Alright. SO I read this story on Quora.com so im not so sure how true this is. But somebody said that they used to be a construction worker and one day, the building across the street from his/her construction site caught fire. When the fire department arrived, they found somebody had parked infront of the hydrant. So, the fire men called over the construction teams bulldozer and with permission from the police, bulldozed the car out of the way.

I have a technical question. Why are typical US hydrants equipped with a permanent standpipe? Hydrants over here are simply covers in the pavement, and firefighters bring their standpipe with them. This seems to be much more flexible, and standpipes to not take away space when not in use...

Isn't faster to go around the car with the hose than to brake 2 car windows and struggle to pass the hose through them?

I mean, it sucks if you really truly didn't know a hydrant was there...but you really need to pay more attention when you are driving a freakin vehicle!!

I think its necessary. I had the question regarding the hose and whether it could go under (have you tried crawling under a vehicle), over or around but I looked at the attachment to secure the hose and it obviously needs room. The hose does have insane water pressure but if they get bent against the cars would it not mess with pressure?! I'm going to go to my local firehall, (yay), and ask them about what they do when a car is in front of a hydrant. I'm in Vancouver, BC and maybe they do it differently.

I love how the mayor is not even exempt from this treatment....

On some pictures, it looks like there would have been a possibility to route the pipe round the car...teaching them a lesson?

Wow one of the cars was marked "mayor"....I guess they felt entitled to put their constituents in danger...

A good way to make understanding the moron that the reserved parking for firefighter is NOT a luxury parking for them.......maybe drastic, and for sure they will never do it a second time.

Looks like being a selfish turd has no income barrier!

So...we don't have fire hydrants in the UK. I guess we just have the little metal covers in the pavement, have to admit I've never seen a fire engine in action so I don't know. But it's not illegal to park next to one of these. What happens then?

They are obviously doing it to prove a point, if you look at the photos it would take more time to smash out the windows then snake the hose through the car window and out the the other side, instead of just tossing the hose over the roof, which just seems vindictive, check out the photo of the minivan, they actually pass it through the window and then make a 180 and the hose flows back in the opposite direction .....still you shouldn't park in front of a hydrant and no sympathy for the drivers in these cases.

Im wondering if at least one person argued with the firemen because "you toke out my windows for a stupid fire!"

If the hydrants were installed one quarter turn to either side, the firemen could hook up the hose around any car. I wonder what the reason is that they have to be installed so that the water access hole is pointing directly at what would have been a parking spot.

Poetic justice!

Maybe not every time but if I was a firefighter heading to a fire, I would love doing this once or twice a year to these morons. It has to slow things down, right? Better that no car is there.

I'm not saying these people don't deserve it. They do. But why does it have to go through the car and not like on top of it?