Protection Racket: Fire Dept watches home burn to ground
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News from my mafia state, where I was threatened with arrest by the Fire Dept for daring to give them photos of an arsonist setting a multi-million towering inferno:
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OBION COUNTY, Tenn. - Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won't respond, then watches it burn. That's exactly what happened to a local family tonight.
A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.
The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for firefighters to put out the flames, but was told it was too late. They wouldn't do anything to stop his house from burning.
Each year, Obion County residents must pay $75 if they want fire protection from the city of South Fulton. But the Cranicks did not pay.
The mayor said if homeowners don't pay, they're out of luck.
This fire went on for hours because garden hoses just wouldn't put it out. It wasn't until that fire spread to a neighbor's property, that anyone would respond.
Turns out, the neighbor had paid the fee.
"I thought they'd come out and put it out, even if you hadn't paid your $75, but I was wrong," said Gene Cranick.
Because of that, not much is left of Cranick's house.
They called 911 several times, and initially the South Fulton Fire Department would not come.
The Cranicks told 9-1-1 they would pay firefighters, whatever the cost, to stop the fire before it spread to their house.
"When I called I told them that. My grandson had already called there and he thought that when I got here I could get something done, I couldn't," Paulette Cranick.
It was only when a neighbor's field caught fire, a neighbor who had paid the county fire service fee, that the department responded. Gene Cranick asked the fire chief to make an exception and save his home, the chief wouldn't.
We asked him why.
He wouldn't talk to us and called police to have us escorted off the property. Police never came but firefighters quickly left the scene. Meanwhile, the Cranick home continued to burn.
We asked the mayor of South Fulton if the chief could have made an exception.
"Anybody that's not in the city of South Fulton, it's a service we offer, either they accept it or they don't," Mayor David Crocker said.
Friends and neighbors said it's a cruel and dangerous city policy but the Cranicks don't blame the firefighters themselves. They blame the people in charge.
"They're doing their job," Paulette Cranick said of the firefighters. "They're doing what they are told to do. It's not their fault."
To give you an idea of just how intense the feelings got in this situation, soon after the fire department returned to the station, the Obion County Sheriff's Department said someone went there and assaulted one of the firefighters.
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Fire Depts were founded by the Mafia in Italy. They'd burn your house down if you didnt pay the extortion tax.
The leading cause of arson in USA is Fire Dept employees, to get paid overtime, or just because they like to kill people for fun.
The biggest arson by dollar value is the World Trade Center on 9/11, in a confessed explosive demolition, preapproved by the insurance company to make jew Larry Silverstein a billionaire by murdering 350 firemen and 3,000 other sheeple.
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Then this family was clearly better off putting the fire out on their own!
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The govt-contractor-owned building next door to me burned down in a towering inferno, 3 blocks from the fire station. This same billion-dollar contractor then had another "accident" 6 months later, burned down its HQ 1/8 mile from the fire station, getting a 2nd brand new building from its insurance co.
After seeing our big city FD inaction, my dream is to live in a concrete bunker.
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I'm sure that could be arranged. Go sit in your bunker, and I'll see if I can find someone to fill it with concrete. 
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1- hah!
2-guess people know how to get the fire department to go anywhere now, just say my paid up neighbors stuff is on fire...
3- I probably would have said my kid was in there, if just to watch them run around like the asshats they are and threaten to sue if they don't...
4-Not that I agree with the system, 'cause everyone goes through hard times- but they knew the rules.
5-Would home insurance pay up after that? The words "intentional negligence" come to mind...Doubt they had that paid up either.
6-Not all firefighters are arsonists, but I have read of quite a few, and I know people who know people who have worked the system that way. I only wish the arsonists would go around targeting derelict crack houses more often...
7-It's called masonry block, good stuff, no drafts, try it...
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Huff Post: Firefighters watch house, dogs, catch burn alive, Keith Odormann blames Tea Party
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Oh. My. Gawd.
This is how liberal NY differs from conservative bumfuck Texas:
(Bear with me--it relates to the thread, but I have to tell the tale right.)
I've have a big ole juicy steak marinating in the fridge since the weekend, and tonight was the night to grill. I went outside, closed the door behind me cause it's a bit cold, started the grill, came back in. Went outside, put on the steak, came back in. Went outside, turned over the steak, back in. Went outside, took the big juicy, crispy edged steak off the grill, came back--
Oh wait. The door's locked. How the fuck did the door lock? I will never know. But there I am, outside with a big steak, no keys, no phone, and my apt is over the garage where my car is securely shut away, and there's no windows on the first floor. The tenants in the main house? Not home, or don't know how to reach the landlord. I'm fcuked.
So I go two doors down to a local pizza kitchen, ask to borrow a phone and phonebook to call a locksmith, and I'm not happy to think of the hour or two I'll have to wait, outside, for the locksmith to show.
It just happens that a very nice, clean-cut young man (who looked Middle Eastern, BTW) is hanging out in the pizza joint wearing a "City of (my city)* fire dept jacket. Yep, he's official, paid by my taxes.
So he walks back to my place, checks it out, calls it in, and I swear it's not 3 minutes before not one, but two fucking huge ladder firetrucks, lights on, as well as a fire dept van, lights on, pull up in the street. Four firemen come back, survey the scene, bring a ladder, and before my lovely steak is cold I'm inside again.
It's nice living in a bastion of civiliz-fucking-ation.
Though I can't stop laughing at the three fire dept vehicles all lined up because my stupid door locked itself. I feel so important LOL!
And the steak is tasty. 
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This is how liberal NY differs from conservative bumfuck Texas:
Wait just a sec, please. Bumfuck *TEXAS*? This fire was in Bumfuck TENNESSEE - ya know, PN's (red)neck of the (back)woods.
Sorry, but I happen to be in conservative Texas. Fortunately, I'm in the lone liberal outpost in Texas (Austin).
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