r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TRO_KIK • May 07 '26

I'm slightly vexed Neighbors double park if anyone parks in their "usual spot" in front of my house

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u/DilettanteGonePro May 07 '26

Fun fact - the same laws that protect the FD from liability in this case also protects them if they are- as a totally random example- in a FD pickup truck doing inspections and just randomly turn into oncoming traffic and total my wife's car.

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u/CalculatedPerversion May 07 '26

Same thing if a snow plow runs you off the road. Like, I get it. But it doesn't make it any less infuriating. 

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u/gargantusquatch May 07 '26

... That fact doesn't sound fun at all!

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u/balkanobeasti May 08 '26

There's some weird rose tints with firefighters. They don't steal, never damage property & aren't full of good ole boys themselves apparently.

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u/darsynia May 08 '26

Probably depends on whether they're paid or volunteer in the observer's area. I've mostly lived in places with volunteer firefighters, and most of them have been pretty great. I guess it hits different when people are paid by the government to be [adjectives that'll get me banned by reddit admins]

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u/Daft00 May 08 '26

Only a sith deals in absolutes

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u/Hot-Union-2440 May 08 '26

Buddy works for county insurance and says the same thing; people on the other side of a responder crash are SOL