Wednesday, December 22, 2010

6 Georgia Firefighters Reprimanded, 1 Fired For Jackassery. Good.

NP's reaction when I told him about this story was "I would sue. I'm not normally one to go straight for the lawsuit but . . . " and then some profanity ensued.

  • There was a car crash in Georgia. No big deal, it happens all the time, right?
  • It was a big deal for one lady, who suffered massive injuries in the wreck. She later died from her injuries.
  • One of the responding firefighters took a video of the suffering woman as she lay broken and dying.
  • That right there is where Officer Dave would step in and make the fireman delete the video.
  • Things being as they are, the video was saved and circulated within, then without the fire department; then it got out into the wild.
  • Eventually the video made its way onto the computer screen of the parents of the deceased.

    Read that last sentence again.

    A half-dozen firefighters who probably all should have done what Officer Dave would have done are being officially reprimanded. This one is going on their permanent record. This is a bare minimum of the acceptable response from Spalding County. That they intend to fire the [deleted] who filmed the video is proper, but it takes a little while sometimes to fire firemen, and he has already retained a lawyer to fight to keep his job. This fireman should be left out in the cold by his union (if any) and I hope he pays lawyer fees through the nose and loses his job anyway.

    The jerk.
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