You won't have Fireman Ed to kick around any more

You're a principled man Poindexter. Fuck those cops, firefighters and teachers bunch of lazy overpaid assholes. Anybody could do what they do.

 

I've never written about cops. Feel free to find something. They put their life on the line every day. They ain't making a big ol casserole in the kitchen during work hours.

I think teachers make a nice living for 9 months work. But I don't see teachers retiring at 50 like firefighters.

 

I really wish I knew you, poin.

 

You want a 66 year old Bob Hope-looking fireman coming in to save you? You'd probably ending up saving him.

 

I 5th on the Agassi book... Loved it.

As for Fireman Ed, Fireman Ed talks about Fireman Ed in the third person...

I have a responsibility to the families and kids that enjoy the game and Fireman Ed.

 

http://deadspin.com/5963209/dear-fireman-ed-f+u+c+k-off-off-off

 

That was funny.

 

Here's the passage I showed my students - it introduces the chapter in which he learns that he failed the drug test but had cleaned himself in the interim.

 

I'm willing to believe all of this, but do you have links to some of this?

 

Here is disability story:
"Mr. Anzalone joined the Fire Department in September 1987. He retired 20 years later, on the button, in September 2007.

He said he was forced out — “The doctor said I could not be a firefighter anymore; I could not fight fires anymore; that broke my heart” — and retired on a disability pension. He had knee surgery in 1997, he said. Before that, he had back and neck injuries.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/fireman-ed-sits-out-a-big-one/

 

He's no Packer Pope

 

The disability scam for firefighters is nationwide.
Here's how they roll in Vegas.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/firefighters-gamed-the-system-again-140473303.html

This new york disabled firefighter pensioner works fire and rescue at a nascar track
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nyc-fireman-collecting-95000-disability-pension-caught-working-fire-rescue-at-nascar-track/

In Boston, 75% of firefighters retiring between 2005 and 2007 were on disability
http://firegeezer.com/2011/02/07/firefighter-disability-pensions-part-one/

San Jose knows how to roll.
http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/012220.html

You don't think New Jersey firefighters would miss out on a scam
http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2012/05/nj_wastes_millions_on_fake_dis.html

Portland working on ending the disability scam
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/04/ending_portlands_disability_sc.html


Heroes. These men are heroes.