Firefighters Watch As A House Burned Down

[teleen_fiction]

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.

Comments

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

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.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

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.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

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

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't blame Britain, :).