Caption This for 11/25/16

When bureaucratic safety regulations and reality meet.

Where's the "CAUTION" tape?

this is not sanctioned, you must stop immediately.

I have to write you up....

Not the smartest new trainee fireman.

There's no problem 'til the train comes through, but the trainer should have asked the trainee if he'd ever seen a train before.

Finally, I can use my train track hose protector.

Well on the up side, if a train does come along they'll end up with 3 hoses where now they just have 1.

Those of you that have been told to toe the line, please take note.

Let's see those pesky railway guys interupt our training session today!

..trust me.. thy will.

..it must be the volunteer fire department.

then again.. If the regular fire department spent less time getting their entry ready for the chili cook-off an more time thinking about work, then these things would never happen.

For the volunteer FD, a fight broke out on who gets to drive the fire truck back to the station.

Somebody should get fired, as the train trains them!!

,,,,,Just a picture of a pipeline ....

You mean trains don't stop for fire engines ? Really ? (TIC)

Mayberry RFD All Volenteer Fire Department just got their first electric fire truck.

it was too late when they realize they ran out of electrical cord less then a block away.

Might work if there's enough snow and ice clogging the tracks. We recently had a locomotive derailed by ice on a road crossing in Couer d' Alene.

This engineer said his most interesting collision was a player piano. These people were rolling a piano across the tracks and got stuck and had to abandon the effort when his train came along.

The wrong kind of hose ramps...

("The wrong kind of snow" became a catchphrase in the UK after some moron used the term to explain delays to trains over the media one snowy winter here. 1" of snow and the country grinds to a halt....)

One has to assume there was a "need" for this invention. Not sure what it was though.

so you could run over the hose ON A DRIVE-WAY or ROAD WAY. Whether its another fire truck or water tanker.

Their train of thought is about to be derailed.

or

"All right boys, now that we've rescued the anaconda from the tree, we just have to wait until it finishes using the "train track snake crossing apparatuses" before we can leave."

You should have split the post.

For the first comment, it's worth a GA. It would have been a coffee spit-take GA if i had been drinking while reading⁽¹⁾.

For the second comment, it's ... meh. Not bad, but not great. Neutral vote.

Notes:

1. I learned my lesson about that. Fool me seven times, and all that.

The inventive creativity of a one-track mind