Posted on 08/13/2008 7:13:32 AM PDT by yankeedame
“Phone call for Mr.Deeb.......It’s your homeowners insurance agent, something about covered when hell freezes over”
And once they find out the owner is a chemist, they should shut up and drag their asses away. The "nanny state" is growing far past the point of ridiculousness.
Pecisely why many subscribe to the “let it burn” way of thinking. If you live in many places, a fire or ambulance call is accompanied by a police officer/s and a complete look-see thru the dwelling. If they find guns, or items of “concern”, they seize them and will also take your kids if you get all constitutional on them.
And the knowledge of the average community firefighter is?........I bet they wouldn’t know a rotovapor flask from a stirring bar.
Time to exercise your civic duty and vote out the people in our local government.
This is also about fire code safety as firmen must know about the chemicals in case they gotta put out a fire.
That’s the nature of journalism; here today, gone tomorrow.
In another fifty years the doctor treating your grandchildren will have graduated Magna Cum Laude from Walmart University. The doctor's total chemistry background will consist of his new employee orientation at Walmart, covering floor waxes and the difference between Asprin and suppositories
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Bleepin Massachusetts.
You bet I’m not laughing. The Founder’s of this great country are spinning in their graves over crap like this. :-(
I'd have to move. I can't go a week without welding, brazing, cutting, turning, or drilling something.
Actually, a fishing expedition is exactly what it was. During a call for an unrelated air conditioner fire, the firefighters saw chem-lab glassware and reported it as suspicious.
so they had a complaint, where is the warrant? You cannot just bust into someone’s house and take everything.
I am conflicted on this one, I think the firefighters called code enforcement and kept the scene open till everyone got there. It is kind of like the police finding something in plain sight. In Virginia, if there is one firefighter still on the scene, the arson team does not need a warrant. I have seen many times where a junior firefighter is left in the command of the scene overnight till the state arson guy could get there in the morning. This could go either way, but I don’t think there is going to be any charges.
Here’s hoping that Mr. Deeb files a federal civil rights suit against his local officials and is reimbursed for the physical damage done to his personal property and the emotional damage done by the stormtroopers and their tactics. Unless such government atrocities can be redressed in the court system, we might as well concede that we are not living in the USA anymore.
Before any conclusion can be made about what happened we would have to know what kind of experiments were going on.
Almost a great reply... but change “ILLEGAL” to “CRIMINAL” and you’ve got it. Lots of things are “illegal” without being criminal in nature. Like keeping your income secret from the tax collector. It’s hardly wrong to do that, but the a-hole tax collectors take a dim view of it. It’s both wrong and CRIMINAL to kidnap and rape women, for example. THAT is a CRIME plus being illegal.
You are way too willing to grant government way too much authority. Sorry, but you ain’t no friend of liberty.
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