IF you're gonna be stupid, you'd better be tough!!

[Cowboy Medic]

Reading the paper this morning. A guy is in jail for burning down his girlfriends house. They are interviewing the neighbor who had recieved burns trying to put out the fire. Apparently the incarcerated gentleman had sprayed the interior of the mobile home with some type of flammable liquid. The neighbor is quoted as saying... " I saw him light this screen thing on fire. I tried to put it out by pouring my beer on it, but it didn't work, and I got burned. "





Man what a true american hero. Maybe he can get a partnership between budweiser and the local fire department going. On second thought there might be one or two who would want to drink from the hose.

 

[TPCDrafting]

What a waste of beer. Trying to put out a trailer house fire. He should be arrested for alcohol abuse!

 

[HoleshotHolset]

The drunken beer swilling neighbor should have lied... .



I can only imagine that his buddies will get plenty of 'miles' out of an event like this. "My hero!... Save me!..... Put down your beer first... bonehead!!"



Matt

 

[WDaniels]

Hearing that the fire department sometimes uses foam to extinguish fires, he figured that he would give it a try.

WD

 

[Scot]

My question: Why would you need to use an accelerant on a trailer house? They burn to the frame in about 5 minutes as it is.

 

[Cowboy Medic]

It was probably a newer one and the guy was afraid it might take as long as ten. Those drunk guys are real swift thinkiers ya know.



Oh well, at least I have Job security! As long as there is stupid people there will be a need for Paramedics to save em.

 

[me4osu]

An appropriate joke for this thread (I think)

One dark night outside a small town, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink it exploded into flames.



The alarm went out to the fire departments from miles around.



When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact.



But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.



Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.



From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby rural township volunteer fire company composed entirely of men over the age of 65.



To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine passed all the newer sleek engines parked outside the plant..... and drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside the other firemen watched as the old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before. Within a short time, the old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.



The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave, though elderly, fire fighters. The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money "?



"Well," said the 70-year-old fire chief, "the first thing we are going to do is fix the brakes on that %*^$*&^ (Ford) truck!"

 

[HoleshotHolset]

:-laf