Posted on 11/09/2006 4:29:42 PM PST by EveningStar
A black firefighter who was served dog food in his spaghetti by fellow firefighters will be paid more than $2.7 million to settle a lawsuit alleging racial harassment within the Los Angeles Fire Department...
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LOL!
I would suppose that the Firefighters who pulled this joke have been properly punished. However, I fail to see how the city could be held responsible. Why ddint he sue the Firefighters who did this to him. Oh!! we all know the answer dont we? The city has more money, and wasnt the OJ Jury from Las Angeles? So we naturally know the sympathies of a LA jury.
Click on the link on post 23.
According to the 'RATS, all old people eat dog food all the time so they can pay for the medications, buy wood to heat their little, one bedroom apartment and have the fare for ambulance rides when they have to go to the hospital. I don't see how eating dog food is a "racial" prank. Of course, I don't see how listening to loud music is "torture" either. DemocRATS are weird. They really make me believe in their Darwin monkey thing.
No. I was one in a racial hostile firehouse. I'm just giving my experience. I NEVER said my experience was every other experience BUT I've heard the same over and over again from black firefighters and FDNY is one of the worst.
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EEEEEWWWWW! I don't think 2.7 million would be enough for that!
Several LA firefighters have called Larry's show about this. They know this guy. He himself is one of the biggest pranksters around. Also, when he was playing volleyball, he was a good spiker (he's 6'5"). He'd tell his teammates to "feed the big dog!"
Even if he wasn't a joker himself and it was racial, I don't think he should get millions. Maybe he just can't take a joke.
But this was a black FIREFIGHTER. I would sooner associate him with charcoal and the white firefighters with marshmallows. But that's just me. I remember trying Gaines Meal as a snack when I was a kid. Not too bad. Settlement was too high, but I would not tolerate purposeful humiliation of anyone based upon the color of their skin.
It not just a thought about quotas. It's outright hostility about who is inferior and who isn't, who's father's grandfather came from Ireland and was the first firechief,etc.etc.etc. Long Island used to be a very segregated place. It was my first experience of real racial animosity. I got along with a lot of guys but then again I was a female and kept to myself.
And every firefighter in that station knew this of course...
What B.S. Was there even such a thing as canned dog food in the 1700-1800's?
"I've never eaten dog food, but it always smells good to me."
Me either, but have been tempted to do so. It smells and looks like Corned Beef Hash, which I love!
Many professors are in love with the sound of their own voice.
Thanks for the link. This is a great interview.
Honestly, alpo canned beef stew/w veggies for dogs looks a lot better than the Puritan canned beef stew for humans stuff I buy. (And it tastes just as good too, I tried it)
This is stupid.
I'll eat dog food for 10K a can, maybe less.
It's like the old joke about everyone being a prostitute, we just have to establish a price.
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