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Man, when did all the firefighters start acting like cops?
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Whenever this flag came out.
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It looks like the penalty for that would probably be a fine plus restitution. The fine could be up to $10,000, so he could end up having to pay $20,000. He could also be sentenced to 18 months in jail, although I’d guess that would be unlikely in this case. Regardless, his inability to control his temper is going to cost him a lot of money, and possibly a felony on his record, and hopefully his job.
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Is anyone else puzzled by how someone who can’t keep his cool in the presence of a little errant water would end up in fire department leadership?
That seems like the sort of trait that would cause you to wash out pretty quickly.
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a man’s sump pump leaked rainwater onto the firehouse
Assuming this is not some very weird USian euphemism for something rather rude, could someone parse this for me, please?
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A sump pump is typically used to keep water out of basements. They typically discharge in some controlled way away from the house. Apparently this one was discharging somehow or somewhere onto the firehouse’s property? The article doesn’t make it clear, but I assume it left a mess that the fire chief had to clean up, which pissed him off. Which…it probably wouldn’t make me happy, either. But he chose violence instead of knocking on the guy’s door and saying, “Hey, your sump pump is dumping shit on our firehouse. Could you get that fixed, please? And maybe come help me clean up the mess it caused? Thanks, buddy!”
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Thanks for that - very helpful. Not exactly ‘rainwater’ that was output, then - that was a key part of what I could not figure out.
Interesting though that a sump pump doesn’t really keep water out of basements, it just removes whatever water has arrived there. I’ve had two properties with cellars and in both cases they were very well tanked - bone dry
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It depends on the level of the local water table. If it’s high, it’s hard to keep the basement dry, so they build in sumps to collect that water, and put in a pump to remove it. It’s not so much about keeping the water away, but controlling where it goes. And it definitely shouldn’t go onto your neighbor’s property.
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