You don't run back into a burning building; that just makes Rescue have to work harder (and take bigger risks) to haul either your ass or your corpse out of there as well as everyone else's. Fire kills damned fast and unexpectedly sometimes and I don't blame any firefighter or cop for decking someone trying to reenter a house in flames.
-- Steve's glad that the loss of human life was zero, though it's sad that the animals died.
He should place the firefighters under citizens arrest for tresspassing.
Yeah, I get that entering a burning building is seriously dumb, and I wouldn't mind if firefighters had a standing policy that they will take no extraordinary risk to save your dumb ass under those circumstances. But when a government agent decides that it is a felony for a man to enter his own house, he is on the wrong side of the Fourth Amendment.
Don't know about the US, but my (NSW RFS) warrant card says that I can go pretty much[*] anywhere without permission to investigate or suppress a fire. I imagine that US firefighters have similar powers.
If they had to forcibly remove him from the scene, I don't have a great deal of sympathy.
[*] I can't go on railway land without their permission and a few other things. It makes sense once the context has been spelled out. In the railway context, they have to stop the trains, otherwise slicey, slicey, oncey, twicey, great big train splits fire truck nicely.
PETA is satisfied that the pets will no longer suffer from the unethical incarceration in a house and the tyranny of the pet owner. They are free! And tasty too now that they have been smoked and lightly toasted.
The thing is, when a fire is burning and things you love (especially if they are alive) are burning up, you do not always think rationally. Firefighters should understand this as should the law. Yes, you have to sitt on him and maybe even restrain him, but its within normal behavior. Now if he HIT someone, then maybe arrest him.
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Date: 2008-11-23 02:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 02:20 am (UTC)-- Steve's glad that the loss of human life was zero, though it's sad that the animals died.
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Date: 2008-11-23 02:33 am (UTC)LOL
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Date: 2008-11-23 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 03:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 04:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 04:52 am (UTC)Yeah, I get that entering a burning building is seriously dumb, and I wouldn't mind if firefighters had a standing policy that they will take no extraordinary risk to save your dumb ass under those circumstances. But when a government agent decides that it is a felony for a man to enter his own house, he is on the wrong side of the Fourth Amendment.
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Date: 2008-11-23 06:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 07:32 am (UTC)Obviously they gotta charge him. Can't have folks not doing what The Law tells them to do.
It's a great tragedy about the death of the animals.
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Date: 2008-11-23 10:50 am (UTC)If they had to forcibly remove him from the scene, I don't have a great deal of sympathy.
[*] I can't go on railway land without their permission and a few other things. It makes sense once the context has been spelled out. In the railway context, they have to stop the trains, otherwise slicey, slicey, oncey, twicey, great big train splits fire truck nicely.
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Date: 2008-11-23 01:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-23 07:26 pm (UTC)