 LazManPremium
join:2003-03-26
canada | reply to Thane_Bitter
Re: Bell get off my lawn! said by Thane_Bitter:LOL, well I am shocked Bell even offered to put in something less ugly, normally they just don't care.
Did anyone look at the other photos in that article? She also has a fire hydrant and a lamp post in "her front yard", I bet she is also bitching to the city to have those relocated.
It amazes me that people want all the latest and greatest services, but want the technology to provide them to be invisible. While that fibre splice cabinet is huge, and I certainly wouldn't want it at my front door; replacing with a flush-to-grade should have been acceptable, and would have been to me...
As for the hydrant - as a firefighter, one of my biggest issues is with people that "hide" hydrants with landscaping in the summer, and don't keep them cleared out and accessable in the winter. At 3 in the morning, when I need to hit a hydrant, I need to be able to see it, and get to it...
This picture's a great example - how would you find it, let alone connect to it? |
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This picture's a great example - how would you find it, let alone connect to it?
A couple of herbivore dinosaurs could strip that vegetation away in a few seconds. Don't you carry some on your truck?  |
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 pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
join:2008-01-24
Toronto, ON
kudos:1 | reply to LazMan
said by LazMan:At 3 in the morning, when I need to hit a hydrant, I need to be able to see it, and get to it...
This picture's a great example - how would you find it, let alone connect to it? Holy crap is that legal? Doesn't seem like it should be. I wonder how those people would feel if their house was burning and you're screwing around trying to hook up a hose in that bush. |
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Indeed, even with the man holding back much of the foliage you still can barely make out the connection, and good luck trying to get the valve open in a timely fashion.
It looks like a forsythia bush, I bet the home owner justified the planting because it's yellow in the spring.
Cut it down and put on a 1.5 metre reflective post so it can be found in the winter. |
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LazManPremium
join:2003-03-26
canada | reply to pnjunction
said by pnjunction:Holy crap is that legal? Doesn't seem like it should be. I wonder how those people would feel if their house was burning and you're screwing around trying to hook up a hose in that bush.
Generally speaking, no, it's not legal - there's typically local by-laws about not blocking access to hydrants, but it comes down to enforcement...
Here's an example of a hydrant bylaw, for those trying to look busy on a Friday afternoon...
»www.calgary.ca/CSPS/ABS/Pages/By···nts.aspx |
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"how would you find it"
They usually put fire hydrants next to the blue reflectors on the roads that are used to guide the UN tanks when the UN takes over.  .
Chuck Harder used to claim that's what the reflectors were for.
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