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yaya !!!
Is that it? Is that ALL you can say?
Yaya!!!
…We interrupt this FAIL to bring you a special report: a yaya epidemic has hit this comments section and – yaya! yaya! yaya!
This comment FAIL makes me want to dance.
*dances*
And chant!
*chants*
Yaya yaya ya-yaya!
*/chants*
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
And now it’s all right, it’s O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times’ effect on man.
Whether you’re a brother
Or whether you’re a mother,
You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Feel the city breakin’
And ev’rybody shakin’
And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Stayin’ alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin’ alive.
Funky lyrics, dude! Should turn that one into a song.
FAIL
Yaya!!!
Omg!
Anybody from Spain in here?
I recently talked to some Spanish guys.
At the end of every sentence they say something
that sounds like yayayaya.
For example: “Soy de España yayaya.”
Maybe the mysterious virus that has infect fayayailblog
comes from there?
[dangeruss], Sbell, and now ronber. Looks like we got a yaya sisterhood going on here.
I wonder if they have traveling pants
I actually saw that one.
Uh, I mean… when I see you I got sth traveling in my pants. Har.
lol family guy…
the firetruck…
It was a song, and she sounded pretty good.
Gender recognition fail.
Dude sounds like a lady.
wit fail
FAIL, he sung it, HE.
sensing sarcasm FAIL
Singer’s gender recognition fail.
No, I’m pretty sure those are BondFan’s original lyrics. I’ve never heard of a song like that before…yaya…
Curses to you for putting that song in my head!!
Make it stop!! For the love of god, make it stop!!
All right stop.
Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo – I don’t know
Turn off the lights and I’ll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.
Dance, Bum rush the speaker that booms
I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it, You better gain way
You better hit bull’s eye, The kid don’t play
If there was a problem, Yo, I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
That was just plain cruel.
That wasn’t cruel.
Oh, Mickey, you’re so fine!
You’re so fine you blow my mind!
Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey!
Now *that’s* cruel.
Dam you all! Avis I need that hammer back.
*hands over the hammer*
You sure you don’t want the sledgehammer? It works so much better than the ball-peen.
Too much collateral damage. I need to hit just the right spot uhg. . .pretty. . .
I want to be your sledgehammer
Why dont you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me round your fruitcage
cos I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruitcage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be
STOP!
Hammertime!
STOP!
Hammer time!
Nananannnanananananannana
NA NA, NA NA!
please hammer, don’t hurt ‘em
I could be so lucky
Lucky lucky lucky
I could be so lucky
In love
WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE FIRETRUCK???
LOL SUBJECT FAIL ON ALL PARTIES INVOLVED.
I get knocked down, but I get up again!
You’re never gonna keep me down!I get knocked down, but I get up again!
You’re never gonna keep me down!
I get knocked down, but I get up again!
You’re never gonna keep me down!
I get knocked down, but I get up again!
You’re never gonna keep me down!
I get knocked down, but I get up again!
You’re never gonna keep me down!
U.G.L.Y. you aint got no aliby you ugly ya ya you ugly
I
like
big
butts and I cannot lie…
.
.
.
I just thought I’d mention that.
Fat bottomed girls make the world go round!
Big bottom, big bottom,
Talk about mudflaps, my girl’s got ‘em
Big bottom, drive me out of my mind,
How can I leave this behind…
Mine goes to 11!
We bought a toy guitar for our 7-year old at Target, and the volume button actually went to 11. Some toymaker has a sense of humor.
I’d tap that.
Well, somebody was going to write it!
It had to be you.
Listen to that sustain!
Oh Sara, if you made that comment I would have covered your asse, too.
We can’t have creepy strangers making innuendos — that’s what friends are for.
♫
It’s hard to say it
I hate to say it
But it’s probably me
♫
I’d love to hear you say that…
as a fellow firefighter i half to say holy s**t. ouch
I always thought the words to that were
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I’m a woman and no time to talk.
The voice didn’t make me question my interpretation of the lyrics.
Ahhh, the Bee Gees: Showcasing the fact that sometimes testicles don’t descend.
Query: who’s worse, Andy Gibb or Leif Garrett?
Leif Garrett, he’s still alive.
But just barely, as the photo shows.
http://crime.about.com/od/famousdiduno/ig/celebrity_mugshots/leif_garrett.htm
Wow, that was supposed to be a link to a mug shot. I have no idea what that is.
a link to a mug shot….
It looks as if he has been shot between the eyes but without causing too much damage.
Ryannon rings like a bell through the night…
If I had the choice between The Bee Gee’s talent and bank balance and variable height testicles…
yes….?
everybody run
the homecoming queen’s got a gun
oops, for some reason i thought i was posting this in response to dr. hugh above, about the mug shot being shot between the eyes… sigh
Jainie? or is that Janey?
Sarah!
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and
desert you…
That’s how Rick rolls…
or in the simpsons HA HA HA HA TABLE 5! TABLE 5!
Toure?
woooo woooo woooo wooooo epic failz and yay my 21st ever post on failblog wwooooo
erm failz on my part that was 1st ever post but yay my 2nd ever post in one thread!!!
Meh.
Meh two.
Too Meh
Meh head
Oh. Meh. Gawd.
Becky! Look at her butt!
She looks like a total prostitute.
(She must have totally trespassed!)
She looks like one of those raper’s girlfriends
What, and I suppose you have experience raping?
Check my application, it don’t lie!
Check the ap, it’s no liar
I expect mim wage or hier!
it’s soooooooo big!
It would be a humongous double-fail if the title said “Trirefuck fail.”
or not to meh..
Here is the full story:
http://www.firerescue1.com/fire-products/fire-apparatus/articles/432540-Seat-belts-save-St-Louis-firefighters-in-crash/
Oh jeez. It WOULD be Missouri, wouldn’t it…
Here it is, on video. Real time, full color. Click my name for the link.
THANK YOU for posting this. I was very relieved to read that the crash was not fatal. Geez these guys have enough danger as it is.
Failblog said someplace that they don’t post videos of fatal fails.
どういたしまして。The guys were all wearing seatbelts, and modern fire trucks have many of the same protections that passenger cars do in terms of occupant protection (airbags, anti-lock brakes, choulder belts).
*Shoulder… duh. Or, it could be Chowder belts, or maybe Chopper belts???
Chowder belts would be pretty messy. Especially when the truck rolls over.
Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya
Day after day your home life’s a wreck
The powers that be just breathe down your neck
You get no respect
You get no relief
You gotta speak up
And yell out your piece
So back off your rules
Back off your jibe
Cause I’m sick of not living to stay alive
Leave me alone
Not asking a lot
I don’t wanna be controlled
That’s all I want
That’s all I want
That’s all I want
That’s all I want
Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya
UR Rescue iz tah fail!
OMG SOMEONE CALL 911!!!
Quick! Call the Fire Dept.! There’s been an accident!!
2 failtrucks down! Send failtruck #3 STAT!
Wait! Send two! I didn’t have my camera ready the first time!
Calm down, it’s on failblog.
Oh no! Can you send two more? The batteries in my camera just died!
Me too. I was just tying up my shoelaces…
no one will believe me but I say this exact thing happen… with two ambulances.
*saw
I don’t believe you.
:p
i believe in you
Thanks. wasn’t very funny – more worrying – just like this video.
Nope, not even I believe you.
What the f(iretr)uck?
Oh, I saw what you did there, sirrah. Very clever.
wwwhhooooh i just saw it very nice
How dare you say Iretr!
Is a hit’n'run illegal if you are the purveyors of safety and justice?
No, but it sure does create a durn good paradox!
Only if a police car is involved in the pileup too.
Blues Brothers!
Police Academy!
The Naked Gun!
Super Troopers!
Reno 911?
Team America?! F(iretr)uck yeah!
Starship Troopers 3
XD Great minds think alike…
Super Troopers!
Lights are gonna find you…
A historic moment for the Failtruck.
aN historic moment, never forget the “N”
I saw quite a few firetrucks last night. There was an accident on my street. Motorcycle got pinned against the cement barrier. Pretty bad one this time.
*bows head in memoriam*
I just looked it up, to see the details that weren’t given at the scene. There were TWO accidents yesterday. Two motorcyclists didn’t make it. They were totally separate incidents. And people wonder why I won’t ride a motorcycle.
*sheds a tear*
Shouldn’t have ridden a motorcycle. Meh.
It wasn’t just the death of a motorcyclist that was so awful. The girl who’s car
hit the motorcycle, killing the bikes PASSENGER- not the biker, was a sad thing to witness. She kinda lost it.
Oh and Apathy Win to you. Not that that is something to brag about.
Can’t you tell that on one cares?!
By commenting about no one caring, are you not defeating your own purpose? Because, obviously, you care that no one cares.
or highlighting the fact you alone don’t care. The ones not commenting do care.
*cares*
*cars*
*flares*
*scare*
*snares*
I suppose a reference to that “here in my car…” song would be in bad taste?
*feels bad about the people who died*
Thanks for *spare*-ing us.
Avis, that really make me sad for the victims.
*shares*
I really didn’t mean to bring everybody down.
*despairs*
Gotcha!
*ensnares*
*prepares!*
*prepares to repair our mood..air?*
“And now I’ll repair
To my lair
And use Nair
Do you care?”
*summons Lunchbox*
Compass roses won’t nest below this lunchbox.
Um…oooh. I hope he wasn’t on one of those trucks!
You rang?
*buckles up*
YAY!
*hugs*
*hugs back*
One of our drivers is prime for this kind of accident- he’s got two speeds: warp and stop. Seatbelts are a good thing!
Ahh! The modern digital driver, brakes full on or off, power flat out or nothing. It makes a really enjoyable passenger experience!
I don’t care to comment.
Who is this “on one”, and why do they care?
This is very sad. The chauffer of the pumper truck should no better then to coast an intersection at that speed against the light.
Is a pumper truck like a fluffer?
Pumper truck sounds like something from a toddlers TV program. I thought it was a typo, tried a few other letters: bumper truck, accurate description but unlikely; dumper truck, too slow and wrong colour; humper truck, maybe that is the reason for the accident.
I think it is a pumper because it pumps the water but if it trespasses, it might take on a whole new meaning akin to fluffing.
**pumperbates**
That would make a good pumper sticker.
Oh, my god, I can’t see through the tears of laughter!!! Fluffer truck!!!! My sides hurt soooo bad!
Ok, for those that want to know: Ryannon, you’re correct. It’s called a Pumper because it has a pump and carries water. The trucks involved are referred to as Quints, because they have Aerial Ladders, pumps and water (as opposed to true Ladder Trucks, that don’t have pumps).
Marius, spot-on assessment. The Driver (chauffer) and Officer on the truck that ran the red are in huge trouble for this incident. State law and department policy says you ALWAYS stop for a red light.
*steps off soap box, still clutching sides*
*trips because he still can’t see through all the tears*
A firefighter in Trenton?
A firefighter in Trenton?
Strange I always associate ‘Quint’ with the Edge Chronicles. Makes it very confusing to connect them him to a fire truck!
I associate it with very painful labor
Ryannon: No, further East, near Eatontown, Tinton Falls and Long Branch.
Oh my client has a store in Long Branch. I have been down there many times, even had to be there overnight for a POS conversion. I waved, did you see me?
You should “know” better spelling “than” that.
*Hangs head in shame*
*has the pudding bukkit waiting*
Ahh just desserts. *Splurk*
There were no pumper trucks, one was a quint (a ladder with water) and a ladder.
i once saw something like that- late night, 2 cars drag racing on city street, supposedly they hit 80mph, meanwhile up ahead a big rig was turning left across their path- one car was able to stop, the other became a convertible- the truck driver was distraught, even though there was nothing he could have done to avoid it… pretty sad
I’m practically on a first name basis with 911 dispatch in my area, I call almost every time there is a major accident on my street. Sometimes I can tell they’ve already been called. But every time it rains, there’s an accident. There were 4 in two hours about a week or two ago. It’s insanity I tell you, INSANITY!
For our sake, as well as yours, become an agoraphobic and stay inside.
Uh… I live in an area that has an unusually large amount of accidents. I call because most of those accidents are bad enough that there is reason to believe that the people in the car are not able to call for themselves.
If this is how you really feel, I hope if you never are involved in any vehicular accident. And if you are, I do hope (for your sake) that someone makes the emergency call for you.
(psst…he means you should stay inside so you don’t become PART of an accident! *smooch*)
Thank-you Dragon. You are in the right of it.
BTW Avis I’ll be trying that chicken recipe next week. Let us know if you try it on the turkey.
Calm down. I was merely saying that the area that you are in seems unusually dangerous and that you should be very careful. To this date I have helped in three accidents in a hands on fashion. In the first one I got hit by another car that didn’t want to wait in the traffic jam.
If you read what I said correctly you will see that it was a caring thing to say.
They just announced that Obama has won. WOO WHO!!
*adds a huge WOO HOOOOOOOO!!!*
Um.. I can be a bit defensive sometimes. I read that sooo wrong.
I don’t drive. I hate driving. I also don’t play in traffic. The street in question is cordoned off from foot traffic (thank god {not that that stops some idiots}). I am in little danger from being hit by this bit of traffic. My sense of self preservation tends to run pretty damned high, so fear not! I don’t think I am in muchdanger.
And WHHHOOOOO fucking HOOOOOO!!!!
It’s 5.30am but I had to stay up to watch the news.
WELL DONE GUYS! *cheers*
*GREAT BIG HAPPY HUG!!!*
Thanks for keeping the vigil with us, Loz!
*BIG HAPPY HUGS!*
Thank you for doing the right thing! There’s hope for you yet!
*does a little dance, makes a little love*
*raises well filled glass* Here’s to the end of one of the strangest campaigns ever. *downs it all*
Here, here.
*clinks glass*
*knocks it back*
*clinks glass*
*necks it*
*crawls to bed*
LOVE YOU GUYS!
Motorcycles are DEATH MACHINES
I’ve noticed many more people riding glorified scooters since the price of gasoline has gone up. These scooters are straining to do the limit on the winding country roads I travel on. What a horrible trade-off to make.
When the helmet laws went into effect in Europe, there was a sudden drop in donated organs.
damn shame- people who are too stupid to wear a helmet by their own choice should be allowed to make that choice and provide organs to more responsible people
i feel the same about seatbelts… i always wear mine, but i don’t like the law telling me i have to
motorcycles don’t kill people
cars don’t even kill people
people kill people
People wonder this? Really?
Yes.
Seems like some people missed their nap.
I don’t ride a motorcycle because I survive my accident. After I prefer 4 tires and a decent amount of steel between me and the maniac next to me.
There in your car, you feel safest of all?
I still ride my motorcycle after having a serious motorcycle accident. Well, not the same motorcycle, as it was destroyed.
It’s one of those things – If I have to explain it, you wouldn’t understand.
I don’t ride, but…I think I understand. You have motor oil running through your veins…I have ink running through mine. We are neither of us completely ourselves unless we answer to the call of our blood.
(Writing’s safer, tho! :p )
Just watch out for that poison pen over there…
Damn…I keep forgetting about that.
being on 2 wheels is as close as you can get to flying without wings
though i guess one could jump off a cliff, but the landing tends to be a bit rough
that happened in my town last Wednesday
As Kramer would say: It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one.
looks pretty “one to one” to me
Nothing funny about this fail. IMHO of course.
Yeah, I have to imagine that someone got hurt here.
Thankfully, no serious injuries. They were all wearing seat belts.
Seven of the eight involved were released the same night, the eighth was kept overnight for observation due to a suspected concussion
I think the one that turned over was the tank truck. The one with the water. NOW what are they gonna do?
Fight fire with popsy.
Wow, you figured that out yourself? What was your first clue? All the WATER pouring out of it when it tipped over?
Ronbers response was funnier.
I concur
*fights fire*
Hey! One hand on the keyboard one hand on the mouse!
What about the other hand?
Poker hand?
You can poker, just dont wrecker
You can poker if she trespasses.
Liquor in the front, poker in the rear.
*marks the 83 bazillionth time this joke has been made on Failblog*
That store is my favorite place on earth.
I thought repetitiveness was the whole point (more than half).
Fight fire with fire? (Which was a terrible song by Kansas in 1983 and an even worse song by Metallica in 1984)
They were both ladder trucks, and they both had water tanks and pumping apparatus.
In an environment like that, though, they’re more likely to draw suction on a hydrant. They’re going to be down some pumping capacity, though.
/Was a firefighter for a couple years.
Does that mean you have bowser trucks with no pumps in the States (or did) I think all the UK engines have water tanks and pumps varying in size dependant on the design.
Not all the trucks in the U.S. have water tanks. At least not all of the ones in Chicago. The three or so that showed up last night did not.
Thanks, another little detail to add to my collection.
Bowser trucks? Mamma mia!
LOL.
My department had a tanker truck with no pumping apparatus of its own, but that was obviously a support vehicle. Ours was a converted gas tanker that we couldn’t completely with water because it would have broken the frame. (Water is heavier than gasoline…)
We have (at least where I am) some pick-up trucks we call brush trucks that really don’t carry much water at all, and some Special Operations, ans HazMat trucks that don’t carry water.
They’re both quints. STL’s last chief was in love with the stupid things.
Did you make a calendar?
Actually they’re quints. Pumpers that double as ladders.
At least the good news is: no serious injuries.
Except severely wounded pride, and an emotional scab that coworkers will gleefully pick for years to come.
The fail lies within the little man on the right hand side of the screen
So, you would be able to stand there calmly as a 20,000lb (9,100kg) hunk of steel and flying debris hurtled at you? You are either stupid or brain dead, which is it?
Hell, I’d be lucky if my undies were still clean after something like that. But, I will admit I have a weird response to mortal danger. I freeze. And when I can move, I’m even clumsier than usual.
Nope, not weird at all. Well, we are all weird in our own special ways, but your response isn’t particularly weird. Much. No, really! Really!! No, I mean it!!!
*removes Lunchbox’s foot from his mouth*
Thanks, you saved me from that faint smell of Ultra-Coffee I spilled yesterday! I spilled it on my shoes.
Hee…!
What is amazing is that it appears there is a person walking away from the corner in the background… and they keep walking.
Yea, I saw that, too. Wonder if they’re hard of hearing?
Eighth. lol
Ninth. rofl
Hey, you can actually count! No space-time rips in this comment thread!
*TARDIS lands*
Oops.
Just like the Doctor to fuck it all up.
You called? How can I help?
Er, he meant THE doctor. You know, the popular one with his own sci-fi series, the longest running, even longer than Star Trek?
Who?
Yep. That’s him.
Oh, that was a joke? Hahahaha!
I don’t expect you to laugh Mr. Bond. . .
I’m not laughing. That was the tear gas. See this gas mask? Goodbye, Dr Marius!
*Hanging onto a rope, flies away just in time to see massive explosion. Music , etc., etc.*
Don’t forget the hot chick you rescued that is hanging on to your belt
… or anything else that happens to come to hand…
It is true I am only a play on The Doctor so he must be older.
How many generations of The Doctor have there been now? I haven’t watched that show sinc.. LOOK OUT, A DALEK!!!!!
Nine, if you only count the TV (telly?) series incarnations.
Wait, that would imply that there was a movie? I thought it was only a television series?
There where two Peter Cushing movies in which the Doctor was from earth. They where horrible.
There was one made for TV movie in which the last Doctor from the original string of Doctors (his name escapes me and I’m too lazy right now to google it) regenerated into another Doctor.
There was also at least one stage production.
There may be others out there.
The best part is watching that guy leaning on the tree run away. He runs like a cartoon character.
Jogger, surely.
If he was of Irish descent, he’d be a mick jogger! If he’d toked up first, he’d be rolling stoned!
*is probably going to be in trouble with Loz for calling an Irishman a mick*
Haha! ‘mick’ is a derrogative word used to refer to a Catholic. Along with ‘taig’.
Protestants are known as ‘huns’. Lovely culture of hate we have here.
LOL! I watched again to see what you were talking about and he DOES run like a cartoon character! I had to watch it 4 more times cuz he’s so awesome!
I guess they didn’t know that emergency vehicles always have the right of way.
Lol the other one just keeps going.
This video makes a good point… vehicles have to yield to emergency vehicles, but what if two come into contact?
Hey, have you ever heard of Newton’s Law? Centrifugal Force???
both were pumpers (not a tank, as suggested above), only one minor injury.
Wrong em, boyo….
Both trucks are Quints- Ladder trucks with pumps and water tanks.
This looks staged
not stagged. Oct 10th, St. Louis.
What part of St. Louis?
Taylor Avenue and Martin Luther King. They were going to a fire, both the trucks were pumper (water) trucks that doubled as ladders.
That is north of Delmar, right? I always forget where MLK is there. If it is north of Delmar, the trucks probably didn’t arrive until the house/building was damn near gone and just a smoldering husk of it’s former self.
I doubt that at leaset one arrived at all.
We don’t need no water let the motherf***er burn!
Burn motherf(iretr)ucker, burn!
I was going to say. I’m in Maryland Heights (STL County) but I haven’t heard anything about this… Oh Goooooooogle!? Here boy! Come here!!!
By Patrick M. O’Connell
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/11/2008
ST. LOUIS — Several times every day, St. Louis Fire Department dispatchers broadcast a radio reminder that, “All persons riding on Fire Department apparatus shall wear seat belts at all times.”
The reason was made dramatically clear about noon Friday when two firetrucks converging on the scene of a house blaze collided at Martin Luther King Drive and Taylor Avenue, tipping one of the big rigs onto its left side.
Seven of the eight firefighters aboard were expected to be released from the hospital Friday night after treatment for cuts, scrapes and bruises. The eighth was to be held overnight at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for observation after suffering a concussion.
A relieved Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said it looked worse when he arrived. “It was just bad, it didn’t look good. I was really worried for them all.”
But, he said, “If there is one saving grace in this whole incident, it’s the fact that the firefighters were still in their seats and belted in place, which, if you really look at it, probably saved their lives.”
The names of the firefighters were not released. The collision was between Engine Co. 10, based at Kennerly Avenue and Whittier Street, and a spare truck being used by Engine Co. 28, based at Enright and Bayard avenues. Each carried a usual crew of four. No other vehicles were involved.
“We don’t know the exact extent of who did what or which truck hit which truck first,” Jenkerson said at the scene. He declined to elaborate later but said it would be the subject of an accident reconstruction and interviews of all the firefighters.
Buildings at the intersection, which has electric signals, make it difficult to see around the corners. Police said one truck was headed north on Taylor and the other east on King.
Officials say it is always hard for the driver of an emergency vehicle at a blind corner to hear another’s siren and air horns over the sound of his own.
Jenkerson said the department policy is to drive cautiously. “We do not ‘run’ intersections,” he said. “If there’s a red light, we stop and look both ways and make sure you have a clear intersection to proceed through.”
He acknowledged that there is urgency to reach a confirmed fire. “They were trying to get there. You don’t know who’s in these buildings,” he said.
The chief thanked construction workers nearby who heard the impact and rushed to help. He said a department ambulance was already at the fire, about a block away, at Aldine and Newstead avenues.
“I can’t say enough, or give enough thanks or praise to our emergency medics. They did a tremendous job,” Jenkerson said.
The trucks, both heavily damaged, were “quints,” the fire service term for pumpers that double as ladder trucks. The last new ones bought, in 1999, cost about $410,000 each. The department keeps reserve trucks as emergency replacements.
The fire the trucks were headed to was extinguished by other crews. The house had extensive damage.
1952 ACCIDENT
The incident was reminiscent of one of the darkest days for the department — June 6, 1952 — when three firefighters died in the collision of a pumper and a hook-and-ladder rushing to an alarm in the same area.
Friday’s crash was on the same street, only about eight blocks away.
The 1952 accident occurred about 8:40 a.m. that day at Vandeventer and Easton avenues as the open-cab vehicles were responding to a fire in a vacant house at 4040 St. Ferdinand Avenue. Easton is now Martin Luther King. Six other firefighters were badly hurt. It was the pre-seat belt days, when department members commonly hung on the backs or sides of speeding trucks.
Jenkerson said firefighters in training were taken to Friday’s scene to remind them that the dangers of the job are present on the way to fires, not just at the scenes.
The chief said, “This kind of event sticks with you for a long time.”
Jenkerson said the department policy is to drive cautiously. “We do not ‘run’ intersections,” he said. “If there’s a red light, we stop and look both ways and make sure you have a clear intersection to proceed through.”
Yeah
In his defense, the article came out BEFORE the video was released. I totally saw them stop at that red light. Totally!
they did slow down a bit, just before the intersection, but yes, not enough
Just because it’s department policy doesn’t mean everyone always observes it. Obviously.
11rd my lucky # This is soooooo bad. By boyfriend is a firefighter, I just couldn’t laugh at this
You laugh because your boyfriend is a firefighter? Are you sure you have the right one?
Why do I find this comment amusing?
Which one? Their both pretty laughable.
Dr’s.
Read Abstract’s again. The word preceding “boyfriend”.
…I feel very dense now. Is there some kind of innuendo I’m not getting?
No, I just thought it amusing.
Ah. It is differences that hold the world together.
I thought it was duct tape and a reliable sewing kit.
*Snort* Winner!
*Sniff* Victor!
Don’t be sniffing me. I am Summer’s Eve fresh, I shop at Wal-mart.
And the hits just keep on comin’
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes (toot toot)
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes (toot toot)
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, she’ll be comin’ round the mountain
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes (toot toot)
*revokes BFF’s cut-and-paste lyrics privileges*
Aww… I was having fun!
*has a cry in the corner*
*mans spotlight*
Did you loose something?
Hey guys, I found some religion laying out in the alley…
Put it down, you don’t know where it’s been! Now go wash your hands.
That was just a dream, so I think she’ll be ok.
Phew, I was about to cry… try… why try…
dude, typo, nos so funny really
Lol the water floating out.
That would be “pouring” out, not “floating” out.
i think he meant… wait a second… THAT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!11!!1!
No no no, Lol AT the water floating out.
What the fuck? Does that matter?
WTF?
Nobody gives a rat’s ass.
Why would I, being perfect and all, ever be in possession of the posterior of a rodent?
ROFL
WTF?
Nobody gives a rat’s behind.
Your comment had so much more punch when you used ass. I don’t quite feel the behind.
You can feel MY behind!!!
*grope*
*snaps a picture*
The water ‘floated’? It isn’t every day you see water float.
I put ice in my gin and tonic.
Does water float ? How can one prove that ?
Tell ya what… we’ll do a little science experiment. You pour 4 ounces of white cranberry juice, 1 ounce of vodka and 1 ounce of Hypnotiq into a glass, and hand that to me… I’ll show you exactly how water floats, but you’d better pay attention because the glass will be upside down very quickly!
Two Questions:
1. How do you not see a firetruck?
2. Did the other driver get tagged for leaving the scene of an accident?
1. driving fast on a heavy vehicle, its difficult to stop, especially in an emergancy and they need to be there fast to save people
2. no, he was doing his job
Do you know how long it takes for a fire truck loaded with water to slow down?
Where’s Mr. Owl when you need him?
Four weeks, three days, fifteen minutes and three seconds. Assuming the truck was doing 856000 miles per hour and the brakes were bust.
2. Yeah, that was really weird. I was like: “OMFG! Is he allowed to do that, or is that a hit-and-run????”
> 1. How do you not see a firetruck?
When there’s a big frigging building in the way, genius.
Don’t worry! We’re safety professionals and we’re here to AAAAHHHHHHH….
You’re not here to teach us about gun safety are you?
That’s only when we visit schools. Then we go to retirement homes and demonstrate the dangers of mixing common household cleaning products.
Just like a predator, preying on the young, and the old and weak. Thinning the herd are we?
Never pass up an easy meal. Nutritious AND entertaining… ROWR!
Your name isn’t Virginia perchance is it?
This reminds me of the nasty accident near my house, which an ambulance attended. Some idiot went flying over the nearby bridge at a ridiculous speed and crashed straight into the ambulance…
And then some portly old guy dressed as a hotel bell hop goes running by with several, pissed-off women in bikinis following close behind him, waving their fists. The firemen join the chase… hilarity ensues and the end-credits roll.
that sounds like an episode of family guy…did you think of that on ur own? it is funny
Actually, I was thinking of the end-scene of any Benny Hill episode. And, yes, I think of most things on my own.
taxpayers money at its best
It’s in St. Louis, so yeah.
Yeah, they should have privatized these and handed them to a private company that knows how to spend money right, like the banking industry. Oh wait…
Kill yourself for ever even entertaining the words “privatized” and “private company” in the same thought as firefighting. Oh, and if you don’t, some friends from the AFL-CIO will be knocking on your door shortly. Please go quietly with the nice men!
sarcasm recognition fail? Hard to tell
No, the sarcasm was recognized.. I’m just a little touchy about mixing the words private and fire department. It causes flashbacks and such… damn PTSD!
100th
yes, you are the 100th to fail
Mensch Wolle, altet Haus.
Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles…
Now THAT song will stick in my head.
Will it? Excellent…
Hell,I still have She Bangs stuck in my head. Damn failblog earwig
You have bald ears?
Not since I joined Failblog Hair Club For Ears. I’m not just the founder, I am a member.
Did you opt for earwigs or earplugs?
Uber alles, California!
California uber alles!
Knock, knock…
I’ve come for your uncool niece.
*peers in door*
Oh, that’s a fine drawstring lamp you have there!
And now it’s 1984
100th
101th
last
last
past
Eleventy-twelfth
lol
last++
You can shove that newspeak down your memory hole, Big Brother!
Superlast
Absoulte LAST, infinity th
∞x∞
its still infinity so im still the last one LOL
ATTENTION!
YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF FAILBLOG COMMENTS! IF YOU PASS HERE, YOU WILL BE DASHED TO PIECES BY RUSTY SPATULAS.
*flies out of range*
Darn it! After her, my beauties!
*Unleashes hoardes of infinity symbols*
Dragons laugh at your teeny, limited concepts of infinity.
*bats them out of the way*
*flies over the rainbow*
Haha! Out of range of the batty infinity symbols!!
*Unleashes hoardes of infinity symbols*++
Hey! Those are mine!
Is your name on them?
Yes they are. Here, have the Hubble telescope and check.
Is that a black hole I see?
Oh no, I’m not touching that comment with a long stick.
…or a bamboo shoot?
*twitch*
I did say I was touchy about my race, didn’t I?
You are a bamboo?
No, but where does bamboo mainly grow? Think carefully. I’ll give you a clue: continent.
I live in South Carolina and such so I have to assume it is the Iraq continent and such because I dont have maps.
Like, such as.
No, silly, it’s a reference to a prior discussion about the panda in the San Diego Zoo (see XanXan and PDT).
I hadn’t read that comments section. Apologies for any *twitch* misunderstandings. I hope *twitch* everything is fine and *twitch* dandy?
You’ve been bamboozled. Perhaps you are nonplussed by those hordes of infinity symbols.
Maybe we should send his nonplussed infinities to Minos.
No reference to race intended, it was an allusion to an earlier failblog colloquy re: the panda in the San Diego Zoo.
I tried to explain this before and my comment was lost. This was a reference to an earlier discussion re: XanXan/PDT. It was not a racial reference.
Nice and soggy.
thats how much you fail
I love reading these comments! xD
education fail
Humor appreciation WIN!
(Not you, though…I’m talking to Heh.)
reply fail
Humor appreciation fail.
(Yes, this time I’m talking to you.)
Oh snap!
No, not really.
ya rly
Hmmm… you seem to be missing a few letters as well as a humor appreciation.
old meme misunderstanding win
No, I got it. I just still find you lacking.
I think, “You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting” applies pretty well in this case, don’t you think, Avis?
Oh, yes indeed Dragon. Yes indeed.
He’s just…. not quite up to snuff is he?
Very harsh, just look at all the numbers he has posted. 100 followed by 101. This is Oscar Wilde personified. How nearly I came to laughter.
grand material
Jfarmy, you are the Grand Poobah of Fail. Go back to clown school.
Toughest toys on earth. Whoops mummy I seem to have twisted it.
Not fail. Hit-and-run.
Hmmmm…. posts seem to be disappearing.
I DIDN’T DO IT!
…
*hangs head*
Okay, maybe I did. I broke the blog this morning, and I TRIED to patch it back together, but we’d used all the duct tape the night before when we…erm…nevermind that, but the blog just hasn’t been working right since.
*thinks the borked failblog has less to do with Dragons doing, and rather more to do with this ridiculous “?cp=all” thing*
The reliable sewing kit should help keep it together!
To show all comments in Soviet Russia, ?cccp=all is what you need to type!
Would be nice if the road was on fire.
and there’s a riot
New fail please……PLEASE.
oh no my Tonkas trucks!
I’ve always wondered if this has ever happened
New fail or I must perform the dreaded selfectomy. *tear*
presidential fail for mccain?
Epic fail!
Sorry guys, I gotta say this.
BARACK OBAMA IS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!! W00T!!!
EPIC WIN!!!!
Someone should send in a picture of McCain as a fail.
This isn’t as rare as you believe. Ambulances ‘change’ their siren often, so as they approach intersections they can tell if another emergency vehicle is near. Fire trucks are supposed to do the same for just this reason. But apparently they don’t always pay attention…
What are the odds….
seriously
you think any of these guys got “fired”?
yaya !!! more yaya !!!
This is definitely one of my favorite fails. I love it. There are firetrucks! Normally I like the fire department but in this case I have to say it is funny to watch the fail. I don’t think I am being insensitive while doing it! I hope no one got hurt!!
Just read the article on the whole collision…wonder if so many people would be laughing if everyone didn’t survive. Well, it’s the internet, I guess your allowed to be sadistic in public, lol
Funny thing, while I was volunteering at my firehouse months ago we actually got t-boned by a metro bus running a red light. Not a normal metro bus, but a double one…. Luckily no one was hurt (bad), but still was scary seeing a bus coming at you doing about 40 mph.
We had that happen in Connecticut, except it killed a guy. I hope the same didn’t happen in this.
IT KEEEPS GOING!?!?!?!??!?!
Oh noes! I see smoke coming from the truck! Quick, someone call the fire department!
Oh noes! I see smoke! Quick, someone call the fire department!
Haha I was just waiting for it to catch on fire….
My, what a huge instrument you have.
I wonder if some jackhole firefighter yelled “First!” trying to get through the intersection.
the best part is how the other one kept going.
how can people fail this bad???
when the lights are on and the siren is sounding, they have a right to step on the gas and not care about trafic-lights… so… now we see what this can lead to
i’m impressed this doesn’t happen more often…
ESCAPE!
I knew that was bound to happen eventually
lol
Hit and Run!