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2005-08-30 Europe

France needs US-style fire prevention, firemen say

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-30 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Anglo-saxons"?!? The mere suggestion of inferiority is telling as to the extent of the problem and the shame. At least in this instance they can recognize and articulate it.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-30 11:15|| 2005-08-30 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Load up the long boats with smoke detectors! We have to save the French!

Posted by The Anglo Saxon 2005-08-30 11:41|| 2005-08-30 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps what they need to do is import the anglo saxon insurance and tort system so that you don't need "state bodies to regularly check the public areas and every home to make sure they have detectors and extinguishers." Even the insurance companies are dumb when they're French?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-30 11:43|| 2005-08-30 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The blaze started in the wooden stairwell, apparently caused by faulty electrical wiring installed by the residents themselves,

All together now - "Electrical work is a profession, not a hobby."

Posted by Raj 2005-08-30 14:06|| 2005-08-30 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Last year they parked their elderly fathers and mothers into the heat wrap for August. This year they're working on the poor. Well, I guess that's one way to reduce government program costs. Wonder what the next group will be for August 06?

Posted by Glavitle Slaque3075 2005-08-30 15:16|| 2005-08-30 15:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Mrs. D. that is all too true. Worse yet when it's a French Canadian subsidiary of a French insurer dealing with Americans and Henri St. H. the poor truck driver who couldn't figure out what the posted height limits for an overpass were in metric. Let's just say that French cultural conceptions of responsiblity and good corporate citizenship looked more than slightly warped from the perspective of a jury of "anglo-saxon" Americans. They were blind to what hit them, not once but twice. Like a dumb animal I'm sure they brushed it off, carefully avoided learning a thing, and bravely chalked it up to the ethnocentric and racist "anglo-saxon" in every American.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-30 15:19|| 2005-08-30 15:19|| Front Page Top

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