Comments on: Dog food suit update

By: Bram Kelye

Bram Kelye — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:22:13 +0000

The plaintiff’s attorney, Genie Harrison, was truly after a quick $900k no doubt at all. Do you think her reputation will be “The Dog Food Attorney?” I just saw a news conference on the ABC news in Los Angeles and Ms. Harrison was not by her client’s side as he made a public statement (in tears no less). I wonder if she is feeling humiliated over her career-limiting blunder.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:16:53 +0000

Seth,

Yes, firefightres actually have hug amounts of free time… SOME times.

That is, having known a few firefighters, they may go a week with nothing to do, then have sevral shifts in a row where they don’t even sleep becaus they’re so busy (most firefightrs I’ve known have 24 hour shifts, meaning that they spend a day living at the fire house, including sleeping).

Such pranks and other time-filling activities (that can be dropped at a moment’s notice) are commonplace, from what little I’ve seen.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:57:28 +0000

Seth, not to defend any of the pranks, but I think a big part of a firefighter’s job consists of sitting around at the station house and waiting for an emergency call.

By: JKoerner

JKoerner — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:42:10 +0000

Ha! I love the plaintiff’s lawyer lashing out at the public outcry – that’s the anger at over $900,000 in easy money going up in smoke.

By: Seth

Seth — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:53:31 +0000

Wow. That’s one well-disciplined fire department. The real question appears to be not one of dog food pranks, but how these fire fighters find time to perform their job duties.