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I once read that there are some states in the U.S. where firefighters don't put out fires in houses that don't pay a monthly subscription.
I live in an area with a subscription fire service.
Itβs not expensive - around $200/year. And if you donβt have a subscription they still come and put out your fire or cut you out of the car or whatever needs to be done. You just get a bill for $3000/hr/apparatus that responds.
But I still find it abhorrent. Just put it in my fucking taxes and be done with it. Jesus.
I thought the earlier guy was doing a joke. I knew that those were a thing in the 1800's or something, but even today?
That's pretty insane. So basically the firemen and ambulances are too expensive for the average citizen to use, and if you happen to be black, you probably don't want to call the cops either.
Great services.
Ameeerica, fuck yeah!
Crassus would be proud.
Time for melting some gold.
Private fire fighters have been a thing since at least the 1600s.
No no. Not "since", but "in".
It genuinely shocked me those still exist in the states. That's fucking insane.
We have a somewhat different mentality about public safety here in Finland.
yep, we can say the same thing about slavery.
That sounds apocryphal.
Not sure about the modern equivalents to this, but in Rome (please correct if wrong) it used to be like that. Firefighters would only put out fires of houses that paid them and otherwise just stood there, watching.
At least that's what I read in one of those "did you know this about the ancient cultures?" articles and those aren't always reliable either.