The Funny Picture/Video Thread, 15th Edition: Be more like Coleman.

[fullmetaljesus]

Idiot antigunners that think gunners can't be smart, or read.

I'm willing to bet, I have more books in my house than they have.
Not all of them. But most.

Also probably read more books than they have.

Books are for people who can't think for themselves.

 

[Alamo]

Why you don't let the rookie load the hose.
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Background
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services provides A LOT of fire, rescue, and other types of emergency management training at Brayton Fire Training Field, which is a couple hundred acres of simulated mayhem. Broken burning buildings, aircraft, helicopters, vehicles, oil field equipment, all kinds of fun stuff.

Every summer they hold a weeklong “Municipal School” to which all the fire departments in the state are invited to send students. Mostly volunteer fire departments, since the vast majority of Texas firefighters are volunteers. Been there several times myself, great courses.

During that week, since there are so many students, they ask some of the bigger departments to send their tanker trucks and aerial trucks (“cherry pickers”) to supplement the trucks that the school already has on hand.

Now The Point
One year I was talking to a guy from one of the departments that brought their aerial truck. He said the previous year when they went home they got on the interstate and started making tracks. Suddenly they heard BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG.

When they got stopped alongside the road, they found a quarter-mile or so of the large diameter hose unloaded in the highway. As it went shooting out the back every brass coupling hit the bottom of the basket on the aerial and just smashed it to pieces. Over $15,000 worth of damage to the aerial plus whatever damaged there was to the hose and couplings.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Background
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Services provides A LOT of fire, rescue, and other types of emergency management training at Brayton Fire Training Field, which is a couple hundred acres of simulated mayhem. Broken burning buildings, aircraft, helicopters, vehicles, oil field equipment, all kinds of fun stuff.

Every summer they hold a weeklong “Municipal School” to which all the fire departments in the state are invited to send students. Mostly volunteer fire departments, since the vast majority of Texas firefighters are volunteers. Been there several times myself, great courses.

During that week, since there are so many students, they ask some of the bigger departments to send their tanker trucks and aerial trucks (“cherry pickers”) to supplement the trucks that the school already has on hand.

Now The Point
One year I was talking to a guy from one of the departments that brought their aerial truck. He said the previous year when they went home they got on the interstate and started making tracks. Suddenly they heard BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG.

When they got stopped alongside the road, they found a quarter-mile or so of the large diameter hose unloaded in the highway. As it went shooting out the back every brass coupling hit the bottom of the basket on the aerial and just smashed it to pieces. Over $15,000 worth of damage to the aerial plus whatever damaged there was to the hose and couplings.

Oh, lord. Forget the safety issues. The financial hit wouldn't be something I'd not want to report back home.

 

[indiucky]

 

[HoughMade]

 

[HoughMade]

 

[BeDome]

Doesn't always go this way, but I have had these days after already having too much day.

 

[HoughMade]

Doesn't always go this way, but I have had these days after already having too much day.



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It's too real to be funny. Buddy, wait until the kids are young adults.

 

[spencer rifle]

It's too real to be funny. Buddy, wait until the kids are young adults.

I'm glad that time is over for us.

 

[HoughMade]

 

[BeDome]

It's too real to be funny. Buddy, wait until the kids are young adults.

... and still living at home way past drinking age.

I get it.

 

[BeDome]

 

[BeDome]

 

[HoughMade]

... and still living at home way past drinking age.

I get it.

1 completely on his own, 2 in school and 1 working and trying to find his way..... At that age, I recall being driven like I was running in the direction the squad leader yelled after the artillery exploded- it may be the wrong direction, but I was running there.

 

[BeDome]

 

[BeDome]

1 completely on his own, 2 in school and 1 working and trying to find his way.....

Godspeed, my friend.

 

[BeDome]

 

[BeDome]

 

[BeDome]

 

[BeDome]

I'm gonna need a beer.

... but how do they do this?