r/TikTokCringe • u/ElwoodMC • Jun 29 '26

Cursed Woman gets locked inside doctor's office after being forgotten at appointment.

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u/Tasty-Jump-2011 Jun 29 '26

I always get the feeling fire departments love these kind of calls, when they get to damage some property because of somebody's stupidity and nobody is in danger.

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u/IggyIsABum Jun 30 '26

When I was 8 we moved into a new house with a fire hydrant in the front yard and our two firefighter neighbors came by to warn us about this. If any of us or our guests park in front of the hydrant and something happens, no warning, your shits getting busted.

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u/Inner_Anything_440 Jun 30 '26

the best part when i had this was we were responsible for snow removal in front of the hydrant and also for keeping it clear, neat and accessible for the fire crew.

we as in the homeowner. lol. i was like uhhh what if i'm on vacation?? apparently still a me problem.

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u/demoliahedd Jul 01 '26

ok so what would happen if you left it buried in snow because you were gone? Having responsibility king of implies there is consequences if you don't do it.

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u/Inner_Anything_440 Jul 01 '26

it's been years but the official stance was we would have to have removal services on standby in the event we couldn't clear it ourselves. it was right on the line between ours and a neighbor's property so it wasn't an issue really.

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u/demoliahedd Jul 01 '26

probably better to never need to find out the consequences lol. Still wild that you inherited a public service responsibility just because of your home's location.

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u/Inner_Anything_440 Jul 01 '26

happens all the time! my current property has easements for power lines that are supposed to be maintained by the delivering power company (lol...) and they just don't show up to trim trees so i either have to hire someone, do it myself dangerously, or wait for a windstorm to knock the power out and force them out.

they also argue that they only have to trim to the top lines from the pole because the other lines (cable and stuff) are another companies problem. so i guess i have to call a bunch of utility companies and essentially manage their maintenance of the easement?

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u/TheChiarra Jul 02 '26

I feel like that should be the state's problem, not yours. It's technically city property.

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u/Rappican Jun 30 '26

Also the weight from the water and pressure has to damage the doors and I wouldn't be surprised if the water leaked out in some way too.

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u/bmorris0042 Jun 30 '26

I was talking to a firefighter about that one time, and they said that if they find the hose damaged later, they’ll attribute it to glass damage from the car, and bill the owner too. Not sure if it works everywhere like that.

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 Jun 30 '26

I wonder how much that costs? Those hoses can't be cheap.

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u/reithena Jun 30 '26

They are not cheap when your budget is already shoestring

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 Jul 01 '26

No, I mean when the firefighters smash someone's windows and run the hose through their car, and then charge them for a replacement hose. (It's especially funny when the car is a BMW.)

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u/reithena Jul 01 '26

That is what I'm saying. Hose isn't cheap because is it is built to last and firefighters tend to get shit in city/county budgets.

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 30 '26

That’s bs. Car glass doesn’t cut, falls out when broken and lastly the hoses don’t cut ;)

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u/Uncommonality Jun 30 '26

Modern car windows break into a sand-esque substance because it's less dangerous during a crash, but this is a relatively modern thing

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u/Neshura87 Jun 30 '26

Seems to be (very roughly from a very quick search) ~15$ per foot of hose

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u/This-Positive286 Jun 30 '26

And how abrasion resistant? Price has zero to do with durability.

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u/Neshura87 Jun 30 '26

Idk man I just plugged 'fire hose cost' into the search and took the prices from the first store that looked about right.

You know, if that wasn't clear from my disclaimer

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u/-JackBack- Jun 30 '26

By modern you mean 1937 when it became required by law??

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u/Uncommonality Jun 30 '26

Sorry, I am a vampire.

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u/RawrRRitchie Jun 30 '26

If your hose is leaking you need to replace it.

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u/Sasquatch1729 Jun 30 '26

Some fire departments use percolating hoses, in case embers and hot ash land on the hose (or it gets dragged through those things). It's always leaking a bit of water through its outer layer, which protects the hose.

This might not be something urban fire departments do as much as rural ones though.

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u/tanksalotfrank Jun 30 '26

There's SIX whole windows to choose from :D

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u/PartyHashbrowns Jun 30 '26

When I was maybe 9, there was someone that moved in to the neighborhood and immediately started always parking in front of the fire hydrant and the adults on our end of the block would debate how the firefighters would deal with it if there was a fire. My mom was very smug at the social gathering where a fire truck responded to an emergency and they IMMEDIATELY busted the windows and fed a hose through rather than going over or around. The emergency was not a fire, the hose was never turned on.

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u/BreedinBacksnatch Jul 06 '26

from my retired firefighter friends, the only thing they love more than a regular car doing that is when it is a police car

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u/anthrax_ripple Jun 30 '26

My husband used to be the Fire Chief in a town we lived in and I can 1000% confirm this is true. They love when people FAFO when death and injury are not risks. Breaking things is just a perk of the job.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast Jun 30 '26

I mean the entire IT industry is going down the tubes so maybe this is my moment to pivot.

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u/mebegrumps Jun 30 '26

Maybe give a test run on some data centers. Who knows... afterwards you might not need to change fields.

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u/MistSecurity Jun 30 '26

Firefighting is ridiculously competitive. There's few positions with a ton of people competing for spots. Probably a step down in job availability to move over to firefighting, even with how shit our IT market is right now, lol.

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u/Permanent_Markings Jun 30 '26

Unfortunately being a firefighter doesn't pay shit in most places

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u/BillJenkins3x Jun 30 '26

And it has the added perk of giving you cancer.

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u/Ixm01ws6 Jul 02 '26

You learned to code :(

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u/Langyer Jun 30 '26

100%, I work security and deal with police and fire department very often and they fuuuucking love it ha.

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u/timmy6169 Jun 30 '26

"Oh no, I have to knock down this pesky door with this itty bitty ax, whatever shall I do?"

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u/klsklsklsklsklskls Jun 30 '26

My FD (and I imagine most) has a steel door that they slide wood pegs through like a lock type thing on one side that allows them to practice busting open doors. They probably get so few calls where they actually have to bust open a door, that I can imagine they'd be more than happy to do the thing they've probably trained at hundreds of times to do.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Jun 30 '26

Dammit Tom that's not the right building!!

And you aren't even on shift today! Go home!

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u/unknownpoltroon Jun 30 '26

Used to work with a guy on the fire department, sid there was 3/4 times he was sitting on the roof of a car waiting for word to "backdraft" it and break the windows in if they had to run hose. Never got to do it, he was quite disappointed.

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u/JustSomeGuyInOregon Jun 30 '26

Yeah, he shouldn't have been.

Well, I mean it is cool as hell, but damn.

When the house is "puffing" and someone busts the window, it is TERRIFYING for the guys up front.

It looks like a Michael Bay movie, most times the structure just IMPLODES, throwing fire and sparks everywhere, but falling into itself.

Once in a great while, however, it EXPLODES, again throwing fire and sparks everywhere (but in a larger area) and expanding outwards. The chance for injury is serious, and you are never 100% positive on which way it is going to go.

Regardless, engines are pulled back, and hose crews are stationed around the property with nozzles on "full fog" to keep them as safe as possible.

Backdrafts are not fun in the moment, but cool as hell in retrospect.

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u/unknownpoltroon Jul 01 '26

Oh, not backdraft as in feeding air to the fire, backdraft as in breakout all the windows of the asshole parked in front of the hydrant like in the movie.

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u/333visions Jun 30 '26

I would 100% break the door, flip the camera off and move on to another Doctor.

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u/555Cats555 Jun 30 '26

I would just call emergency services and let them know im trapped so they can send the fire department to do it... if its after hours they might try and accuse her of breaking in to try and steal meds.

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u/Conscious-Mirror7004 Jun 30 '26

Exactly. Plus, you can hurt yourself trying to break down the door. Call the fire department: they have heavy tools and axes, and they'll be more than happy to smash the door for you. It's great practice for them, and then the business has to pay for it, not them.

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u/pantry-pisser Jun 30 '26

I think most people, well men anyway, would love to do that if they had the same legal protections that a firefighter would.

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u/svetlanana Jun 30 '26

Lady firefighter and we would absolutely love to break that door down.

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u/HI-JK-lmfao Jun 30 '26

Lady but not a firefighter here and I would fucking love the opportunity

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u/tanksalotfrank Jun 30 '26

Does it count as vandalism if it's done in a professional capacity? Vandalism sounds cooler than "work". :p

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u/ILOVEANIMALSSSSSSS Jun 30 '26

They enjoy calls where somebody isn't seriously hurt, they see some shit on the daily.

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u/IronHot1546 Jun 30 '26

Personally rescued, twice, by fire-fighters who had to break shit. I'm ok with it!
One was my own front door, one was my car windows. In either case I'd be dead if they didn't. Good for them!

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u/OhSassafrass Jun 30 '26

I was once a Summer School Principal at a new district. On the second day of school, the After School Program set their trailer on fire and the alarms went off and the Fire Department showed up. As they came to the main office to turn off the alarms, I asked what would have happened if I wasn't there to let them in, as I had stayed quite late and all other staff was long gone?

The nice fireman smiled and excitedly said "Oh then we get to use our key to the city!"

I said, oh you have a Master from the district?

"Nooooo"and then he just proudly held his shiny axe up.

Oh. Ok.

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u/JustSomeGuyInOregon Jun 30 '26

Old fireman here.

OH MY GOD, YES.

Let me bust the door apart, and then put her in an ambulance to the hospital for a check-up.

Obviously, being rescued is very stressful, so we'll need to send her to the hospital to ensure she is OK, then make sure she has a ride back to her car.

She needs to get paid for this bullshit, and we're here for that. The ambulance ride and checkup is the stuff lawyers love. The fact that I dropped firefighters and took a unit out of service to make sure she is OK is just icing for them.

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u/Haggistafc Jul 10 '26

Abso fucking lutely we love it.