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Volunteer Firemen, Local Warlords, and NCC's Future Cops
from Underground Economy · #34
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2 minTim and Ray mock volunteer firemen as entitled local warlords, with Tim recounting getting nearly beaten up at a party for disrespecting a fire chief, tying it back to the kind of students Nassau produces.
- 20:20Young guys at community college know they're destined to become firemen or cops and are just biding time.
- 20:32They all talk about taking the Suffolk cop test because the pay is good.
- 20:49Tim: volunteer firemen are worse than FDNY, a culture of drunk 50-year-old fat guys in a frat.
- 21:06Tim got kicked out of a party for not showing enough respect to a drunk volunteer fire chief.
- 21:33The drunk chief screamed at him, flipped out, and threatened to stab and kill him over a perceived slight.
- 21:49Volunteer firemen act like local warlords with their own fiefdom, often friends with cops who won't arrest them.
- 22:02Nassau Community College is graduating these future cops and volunteer firemen.
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