That isn't a tourist, that's a german license plate on the car. What this guy does is obviously intentional. There is no way he couldn't notice the big fucking red firetruck with lights and sirens going. Also, that's not a panic reaction either, that is pure assholery right there. It goes against every normal, responsible, civilised driving-behaviour.
If I were behind the steering wheel of that truck, I would've forced him out of the way. With my big ass truck.

I wonder what would happen if the firetruck just nudged him out of the way?

Personally, I think that would have been justified.

Does everyone think this person just didn't give a fuck and intentionally held up the firetruck out of malice? Personally i can only imagine it was done due to not knowing better or deer in headlights. I assume they thought the best appropriate action was to not move.

...or maybe they were rocking out at some ungodly level. Although that truck is pretty frickin loud.

Also out of curiosity does anyone know if there is a law that states you can break traffic laws to get out of the way of emergency vehicles or do we just do it cos its the right thing to do.

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From what I understand, the self driving cars will do exactly this. They will not, under any circumstances, knowingly go against traffic signals. Then when they recognize the firetruck behind them, they will wait until it passes.

You have just come up with a possible reason for this video, that's a test car.

Conservative Logic:

1) On the day Obama took office, somehow the slate was wiped clean, and the economy was reset to 0.
Logic: The house should stop burning as soon as the firetruck pulls into your driveway.

2) If you just patch the hemorrhage, the economy will rebound.
Logic: An obese person who gets a liposuction doesn't have to change their lifestyle and diet to maintain their new weight.

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I wanna see him take the corner at full speed.


I think you just did.

My puppy learned this from firetrucks.

Honey, I found a great parking spot--right in front of the firetruck!

You know it's not really safe when a couple of firetrucks are shadowing you during takeoff

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ok, listen up people, first of all, the guy didnt live in the city. if you live in the city you get police, fire, water, sewer. roads, snow plows, etc. ok? if you dont live in the city, and dont pay taxes. you dont get those services. the city doesnt just run out and pave your road for ya because your truck gets stuck.. see? so they offered people who lived outside the corp limit a very reasonable fee for fire protection. 75 bucks. to help pay for equipment etc. for the extra protection outside their jurisdiction. you cant even fill up the truck for 75 bucks. a modern tower truck costs 500.000 to 850,000 dollars. the trucks and the manpower and the water and the equipment belong to the citizens of the town they are from. the taxpayers. not the firemen. if i take a firetruck or ambulance and provide servie to someone outside my jurisdiction, and a taxpayer needs me or my men or my truck or ambulance. do you think the taxpayer will be pissed off?? oh yea he will, and ill get fired. the citizens made this guy an offer, he declined. ill bet you a million dollars this guy has been offered the chance to get into the city but didnt want to pay the water ,sewer, city tax etc. now the guys son is in jail because he assaulted the fire chief. idiots times 2.also, they set the house on fire burning trash outside. if they lived in town the fire dept would make them put that out.or put it out for them. but they dont want that , so they live outside of town. where they can burn brush if they damn well want to. see? the firemen were doing what the citizens told them to do. the citizens run the fire dept. the citizens own everything in the dept.

Just skip to like 4:30 with awesome airborne truck, a fire, and the next one is the firetrucks smashing into each other!!

Firetrucks was kinda amusing, but when you can see the people getting hurt...not so funny anymore. I hate douchebag drivers.