Hey,,,,hold my beer and watch this.

“LOL "pull my finger"”

“Years ago I was ventilating a fire on a 2 story roof. I made the first two cuts and was starting to make the third cut before moving back to the roof ladder. I felt the roof shift under me. The other guy on the roof said I turned to him, handed him the axe and said,"Here, you might want to hold this."

The next thing I knew I was laying on a queen sized bed in the Master Bedroom.”

“Lying down on the job???”

“Whoa!!!!

So are you a fire fighter or were you dreaming?”

“LOL...omg.......sorta like no running with scissors>???????”

“SOrry had to go work (LOL) I love digging out an inner city apartment looking for a fire cause with the renter screaming at her boyfriend. Apparently her boydfriend collects stamps...found those little ziplocks all over the place (LOL).

As for the question...I have been fighting fire for 18 year or so. And Ruby it is really fun. In my time I have been blown up once (house flashed around me and melted my partner's mask to his face) been burned through my equipment multiple times, had gear replaced due to damage from exposure to heat and fire 5 times.....I wish it was a dream, I have to exercise hard three times a week to keep the muscles in my back strong.I have hairline fractures in the C spine area and compression fractures in the Lumbar region. I have had my right knee cartiledge removed and had my left knee rehabilitated 3 times....”

“had gear replaced due to damage from exposure to heat and fire 5 times

...it's kinda funny that a fireman's gear would be damaged by heat


have to exercise hard three times a week to keep the muscles in my back strong.

i've always wondered why they make firmen exercise but not cops?”

“Firefighting gear is for "entry" not proximity. Even the high tech stuff (PBI) will be effected by direct flame exposure. The silver aluminized stuff you see on airport crews is the Proximity stuff. The gear we wear is designed to protect you from a direct exposure to 1900� for 17 seconds..but will be damaged beyond repair after that. Our gear is primarily a Nomex blend. You see it it discolor and you see the reflective striping peel off sometime.

No one in our department MAKES you exercise...but if you don't you can tell.”

“Jeez XL, ever sit down and thing maybe it's time to quit while you still can?”

“My department makes us work out every shift. Well, at least we HAVE to be in the weight room from 7:30 to 9:30am. I actually like it. Our gyms are top notch, and we can come to work in shorts, sweats, and t-shirts. I usually take my Gregory Shasta filled with 50 lbs and spend an hour on the treadmill. Then do some pack-on push-ups and lunges, maybe lift a few weights.

I have a bunch of police officer friends and many do work out. But many don't. They seem to figure I got a club, mace and a gun, and that's what's going to save my life(along my common sense and good judgement). In the fire service, when you're in there and the proverbial #&%!$ is hitting the fan and you need to get out, or if you're 3/4 of the way dragging an unconscious victim out of a building, that is no time to hit the wall physically and bonk. Firefighters and fire victims can and do die because of their fitness level, even with all the good judgement, common sense and experience in the world. That's why I work out, and I'm no Lance Armstrong. But I don't forsee me bonking when it counts.”

“I forsee me boinking right where it counts.”

“i don't forsee me counting the times i boink.”

“My hat's off to you guys. We're in a fight to keep an engine company from being shut down by our so-called mayor. It's co-located with a ladder company, which would not be shut down, which sets up the possibility the ladder company could get to a fire before the engines arrive and need to do a rescue before they start putting water on the fire.

At the same time, under the first responder program, they roll both engine and ladder together, and then the medics right behind.

So the engine goes down the street, then the ladder, then the medics, and there's no telling if it's the start of a five-alarm fire or somebody with a hangnail.

Then they say they have to close the engine company to balance the budget. Hell ... close down the mayor's office and keep the engine company!”

“I have been a firefighter for 26 years.The change in gear over that time period has been pretty radical. I started out with rubber boots and coat, and now everything is nomex.But a problem is that you are so well protected from the heat, initially that you may not feel anything until it is too late. I have been fortunate that I have been fairly injury free over the years.”

“"Hell ... close down the mayor's office and keep the engine company!�
Geobeet
Sound advice! Keep up the good work guys and thanks. But XL..really..bend down and tie your shoes and let somebody else go in first. JK 8)”

“Park officials urge caution after man jumps from cliff
April 19, 2006 12:11 AM EDT

Park safety is at the forefront after a man jumped from a popular cliff and was badly hurt. It happened Monday afternoon at DeSoto Falls in DeKalb County.

In the past, several people have died after jumping off the water fall.

23-year-old Jason Carter of Georgia took being a daredevil to a whole new level.

"It's not one of the most intelligent things a person can do. It's a pretty stupid thing to do," says DeSoto State Park Ranger Josh Hughes.

Carter took a running jump off a cliff that was 150 feet high. He landed in water that was full of jagged rocks.

"His last words were 'watch this' before he went over," says DeSoto State Park Superintendent Tim Whitehead.

Amazingly, Carter survived the fall but park officials say he had visual deformities in his back and possible spinal cord injuries.

Carter was airlifted to Erlanger in Chattanooga. He's listed in stable condition.

"You shouldn't come into an area like this and think you're going to show off in front of people because it's very dangerous. And you just shouldn't do it," says Whitehead.

Park officials say safety should always come first when you're at a park.

Follow all rules and regulations. Don't get too close to the edge of a cliff or waterfall. Most importantly, use common sense.

"Don't do anything that would put your life in jeopardy or danger," says Whitehead.

http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=4786157&nav=0hBE


in the version i heard on the radio his last words were "Hey yall, watch this!"”

“Us Suthrin' boys is real brave fellers I tell ya'll the TRUTH...an' so's ma bride ta be, Maybelle....she'un her sister LuLu done thet jump afore, torn Maybelles coveralls near clean offn'er, an LuLu lost more teef too....thet thar is a mean jump fer shure!”

“We may not teach it in the schools here, but Darwinism is alive and well in Alabama.”

“Sad But I would have thought the officials would have urged caution BEFORE the idiot jumped. LOL. Now and then I get some great pictures of the results of HEY YA'LL WATCH THIS. Like the guy who was burning leaves (NEXT TO HIS HOUSE).”

“Who wants to bet alcohol was involved? LOL”

“HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM WISCONSIN?
ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.

A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00). He and a friend go duck hunting in mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go on a lake with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course his New NAVIGATOR.

They decide they want to make a natural looking water area for the ducks, something for the decoys to float on. Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce.

So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse decide on the following course of action: they lite the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.

Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...??? Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING. Especially things thrown by the owner.

You guessed it: the dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice.

The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.

One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused then continues on.

Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator. The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dogs rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master. Then

""""""""""BOOOOOOOOOOOOM""""""""""!!

The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with...... "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces.

The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. He still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments...The dog is okay...”

“I am from Georgia and heard that one about 2 years ago. Make you wonder if it is true or not. I vote not”

“Yep...heard that one before long time ago. Sometimes it's a Cherokee.


http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp
last edited: 4/25/06 7:45:52 PM”

“Was his name Dick Cheney by any chance? Oh wait, those were quails...”

“I heard they had a gorilla instead of a dog”

“sorry ewker, I heard that about 5 years ago.

i think with the dummies in this world that it is true SOMEWHERE”

“I KNOW the people in this story!


A cousin of mine had a not-so-bright husband (now ex-husband) who had a very expensive new truck. After a few months of barely making the payments, he decided he bit off more than he could chew and had to do something. Knowing that he would lose money if he sold or traded in the truck, he decided to chop the truck, make it disappear, and report it stolen. (We all think of fraud first, don't we?) He tells a friend about the plan. The friend wants no part of it, but loans him a cutting torch. After the deed is done, the dummy starts making all the chopped parts disappear. Other than being born really stupid, his biggest mistake was dropping the frame at a local junkyard under the cover of darkness. (Stupidity shines right through darkness.) The junkyard owner notices the brand new frame, calls the police, and the police trace it back to the guy. This is all BEFORE he reports it stolen to his insurance company. The cops shrug and say 'well, there's no law against destroying your own truck' and they do nothing. Now the guy has no truck and STILL has to make the payments! LMFAO!!”

“If you're gonna be stupid, you'd better be tough.

Stupid should hurt

Ignorance can be cured, but stupid is forever.

These all seem to apply to your story noncon.”

“kinda late for this. But I understand your "confusion"

http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/12910,3.php
last edited: 6/04/06 7:38:08 PM”

“I will bet right now there is an attorney finding a way to sue the ballpark for creating an "attractive nuisance"”

“http://www.theindychannel.com/news/9680924/detail.html

Indiana Man Injured In Fireworks Stunt

POSTED: 9:43 am EDT August 15, 2006

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A man suffered severe burns to his face and head when he ignited a mortar-style firework that he taped to an old football helmet and placed on his head.

Police said Kaleb Spangler, 21, of Bloomington attempted the stunt while drinking at a party along Indiana 46 between Bloomington and Nashville early Saturday morning.

His girlfriend said Spangler decided to duct tape the large firework to the old football helmet. He then put on the helmet and ignited it.

She told police she saw a large flash, then saw Spangler on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from the head. The helmet was destroyed by the blast.

Spangler was taken to Bloomington Hospital, where he was treated for severe burns, lacerations and a concussion.”

“I'd have payed good money to watch that one.....”

“He was 21 too, no stupid teen, just a stupid adult.
LOL”

“Oddly enough it mentions that he was drinking too. Go figure.”

“Maybe I should have posted this under the "That Stuff Will Make You Stupid" thread. ;-)”

“and in college.”

“college does make you stupid. It'll slap every bit of common sense right out of you.”

“I'm sure it was Beer pressure , err I mean Peer Pressure.”

“No need to worry about brain damage, I suppose. ;-)”

“Hey, why don't I tape this explosive to my Head?”

“Beer.....the great equalizer.”

“Maybe I should have posted this under the "That Stuff Will Make You Stupid" thread

or the "you know you're in indiana when" thread”

“LOL
Redneckism is Nation Wide, not just in Indiana.”

“Exploding beer keg shakes Adair


ADAIR, Okla. A beer keg left on a patio fire pit in the eastern Oklahoma town of Adair exploded with the blast heard for miles.

Police say no one was hurt but windows were broken in three homes and bricks from the pit were thrown a block-and-a-half away.

Police Chief Albert McKee says two people put the old keg on the fire to watch beer spew out when it got hot. But they gave up and went inside before the explosion.

McKee says it's a good thing they went inside because the blast could've killed them.


The Associated Press.”

“Good thing this didn't happen in Boston, they'd have closed the city for a week.”

“...keg on the fire to watch beer spew out when it got hot

hold on...it wasn't empty...that's just wrong”

“Good thing this didn't happen in Boston, they'd have closed the city for a week.”
techntrek
3:00:03 PM
3/06/07

People in Boston would never waste beer like that.”