It's A Snowflake...shut Things!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.MargeB, I must admit I didn't know anything about this incident but I can tell you that some braindead idiots think it's a great idea to target firefighters.
I myself know one person who has been shot in the face whilst attending a rubbish fire. Fortunately it just lodged in his cheek and required a minor operation to remove it, but an inch higher up and he would have lost an eye or even worse.
We've all been bricked/kicked/punched/spat at/abused many times not to mention the booby-trapping of derelict houses with petrol (to try and cause an explosion when we're inside putting the fire out) or rubbish or car fires with gas cylinders, but usually it only happens in certain places and we're more on our guard when we go into these areas.
They usually consists of a group of teenagers surrounded by younger kids (ranging down to any age, believe me) and girls are just as foul-mouthed and unruly as the boys. Add to this the fact that these low-lifes take any opprtunity to steal anything off the appliance and you've got a real job on your hands. We can have an appliance with a crew of four at a car fire and we end up having two people firefighting and two just trying to protect them and our equipment. Just recently a firefighter was knocked out cold and suffered concussion when he tried to stop a thug taking a defibrillator from his appliance.
(Continued) We're told we mustn't respond or do anything to inflame the situation. These idiots would just love to be battered by a firefighter and claim for compensation. I can see the headlines now, "Innocent youth attacked by thug fireman."
One of the worst apects of all this is that the parents know this is happening yet still do nothing to stop it. In fact I was once at an incident (a derelict house which had no doubt been set light to by the group of thugs who were present). A group of adults sat watching from their front gardens as they drank their beer. During the incident we were constantly being bricked yet the adults did nothing. In fact they only intervened to threaten my myself and another firefighter for stopping their offspring from "playing." I might add that the "playing" consisted of a group of ten+ teenagers pulling the hosereel like in a tug-o-war. They didn't care that the firefighters inside the building needed the hosereel to protect their lives...
Heaven help us Chav scum Council House dwellers. I do work as it happens, I also live on the biggest council estate in Europe, and I wear bright white trainers, but I do not attack firemen and I don't know anyone who does. It's easy to point the finger, but the article above was referring to pikies (and I may have this wrong as different areas use the term differently) not Council house tenants, I know a pikey as a gypsy, think Brad Pitt in Snatch, or a traveller.
Why do people do this in the first place? I don't really understand, do the police get this problem? Taxi drivers and bus drivers round our way get it all the time, and I've even heard of it happening to midwives but I've never heard of fire brigades being called out. I am gobsmacked I have never heard of this before.
Sorry Natalie_1982 it certainly wasn't my intention to label all council house dwellers as scum but the problem is definitely worse in certain areas and all of these areas tend to be council owned.
I know there are "decent" people living in council houses (I'm from council house stock myself) and where they are surrounded by scumbags I really do feel sorry for them.
I don't suppose there can be many things more soul-destroying than watching a once nice area nosedive as the council puts lots of bad eggs in one basket when that basket happens to be where you live. These poor people feel trapped and have no way of selling their houses because, well, who wants to buy a house in the middle of a cesspit?
My mam and dad sold and moved out of their former council house just in time twelve years ago. This lovely area, of which I have fantastic childhood memories is now nearly as bad as the estates you see on telly in those "neighbours from hell" type programmes, and houses which were up for sale before my mam and dad moved are still up for sale and haven't been sold by their original owners.
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