weaselff

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    I am impressed with this dept I have not seen anything bad about this dept. They look like a bunch of dedicated volunteer fireman

    Then you haven't seen or heard much. From what I've heard they are a bunch of primadonnas and clowns. They are a mix of off duty DCFD guys with no life and college kids who get their rocks off chasing fires rather than girls. I was, and still am a little buffy, but these guys take it to the extreme.

    The community is a low income, low density cesspool similar to some towns on LI like Brentwood or Wyandanch. Nobody or very few members of the community are involved with Kentland. It is all whitebread suburban guys who spend their weekends or live at the firehouse.

    Do these guys see fire? Yes and lots of it, but mostly at private dwellings and low rise town homes. Big deal. Its not like these guys are charging into OLT's and hi-rises. They are busy but dont get it twisted its not Report from Engine Co. 82.

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    Ah New Orleans "America's Bogota/Rio". You can put me down in the who f'n cares column in regards to the fate of this national embarrasment...I mean city. I do feel bad for the normal hardworking Americans who live on the Mississippi gulf coast and the fishing villages south of N.O. These taxpayers put up with hell after Katrina with very little attention from the media or politicians.

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    Thanks bdfdjc - it's been awhile since 02 as a matter of fact. And come on Weasel, didn't you know in addition to being professionals at their jobs, DOC medical staff is exremely well trained and can handle almost any emergency-LOL!!!!. Really, I've actually been in some places where they actually did a pretty good job, some places don't. Kinda like some of the ECF's, not bad, clean, Then you have the hell holes you wouldn't want to see a pet rat at.

    Joe

    The jails on Rikers are the only ones ive ever been in, was kind of wondering if it was the same everywhere as far as the incompetence of the medical staff?

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    During my FDNY EMS days I conducted literally hundreds of prisoner transports out of Rikers. Aside from the time an EDP spit in face, I generally had more problems with the "third world" medical staff in the prison clinics than any inmates or officers. Lets just say the doctors and RN's working there weren't exactly from the top of the class. I always loved the upside down longboard, followed up with the backwards upside down c-collar. It was no use trying to be a patient advocate, the one time I tried, I almost started a race riot(thats a long story for another day).

    Most of my transports I was escorted by 2 officers, each armed with a 9mm. One in front and one in the pt. compartment. Once for a high profile inmate, I was escorted with an additional 2 officers in the patient compartment. I thought the inmate transfers were pretty exciting the first 2 or 3 times, but after a while it just became a 2 hour inconvience that always came up at tour change.

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    HUH? are we all watching the same clip?

    The way I see it, the biker had no choice but to maneuver left to avoid the cop, who was originally standing in the center of the road and came over into HIS lane of travel, where he then slammed on him.

    So his bike doesn't have brakes?

    You invade my personal space or invade my path of travel on a bike when I'm on foot, you better believe I'm gonna do what I gotta do to knock a guy into next week. If the PO had been Joe Schmo walking across the street with his 5 year old daughter everybody here would applauding his actions.

    Do a little research, these perps in Critical Mass are anarchists that arm themselves with video cameras and deliberately try to lure officers into use of force incidents.

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    OK, LET'S GO TO THE VIDEO TAPE! :D

    I see the NYPD Police Officer standing in the middle of the roadway with his partner.

    The PO appears to move slow as the Bicycle approaches, The PO then seems

    walk quicker right into the path of the Bicycle.

    It also appears that the Bicyclist is clearly steering AWAY from the Police Officer to the far left.

    Pay close attention to the Slow Motion!

    The video does have audio, I was thinking maybe the guy on the bike yelled

    something to the PO "Hey $#@&"! but it does not sound that way.

    Something to consider:

    - Did the PO see the Bicyclist do something seconds before that the Camera DIDN'T

    pick up?

    - Did the Bicyclist just try to run someone over? Hit another PO?

    - Did the PO get a call over the Radio "Hey, Grab Him"

    If so, were his actions JUSTIFIED?

    Who knows... I do know this... 3 weeks or 10 years out of the Police Academy and do

    something like this you better have a damn good explaination!

    You can be real good with a pen and paper but when you have Video.. HMMMMMMM

    After taking a close look at the video I would have to agree with INIT915!

    On review of the tape I can see the guy steered his bike into the officers path of travel. It looks to me like he was challenging the officer. Any self respecting person on a bike upon seeing a uniformed PO crossing the street would either slow up or cut behind the officer as to avoid a collision. The guy was either challenging the officer to escalate the situation or he is completely braindead. Either way I see the officer acted in self defense to avoid injury to himself.

  12. Posted

    The pinko on the bike sees the cop walking across the street, and doesn't even attempt to go around him or slow down. It was a challenge and he lost. Granted I'm no cop but if you physically threaten me, you're gonna pay the price. I would have done the exact same thing.

    On a side note, "Critical Mass", is an anarchist group. They view everyone in the emergency services and military as the enemy and would not hesitate to jam any of us up in a second. I have no sympathy for this anti american, trust fund d-bag.

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    Lets call out the giant pink elephant in the room. It is a widely known, but ignored fact in NYS that Satmar Hasidism and most other hasidism sects can pretty much do what ever they want. They have every politician by the balls due to money from shady real estate deals, they vote in blocs, and no politician wants to be labled an anti semite for disagreeing with them.

    For someone to go into KJ and force them to have an FD would be career suicide.

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    During my college years, Pabst Blue Ribbon was the staple of drinking. If It was served almost bone-chilling cold, it was drinkable. I used to be able to get it for .25 per can.

    At Hipster bars in LES and Williamsburg it still is the staple of drinking, its like two dollars a can, but I think for these people it is more of an "ironic fashion accessory"

  18. Posted

    Caught this nicely maintained antique from Yorktown Heights FD at their parade a few weeks ago. If anyone knows, please let me know the year and make for my records. Also what years it served YFD if possible. Thanks in advance

    171

    It is a Maxim, I think 1927. From what I know it was purchased new and is still "technically" in service, though I'm sure it hasn't been a front line piece for quite sometime. It is designated as Westchester DES Engine 276, you can see the plate on the front bumper in the photo. It is the oldest "in service" fire apparatus in the county.

  19. Posted

    i believe what he is referring to is how in the older buses you have two switches for the lights, some old timers just throw on the box lights for job and go with traffic.. i dont get it, but they cant do it in the new buses because its only one switch now. i cant believe some of our buses are still in service... those '97s are the worst...

    Off topic slightly but its a disgrace the kind of buses you guys are rolling around in. When I started there were 1 or 2 of those red white and blue buses floating around BK. I think they were like 92's or something and were left over from HHC.

  20. Posted

    Personally, I practiced this in my former career as an EMT. I also tried to inform others as to how unsafe lights and sirens could in fact be and how over used they are! One of my biggest pet peeves is FDNY EMS using the flashing box lights during transport of patients, I find this completely ludicrous and feel it only compounds the public to misunderstand its use further!

    I worked for FDNY EMS from 2005-07 and never heard of this, maybe this was personal prefernece of the EMT's you encountered?

  22. Posted

    I'm suprised Archville still exists, I moved out of the area a few years back and if I remember correctly they were only running 20-30 calls a year and had a dual response in their district with BMFD. Good for them if they have the funding to buy a new chief's car but I would have thought they would have went the way of Nelsonville.