Note seen on windscreen of fancy car, parked in front of a local fire station here in Copenhagen:
Our fire truck weighs 12.8 ton, has 675 horse powers and it only needs 9 secs to leave the fire station, regardless of your car being parked illegally in front of our gate!!
Don't you just love it when official statements are written in a language you can understand, without legal mumble jumble :o)
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:34:42 +0100, "TOCA" <n...@valid.com> brought the
following to our attention:
>Note seen on windscreen of fancy car, parked in front of a local fire >station here in Copenhagen:
>Our fire truck weighs 12.8 ton, has 675 horse powers and it only needs 9 >secs to leave the fire station, regardless of your car being parked >illegally in front of our gate!!
>Don't you just love it when official statements are written in a language >you can understand, without legal mumble jumble :o)
>Tommy C, Denmark
That would mar the finish of the chrome fire truck bumper. Around here
there are towing companies that are in cahoots with local business and
gvmnt circles, and they'll come and pluck your vehicle in the middle of
the night... or day in this case. And they collect a hefty fee.
> That would mar the finish of the chrome fire truck bumper. Around here
> there are towing companies that are in cahoots with local business and
> gvmnt circles, and they'll come and pluck your vehicle in the middle of
> the night... or day in this case. And they collect a hefty fee.
> -G
..... That unscrupulous practice happens here in you U.K. too Tommy ! :
(((((
TOCA wrote:
> Note seen on windscreen of fancy car, parked in front of a local fire
> station here in Copenhagen:
> Our fire truck weighs 12.8 ton, has 675 horse powers and it only
> needs 9 secs to leave the fire station, regardless of your car being
> parked illegally in front of our gate!!
> Don't you just love it when official statements are written in a
> language you can understand, without legal mumble jumble :o)
> Tommy C, Denmark
Yes.
I loved it too.
-- MikeW
Shrewsbury, UK
If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it. Ride the bastard down.
> Note seen on windscreen of fancy car, parked in front of a local fire
> station here in Copenhagen:
> Our fire truck weighs 12.8 ton, has 675 horse powers and it only needs 9
> secs to leave the fire station, regardless of your car being parked
> illegally in front of our gate!!
> Don't you just love it when official statements are written in a
> language you can understand, without legal mumble jumble :o)
>> That would mar the finish of the chrome fire truck bumper. Around here
>> there are towing companies that are in cahoots with local business and
>> gvmnt circles, and they'll come and pluck your vehicle in the middle of
>> the night... or day in this case. And they collect a hefty fee.
>> -G
> ..... That unscrupulous practice happens here in you U.K. too Tommy ! :
> (((((
Here in DK it's a job for the police, they'll call in a tow truck if the car is causing danger or major inconvenience to the traffic, and then send a greeting card to the owner with the bill for the towing and storage plus the fine for illegal parking, if the car is not causing immediate problems they will look up the owner in the registers and call him/her, giving him/her a reasonable amount of time (less than 5 min.) to come and remove the car, leaving them with only the fine. Danish police officers are sooo polite :o)
A picture of the car with the note went sort of viral on the Farce book, and one of our major newspapers picked up on the story, the car owner did not want his name published but told that he got off with the phone call and a minor fine, most commentors however would have loved to see the car after being rammed by a fire truck, the Danish public is not as polite as our police officers :o)
Most fire trucks are build to ram minor obstacles, like fences and light concrete walls, to gain access to the fire, and there are regulations for building those obstacles so they will give way for the fire brigade :o)
