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so how was your night? me? I fought a fire...

Wow, I'm fairly appalled with my neighbors right now.

It's about 4 am I'd say, over an hour and a half ago abouts.  And I'm in the basement and I'm eating left over Chinese food.  I hear a car honk, and think nothing of it.  Cars honk all the time.  It honks again and I'm thinking to yell out the window about how it's 4 am in the god damn morning.  My dog barks, and the car honks again, and I happened to finish my food when suddenly the horn goes on, and whoever is pressing it is holding it down for some time.  So I'm thinking at first really disgruntled person waiting to pick someone up - till I remember it's 4am in the morning, you really only do that when your trying to get attention.

I run upstairs, yell at my dog to shut the fuck up - it's 4am I tell her, and open the door to look out the window and see the car, parked right infront of my house.  Now my neighbors trashcans are on fire.  So I go "Fuck, the faggots lighting a fire until I realize ... err... that's not just the trashcan, that's the FUCKING CAR on fire.

So I race my shoes on and run outside, it's got a nice drizzle going.  And I grab the hose and turn it on and run over as the guys yelling about how if his car was on fire or his house was on fire he might actually give a shit - a nice little ploy for attention in a somewhat cynical way, when I almost spray him with the hose - which isn't nozzled, I'm using my thumb.  Eventually he takes the hose, so I can turn the water up higher.  We get the garbage out, which  the can btw is practically melted to the fucking asphalt now.

Firemen eventually come, we back off, I turn the hose off.  I thank the guy for honking the horn, he gives the usual "If we can't look out for each other" business.  While this was going on I mentioned how it looked like the trashcan went on fire, maybe a cigarette that wasn't all the way out.  He says no, the dashboard was up when he got there, and it spread.  So someone put the fucking car on fire.

I didn't notice, but a neighbor who came out when the firemen were there did and told me how he had a spotlight in his car which I either didn't pay no mind to or didn't see, and he flashed his badge to the fireman, which made me laugh because that means he's a detective and I am completely shocked I didn't know.  I can usually pick up these oh-so-obvious signs, if not the more subtle ones.

So yeah.
Anyway the car, no one knows who owns it.  No one came out and said anything.  While I'm out there with this detective putting out the fire, I see shadows from my neighbors, the windows and all.  I heard a few doors open, but really didn't look as I'm trying to put out a fire that's all across this car's hood, and all I can think about is in the movies where the car goes boom as the spark hits the gas tank and people go flying through the air. I actually laughed at that image.

NO ONE came out.  NO ONE helped.
I'm not even sure if many of them called the fireman, I know my family did but the fireman were speaking about how they were half expecting a prank - so I assume few people called this rainy Wednesday night - err early Thursday morning.

Point is, a fire across a cars hood, and a trashcan burnt to the ground and a 2nd up in smoke next to several large bushes on the curb.  Not one fucking person outside of me actually got the fuck out of their house.  Granted this guy did most of the spraying with the hose as I fiddled with the 2nd hose I couldn't actually get going, but still.

I'm fucking pissed off at these fuckers who looked out their windows, and opened their front doors, and went the fuck inside.  More so at the 20 fucking dicks who came out to look at the car after the firemen ripped the thing apart to douse every possible part and then left.

I'm going to be disliked but fuck em.  I went in the house yelling loud enough to wake any fuckers still asleep or might've gone back to sleep - even with air conditioners on "Don't worry peoples- when your houses are on fire I'll try to put it out while the rest of you have some popcorn and enjoy the show.  Ganite!"

How the fuck are you going to watch someone spraying a fucking fire and not do shit, worse go the fuck back inside?  Maybe I'm different because I actually took a firefighter exam, and shit but still!

btw it reignited twice with the fireman spraying - so it caught some ignitable fluid in the car and it spread to the backseat, which as you know is fucking NEAR THE GAS FUCKING BOOM SHIT >:\

FUCK
I've half a mind to start moving.  Fuck this shit.  If I'm on fire I want to live somewhere where someone'll at least fucking piss me out at least >:\
 
damn!!!!! you're a fuckin hero and shit!!!!

maybe the people didn't run out because they thought you had it under control or ... maybe they were in like very revealing pajamas ...?

yeah people are cowards :/
 
Whenever people are in a crowd where there's a problem, it is more likely than not that they'll do nothing, because they share responsability. That is to say, their mind more or less function like this "I'm not doing anything, but no one is doing anything, so they can't blame me particularly", which is why, if you're ever attacked, you have a better chance of being rescued if you single out an individual and ask them for help. Who knows, you might have done the same thing if you had gone outside and saw other people just staring from their doorways.

But anyhow, quick thinking, nice work.
 
gj!! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

anyway all new yorkers are apathetic to the troubles of their fellow citizens so this isnt anything new?????

jk, but yeah i would be pretty mad too if no one helped in a situation like that! >:{
 
Venetia":3upimft6 said:
damn!!!!! you're a fuckin hero and shit!!!!
By grabbing a hose?

I s'pose the whole no ones doing anything so I won't thing could make sense, but that seems a little exaggerated kind of and more likely in situations with violence situations where someone could walk away - like viewing someone get their purse snatched at a subway and the mugger is leaving the subway car.  You don't have to worry about it.
A fire in a car that could spread to property and house (albeit doubtful - still can happen) seems a bit much for that idea in my head.
 
well you're a hero because no one else would even bother to help, that makes you stand out.

I'm the kind of person who'd run out in my skivvies to help if I had to, but then most people don't want to have to worry about going out of their way to do anything for anyone.

I remember there was a story here in tampa about a van that flipped over on the highway and three guys tumbled out, they were broken and bleeding and dying in the sun while rushhour traffic crawled by, but it took like 20 minutes for a guy to roll past the wreckage, see it, and jump out of his car to help them. A single guy, after hundreds had probably already laid eyes on it.

And, it turns out, he was the only one to even bother calling 9-1-1 on his cell phone.

Although in mankind's defense, when I got into a bad accident in 2006, three people stopped to pull me free of the smoking car. I guess I was just lucky that there were people around who gave half a shit instead of all those other hundred+ onlookers who wouldn't even flip open their cell phones to call for an ambulance for a bunch of dying men on the side of a highway.

(and I don't think it was the "because I'm a woman" thing because my car was so coated in dirt and cracks from the collision, you couldn't see in)
 
Anyways, I for one am happy and grateful to see that you've stepped up and helped a fellow human being out. My faith in humanity is somewhat restored.
I think another mentality trend I've noticed is that people tend to think,
"Oh someone else will take care of it. Why should I have to do anything about it and risk my life/property/time."
Lately we (meaning humanity) come off as being quite selfish and complacent. It takes something drastic and greatly deveastating to shake us into action and remember what humanity is/should be. Whilst the little things, like someones car being set on fire, getting shot in broad daylight, being hit by a car that takes off; we continue on our little self contained, self involved lives because we really can't be bothered by such mundane things.
 

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Man I'm feeling kinda bad now. Just two weeks ago the dried-up creek near my house caught fire. There were fireman and shit already dealing with it, but I now wish I did something to help.

Have you found out whose car was on fire?
 
FAGGOT":3ktnglby said:
Man I'm feeling kinda bad now. Just two weeks ago the dried-up creek near my house caught fire. There were fireman and shit already dealing with it, but I now wish I did something to help.

Yeah, once firefighters are on the scene, unless something looks OMG CRAZY OUT OF CONTROL and you're a big strong fella who politely asks if they can help, you'll just get in their way, and can even get arrested for obstructing them from doing what they're trained to do (and you're not trained).

But before they get there, and the situation isn't so dangerous that your life is in immediate danger (i.e. a dozen dudes with guns beating a guy up and all you have is a pocket knife), hell yeah, help!
 
FAGGOT":3ucpj6oi said:
Have you found out whose car was on fire?
Actually yes I found out today, this young woman who lives across the street from me, a few houses down.  I don't know her, and didn't even know she lived there.  My neighbors know her.
Apparently they don't paint a pretty picture of her attitude... I always thought the house was filled with two guys but that's her dad and brother - I never saw her before.

And yeah, once firefighters are there get the hell out of the way.  Not only can you get in the way but any help you might think you are giving could have a reverse effect, let alone the injury you could sustain from their pressure hoses.
 
I'd have been pretty useless in that situation - someone bombed a car right outside our house about that time in the morning and I'm such a deep sleeper I didn't even wake up XP
 
This reminds me of a video that was being played on the news for a few days.  An old man tried to cross the road in NYC, but he got hit by a car.  He was laying in the middle of the road and around 25 people just kept walking by, not even bothering to make sure he was OK.

Or, the video of a woman that died in a hospital.  The staff and security guards saw her lying on the floor and ignored her.  One rolled his chair back to check on them, saw her lying on the floor, and rolled his chair back.  She died in a hospital!!

The sad truth is that some (I would say most) people just don't give a crap about anyone except themselves.  It's infuriating, but there's nothing we can do about it.  I, personally, would have at least gone over and asked if I could help.  I'm not going to let someone risk their life to help someone without me doing the same.
 

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