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Official "Whacker" or "Screwed Up Install" Thread
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This is far TOO common, at least where I am, especially if it is a hardwired light if it stops working they will just put another light on the roof that has a cig plug. Even Fire vollies when they have an Amber minibar AND a blue minibar next to it.Skippy said:
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strobecrazy said:
Thank you for this( i needed the laugh) looks like they ran out of money on the main logo decal, then made do them selves on the rest.. :dielaugh: :dielaugh:
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strobecrazy said:
That would be just TOO ironic, as REACT seems to "wanna be" a legit agency!
Random eBay find today...
Ye Olde Whacker Mobile
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NorthernPhoenix said:
Depends on where you live just how "legitimate" REACT can be. In some places where I've been REACT has been well received both by the public and law enforcement. In others, l.e. look on them with disdain. My original REACT team in Lubbock started a first aid team in 1969 and we began working first aid for the local race track. We were given use of the old track ambulance, a '70 Chevy wagon which was crap. When the big tornado hit Lubbock on May 11, 1970, we mobilized with a borrowed ambulance, and worked from Monday night after the twister hit until the following Thursday, when everyone was accounted for. There were 26 fatalities, which isn't bad numbers for a city of then 150,000; but there were several thousand injuries. The ambulance we borrowed was "commandeered" by the local CD and we were stationed at the Municipal Coliseum, where a makeshift infirmary had been set up. As people who had been displaced and injured showed up at the coliseum, we transported injuries that couldn't be properly handled there to then-Methodist Hospital. The one "perk" of the whole thing happened the Tuesday following the tornado. We had been sent out to the airport where a military transport with mega-cases of whole blood. In fact, we ended up having to leave our gurney at the airport just to haul all of those cases of blood. Why we were loading, cameramen from all three networks walked up and shot some footage of my partner and me loading the back of the ambulance. It made national TV, but I only got to see it once. Because of the good publicity we received, the race track gave us their old ambulance and we began working other events away from that track. In 1971 I got my first ambulance from Summers Coach in Duncanville; and it was a good thing because the REACT organization totally collapsed and I "inherited" all the standby work we had been doing. By 1972 I had my own service and ran until 1991 when I shut things down to come back here. What we did during the week of the tornado was actually well received by law enforcement, which was unusual, as they really looked down on REACT as nothing but a bunch of wackers. But once my standby ambulance service was up and running, we got along well with both city and county.
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These idiots and the newspaper article about them seem familiar...I think there have been posts about them in the past. I love that the name of their organization (I use that term very loosely!) includes the word "rescue"! Who the hell are they rescuing? I'll bet dollars to donuts that these idiots who dove into the shallow end of the gene pool are part of the Central Aid Agency! I now understand why misfits like these are called wackers...they w*ck off to the sight of all their lights flashing!
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I can't even make out what most of that stuff is. But I am intrigued!Came across this beauty while googling something else, and had to share.ImageUploadedByTapatalk1401539702.199707.jpg
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The tag is Dutch. No, I'm not smart enough to know that...I found another photo of the vehicle, with the caption "Chevrolet Blazer (1977), Dutch license registration BN-36-HV at a Vintage car show in Den Helder, The Netherlands."
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Ok here's one "Police lights on wifes Car" lol this guys nuts...
Hand typing the url.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOunskDI7_4
Hand typing the url.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOunskDI7_4
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if the grille lights on the truck were on the slow X pattern with a small dash light it may not be half bad. But still bad lol
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"Cars actually pull over at night because they think it is an emergency vehicle." Is he kidding? If he's traveling at 10mph+/-, and cars are traveling at 30+, why would they pull over for a cluster of lights that they're moving away from at a good rate? I think the seriously misguided owner of the bike wishes his parents were a cross between Lance Armstrong and "Pete Malloy".
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Ok you be the judges: :undecided:
Both vehicles are decked out with Amber lights..
1. Interesting advertising scheme.
2. whacker.
3. Ambulance chaser.
4. your comment here__________
Both vehicles are decked out with Amber lights..
1. Interesting advertising scheme.
2. whacker.
3. Ambulance chaser.
4. your comment here__________
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While the young lady isn't bad-looking, I practically laughed out loud. Whomever conceptualized the photo shoot is probably some guy in his mid to late 40s going through a mid-life crisis...that's how girls dressed in high school circa 1985, she looks like she was caught between her Madonna phase and hair metal like Skid Row!!! Priceless! If it weren't for the vehicles, I would think the photos were presumably from the mid-1980s!
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I looked for a video, but there isn't one.. I know the lights are amber as there is a cropped photo on their website with amber leds visable. I thought the same of the girl. but remember their BIKERS.... lol 
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:duh: This kid gets the DARWIN Whacker Award hands down & a E for effort !! :lol:
Picture this 15 yr old guy riding to the station for a call........ :dielaugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WndDhzGlXcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhTwrPWRaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyF39WGJq-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URC6HpBsG_Q
Videos are 4yrs old, but the mental picture was priceless..
Picture this 15 yr old guy riding to the station for a call........ :dielaugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WndDhzGlXcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhTwrPWRaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyF39WGJq-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URC6HpBsG_Q
Videos are 4yrs old, but the mental picture was priceless..
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