Posted on 06/04/2024 6:58:35 AM PDT by dynachrome
A series of fire hydrant thefts in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of South Los Angeles has left residents without a working hydrant near their homes.
The thefts of four hydrants near the intersection of 82nd Street and Hooper Avenue mean the block doesn’t have even one operating hydrant, KTLA’s Jennifer McGraw reports.
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They must not like dogs.
You actually believe that? The red army rolled into Berlin in tanks and trucks with electric headlamps from a country with millions of electric lights in millions of homes and apartments and no one realized a light needed to be plugged in? This is a variation on the toilet stealing propaganda. Even if it were true, that would pale by comparison to WW2 American soldiers sending Japanese skulls home as cute souvenirs, something that actually did happen.
My son sitting in the cart at home depot, at the age of 5, took a light switch and glanced at the ceiling flood lights while flipping the switch.
Cutest thing!
> You actually believe that? <
Well, yes. Cornelius Ryan mentioned it. And Ryan wrote definitive book on the 1945 Battle of Berlin, “The Last Battle”.
By the way, this is not meant to be a slight against Soviet soldiers. After all, they won the war! It is simply a comment on how different groups look at technology.
Heck, I’m an old guy and I still can’t get my computer to work properly. Fortunately for me, my nephew is coming over next week.
By the way, this is not meant to be a slight against Soviet soldiers
A good number of Soviet soldiers came from Central Asia, which wasn’t nearly as modern as the “European” portion of The Soviet Union.
“You can’t steal an operational fire hydrant stealthily. There would be a geyser of water 20, 30, 40 feet in the air, right?”
I think the valve itself is down at the water main and the thing you turn on top of the hydrant has a shaft down to the valve below.
That explains it...thanks.
Tik Tok challenge?
when the Red Army swept into Germany during WW2, the peasant soldiers, unfamiliar with flush toilets, washed their potatoes in them.
The water valve is underground on the lateral line.
The hydrant head is not under water pressure with valve closed.
When you turn the stem on the top of a hydrant, it opens the valve by pushing it away from the seat (down) and against the water pressure. The theory is that if someone hits it, the hydrant can shear off and water pressure holds the valve shut. That works most of the time.
Most of the hydrants that you see are called “dry barrel” mainly to prevent freezing.
Many of the illegals flooding into this country don’t know how flush toilets work either.
In the part of California where this took place, I suspect the hydrants were wet. Doesn't get all that cold in South L.A.
A family friend rented a duplex to some of the people that came from Saudi Arabia to JSC Houston to train when the Saudi guy bought a ride on the Space Shuttle. One of the geniuses realized that an unlimited amount of water would come out of this contraption on top of the counter and I live in a desert, so I’m taking that home.
Flooded both units severely but the damages were reimbursed. LOL
Gee, ya think the thieves/terrorists will come back and start burning down homes in those areas? Or could it be a fire hydrants for sale and cheap scheme? Will manhole covers be next?
Time to make fire hydrants from PVC and solvent weld them on.
Current cast iron scrap price $0.10, Average weight of fire hydrant 370 lbs $37.00 scrap value. Lot’s of meth or fentanyl can be had for $37.00.
My dog used to target fire hydrants.
Average weight of fire hydrant 370 lbs $37.00 scrap value.
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Replacement fire hydrants should be a bargain down at the scrap yard.
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