Firefighters mistakenly tear apart car during drill

boston.com ^ | 11.10.02 | AP

[RedBloodedAmerican]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) Firefighters practicing how to use the Jaws of Life brought an early death to an innocent Honda Accord.

Antonio Rocha, 32, parked his 1986 black coupe behind the fire department's headquarters Friday morning, next to two cars that had been supplied for the Jaws of Life exercise. The life-saving equipment is used to extract passengers from mangled vehicles.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Woops.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Of course, Ted Kennedy denies having any part in THIS destroyed car. He swears up and down, no part in this. We can't blame everything that happens in Tax-a-chuttses on the Kennedys.

[NautiNurse]

What 32yo man wouldn't love a convertible?

...in Massachusetts, in the winter...

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Were these the same Boston union guys who helped voters 'decide' how to vote?

[RS]

Wasn't this an episode of the Simpsons ?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I wonder....

This happened in Boston, the same place where union guys went into the voting booths with voters to help them vote. Putting on some tinfoil just for the fun-of-it, could Antonio Rocha have been one of those voters that refused to vote the right...er...'left' way?

[Flyer]

"Hold muh hose!"

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Related news?

Cold brew under fire: More stations ban beer, long a part of firefighters' lifestyle

Years ago, then-teenager Ron Naab and a few fellow firefighters regularly played cards and drank beer until the wee hours at the Allenton fire station in Washington County.

"Used to be you never cared if you had a beer or not when you went on a call," said Naab, a firefighter dating to the days when the drinking age was 18 and now the president of the Badger Firemen Association, representing volunteer and paid-on-call firefighters in Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Sheboygan and Fond du Lac counties.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I was going to use that, but chickened out!

[Flyer]

Hmmm. . . does that mean I'm feeling cocky?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I think so!

[eno_]

You mean you missed the opportunity to call this a "Hold muh hose" alert?

[eno_]

Has anyone IDed that boston cop that was shoving the camerman away from the voting booths screaming "Don't show my face!!!"

[GovernmentShrinker]

Something tells me this fellow ignored a "No Parking" sign, assuming that the worst that could happen was that he'd get a ticket. Assumption is the mother of all . . .