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  • Sportsbuck
    The Predator
    • Jul 2006
    • 4326

    #1396
    Re: News that make you say WTF?

    Especially when you consider how much more likely we are to be killed by a heart attack than by criminals, you would think agencies would place a much higher priority on the physical fitness of their employees.

    When I interned with the US Marshals in college, they were all given one hour a day to workout on the clock. Should be a common practice in this line of work.
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    • Knight165
      *ll St*r
      • Feb 2003
      • 24964

      #1397
      Re: News that make you say WTF?

      Originally posted by Sportsbuck
      Especially when you consider how much more likely we are to be killed by a heart attack than by criminals, you would think agencies would place a much higher priority on the physical fitness of their employees.

      When I interned with the US Marshals in college, they were all given one hour a day to workout on the clock. Should be a common practice in this line of work.
      Yep....the biggest cause of death in the fire service is heart attack by far.
      The stress during a job is something that can't be explained and understood.....especially if things start to go "world of ****".
      Add "world of ****" in with not being able to physically handle it and you are putting you.....the other members working with you and civilians in a really bad situation.

      But hey...quotas seem to be much more important than any of that now.

      M.K.
      Knight165
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      • redsox4evur
        Hall Of Fame
        • Jul 2013
        • 18169

        #1398
        Re: News that make you say WTF?

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        • Gotmadskillzson
          Live your life
          • Apr 2008
          • 23432

          #1399
          Re: News that make you say WTF?

          Might have just found the story of the year.



          BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- The Mass. Registry of Motor Vehicles is allowing a Pastafarian woman to wear a colander in her driver’s license picture.

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          • Smooth Pancakes
            MVP
            • Jul 2010
            • 1641

            #1400
            Re: News that make you say WTF?

            Blessed be pasta!

            Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. RAmen.

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            • Knight165
              *ll St*r
              • Feb 2003
              • 24964

              #1401
              Re: News that make you say WTF?

              Pancakes.....LMAO.
              Very witty.


              M.K.
              Knight165
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              • 23
                yellow
                • Sep 2002
                • 66469

                #1402
                Re: News that make you say WTF?

                Some video from the Paris attacks

                Crazy

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                • Gotmadskillzson
                  Live your life
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 23432

                  #1403
                  Re: News that make you say WTF?

                  WOW.....

                  The story has outraged many.

                  Thomas Smith worked for a Walmart Supercenter in East Greenbush, NY. The 52 year-old Albany man gathered shopping carts from the parking lot for $9 an hour. That was until he was fired for simply redeeming $5.10 worth of empty cans and bottles that had been thrown across the lot.

                  According to the Times Union in Albany, Smith picked up the garbage for more than two months until Nov. 6, when he was fired for redeeming $5.10 worth of empty cans and bottles he found discarded on two occasions.

                  Smith was called into the security office and interrogated by a manager and two security staff members. Smith said he didn’t know that you were not allowed to take the bottles and trash. He claims that he was then asked to turn his store badge by the manager without being allowed to defend himself.

                  The store manager said that surveillance cameras caught Smith redeeming the empty bottles and cans at the store, which constitutes theft of Walmart property.

                  The Times Union reports the manager asked Smith to repay the $5.10, but that Smith didn’t have any cash on him. He took a one-hour bus ride from Albany and paid the money back to the manager on Sunday.

                  Smith’s journey has been tumultuous. The Albany man is on parole after being released from prison in May. He served a 15-year sentence for a 2002 armed robbery of a KeyBank in Latham, NY.

                  Smith said he robbed the bank to pay for a heroin and cocaine habit.

                  Smith had been homeless for four months before he sought help from the Homeless and Travelers Aid Society, which pays his rent at a rooming house.

                  Aaron Mullins, a spokesman at Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark, said “We can’t comment on human resource matters.” Mullins said Smith was fired after an internal investigation and human resource review, but declined to elaborate.

                  Smith is considering a lawsuit.

                  “This is an injustice,” he said. “I was done dirty.”

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                  • Smooth Pancakes
                    MVP
                    • Jul 2010
                    • 1641

                    #1404
                    Re: News that make you say WTF?

                    Yet another reason to hope every Walmart in the world suddenly burned to the ground.

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                    • LambertandHam
                      All Star
                      • Jul 2010
                      • 8008

                      #1405
                      Re: News that make you say WTF?

                      Originally posted by Gotmadskillzson
                      Mr Smith will be a rich man soon.
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                      • jb12780
                        Hall of Fame
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 10665

                        #1406
                        Re: News that make you say WTF?

                        Originally posted by Knight165
                        Yep....the biggest cause of death in the fire service is heart attack by far.
                        The stress during a job is something that can't be explained and understood.....especially if things start to go "world of ****".
                        Add "world of ****" in with not being able to physically handle it and you are putting you.....the other members working with you and civilians in a really bad situation.

                        But hey...quotas seem to be much more important than any of that now.

                        M.K.
                        Knight165


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                        • Blzer
                          Resident film pundit
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 42515

                          #1407
                          Re: News that make you say WTF?

                          Originally posted by jb12780
                          http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/struggl...-into-new-job/

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                          LOL I mean to be fair the most fit person in the world could have injured themselves doing the exact same thing she did, but I burst out laughing reading the title after clicking the link.

                          (then again, someone who is trained to walk up and down steps would not have missed a step in the first place... this is one of the first tests of acuity for all firefighters, of course!)
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                          • NDAlum
                            ND
                            • Jun 2010
                            • 11453

                            #1408
                            Re: News that make you say WTF?

                            She is working the system, no doubt about it. She will never return. It wouldn't shock me if it was an intentional injury or fabricated somehow by a doctor of her choosing.


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                            • Fresh Tendrils
                              Strike Hard and Fade Away
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 36131

                              #1409
                              Re: News that make you say WTF?

                              I thought she was already injured during the training?



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                              • NDAlum
                                ND
                                • Jun 2010
                                • 11453

                                #1410
                                Re: News that make you say WTF?

                                She was. Now she is after that injury. Who wants to bet she is never on another fire truck and retires on medical leave?

                                This is why people hate the public sector.


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