I absolutely agree.

It's not like this kid was alone and actually directing airplanes, he was saying into a microphone what a qualified air traffic controller was telling him to say.

Just like a cop letting a kid play with his car's siren or a firefighter letting a kid into the firetruck this guy was giving his kid a memory he'll likely cherish for the rest of his life. Give him a break.
>> ^jiyanibi:
Bad judgement? Maybe. But I just don't get the outrage I'm hearing from people today on this topic. In all likelihood, some air traffic controller let his kid sit on his lap and either read from a script or whispered to tell him what to say. I see no more harm done here than if the controller was speaking through a voice box to change his pitch to sound like a kid. The kid is just a vehicle for the message between the controller and the pilot. It's not like he's telling the kid how to perform brain surgery here. And, if anything, the pilots clearly displayed no outrage knowing that the parent wouldn't let the child do something if he thought there was any danger involved. Oh well, agree to disagree, I suppose.

*beg
This didn't sift last Xmas, maybe now it can get 3 more votes Yay for firetrucks that have Xmas lightshows and music!

>> ^qualm:
"It's the direct financial aid to Hamas president that got him barred from Canada and I'm proud my country kept the scumbag out of our country."
Liar! Galloway merely delivered a bunch of ambulances, firetrucks and medical supplies. Scumbag.


George said it himself, go read it here before calling it a lie. And for the record, George Galloway IS a proven liar.

Galloway said he personally would be donating three cars and 25,000 pounds to Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya as he dared the West to try to prosecute him for aiding what it considers a terror group.

"It's the direct financial aid to Hamas president that got him barred from Canada and I'm proud my country kept the scumbag out of our country."

Liar! Galloway merely delivered a bunch of ambulances, firetrucks and medical supplies.

Ah, Oh, A travesty... how is this not made it to the sift... *promote

Such an awesome episode.

So many, many nice touches, not least of which the firetruck going past at the exact moment they sing 'burn'.

Brilliant.

From my understanding, firetrucks and ambulances do not have carte blanc to run red-lights. They can do so but should do it cautiously. The firetruck coming towards the screen should have slowed down at the intersection.

he still had mixed feelings -- the urge was "now or never," and missed it by This Much. The firetruck broke his fall.

no takers??
firetruck
nobody gets the prize..
Mr. Hoard, I keep fergettin' it's yer livelihood-and I know you know how much hatred their is for haters. You still don't get it do ya?? Have I not gone out of my way to explain myself with regard to my contempt for your vibe at times?? Your perception perhaps, is what's askew, again: while a Marijuana user myself, I blame the marijuana in your case. Labels, labels, and more labels-ad-hom, neo-con, I really don't know which labels place me in a tidy box, to be filed in the "Oh he's one or more of those" categories....why???
Because you never give up the sacred cow....Unlike most folks, I don't necessarily care what you think or say as much as I want to know why you say or don't say, think or don't think. Sorry to bust your version of relaxation-perhaps you are witnessing another, and yes, their have been a few, who have left this place out of sheer frustration. (not unlike what dag's head felt like 8 or so hours ago, after all that cheap Aussie wine, or what mine felt like reading the same thread, w/o wine)

I too relax here, but experiential awareness being a dynamic thing, I also get wound up, frustrated, just as much or more than yourself, as do we all-I can't be asked to abruptly halt something for want of understanding-If I should ever become siftquisitionated, new rules will have to be added to the already, long-winded tomes.

If my legacy here is to be eternal asshole, mine for you would be, Eternal Panderer....a title which I came up with on the fly, and had to check a dictionary to make sure it fit...funny, the definition I was thinking of alludes to the schoolyard homophone you were called on the blog, by some qm-type.....

relax.
I am not your enemy, and don't hate your input, and like so many of the directions your dredging of the internet takes me-you have given me many hours of satisfaction here, as well as many moments of other-(damn,I'm gettin' some blood-fill in the ol' Vienna sausage)

You think too much in one direction, me in another-welcome to the world of the real. You need people to be who they will, to remember who you are.God help the Canadians, and these pussyfied Americans, both of whom would babble themselves into box of scorpions, and then talk about the long-term effects of the pain, the poison,all the while standing in the box. My frustration must be in my head as well......told ya we juxtaposed well-

I have called Hillary a cunt here, clitless, etc., and all I get is ignored-at the very least, you will never suffer that- I try to call it like it may be, not like it is-

Go back and read the siftquisition you always refer to, the answer is there, i've told you more than once.....simply checks and balances

haha...
The GTA version here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Grand-Theft-Auto-National-Geographic-Firetruck-Special

At 1:47 the guy totally reminds me of a firetrucks siren..

this clip is included into here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Family-Guy-Trivial-Pursuit-Firetruck

I do not consider this a dupe, since it's MUCH shorter than the other one.

CG on an emergency call always has the right of way. If a firetruck ran a redlight and hit somebody would you call the firemen dicks? A Coast Guard craft at 3/4 throttle with gumballs spinning isn't exactly subtle.

any movie older than me i have no patience for. like i had to turn this off after the helmets and weird firetruck right in the opening scene. like give me a break, but a crappy old lame film. no patience.

that's just me though.

*save

Love the firetruck.

A solitary killer, the firetruck stalks its prey... the firetruck can consume eight times its body weight ... the ambulances will have to wait their turn.