You know your a whacker when.....

[pfd4life]

When you carry two pagers, a portable radio and a scanner AND your lightbar siren combo costs more that the vehicle itself....

Your turn...fill in the blank.

[BFDNJFF]

It says EMT/FIRE RESCUE in big letters on your own POV ! :rolleyes:

[snowball]

You have more T-shirts from other departments than from your own. :rolleyes:

[LeuitEFDems]

you're sterile from carrying all the aboveformentioned gagets on you...

[sawman]

you start athread about whackers. :D

[smokeNphyer]

When you have enough of your own tools, that you basically have your OWN R.I.T. bag.

[RadRob]

The siren and lights on your POV trump that of the rig.

[Dave1983]

you start athread about whackers. :D

LMAO!! :D

[FireSlayer1098]

When your own POV has more lights and sirens and gadgets then the department command post and can safely land a plane on a dark strip of highway without any further lighting assistance :D

[KenNFD1219]

You have achieved the position of whacker when, in addition to the above mentioned lights on your POS POV and personal tool collection, you have more certificates than any 3 members of your department combined, plus a jacket full of patches (most of them with the word technician on them) but yet cannot figure out why:
1) No one in authority or with more time than you on the department talks to you.
2) No one with less time than you on the depatment talks to you.
3) You are constantly given assignments 'below' you, like monitoring the wheel chocks or going for coffee.
4) Whenever you get an assignment on a fire scene, your SCBA malfunctions, the saw won't start, the fly section on the ladder sticks, you manage to get an 'injury' or something happens that actualy prevents you from being too close to danger.
5) You have ever said that you hope when you die, it is a LODD (I really heard someone say this once).
6) Mentioning your name to department members results in a rolling of the eyes and a snicker.

[hwoods]

You have achieved the position of whacker when, in addition to the above mentioned lights on your POS POV and personal tool collection, you have more certificates than any 3 members of your department combined, plus a jacket full of patches (most of them with the word technician on them) but yet cannot figure out why:
1) No one in authority or with more time than you on the department talks to you.
2) No one with less time than you on the depatment talks to you.
3) You are constantly given assignments 'below' you, like monitoring the wheel chocks or going for coffee.
4) Whenever you get an assignment on a fire scene, your SCBA malfunctions, the saw won't start, the fly section on the ladder sticks, you manage to get an 'injury' or something happens that actualy prevents you from being too close to danger.
5) You have ever said that you hope when you die, it is a LODD (I really heard someone say this once).
6) Mentioning your name to department members results in a rolling of the eyes and a snicker.

7. They consistently give you pagers that don't work

8. For some reason your portable will receive, but not transmit.

9. Like a Thread Killer, You sign up for a class, then it gets cancelled.

10. The State Training Agency sends your list of Certifications in a box, because it's too heavy for an envelope.

11. You have NEVER been inside a structure when the Evac signal was given.

12. ALL the dirt and Smoke smell on your gear is because it hangs next to the truck exhaust.

[smokeNphyer]

How about the guys that stand intentionally in front of the burn basket?

Or the guys, who put a little flame to their helmet just to give it a charred look.

[britfan1]

...When the department photographer has paid off his car and mortgage, taken several exotic vacations, and sent two kids to college off of profits made by selling you pictures of working fires...whether you responded to them or not.

[CALFFBOU]

When you put all of this crap on your helmet-

http://i19.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/bc/90/cf_1.JPG

[ffexpCP]

... or when you car looks like this http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=56617&page=1&pp=20

[hwoods]

When you carry two pagers, a portable radio and a scanner AND your lightbar siren combo costs more that the vehicle itself....

Your turn...fill in the blank.

CALFFBOU calls to ask if you want to trade T Shirts...... :D :D :D

[StayBack500FT]

You wear navy BDU's and combat-style boots to La Maz (sp?) classes, you have fire school patches from places you've never been before, you smell like expired yogurt, you have a 50' radio tower rigged up to your pager/charger, your Gall's catalog takes priority over the Victoria's Secret catalog in your bathroom, you grab your crotch during traffic control operations, you think you are "all that", but you're not, the fine line between your actions and criminal charges tends to blur at times...the reason you smell like expired yogurt is because you don't want to get caught in the tub when the tones drop.

Just a few thoughts...

[RadRob]

Your PERSONAL Ford F-250 is equipped with a 250 gallon tank and lawnmower engine attached to a make-shift water pump and you use it as a grass truck whenever you go on calls. It also has 2 water cans, rakes, shovels, flappers, sirens and lights with "Fire Department" decals on the side that you had made at the local print shop. It is also red, because you would never buy a vehicle of any other color.

[jce51cfd]

When your wife/girlfriend and cohorts refer to you as "Jack the Wack" and you have it sewn on the front of your custom made Department jacket which has a fully embroidered engine, truck and rescue on the back.

[smokeNphyer]

Is it normal for people to be on 3 departments? :cool: lol

[hwoods]

A Bump for Bou............ :D

[CALFFBOU]

Thanks. I needed this.

[Engine58]

This one wacker on my dept thinks its normal to belong to 2 Fire Depts and 2 First aid squads.....and wears all the pagers at once!!! I belong to a squad along with the fire dept and I hate having to use 2 pagers..dunno how he uses 4.....by the way...this kid walks around in BDU's and Wears the Trauma packs strapped to his belt...this was also the kid who ran into the burn building during training without changing his SCBA so we had to bail 3 minutes into the scenario....but he knows it all!! This is also the kid who tried landing the helicopter for a combative drunk who fell down 4 stairs....this is also the kid that no one wants to work with because they are afraid he's gonna get someone killed one day!! He's seen it all!! and knows it all!! Why? because my daddy told me everything there is about the big fires he once fought....(sorry I had to vent)

[BFDLT32]

...when you are at training class or convention several hundred miles from your town and continue to wear your pager(s) and portable radio(s) and there is no way they will receive any transmissions...

[FFConster]

when you wash the kerosene off of your friend's kitty's arse and refer to it as a "Hazmat Incident" :) (telling on myself here)

[KenNFD1219]

Ahhh... the first troll of the new year.

[PattyV]

when you wash the kerosene off of your friend's kitty's arse and refer to it as a "Hazmat Incident"
Sounds like someone is stuck on stupid. :confused:

[PattyV]

Okay i am bumping this thread just because i killed it :o

When you have your garden hose system set up with a hose bed, high pressue branch, 1/12" hoses and a hydrant booster.