You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!™
Fire fighters standing by while a man’s home burns to the ground.
It’s not just crazy, it’s un-American. It’s obscene. It’s embarrassing.
DATELINE OBION COUNTY, Tennessee.
This sounds like something that could only happen in a communist nation under a dictator who wears a big smock and over sized glasses.
But it’s not a communist nation, it’s the Volunteer State.
THE VOLUNTEER STATE!
WHERE PEOPLE IN COON SKIN CAPS JUMP OFF MOVING TRAINS WITH SHARDS OF GLASS IN THEIR EYE TO HELP A STRANGER IN NEED!!
Not in this story.
In this story, Gene Cranick’s home burns to the ground while fire fighters watch.
They watch, like their at a drive in movie. These lack luster losers might as well have brought easy chairs and pop corn to their own fire call.
Firefighters watching a house burn, that’s like a doctor standing over a patient in cardiac arrest eating lard and guzzling jack daniels.
Someone should have called 9 1 1 on them for the severe ass whoopin they should have received.
If the reports are accurate, then these fire fighters make my stomach gurgle with anger. I am choking back acidic bile, thinking about a man’s life burning to the ground while professional firemen watched the show.
Fire fighters by the very nature of their job title are do gooders. They are first responders. They are the guys who burst through the door and save kittens and kids. Firefighters risk their lives to pull your photo album out of the house because pictures of granny really can’t be replaced.
But these jerk offs in South Fulton, they broke the code. These men should be embarrassed by their actions as they reportedly watched a fire consume a man’s life.
Why did they do so little?
Because the man whose home was burning reportedly owed 75 dollars.
According to published reports, Cranick lives outside of the city limits and he forgot to pay a $75 annual service fee that would have provided him with fire protection.
$75 dollars? The price of a barrel of driveway sealant at home depot. The cost of a keg of beer. The going rate for a sex act on Paris Avenue.
Are you kidding me?
A man’s house burns to the ground. His three dogs and a cat all destroyed because a man owes 75 dollars to the county for fire protection.
Is this country so morally bankrupt that it has come to this?
Can you imagine a baseball player not chasing down a fly ball because of a contract dispute? Can you imagine a police officer not stopping a robbery because the shop keeper owed taxes.
“They coulda’ been saved if they put water on it. But they didn’t do it,” Cranick told MSNBC.
That’s simple country talk for “These men, employed to uphold the public trust, pulled down their pants and urinated on all that is American Pie and Land of Liberty Great!”
An old roommate of mine saw this story and offered this rant.
Mike Gilmore writes: First of all, put the f-ing fire out and send the family to a collection agency for the $75 they hadn’t paid yet. Two, take a check from the sorry bastard and put the fire out so they don’t lose everything they own. Third, why the F*** does the government waste so much money on stupid non-essential pork barrel spending that they can’t provide essential services without citizen’s having to pay for it above and beyond the excessive taxes that we already pay. Isn’t that what the government is suppose to do? That’s the reason for their sorry ass existence?”
Nice rant from a former Scarff Street Derelict who once put a television on his head like a hat.
But this derelict is right.
The fire fighters needed to do the right thing. It’s not about dollars and cents. It’s about decency and sense! It’s about sense of pride and duty. It’s about being selfless and helping your fellow man. Fire fighting is a noble and worthwhile profession, but the boys from Tennessee showed their ass in a time when neighbor helping neighbor is all we have.
I’m dissappointed in you boys from Obion County. I know you could have done better.
And that’s crazy.