The head of the Boston firefighters union is under fire after he hooked up a department-owned hose to a hydrant outside his Hyde Park home to fill his neighbor’s pool, the Herald has learned. “I was just trying to help out a neighbor that was putting a pool up,” Richard Paris, president of the Boston Firefighters Union Local 718, told the Herald yesterday. “Now that I look at it, it was wrong. I messed up and I apologize.” Boston Fire Commissioner Roderick Fraser said he was made aware of the allegations in an anonymous letter he received, which he forwarded to the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and Mayor Thomas M. Menino on June 25. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...d_in_hot_water_for_filling_pool_from_hydrant/
Seriously, if you work in any public capacity, your best bet when not working is to fly under the radar as best you can. Wearing the firefighter shirts and sweatshirts 24/7 off-duty into restaurants and getting a hero's discount may go unnoticed by some. Opening the hydrant, rolling out a fire hose, and filling the neighbors pool is going to attract some unwanted attention in most neighborhoods. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Where did they get the $120.00 bill from. How much a gallon are they charging? It's nice to know one of your neighbors is an dick head. When I was a kid the Fire Fighters would open the hydrants and let us run through the water. They should've been fired on the spot! Pay the $120.00 and move on!
Opening the hydrant to cool off the local kids is one thing, helping a guy avoid paying the $xxxx bill the local pool company would charge him to fill his pool is another story all together. Someone has to pay for the water coming out of that hydrant, the firefighter decided it should be the taxpayer. Not right in my book.
$120 is a fuckin bargain, especially if he has a normal sized pool of 23,000 gallons. For me to fill my pool from the bottom would equate to 3100 cubic feet (748 gallons is 100 cubic feet). In my ripoff of a city, they charge you for the water, AND for the sewer no matter where the water goes. So the rates would be 11.20 for both per hundred cubic feet. That would make my bill $347.20. I'll take the $120 anyday!
Which is why I don't have an MPA or any other police association sticker on my car, nor do I ever wear any sort of police-related attire unless it's to mow the lawn or just lounge around the house. There's no sense in inviting vandalism and/or headaches into your private life.
True. We have no MSP insignia on any other vehicles... hubby's cruiser has been vandalized enough times, we know better than that. Sent from my wicked smaht DROID RAZR
