Awkward Fire Hydrant Is Awkward
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Favorite Comment(s!): Fixer Fiaca says, “Damn! The sea of cobblestones is getting higher every minute! I curse you, global warming”
AND: Fixer nimrod says, “Fire hydrant thought he was pretty clever not paying his debts to the mob…”
ALSO: Fixer TBJ says, “This is obviously a relic from the separate-but-equal era of molemen/surface dweller segregation.”
Damn! The sea of cobblestones is getting higher every minute!
I curse you, global warming
I guess the correct size wrench for opening this fixture is the pickax ..
Is this in Florida? I hear they have those underground fires over there.
If they setup fire hydrantlike that I wonder how they install lawn sprinklers!
Wonder is all you can do. Unless you have X-ray vision.
Fore!!
Doesn’t look like a fire hydrant but just a coupling. Why they cemented it into the ground is still a mystery though.
The curb appeal of your nice, new brick paver driveway will surely be enhanced by the lack of distraction once your house burns down. Good job!
Guess they wanted to create a down spout.
Fire hydrant thought he was pretty clever not paying his debts to the mob…
I’m waiting for the instant lawsuit when someone trips over the thing. . . .
Kids today. They just leave their fire hydrants lying around anywhere. Sheez.
“Well, they finally did it. They killed my f***ing fire hydrant.”
This fire hydrant is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet his maker! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If it was not sinking in the pavement, it’d be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now history! It’s off the twig! It has kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile! This… is an ex-fire hydrant!
Wow! Tiger knocked the crap outta that thing!!
Right after his wife knocked the crap out of him with a golf club.
Is this in Abu Dhabi? No wonder they couldn’t sell enough units to make their bond payments.
Has anyone taken a close look – it does not appear to be a hydrant – rather teh brass hose couplings and caps – or am I way off base on this one??? –
Just doesn’t look like any hydrant I have ever seen
Farmer Bill’s crop of hydrants would be ready in time for harvest….
Lebowski says: “Well, they finally did it. They killed my freaking fire hydrant.”
I guess it’s a fire hydrant-turned-fountain….
That’s actually not a fire hydrant. It’s a FDC(Fire Dept Connection). The firefighters get their water from the hydrant and pumps them into these to go into the buildings.
Well, they connect the pumper water to this FDC inlet to boost the sprinkler system flow, and/or feed the stairwell dry standpipe – *after* they dig out the pavers on both sides, get the caps off, and get a hose connected.
Hey Charlie! You read the blueprints wrong! This Standpipe is supposed to be mounted with the top 24 _inches_ above finished grade, not 24 _millimeters_…
It looks like they already had to replace the paving bricks at least once.
Well the fire department won’t be pumping anything through this, regardless of what it is.
You see kids? This is Rip Van Wrinkle as a fire hydrant.
Bryan – thanks – I was hoping someone with a working knowledge of firefighting equipment would identify it -
Fore!!!
This is obviously a relic from the separate-but-equal era of molemen/surface dweller segregation.
Pay attention, kids! Gather ’round… Good. Now, here we see a wild fire hydrant in the second stage of its life. As you know, they start out as fire extinguishers planted under the pavement at the side of a road. Slowly they develop into semi-hydrants known as ‘pedestrian trippers’, of which we see an example here. Pretty soon this beautiful little thing will grow into a fully grown fire hydrant, capable of repelling its enemies with a powerful jet of water.
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
if i may not wrong……it ’s somewhere in Bangkok.!
There’s a dog under it.
*fire truck pulls up* “…..Yup…that’s a fire hydrant in cobble stones.”
“HELP HELP!!! PUT OUT MY HOUSE!!!”
“Sorry we have to wait till Public Works shows up to get us a jack hammer”
And here, we see the predatory fire hydrant lying in wait, exhibiting near perfect camoflage, until its prey, the elusive parked car, unknowingly approaches.
…As the fire hydrant’s preditor, the firetruck, comes up, the hydrant changes it’s color to dark red with ash spots and hides halfway down in the pavment…
I can tell you that is in Korea. I walked those stones many a year and I know them well.
…words fail me to descibe the stupidity of people…