CanaiiBirmingham, England š¬š§. A double-parked car is blocking the road.
Video ended too soon! They smashed that dumb fucker, right? Right?
The bumpers on American fire engines are huge, and built to push cars right out of the way.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who donāt (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
Firefighters= bears. With furniture.
UK fire engines arenāt built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save livesā¦
starman2112I think itās important to note that they donāt just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They arenāt using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Donāt park in front of fire hydrants!
Based on the look of it, there is no āout of the wayā you could smash that car, except stacking the car on top of another one belonging to an innocent.
One could consider breaking in and drive the car out of the way, but thatās a technically complicated operation. Their best hope is the noise will get the driverās attention, and record the plate to send that driver a large fine.
I live on a narrow 1 way road, which unfortunately means cars tend to park all the way up on the sidewalk, generally an inch from my fence. (Which gets smashed once a ywar on average, but thats another story) One day someone decided to park over the yellow line, completely blocking off one of my houses 2 exits, and the one I needed to take my mom out to get her to a post surgery follow up. I tried to get the landscapers to move the truck and they refused, so I called the local FD, explaining someone was blocking my house entrance off.
They had a truck full of firemen over there in like 10 mins, with those steel breaker bars. Smashed the windows and passed a rope through the cab, Then climbed over the truck, rolled it over with the bars, then attached the rope to their hitch so they could drag it out and clear for the waiting flat bed wrecker to pick it up.
The vehicle owner had come back out after they smashed the windows and tried to move it himself but the fireman in charge wouldnt let him. Told him it was too late, and his guys āneeded the practiceā
Thatās absolutely wild. I bet that was really something to see. And you know the firemen loved it.