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London Fire Brigade reveals rise in handcuff callouts
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| 29 July 2013 Last updated at 07:21 ET
Posted on 07/29/2013 10:47:37 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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Articles like this make me think FR needs a topic category just for them. Maybe "stupid people tricks."
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posted on
07/29/2013 10:47:37 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Slings and Arrows
This sounds like an article about for your crew.
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posted on
07/29/2013 10:48:16 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
07/29/2013 10:53:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Mind’s blank. I got nothin’.
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posted on
07/29/2013 10:54:49 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: Pan_Yan
So is it racist to ask if the toaster was set on light or dark?
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posted on
07/29/2013 10:56:13 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
So is it racist to ask if the toaster was set on light or dark?Yes. Now seriously, can we discuss something else instead, like the vacuum cleaner? I can almost fathom that one at the furthest reaches of my imagination.
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07/29/2013 11:00:37 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: Pan_Yan
"Hello, hello, operator? Yes we're trying to get the fire brigade ... No, the fire brigade. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, what? ... Size eight."
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07/29/2013 11:01:17 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Pan_Yan
"each instance cost taxpayers some £290, meaning the mishaps have cost at least £377,000."
I question that figure. The fire fighters would be on duty - and on the clock - regardless of whether they get a call. Maybe there would be a slight increase in gasoline costs as a result of these calls, but not to the tune of £290 per call.
To: Pan_Yan
If they’re only “red” stuck in a toaster, they’re on low setting.
Hardly anything to bother with. Just unplug the device.
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07/29/2013 11:11:19 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Steve_Seattle
I suppose at some level they have to calculate the response time and available units. Units tied up applying vasoline to handcuffs, are available to get cats out of trees. The operating cost per mile of fire equipment has to be astronomical, probably on the order of $10/mile, or more.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:23:40 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: Pan_Yan; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
It wasn't me, and that stripper is a liar.
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07/29/2013 11:26:42 AM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
They could be over-responding to make themselves look busy. In one town where I lived, even the simplest 911 call got you police, a fire truck, and an ambulance.
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07/29/2013 11:30:18 AM PDT
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Pan_Yan
Firefighters in London have been called to assist people who have become stuck in objects such as handcuffs and toilet seats... See? Other people get caught handcuffed to toilet seats too. I'm not the only one. Officer.
To: Pan_Yan
Kind of like two episodes of one of my favorite shows, “Untold Stories of the ER.” One story was a guy who got his “member” stuck in a camp stove. The other was hilarious.....guy comes in with the 4 hour Viagra erection with his girlfriend, then his wife shows up.
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07/29/2013 11:32:16 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Join the Navy and see the world.....77% of which is covered in water.)
To: fredhead
The other was hilarious.....guy comes in with the 4 hour Viagra erection"If it lasts more than 4 hours, heck, I'm callin' EVERYBODY!"
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07/29/2013 11:33:38 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Pan_Yan
Some 18 incidents involved children with their heads stuck in potties or toilet seatsOK..maybe the pottie or toilets are a different design in jolly old England...but just how in the h*ll do you get your head stuck in the toilet?
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07/29/2013 11:39:51 AM PDT
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Popman
To: Pan_Yan
When I was an MP at Ft. Benning back around 69 the post hospital security guard called in too hysterical to comprehend, so we sent out a patrol.
Seems this senior NCO came waddling in to the ER with a terribly pained expression on his battle scarred face and a canister vacuum cleaner between his thighs; was having too much fun and couldn’t get his manhood back.
The medics had to call in post engineers to dismantle the affectionate appliance and our guard couldn’t stop laughing for the rest of his shift.
To: Slings and Arrows
My town has 5500 people and only a couple of full time firefighters/emts on call. We do have a stretch of Interstate through the town, the nearest hospital is about ten miles away, so the taxi rides to the hospital in a town ambulance, billed to the insurance companies, pay the freight.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:49:22 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I hear ya - I used to be a volunteer EMT in the middle of nowhere.
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07/29/2013 11:51:28 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Popman
As a child I somehow got my head stuck in an angel food cake tin. My mother said she was hysterical when she saw what I had done, and frantically called her sister-in-law that lived nearby to ask her what to do.
“Well first, you go get your camera and take a photo!”
I don’t remember it, and don’t recall seeing the photo either. I think they ended up using Crisco to slide the thing off.
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posted on
07/29/2013 11:52:48 AM PDT
by
21twelve
("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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