'So you can't pay $75 in fee? We'll let your house burn with your pets' - Firefighters - Polidicks

Should burn down the fire station, their homes, and have their spouses and offspring tied up in the living room so they roast.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;25271615]Should burn down the fire station, their homes, and have their spouses and offspring tied up in the living room so they roast.[/QUOTE] How does that help anyone?

Why do you even need to pay a fee?

[QUOTE=Habsburg;25271583]He forgot and he then tried to pay them then and there.[/QUOTE] Forget to pay your mortgage and try paying it when the bank comes to foreclose on your house Forget to pay for your car and try paying it when the repo man comes to take it back It's the discretion of the firefighters but because it had lapsed they're not obligated to do anything. The whole point of insurance is to pay before something bad happens. The man's plight is pitiable but that doesn't excuse him from being disorganized.

[QUOTE=Athena;25271719]Forget to pay your mortgage and try paying it when the bank comes to foreclose on your house Forget to pay for your car and try paying it when the repo man comes to take it back It's the discretion of the firefighters but they're not obligated to do anything; his service had lapsed and he wasn't planning on paying it. The whole point of insurance is to pay before something bad happens. The man's plight is pitiable but that doesn't excuse him from being disorganized.[/QUOTE] The whole paying for insurance if your house was set on fire was abandoned by many nations for one reason - it was retarded.

[QUOTE=Athena;25271719]Forget to pay your mortgage and try paying it when the bank comes to foreclose on your house Forget to pay for your car and try paying it when the repo man comes to take it back It's the discretion of the firefighters but because it had lapsed they're not obligated to do anything. The whole point of insurance is to pay before something bad happens. The man's plight is pitiable but that doesn't excuse him from being disorganized.[/QUOTE] It also doesn't excuse them from letting his house burn to the fucking ground

[QUOTE=Vasili;25271807]The whole paying for insurance if your house was set on fire was abandoned by many nations for one reason - it was retarded.[/QUOTE] I'm not advocating this system but if that's what's in place then the rules need to be followed. [QUOTE=ashxu;25271851]It also doesn't excuse them from letting his house burn to the fucking ground[/QUOTE] You'll find that it does. The guy forgot, which means he had no intention of paying. If everyone could just pay when a fire happened there would be no motive to pay at all. Then the firefighters would have [b]no money[/b]. With no immediate threat to life or surrounding property, letting it burn out was really the best thing to do. It's standard procedure and either way the house would have been completely destroyed.

[QUOTE=Athena;25272229]I'm not advocating this system but if that's what's in place then the rules need to be followed. [/QUOTE] Its a dumb system, if you just obeyed the rules of all systems then nothing would change. One reason fire insurance was scrapped was because if you lived next to one house that was not covered by insurance (while yours was) and it happened to catch fire - then your house would burn down with the other house even if yours was covered by the plan.

I would've just held a shotgun straight to one of their faces and told them to put it out. DONE.

[QUOTE=Vasili;25272413]Its a dumb system, if you just obeyed the rules of all systems then nothing would change.[/QUOTE] You phrase it as if it's some sort of dictatorial regime. The fire department is just charging what each person would pay in a large city as part of their taxes. You have the option to not pay but this means a huge bill if they have to come and pull you out of your burning house. Not paying the $75 doesn't provoke change, it only prevents that unincorporated area from receiving fire service. [QUOTE=waffles16;25272559]I would've just held a shotgun straight to one of their faces and told them to put it out. DONE.[/QUOTE] Assault with a deadly weapon, at a civil worker nonetheless, sure motivates them to save your house

[IMG]http://gyazo.com/d0e825b3dd3a3914abe3ac3ac3bc408d.png[/IMG] Hey fuck you guys :frown:

Those men can't call themselves heroes. Superman never made any money...

[QUOTE=Athena;25272775]You phrase it as if it's some sort of dictatorial regime. The fire department is just charging what each person would pay in a large city as part of their taxes. You have the option to not pay but this means a huge bill if they have to come and pull you out of your burning house. Not paying the $75 doesn't provoke change, it only prevents that unincorporated area from receiving fire service. Assault with a deadly weapon, at a civil worker nonetheless, sure motivates them to save your house[/QUOTE] Pointing a gun at someone isn't assault.

[QUOTE=waffles16;25273323]Pointing a gun at someone isn't assault.[/QUOTE] Yes, it is.

lol im so glad i live in an actually civilized country in europe.

[QUOTE=XxXKillErXxxX^2;25273596]lol im so glad i live in an actually civilized country in europe.[/QUOTE] I really, really dislike your name.

Fucking asshole firemen. I live in upstate NY and all of the firefighters around here are volunteers and are required to put out fires they respond to. We don't have the "pay $75 and we'll put the fire out" bullshit.

[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;25266406]It may just be me, but I really can't get my head around the fact that you have to PAY to have a fire in your home put out. Your fire service isn't run off taxes? Well, I suppose you'd still be paying for it even if it were run off taxes. But atleast that way, you know you're covered regardless.[/QUOTE] If you live in a city, yes, your taxes will almost undoubtedly pay for fire services. In most cases a county will either have taxes to cover the fire department, or the volunteer fire departments will be funded through donations. The system has worked fine since forever pretty much. But apparently with the economic downturn, the donation reliant departments aren't getting enough funding to continue to operate. Ideally the local form of government (usually a county) would enact some kind of small tax on transactions or something similar, but governments move slowly or are unwilling to act, so the departments must bypass them in order to continue to function. Basically we've had a system that was obviously flawed, but thus far hadn't actually proved to be problematic. Though honestly if you just pay your fees it isn't any different than a tax.

wait, the firefighters are privatized in Tennessee? seriously?

[QUOTE=Ascensive;25273605]I really, really dislike your name.[/QUOTE] deal with it?

Correct me if I am wrong but this house was outside the city limits and the city was offering people fire protection for 75$ if they did not live in said city right? [editline]04:25PM[/editline] So if I got it right then the firefighters didn't have to save the guys house, although it would have been very nice of them to put out the fire and then charge the guy 75$

He had the $75 and was offering more but no fucking way were those firefighters gonna save a house. They might not get paid their $75.

[QUOTE=GunFox;25273714]Though honestly if you just pay your fees it isn't any different than a tax.[/QUOTE] True. But a government run fire service would cover everyone, regardless of their financial situation. For people on a low income jobs, $75 can be a lot of money. Money they can't afford to part with on insuring your home will be covered by your fire service in the event of a fire. Which really is something I can't truly understand. If I was in a situation like that, I imagine I'd be more concerned with putting food on my table, for example. But like you said, it's obviously a flawed system.

[QUOTE=Athena;25272775]You phrase it as if it's some sort of dictatorial regime.[/quote] Erm no. I phrase it by being a dumb system and shouldn't be obeyed, because its a dumb system. If we obeyed all these retarded systems then there would be no pressure to change something bad. Why should money be worth someones fucking life or living?

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;25261725] republicans[/QUOTE] Holy shit dude just shut up.

fucking assholes that shit is so messed up...damn pricks

[QUOTE=revrend_slapaho;25276567]fucking assholes that shit is so messed up...damn pricks[/QUOTE] I know bro...I know

You would think that the Public Sector would be flexible enough or have the common decency to just save people that free ride the system.

[QUOTE=DogGunn;25261636]Don't understand how that's legal that the firefighters didn't do a thing.[/QUOTE] Outside city limits. This is southern states in America, what do you expect?

That's what you get when you privatize.