I know a firefighter in Austria who was late for work, still lying in his bed. So his colleagues came and knocked on his windows. His apartment was on the third floor.
Lmao. I put a predator call in the bunks & control it remotely. Nothing like getting a good rat or other noise to keep you on edge. 😂😂. Hunting Scent is also a nice thing. We all get it from each other. 🚒🤘🏼🇺🇸. Life in the house.
I was the shortest EMT and because I had a hard time reaching certain things when restocking the rig. They decided to get me a special ladder to help out, It was one from the little tikes slide. Joke was on them, it was the perfect hight I needed to never ask for help reaching things again. It retired with me.
@@johnarat9618 I have it to my niece and nephew when their ladder broke off the little tikes set and it will come back to me when they are done. Seriously very handy and sturdy 😊
Once got our probie to recharge the fluorescent strips on a hi viz jacket, we knew he wouldnt believe us so we wrote a test schedule using the correct paper, put it in the folder and off he went with a uv light, even better he was caught in the act by an officer who reprimanded him for not doing it in the right room!!!
In my first week, three of the guys convinced me that the engine tank water had to be stirred and I did that as part of truck checks for like two weeks until my Lt noticed.
@@Interknetz no because I’m stupid. I kinda figured there was like some sort of sediment/settlement thing idk. And this was before our academy even started so I was like extra dumb.
@@redcandi01 Ok be prepared, there are tons of more pranks…. Voises at night out of your wardrobe. Rc cars under your bed starting noises when u try to sleep. Other stuff making noise in your room at night. Etc etc.
I got to spend a few days working with the local FD and Rescue peeps as a Role Player for their big annual disaster training. Chief running the show pulls me aside just before their big end of the day scenario (building collapse and fire), and asks me "how crazy can you be?" "how crazy do I need to be, Chief?" "Like my ex-wife on meth, crazy." "Do my best." They were using empty boxes, styrofoam, and pool noodles as simulated debris (cause they didn't wanna actually crush us, but they had mannequins under cinder blocks and pallets to actually dig out when they 'rescued' us) I'd just recently watched Band of Brothers with my friends, so i decided it would be perfect to pretend I was a lost and confused soldier who thinks the Germans have come to finish him off after shelling his house. So when the Firemen unburried me I screamed my best R. Lee Ermy warcry and attacked them with the pools noodles, ran around like a lunatic from cover to cover throwing boxes at them and yelling "FRAG OUT!" and generally being the most royal pain in the ass and uncooperative type I could be Eventually I got exhausted and the lads were able to tackle me and get me on a stretcher and completely head to toe strapped down on. Left strapped down for their immediate AAR and discussion. Then they came over. "Bad News, General Patton, we have to transport you to the hospital..." Said one firefighter with that shit eating grin in his face as they tossed me in the back of the rescue and took every back road they knew and SLOW. Arrived in some kind of park where they off loaded me and put me on a table in one of those no wall park structures, where they were apparently having a post training day BBQ for all the lads who took part. I was left strapped down through most of it across from the table they had all the food. (They did pop a can of coke for me, and rigged two straws together so I could drink from it) Finally as the sun went down they freed me (think it was about 3 hours of being strapped down) and we all had a good laugh about it. Damn good BBQ too.
Ask the rookie if they kept track of how many revolutions they made with the aerial when it was up so they can go back the same amount of times before bedding the ladder or boom...
Are you kidding? I'd milk that for all it's worth! Find and make the gaudiest looking dictators uniform. The kind with enough medals to be bullet resistant armor and gauche as hell. At least if it's possible to run that with the prank.
Working as a clerk for FD after I retired from industrial firefighting. One guy was definitely "that guy" when it came to pranks taking everything a bit too far (he messed with the lasagna dinner I spent 4 hours making and had ready for the crew) Note: do NOT mess with food, nor the person responsible for setting up your physical, because they will add a stress test, colonoscopy, and prostate exam.
Helicopters have "Emergency Release" handles for the doors. In case of a crash, these handles can be pulled, ejecting the door hinges, which releases the door from the hinge side...should the door latch be incapacitated. In my department we sometimes fly with the doors off, for better ventilation/cooling of the crew. Everyone is told when they first come into the unit, "Don't ever touch those handles! Just keep your hands off!!" During one flight, my partner decided to adjust his seating position by grabbing something, and giving his body a good yank. What he'd grabbed was the Emergency Release handle, and what yanked was the door hinges to the helicopter (luckily, we were flying without the doors that day!) The hinges were last seen departing the aircraft at a very swift velocity, plummeting to the river below. Being an aviation part, they were $2,000 to replace. Since that day, the Emergency Release handles are now known as "Jeremy Handles." Yup...don't be THAT guy. ;-)
I knew a crew of Volunteers who had a guy transfer from a neighboring station. That night they did backboard training, they backboarded the new guy drove to his former station and left him out front with a sticky note saying "Return to Sender." Best part his old station was on a call he was out there for an hour. The new guy was my Dad and one of the guys backboarding him, my Uncle.
God, I remember getting backboarded during EMS training and they hung me on the wall and watched me kick my little feet for a bit before the instructor called a 5 minute break. They left me there the whole break lol, but at least it wasn't a whole hour!
That…doesn’t seem funny? Like, it kinda sounds illegal, and definitely could be trauma-inducing, is this a typical “fun” story in your family? I think maybe you should talk to someone about some things..
My best (and actually, only) prank was when working hospital security. We dealt with many different tasks, including transporting bodies to the morgue. An EMT student came in with an ambulance crew, and she was showing an inordinant amount of interest in the morge, death, dead bodies, the person they'd just transported, etc. She kept asking to see the bodies in the morgue. My partner deferred, but finally agreed to at least take her down to the room, saying, "There aren't usually any out, but I can show you the autopsy space." My partner on duty (unlike me) was a terrible prankster, and he asked me to go pull one of the morgue carts out into the autopsy room, lay on it, and wait. Thankfully, our hospital usually had at least one cart free [it wasn't small, but there was a lot of turnover because of the number of funeral homes in the area]. I did so, though that cart was damn cold. After a couple of minutes, he beeped me over the radio so I would know he was coming down [keep in mind this was well over a decade and a half ago] and I heard the door open a moment or two later. I waited, heard them talking. She asked some questions, he answered. She asked about the fridges, wanted to look inside, he denied her. She asked about the room beyond, with the cart in it, and he said, "Oh, that's the autopsy and harvest room - the cart usually isn't out. Maybe the pathologist left it? That's what the bodies are transported on?" Then I heard her walk right up next to the cart, and I lunged out from under the cover, half-falling off the cart as I grabbed at her, growling. The poor young woman hit the far wall of the autopsy room and dropped to the floor, screaming. My partner fell over and was laughing so hard I thought he would piss himself. I'm not "proud" of it, since I'm not a prankster, but I am proud that the one prank I have pulled off hopefully had an impact.
The Army has a similar tradition. Newbie Privates can expect to be sent to supply for a box of grid squares, squelch grease, chemlight batteries, reflector bulbs, keys to the drop zone, and a PRC-E7 from the commo section. They can also be sent for elbow grease, fallopian tubes, a flux capacitor (no joke), and a few other things that are highly effective at keeping them too busy to play around on social media.
@@Setanta9089 oh yeah, no small number of them might catch that. Then again, a few months ago, we sent our new ER Tech to central stores looking for monitor fluid. I kid you not, poor kid got halfway there and called back wanting to know what it looked like.🤣
in Germany we always let the rookies search for "The Blue Light Fluid" because it needs to be refilled regularly. It went as far as taping new labels on antifreeze and them crawling on the roof of the vehicle looking for the plug of the blue light fluid tank
Yeah last "Azubi" filled it up with orange now our THW-GKW look like a blue construction truck... He switched it accidently with the orange fluid used to fill up the indicators..
We had a guy perpetually late in my academy class, which resulted in the entire class being punished by coming in an hour early. Just to make sure that he was awake. I walked the dorm hallways playing my bagpipes at 0500.
You know you have a great Division Chief, when after he takes a pitcher of water to the face during a Station Spring "Cleaning", he just sits down at the kitchen table and starts doing his paperwork. As the Station commander (Captain), I took on testing the waters. After a few niceties, and knowing the Chief was a fellow Matchbox fan, we got a conversation going. After a few minutes, the Chief gets up and fills a pitcher of water and puts it on the table. Of course, the guilty party was the last one into the kitchen, and the only open seat was next to the Chief. He sits down and acknowledges the Chief. The Chief stands up, collects his things, dumps the pitcher of water on the offenders head...."you gentlemen have a nice day" as he walked out!!
Good to see the chief had a sense of humor. There are some as the higher up they go, they forget they were one of those pranksters or can dish it out and can't take it. Now they have bugles to "protect" them.
Quick note about those that do something that creates a new rule. *It's eternal.* It will follow you forever. Generations of first responders will always know that rule as "Your Name's Rule" for the rest of time.
"Admin doesn't like you, and neither do we!" Brilliantly said. Oh, and for those wildland firefighters, sending out the new kid to sharpen the Dozer blade with a file always provides hours of entertainment. Props go to CalFire for that one!!
The guy being late was HILARIOUS. Such a positive way to address something like that where everyone has a nice laugh and nothing needs to formally be said.
@@ladyrose3285 We do something similar in archery when an archer forgets to pull their arrows from the target. They go down, pull their arrows, and on their way back the rest of just slowly and sarcastically clap. We call it the walk of shame.
My grandpa would send his kids to get random stuff that didn't exist for the kitchen or workshop on April first. They were gone for hours and every neighbour they asked was holding their laughter. Bosses used to do the same thing to newbies around here, but some outsmarted them, went home and came back the next day, "I looked for what you said all day yesterday, but I couldn't find it in any shop."
That is the difference between a good prank and hazing: The getting back part. If all you ever do is pass it on by tricking the next new guy on the job, it is hazing. Still could be fun, but you need to be bloody more careful than if pranking is open season on everyone.
@@57thorns Yeah I didn't like how he said don't be that moron they make a new rule for as nobody likes them. I'd say that's evidence they took it too far. All you need to do is make sure people know it's all in good fun and that you like the person you're pranking and you want them to prank you back sometime. Let them know it's not personal. It's helps if you're good friends first.
My husband had been a volunteer for 28 years before hanging up the gear six years ago (I’ve been a volunteer for 21 years now), and the pranks that were pulled before I joined up were hilarious! Ketchup in one boot and mustard in the other, shaving cream in the helmet, an infamous “hot pizza challenge,” tying people to the backboard during EMT/EMR training, the list is endless! But the best was one he told me about where they switched a guy’s boots in his gear with old boots that they Super-Glued to the floor, then quietly requested that headquarters put out a test page. When the alert went off, they all scrambled so our hero thought it was real and went to get into gear. The next thing you heard was a crash from the engine bay and him shouting “YOU SONSABITCHES!!!!”
@@Ocker3 Yeah, the boots used for the prank were a pair of manky old ones that had been “retired” anyway, not the guy’s good ones. We may be crazy, but we’re not stupid. I wish I’d been there for that prank-it was hilarious!
I live in policy hell. We are not allowed to play soccer with the firefighter-youth anymore. Too dangerous. Ladder training with the youth? Ok, but only only one floor up! "On Duty" sounds too militaristic. GONE!
The EPA bagged emissions test is great. Worked in a warehouse as a foreman and remember the time firefighters got me to do that, so i then made it a tradition to get new guys in the warehouse that got past their 3 week 'dont fuck up' time. Greatest part is our propane forklifts the exhaust is inside the engine compartment wedged between the radiator and the back counterweight. Always good fun giving them a trashbag with a fake sticker on it and them spending 40 minutes on one to find the exhaust...then spend another 2 hours doing it to the rest of them and the skidsteers. No one ever questioned why the EPA needed one bag with 12 LPG, 2 diesel and (one occasion)an electric exhaust or why everyone is laughing at the new guy walking around with a trashbag balloon full of dizzy air.
Spiked an IV bag and hid it in the electrics cabinet. Ran the the line along the ceiling of the cab of the ambulance and set the line to a very slow drip over the drivers seat. This was in response to having every door and the steering wheel of my ambulance covered in airway lube. Good times.
Me and some buddies at the rescue squad took the training mannequin, dressed him up in a uniform and stuck him in the men’s bunk room when there was only one man on duty that night. He spent a good while hunting through the parking lot trying to figure out who had come to the building to sleep while off duty. When he finally realized it was a mannequin he said to me “must have been the firefighters,” and I just looked at the gals and back at him and was like “yeah, definitely.” 🤣
The best pranks were the non-pranks. We used to have to move up from station 3 to station 1 when they were out on a call. We would have to move up at 1:00 am or worse, so we would make signs to put on bedroom doors or the fridges or bathrooms, etc saying things like “beware of water” or “stn 3 was here” or some other cryptic message, the stn 1 crew would stay up all night, paranoid that they do not know what we did.
Two guys on my FD tied a corner of another guys blanket with fishing line, ran it over the headboard on his bunk, and out the window to the rear of the building. Later that night, the two guys came back and waited until the other guy went to bed (around 11PM). When he was laying down, they suddenly yanked up the fishing line, ripping the blanket off of him. The guy screeched, smashed the lockers next to him in a panic, frantically sprung up and thought he was being attacked by animal. He didn't realize it was a joke for a least a few minutes. One of the funniest pranks I've ever heard off.
At my station we have a couple training doors, and I asked for permission from chief to weld the door to the frame (it's an all aluminum frame and door, one of our older ones) and he granted me permission, so when one of our newbies came in he tried everything to breach the door as we're all standing on the side needing some breathing help😂
I served in the Navy on a submarine. Favorite way to entertain ourselves while locked up in a steel tube for a couple of months? "How can I get to that guy over there and drive him into an insane asylum?" And the number one rule is never ever ever let people find out what gets to you! Things to never say? "You can't get to me!"
As a pizza delivery guy for several years at Domino’s pizza it was always fun sending the new guy to either PaPa Johns or the next nearest Domino’s to get sauce thinner because we ran out. One time they sent a guy to another store about 18 miles away and the manager at that store sent back a bucket of water. Good fun times.
A rookie of mine had ripped up a Prehospital Care Report that wasn't needed into little pieces. He was told every report has to be accounted for and ended up piecing the report back together with tape. When he was done, it was crumpled up and filed in the garbage can.
In the Air Force we had the same mindset of Showing our “Love” for our collages, We once sent a new Airman to the ATOC “Air Terminal Operations Center” to get the “Keys” for the C-17 cargo plane we we at so we could unlock the Flight door to get in to open up ramp so we could load it. Or all of the things you needed to be “licensed” for we would send them to the training Sgt, to ask for a training license to use a handtruck, pallet jack, etc...
Let's not forget my personal favorite, the rubberband on the sink sprayer handle. I've seen guys get themselves twice in a row and three times in one day! Hilarious!!!
Even funnier? Take the outer part of the handle off, if you can, and afix the rubber band or something to the part that actually depresses under the trigger mechanism. Sink sprayer *looks* normal, but sprays your a$$.
I had someone superglue all the stuff at the front of my locker shelf, including a can of pop. I couldn't get the can off, so I just flipped the shelf upside down and now have a levitating pop can. I have no clue who it was, but they're brilliant!
My dad used to send people to other stations to get the "Skyhook" that they borrowed. Upon arrival, the other station would tell them that they gave the skyhook to a completely different station.
In prison we don't get many opportunities to prank eachother but here you have 2 golden ones: 1) Pranking the new guards by saying "Hey. Empty out the hot water from the coffee machine"...the hot water is fed through a tube from a 5.000 gallon water tank. 2) When they are guarding the kitchen with us, we try to convince them that we give the kitchen inmates one single marshmallow as a job well done and deliver it to their cells (in my city in Spain, the inmates call submissive chubby white dudes "marshmallows"). The look on their face when they get laughed at by the kitchen inmates is golden.
electrician's apprentices are sometimes taught the safety measure of carrying a metal bucket full of gravel to ground themselves just in case, plumber apprentices are asked to retrieve the pipe lengthener, and flat roofer apprentices are sent back to the shop to look for and then ask for the rubber stretcher.
Getting thrown in the dump tank is my stations tradition. One time when you get classes done, one time when you complete your probation, and whenever you are unlucky enough to get caught.
Best one I ever heard of was a construction crew who would send the new kid to stir the porta potty. They stopped after a particularly keen, though not necessarily bright, recruit decided to impress his new boss with his ingenuity by coming in the 2nd day with a drywall mud paddle attached to a commercial power drill.
I thought the "push start" was awesome because what company in their right mind would allow a gigantic spinning blade that cuts cars in half to be "push started" but then I saw that dude holding a bag on an exhaust pipe and nearly fell out of my chair. My brother told me about a "Nitro Exposure" test where newb EMTs would get a spritz of nitro so they knew what "exposure" felt like if they were running a call. That's fun but potentially problematic. Also have heard about "Oral Glucose Taste Tests" to ask the newbs their opinion of which flavor the Diabetic patients will prefer and of course the "spray them with harmless allergy nasal inhaler and say "Oh my God, that was a LOT of NARCAN!"
EMS Fire Military and PD are by THE MOST dysfunctional families you’ll ever be a part of. Do your part, be a part of that family, and you’ll have a team that’ll go to war for you. Craziest relationships I’ve ever had in my life. Love my brothers and sisters.
I worked for a large city department with over 20 fire stations. It was commonplace for new kids to be detailed to another station for the tour. There was one our fire stations that was down the street for a neighboring communities fire house. If the new kid didn't know where the fire station was (they were taught in drill school to learn where all the fire stations were) and needed directions, he was given directions to the neighboring communities fire house. The neighboring fire house was always ready. After welcoming in the new kid and having him help with cleaning the apparatus, checking equipment and the daily cleaning around the fire house and sometimes sent to the store to buy food for the day, it was only then that they pointed out that his fire department patch was different from everyone else. The district chief was almost always at the station when the new kid finally made it to the correct station.
I'm an EMT intern and on my last ride out I was welcomed to the EMS world with a bucket of water being poured on me after dinner. It was honestly the greatest thing. The crew I did my ride outs with was great. Made my whole day! I'm hoping I can ride out with them for my medic rides too, if they are all still at that station and on the same shift.
At a working fire I was sent to look for a hose stretcher. I spent 20 minutes looking for it. Only to find out one was broke, one was back at the station and one was being used! 😄
I once heard about a guy at a FD near mine that "pranked" someone by putting itching powder in their turnout gear, he spent 4 hours duct taped to a ladder, but he stayed on and actually learned how to be a good member of the crew. Oh, and I've seen the aftermath of backing an engine into the bay with EVERY DOOR (other than driver and passenger) open, that rookie did not last the day out.
They got me with push starting the k12 last week lol I did it once and somebody snickered and gave the whole prank away. I question everything now since I've been pranked 3 times in my first two weeks.
I love it. I never thought of push starting the K-12, as I would think the chief would get pissed at the potential of damaging the blade. But these are some good ones. I love the never ending dishes.
The endless dirty dish is always a classic. But getting your name attached to a rule does take it to the next level. I had a guy cast a donut ( on a fishing pole) next to a police officer that was running radar in front of our station. Yep, ended up in arbitration over his severe punishment. Yes, we won and city paid heavily for arbitration. All kinks of new rules came out of that one.
One of my high school acquaintances (too obnoxiously annoying to call him a friend) was the son of a firefighter. His favorite prank to tell people about was "slow sticky," which involves removing the shower head, inserting a Jolly Rancher, and putting it back on. Nothing is noticed during the shower, but once they dry off they become incredibly sticky and don't know why. And if they try to remedy this by taking another shower, it doesn't help. He thought of pulling that on a classmate he wasn't fond of during a school trip, I don't know if he actually did or not.
Brother recently joined a volunteer fire department by my house and they had him stir the tanker water. Only to look and see everyone recording. I still want the video and it's been a month
Most of the time, those videos never leave the (fire) house. But I’m sure that those videos are being used to tease him, and most likely will be shown at his retirement ceremony if he chooses to become full time!
In our recruit class we had a kid(had just turned 18, been in the jr firefighter program for a couple years) try to roll start the K12. The instructor even convinced him it might be easier to use the lines in the concrete to keep it straight....😂.....oh, and the absolute BEST part of that story................the kid is the Assistant Chief 's son....😂😂😂😂😂. Luckily for us he got hired at another department.😥
People who can handle ribbing, teasing and even pranks are also the people that I know I can trust when the chips are down. It’s also a really good way to know people are relaxed and calm. And I don’t even work in a dangerous field. I imagine that it must be 10x as important if you know that person literally has your life in his hand that he is also calm, patient and good under pressure.
"get a policy named after you " Guy on our station thought it would be FUNNY to loosen all the lug nuts on our station manager's car. Same guy also thought it would be FUNNY to fill the ambulance wiper fluid reservoir with tire shine.
Father got into a motorcycle accident that bent his lower teeth backwards into his mouth. They were able to save them (if you call a ton of root canals "saving") but of course, rather than flowers, they sent a get well card and rock candy.
Awesome! When I first got on they asked me to open a foam container. 10 minutes later and my hands shredded they laughed and handed me a wrench lol. Good times!
The oldy, but goody of the never ending dishes. We had a chief going for an extra ten minutes. He said he was about to pul seniority, because of all the dishes he was washing was a ridiculous amount. Then he picked up on it.
My buddy on his first week of probation didn’t have a room at the station so the guys told him that he was allowed to stay in the BC suite😂 and boy did he get chewed out when the BC showed up the next day.
Best job in the world!!! Frozen uniforms, bed on soda cans, and the “how to hand wind the Federal Q” tutorial would make a great part 2 😂😂😂 Keep it rollin!
Never ending dishes is my new favorite thing! And the dish dirtier instinctively knew when to stop and scrape the skillet. Those boys have the preternatural prank ability.
My father who is one of the two active local fire inspectors (ones you would call up for a fire permit or check the fire risk of the area when you are constructing a building) is banned from any type of glitter while near any of the main fire trucks or fire inspector's trucks... or helmets... and tools...
I was never a fire fighter. But I helped some friends that were to prank a rookie. I laid in one of the compartments on the engine and the rookie had to check the truck. When he opened the door. I threw my hand out and screwed. He jumped back about six feet, back into the grass truck and started swinging his arms. Like fighting. Everybody was laughing at that one.
I have told a rookie that those yellow hoses, in comparison to the standard white/grey ones, are special "anti fire hoses" that warm up the water inside to exactly 210,2°F/99°C, when laying in the hot room, so the water evaporates easier, making it even better for fighting fires. He really believed it, but also he was extremly stupid.
Electrician here. Go grab the wire stretcher, sky hook, bucket of amps, left handed hammer. It's good fun. Keeps us entertained. My tool belt got taped up to the pipe so I put a pin just behind the door where my journeyman left his lunch
I know a firefighter in Austria who was late for work, still lying in his bed. So his colleagues came and knocked on his windows. His apartment was on the third floor.
Yeah, the engine crew showed up, once, to wake and escort a newbie who overslept...so I've heard
LOL this is great.
POV: A fire were expanding on the third floor of his apartment
Didn't that happen in fireman Sam?
I am not a firefighter but once I went to my kitchen on 4th floor and then I hear knocking. I turn to the window and I see a person
The guy who was late was just gold
The walk of Shame! 🤣
Lmao. I put a predator call in the bunks & control it remotely. Nothing like getting a good rat or other noise to keep you on edge. 😂😂. Hunting Scent is also a nice thing. We all get it from each other. 🚒🤘🏼🇺🇸. Life in the house.
I dropped my phone when the fucking pipes came in.
They just gave me a idea 😂 GOLD!
That was awesome! Hahaha
We used to make probies go and look for random things we kept down in the basement...
Our station didn’t have a basement
😂😂😂
we do the very same thing at our station😂
A friend of mine sent their Junior FF out to get the water hammer off the engine to clean it.
That’s like we in the army send recruits to look for grid boxes...
@@ales6823 in my unit we make the new guys look for chem light batteries
A while back a family member sent me a picture of someone searching inside an ambulance with the caption "new guy told to find the fallopian tubes"
That is extremely sad that they didn't know basic anatomy
I'm in pain now 🤣🤣🤣
He probably did, probably his nerves of first day or new job got the best of him. It happens to everyone at some point im sure
...my dear-
Oh that a good one 🤣
I was the shortest EMT and because I had a hard time reaching certain things when restocking the rig. They decided to get me a special ladder to help out, It was one from the little tikes slide. Joke was on them, it was the perfect hight I needed to never ask for help reaching things again. It retired with me.
Omg
@@johnarat9618 I have it to my niece and nephew when their ladder broke off the little tikes set and it will come back to me when they are done. Seriously very handy and sturdy 😊
@@dolphinsblu Be very careful.
@@johnarat9618 thank you...I don't use it, can't use it actually (fighting cancer) but I want to keep it because of the joke behind it.
That's awesome. Sometimes you just need to own the joke and then give them no where to go with it.
Once got our probie to recharge the fluorescent strips on a hi viz jacket, we knew he wouldnt believe us so we wrote a test schedule using the correct paper, put it in the folder and off he went with a uv light, even better he was caught in the act by an officer who reprimanded him for not doing it in the right room!!!
That's a good officer.
NOW I would love to have seen that video OMG is that just gold and that’s a good officer he must love his job
In my first week, three of the guys convinced me that the engine tank water had to be stirred and I did that as part of truck checks for like two weeks until my Lt noticed.
You didn't question why you'd need to stir the water?
@@Interknetz no because I’m stupid. I kinda figured there was like some sort of sediment/settlement thing idk. And this was before our academy even started so I was like extra dumb.
@@michaelmishler3057 Ah
🤣🤣🤣🤣 ....I start fire academy this fall. I'm taking notes🕵🏾♀️ on these pranks so I'm ready👩🏾🚒
@@redcandi01 Ok be prepared, there are tons of more pranks….
Voises at night out of your wardrobe. Rc cars under your bed starting noises when u try to sleep. Other stuff making noise in your room at night. Etc etc.
I got to spend a few days working with the local FD and Rescue peeps as a Role Player for their big annual disaster training. Chief running the show pulls me aside just before their big end of the day scenario (building collapse and fire), and asks me "how crazy can you be?"
"how crazy do I need to be, Chief?"
"Like my ex-wife on meth, crazy."
"Do my best."
They were using empty boxes, styrofoam, and pool noodles as simulated debris (cause they didn't wanna actually crush us, but they had mannequins under cinder blocks and pallets to actually dig out when they 'rescued' us)
I'd just recently watched Band of Brothers with my friends, so i decided it would be perfect to pretend I was a lost and confused soldier who thinks the Germans have come to finish him off after shelling his house. So when the Firemen unburried me I screamed my best R. Lee Ermy warcry and attacked them with the pools noodles, ran around like a lunatic from cover to cover throwing boxes at them and yelling "FRAG OUT!" and generally being the most royal pain in the ass and uncooperative type I could be
Eventually I got exhausted and the lads were able to tackle me and get me on a stretcher and completely head to toe strapped down on. Left strapped down for their immediate AAR and discussion. Then they came over. "Bad News, General Patton, we have to transport you to the hospital..." Said one firefighter with that shit eating grin in his face as they tossed me in the back of the rescue and took every back road they knew and SLOW.
Arrived in some kind of park where they off loaded me and put me on a table in one of those no wall park structures, where they were apparently having a post training day BBQ for all the lads who took part. I was left strapped down through most of it across from the table they had all the food. (They did pop a can of coke for me, and rigged two straws together so I could drink from it)
Finally as the sun went down they freed me (think it was about 3 hours of being strapped down) and we all had a good laugh about it. Damn good BBQ too.
That mental image was GOLD. As an author, thanks for the idea too!
Outstanding!!! Lmao
Don’t forget to ask someone to get the left handed axe
Never heard about the blue light fluid? Go and get some.
Or the water hammer
also the chem light batteries
Ask the rookie if they kept track of how many revolutions they made with the aerial when it was up so they can go back the same amount of times before bedding the ladder or boom...
Don't forget to charge up the High-Vis on your turn-out kits.
"Check the brake fluid on the rescue truck." Literally spent a good 5 minutes looking for it even though I knew - KNEW - that it used air brakes.
Nothing like a ceremonial bagpipe entrance to make sure you’re never late again.
Doesn’t get any better than that. Thanks for the laugh 😂
If they had someone playing bagpipes like that for me, I would be late every day!
Are you kidding? I'd milk that for all it's worth! Find and make the gaudiest looking dictators uniform. The kind with enough medals to be bullet resistant armor and gauche as hell. At least if it's possible to run that with the prank.
@@dragonsword7370 I’d show up in a kilt. It’s in my blood (more precisely: blood-alcohol).
That was so awesome 😂
Working as a clerk for FD after I retired from industrial firefighting. One guy was definitely "that guy" when it came to pranks taking everything a bit too far (he messed with the lasagna dinner I spent 4 hours making and had ready for the crew) Note: do NOT mess with food, nor the person responsible for setting up your physical, because they will add a stress test, colonoscopy, and prostate exam.
Yeah. Never, ever mess with food or drink. You never know what someone is or could be allergic to. I, for example am allergic to fake sugar.
That prank backfired
Fell for the never ending dishes about 25 years ago. Also woke up from a nap in the recliner with my fingernails painted pink. 😩
Hope you rocked those nails until the polish came off. That would have been funnier than having them painted.
Lucky they didn’t put makeup on your face to make you look pretty.
Helicopters have "Emergency Release" handles for the doors. In case of a crash, these handles can be pulled, ejecting the door hinges, which releases the door from the hinge side...should the door latch be incapacitated. In my department we sometimes fly with the doors off, for better ventilation/cooling of the crew. Everyone is told when they first come into the unit, "Don't ever touch those handles! Just keep your hands off!!" During one flight, my partner decided to adjust his seating position by grabbing something, and giving his body a good yank. What he'd grabbed was the Emergency Release handle, and what yanked was the door hinges to the helicopter (luckily, we were flying without the doors that day!) The hinges were last seen departing the aircraft at a very swift velocity, plummeting to the river below. Being an aviation part, they were $2,000 to replace. Since that day, the Emergency Release handles are now known as "Jeremy Handles." Yup...don't be THAT guy. ;-)
@CodingCrusader1095 The embarrassment of knowing he just became "THAT guy" was enough. Lesson learned.
I've had ONE HELLUVA MONTH and I gotta say, this made my night! Stay safe, brother.
OUCH!
I'm crying I'm laughing so hard
Thank goodness they fell into a river and not into traffic.
Lol never ending dishes 😂😂😂 dude was turning around looking for that dish pile lol
Took me 30 min first time to figure it out lol
His bewildered look was priceless 🤣
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@@lz4181 figured it out after 10 min but I went on for an hour. The guy who was putting the dishes in the dishwasher never had such an rekt back.
I knew a crew of Volunteers who had a guy transfer from a neighboring station. That night they did backboard training, they backboarded the new guy drove to his former station and left him out front with a sticky note saying "Return to Sender." Best part his old station was on a call he was out there for an hour. The new guy was my Dad and one of the guys backboarding him, my Uncle.
A double whamy--firefighter prank and a sibling rivalry prank rolled into one
@Erin Costa kind of my dad was his brother-in-law.
God, I remember getting backboarded during EMS training and they hung me on the wall and watched me kick my little feet for a bit before the instructor called a 5 minute break. They left me there the whole break lol, but at least it wasn't a whole hour!
It’s was funny for him till he had to pee!
That…doesn’t seem funny? Like, it kinda sounds illegal, and definitely could be trauma-inducing, is this a typical “fun” story in your family? I think maybe you should talk to someone about some things..
My best (and actually, only) prank was when working hospital security. We dealt with many different tasks, including transporting bodies to the morgue. An EMT student came in with an ambulance crew, and she was showing an inordinant amount of interest in the morge, death, dead bodies, the person they'd just transported, etc. She kept asking to see the bodies in the morgue. My partner deferred, but finally agreed to at least take her down to the room, saying, "There aren't usually any out, but I can show you the autopsy space."
My partner on duty (unlike me) was a terrible prankster, and he asked me to go pull one of the morgue carts out into the autopsy room, lay on it, and wait. Thankfully, our hospital usually had at least one cart free [it wasn't small, but there was a lot of turnover because of the number of funeral homes in the area]. I did so, though that cart was damn cold. After a couple of minutes, he beeped me over the radio so I would know he was coming down [keep in mind this was well over a decade and a half ago] and I heard the door open a moment or two later. I waited, heard them talking. She asked some questions, he answered. She asked about the fridges, wanted to look inside, he denied her. She asked about the room beyond, with the cart in it, and he said, "Oh, that's the autopsy and harvest room - the cart usually isn't out. Maybe the pathologist left it? That's what the bodies are transported on?" Then I heard her walk right up next to the cart, and I lunged out from under the cover, half-falling off the cart as I grabbed at her, growling.
The poor young woman hit the far wall of the autopsy room and dropped to the floor, screaming. My partner fell over and was laughing so hard I thought he would piss himself.
I'm not "proud" of it, since I'm not a prankster, but I am proud that the one prank I have pulled off hopefully had an impact.
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Zombie prank, genius!
Ehh that level of fear response triggered is unhealthy and cruel...
We got a kid who spent hours looking for the box of right handed gloves... he said all he could find was the box labeled "L"...
Oh my god
That works good for nurses, too.
Lololol that's pretty funny.
The Army has a similar tradition. Newbie Privates can expect to be sent to supply for a box of grid squares, squelch grease, chemlight batteries, reflector bulbs, keys to the drop zone, and a PRC-E7 from the commo section. They can also be sent for elbow grease, fallopian tubes, a flux capacitor (no joke), and a few other things that are highly effective at keeping them too busy to play around on social media.
as a medical biologist i would've called it at the fallopian tubes lol
@@Setanta9089 oh yeah, no small number of them might catch that. Then again, a few months ago, we sent our new ER Tech to central stores looking for monitor fluid. I kid you not, poor kid got halfway there and called back wanting to know what it looked like.🤣
You forgot:
bucket of rotor wash
Bolt stretcher
blinker fluid
We sent a probie to the clinic for his pap smear appointment. The nurse called us in tears 😭
Question! How did he (being a medic) NOT KNOW what he was going to do? You guys fired em, right?
@@MrWorstNews it was back in the early 90s and he was just a firefighter
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That poor nurse...I think she needs to learn her job a little better if that made her cry, lmao!
@@MrWorstNews OP never said the guy was a medic, though...
in Germany we always let the rookies search for "The Blue Light Fluid" because it needs to be refilled regularly. It went as far as taping new labels on antifreeze and them crawling on the roof of the vehicle looking for the plug of the blue light fluid tank
Yeah last "Azubi" filled it up with orange now our THW-GKW look like a blue construction truck... He switched it accidently with the orange fluid used to fill up the indicators..
We had a guy perpetually late in my academy class, which resulted in the entire class being punished by coming in an hour early.
Just to make sure that he was awake. I walked the dorm hallways playing my bagpipes at 0500.
You know you have a great Division Chief, when after he takes a pitcher of water to the face during a Station Spring "Cleaning", he just sits down at the kitchen table and starts doing his paperwork.
As the Station commander (Captain), I took on testing the waters. After a few niceties, and knowing the Chief was a fellow Matchbox fan, we got a conversation going. After a few minutes, the Chief gets up and fills a pitcher of water and puts it on the table. Of course, the guilty party was the last one into the kitchen, and the only open seat was next to the Chief. He sits down and acknowledges the Chief. The Chief stands up, collects his things, dumps the pitcher of water on the offenders head...."you gentlemen have a nice day" as he walked out!!
Good to see the chief had a sense of humor. There are some as the higher up they go, they forget they were one of those pranksters or can dish it out and can't take it. Now they have bugles to "protect" them.
Quick note about those that do something that creates a new rule.
*It's eternal.*
It will follow you forever. Generations of first responders will always know that rule as "Your Name's Rule" for the rest of time.
I could have a disease named after me.
But I survived.
"Admin doesn't like you, and neither do we!" Brilliantly said. Oh, and for those wildland firefighters, sending out the new kid to sharpen the Dozer blade with a file always provides hours of entertainment. Props go to CalFire for that one!!
omg that's a good one!
Glad to see nothings different with wildland firefighters
The guy being late was HILARIOUS. Such a positive way to address something like that where everyone has a nice laugh and nothing needs to formally be said.
Nobody knew"The Campbells are Coming"?
While in the Navy, at one command if someone was late, the Chiefs would start clapping and as we were in line also clapped.
@@ladyrose3285 We do something similar in archery when an archer forgets to pull their arrows from the target. They go down, pull their arrows, and on their way back the rest of just slowly and sarcastically clap. We call it the walk of shame.
Everyone does it at some point, and that's partially why it's so funny
My grandpa would send his kids to get random stuff that didn't exist for the kitchen or workshop on April first. They were gone for hours and every neighbour they asked was holding their laughter.
Bosses used to do the same thing to newbies around here, but some outsmarted them, went home and came back the next day, "I looked for what you said all day yesterday, but I couldn't find it in any shop."
Pranking people is like saying "well now you have to stick around to get me and others back"
That is the difference between a good prank and hazing:
The getting back part.
If all you ever do is pass it on by tricking the next new guy on the job, it is hazing. Still could be fun, but you need to be bloody more careful than if pranking is open season on everyone.
@@57thorns Yeah I didn't like how he said don't be that moron they make a new rule for as nobody likes them. I'd say that's evidence they took it too far.
All you need to do is make sure people know it's all in good fun and that you like the person you're pranking and you want them to prank you back sometime. Let them know it's not personal. It's helps if you're good friends first.
My husband had been a volunteer for 28 years before hanging up the gear six years ago (I’ve been a volunteer for 21 years now), and the pranks that were pulled before I joined up were hilarious! Ketchup in one boot and mustard in the other, shaving cream in the helmet, an infamous “hot pizza challenge,” tying people to the backboard during EMT/EMR training, the list is endless!
But the best was one he told me about where they switched a guy’s boots in his gear with old boots that they Super-Glued to the floor, then quietly requested that headquarters put out a test page. When the alert went off, they all scrambled so our hero thought it was real and went to get into gear. The next thing you heard was a crash from the engine bay and him shouting “YOU SONSABITCHES!!!!”
I could tell you’re a volley bc career firefighters don’t prank/ mess with others PPE. Idk, tho.
@@GeorgeWBush01 these are old boots, not good ones. So they didn't wreck anything valuable.
That's Brilliant!
@@Ocker3 Yeah, the boots used for the prank were a pair of manky old ones that had been “retired” anyway, not the guy’s good ones. We may be crazy, but we’re not stupid. I wish I’d been there for that prank-it was hilarious!
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Never. Ever. Become a Policy.
Is that a challenge I see?
I live in policy hell.
We are not allowed to play soccer with the firefighter-youth anymore. Too dangerous.
Ladder training with the youth? Ok, but only only one floor up!
"On Duty" sounds too militaristic. GONE!
Unless you can become a really good. I have several and I'm proud of them all!
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The EPA bagged emissions test is great. Worked in a warehouse as a foreman and remember the time firefighters got me to do that, so i then made it a tradition to get new guys in the warehouse that got past their 3 week 'dont fuck up' time. Greatest part is our propane forklifts the exhaust is inside the engine compartment wedged between the radiator and the back counterweight. Always good fun giving them a trashbag with a fake sticker on it and them spending 40 minutes on one to find the exhaust...then spend another 2 hours doing it to the rest of them and the skidsteers. No one ever questioned why the EPA needed one bag with 12 LPG, 2 diesel and (one occasion)an electric exhaust or why everyone is laughing at the new guy walking around with a trashbag balloon full of dizzy air.
Spiked an IV bag and hid it in the electrics cabinet. Ran the the line along the ceiling of the cab of the ambulance and set the line to a very slow drip over the drivers seat. This was in response to having every door and the steering wheel of my ambulance covered in airway lube. Good times.
Me and some buddies at the rescue squad took the training mannequin, dressed him up in a uniform and stuck him in the men’s bunk room when there was only one man on duty that night. He spent a good while hunting through the parking lot trying to figure out who had come to the building to sleep while off duty. When he finally realized it was a mannequin he said to me “must have been the firefighters,” and I just looked at the gals and back at him and was like “yeah, definitely.” 🤣
The best pranks were the non-pranks. We used to have to move up from station 3 to station 1 when they were out on a call. We would have to move up at 1:00 am or worse, so we would make signs to put on bedroom doors or the fridges or bathrooms, etc saying things like “beware of water” or “stn 3 was here” or some other cryptic message, the stn 1 crew would stay up all night, paranoid that they do not know what we did.
Did the Station 1 people find out?
Two guys on my FD tied a corner of another guys blanket with fishing line, ran it over the headboard on his bunk, and out the window to the rear of the building. Later that night, the two guys came back and waited until the other guy went to bed (around 11PM). When he was laying down, they suddenly yanked up the fishing line, ripping the blanket off of him. The guy screeched, smashed the lockers next to him in a panic, frantically sprung up and thought he was being attacked by animal. He didn't realize it was a joke for a least a few minutes. One of the funniest pranks I've ever heard off.
The exhaust sample had me dying 😂😂
You could totally pull that on a paramedic student lol
I’m going to be THAT preceptor 😅😅
At my station we have a couple training doors, and I asked for permission from chief to weld the door to the frame (it's an all aluminum frame and door, one of our older ones) and he granted me permission, so when one of our newbies came in he tried everything to breach the door as we're all standing on the side needing some breathing help😂
I served in the Navy on a submarine. Favorite way to entertain ourselves while locked up in a steel tube for a couple of months? "How can I get to that guy over there and drive him into an insane asylum?" And the number one rule is never ever ever let people find out what gets to you! Things to never say? "You can't get to me!"
imagine just rolling up on the scene of a working garage fire and a firefighter jumps out with cream and pie covering his face...
If I was the person who called and saw a firefighter pull up with a cream pie on his face I would wonder about what goes on behind closed doors. 😨🤣
As a pizza delivery guy for several years at Domino’s pizza it was always fun sending the new guy to either PaPa Johns or the next nearest Domino’s to get sauce thinner because we ran out. One time they sent a guy to another store about 18 miles away and the manager at that store sent back a bucket of water. Good fun times.
A rookie of mine had ripped up a Prehospital Care Report that wasn't needed into little pieces.
He was told every report has to be accounted for and ended up piecing the report back together with tape.
When he was done, it was crumpled up and filed in the garbage can.
That’s rough lol but funny
In the Air Force we had the same mindset of Showing our “Love” for our collages, We once sent a new Airman to the ATOC “Air Terminal Operations Center” to get the “Keys” for the C-17 cargo plane we we at so we could unlock the Flight door to get in to open up ramp so we could load it.
Or all of the things you needed to be “licensed” for we would send them to the training Sgt, to ask for a training license to use a handtruck, pallet jack, etc...
when the fire alarm rings immediately after your prank..
Let's not forget my personal favorite, the rubberband on the sink sprayer handle. I've seen guys get themselves twice in a row and three times in one day! Hilarious!!!
Even funnier? Take the outer part of the handle off, if you can, and afix the rubber band or something to the part that actually depresses under the trigger mechanism. Sink sprayer *looks* normal, but sprays your a$$.
Aww man I feel bad for the dish washer 😂
The whole ceremony for the late guy was pretty funny too.
My dad (a firefighter) tells us stories similar to these almost every time he comes back from work. He said they use the dishes one for every rookie.
Ask the office to fax over some paper is always fun. Searching for blinker fluid level is a classic.
I had someone superglue all the stuff at the front of my locker shelf, including a can of pop. I couldn't get the can off, so I just flipped the shelf upside down and now have a levitating pop can. I have no clue who it was, but they're brilliant!
My dad used to send people to other stations to get the "Skyhook" that they borrowed. Upon arrival, the other station would tell them that they gave the skyhook to a completely different station.
In prison we don't get many opportunities to prank eachother but here you have 2 golden ones:
1) Pranking the new guards by saying "Hey. Empty out the hot water from the coffee machine"...the hot water is fed through a tube from a 5.000 gallon water tank.
2) When they are guarding the kitchen with us, we try to convince them that we give the kitchen inmates one single marshmallow as a job well done and deliver it to their cells (in my city in Spain, the inmates call submissive chubby white dudes "marshmallows"). The look on their face when they get laughed at by the kitchen inmates is golden.
electrician's apprentices are sometimes taught the safety measure of carrying a metal bucket full of gravel to ground themselves just in case, plumber apprentices are asked to retrieve the pipe lengthener, and flat roofer apprentices are sent back to the shop to look for and then ask for the rubber stretcher.
Getting thrown in the dump tank is my stations tradition. One time when you get classes done, one time when you complete your probation, and whenever you are unlucky enough to get caught.
Best one I ever heard of was a construction crew who would send the new kid to stir the porta potty. They stopped after a particularly keen, though not necessarily bright, recruit decided to impress his new boss with his ingenuity by coming in the 2nd day with a drywall mud paddle attached to a commercial power drill.
Oh GAWD🤢🤮🤣
thatd be likke starting a blender without a lid xD
I thought the "push start" was awesome because what company in their right mind would allow a gigantic spinning blade that cuts cars in half to be "push started" but then I saw that dude holding a bag on an exhaust pipe and nearly fell out of my chair. My brother told me about a "Nitro Exposure" test where newb EMTs would get a spritz of nitro so they knew what "exposure" felt like if they were running a call. That's fun but potentially problematic. Also have heard about "Oral Glucose Taste Tests" to ask the newbs their opinion of which flavor the Diabetic patients will prefer and of course the "spray them with harmless allergy nasal inhaler and say "Oh my God, that was a LOT of NARCAN!"
Asking the new guy to find the "hose stretcher" was always fun.
sparkies have mythical cable stretchers
Not to mention that they themselves are the hose stretchers. Lol
Just love telling friends and family.
"Just think, someday your life may be in my hands" this is best said at a meal when they just took a bite.
So basically it's like every sibling relationship ever
EMS Fire Military and PD are by THE MOST dysfunctional families you’ll ever be a part of. Do your part, be a part of that family, and you’ll have a team that’ll go to war for you. Craziest relationships I’ve ever had in my life. Love my brothers and sisters.
I worked for a large city department with over 20 fire stations. It was commonplace for new kids to be detailed to another station for the tour. There was one our fire stations that was down the street for a neighboring communities fire house. If the new kid didn't know where the fire station was (they were taught in drill school to learn where all the fire stations were) and needed directions, he was given directions to the neighboring communities fire house. The neighboring fire house was always ready. After welcoming in the new kid and having him help with cleaning the apparatus, checking equipment and the daily cleaning around the fire house and sometimes sent to the store to buy food for the day, it was only then that they pointed out that his fire department patch was different from everyone else. The district chief was almost always at the station when the new kid finally made it to the correct station.
I'm an EMT intern and on my last ride out I was welcomed to the EMS world with a bucket of water being poured on me after dinner. It was honestly the greatest thing. The crew I did my ride outs with was great. Made my whole day! I'm hoping I can ride out with them for my medic rides too, if they are all still at that station and on the same shift.
At a working fire I was sent to look for a hose stretcher. I spent 20 minutes looking for it. Only to find out one was broke, one was back at the station and one was being used! 😄
I once heard about a guy at a FD near mine that "pranked" someone by putting itching powder in their turnout gear, he spent 4 hours duct taped to a ladder, but he stayed on and actually learned how to be a good member of the crew.
Oh, and I've seen the aftermath of backing an engine into the bay with EVERY DOOR (other than driver and passenger) open, that rookie did not last the day out.
Captain: "Go find me a hose stretcher"
Rookie: "aight"
They got me with push starting the k12 last week lol I did it once and somebody snickered and gave the whole prank away. I question everything now since I've been pranked 3 times in my first two weeks.
I love it. I never thought of push starting the K-12, as I would think the chief would get pissed at the potential of damaging the blade. But these are some good ones. I love the never ending dishes.
The endless dirty dish is always a classic. But getting your name attached to a rule does take it to the next level. I had a guy cast a donut ( on a fishing pole) next to a police officer that was running radar in front of our station. Yep, ended up in arbitration over his severe punishment.
Yes, we won and city paid heavily for arbitration. All kinks of new rules came out of that one.
Don’t forget the antenna grease. Keeps the electrons from sticking.
One of my high school acquaintances (too obnoxiously annoying to call him a friend) was the son of a firefighter. His favorite prank to tell people about was "slow sticky," which involves removing the shower head, inserting a Jolly Rancher, and putting it back on. Nothing is noticed during the shower, but once they dry off they become incredibly sticky and don't know why. And if they try to remedy this by taking another shower, it doesn't help. He thought of pulling that on a classmate he wasn't fond of during a school trip, I don't know if he actually did or not.
thats despicable
I'm always happy to help point a new recruit in the direction of grid squares and blinker fluid.
I’m retired after 30 years, yet I’d go back to work with Jason. Smart funny guy
Brother recently joined a volunteer fire department by my house and they had him stir the tanker water. Only to look and see everyone recording. I still want the video and it's been a month
Most of the time, those videos never leave the (fire) house. But I’m sure that those videos are being used to tease him, and most likely will be shown at his retirement ceremony if he chooses to become full time!
@@AJ-nb4pu At least they are being put to good use
pushstarting the k12 you can only do on rookies
Yeah, and the really stupid ones
@@HvV8446 the other one is get me a left handed pike but when ever they get a pike say no thats a right handed one!
In our recruit class we had a kid(had just turned 18, been in the jr firefighter program for a couple years) try to roll start the K12. The instructor even convinced him it might be easier to use the lines in the concrete to keep it straight....😂.....oh, and the absolute BEST part of that story................the kid is the Assistant Chief 's son....😂😂😂😂😂. Luckily for us he got hired at another department.😥
My VFD tried so many on me and they all failed, I had retired cops/firefighters and Veterans as teachers, I heard all the stories.
People who can handle ribbing, teasing and even pranks are also the people that I know I can trust when the chips are down. It’s also a really good way to know people are relaxed and calm. And I don’t even work in a dangerous field. I imagine that it must be 10x as important if you know that person literally has your life in his hand that he is also calm, patient and good under pressure.
You guys deserve to have some fun. Thank you all for your service!
The dish chain almost had me in tears. That is such a good one.
If I was the guy late I probably would of thought I was getting fired with all that attention lmao 🤣🤣🤣
I have been in on that never ending dishes gag. It never gets old 🤣
"get a policy named after you " Guy on our station thought it would be FUNNY to loosen all the lug nuts on our station manager's car. Same guy also thought it would be FUNNY to fill the ambulance wiper fluid reservoir with tire shine.
I don't know how I found this channel but I love it ❤️❤️❤️
that never ending dishes. love it!
Father got into a motorcycle accident that bent his lower teeth backwards into his mouth. They were able to save them (if you call a ton of root canals "saving") but of course, rather than flowers, they sent a get well card and rock candy.
If my siblings and I had tried the infinite dishes on my mother none of us would have made it to our teens.
Awesome! When I first got on they asked me to open a foam container. 10 minutes later and my hands shredded they laughed and handed me a wrench lol. Good times!
My LEOS thought their pranks were all that. I gladly put on my dark glasses and said, "game on...GAME ON!"
The oldy, but goody of the never ending dishes. We had a chief going for an extra ten minutes. He said he was about to pul seniority, because of all the dishes he was washing was a ridiculous amount. Then he picked up on it.
My buddy on his first week of probation didn’t have a room at the station so the guys told him that he was allowed to stay in the BC suite😂 and boy did he get chewed out when the BC showed up the next day.
Best job in the world!!! Frozen uniforms, bed on soda cans, and the “how to hand wind the Federal Q” tutorial would make a great part 2 😂😂😂 Keep it rollin!
Aw Gee, that bagpipe one is gold!
The guy being late is the best one haha
Man I love these videos. And the facial expression as you narrate is just golden.
The repeating dishes was a classic!
Never ending dishes is my new favorite thing! And the dish dirtier instinctively knew when to stop and scrape the skillet. Those boys have the preternatural prank ability.
man the overlap between this and the military is hilarious
Don't forget to have the probie check for the pilot light in the engine compartment! It's right next to the canooter valve!
Checking the red light fluid, liquid squelch in the radio, and sending to a neighboring dept in Tivex to borrow some special antifreeze for the tank.
My father who is one of the two active local fire inspectors (ones you would call up for a fire permit or check the fire risk of the area when you are constructing a building) is banned from any type of glitter while near any of the main fire trucks or fire inspector's trucks... or helmets... and tools...
This just keeps getting better
I have a feeling the battalion chief set that one up
I was never a fire fighter. But I helped some friends that were to prank a rookie. I laid in one of the compartments on the engine and the rookie had to check the truck. When he opened the door. I threw my hand out and screwed. He jumped back about six feet, back into the grass truck and started swinging his arms. Like fighting. Everybody was laughing at that one.
I have told a rookie that those yellow hoses, in comparison to the standard white/grey ones, are special "anti fire hoses" that warm up the water inside to exactly 210,2°F/99°C, when laying in the hot room, so the water evaporates easier, making it even better for fighting fires. He really believed it, but also he was extremly stupid.
Electrician here. Go grab the wire stretcher, sky hook, bucket of amps, left handed hammer. It's good fun. Keeps us entertained. My tool belt got taped up to the pipe so I put a pin just behind the door where my journeyman left his lunch
Bruh, don't mess with my lunchtime! That's mine! /j