teleen_fiction ([personal profile] teleen_fiction) wrote2010-10-05 05:42 am

Firefighters Watch As A House Burned Down

Firefighters watch as a house burned down.

And three dogs and a cat died.  No, no people, but four living beings died horrible deaths because a man forgot to mail in a $75 fee.

We, as a society, should be ashamed of ourselves.

[identity profile] fiwen1010.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have a suffiently 'what the fuck?' icon for this. I always find it strange seeing the fire insurance plaques around the UK that are left up, that they ever existed at all. But to find out that the concept survives... I don't know if the attitude is barbaric, or if that's doing an unkindness to barbarians.

[identity profile] teleens-journal.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's something that's a fairly new concept here (within the last 20 years), from what I understand.

I was going to say something about headdesking forever, but I just can't bring myself to be at all flippant here.

This sickens me on many levels.

Those firefighters are just lucky that no person died there.

[identity profile] fiwen1010.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
It's just awful. Paris started providing free fire services in 1733, you'd have thought that the rest of the world could have caught up.

I feel like Britain has so much to answer for sometimes :( We exported our bloody stupid ideas when they were at their most bloody and stupid

[identity profile] teleens-journal.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, I don't blame Britain, :).

[identity profile] von_gelmini.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
That is... I wish I could say unbelievable, but in this day and age it's all too believable.

My bio-father was a firefighter. There is no way in hell he would've let a house burn without doing anything, even if it meant his job. I may hate him for my own reasons, but he was a dedicated firefighter. It takes that sort to run into a burning building. I can't understand how these firefighters could do that. They're a disgrace to the profession and to all the firefighters who've died on the job.

[identity profile] teleens-journal.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
IAWTC.
alafaye: (i'm lost too)

[personal profile] alafaye 2010-10-05 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow...I am not surprised. Which is the scary part.

[identity profile] teleens-journal.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly, :(.

[identity profile] darth-eldritch.livejournal.com 2010-10-05 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
There goes the reputation of firefighters rescuing cats from trees...

This is disgraceful