What's Your Craziest Example of Dumb Citizens? The Modern Evacuation -- Take Some Video, Get Your Hand Stamped

Our friends over at STATter911 have a great story along with video and photos from a fire today at the Detroit Auto Show.

During the "evacuation" (if you want to call it that) folks took their leisurely time to exit the building despite the smoke and arriving firefighters -- taking photos, videos, and yes even getting their hand stamped INSIDE the building before they left so that they could get back in. Some pretty wacky stuff.

Which leads us to the question of the day -- Besides commenting on the this story, what are some crazy things you've seen where Joe Citizen has failed to exit rapidly in times of emergency, before you've arrived or while you're there trying to help them escape.

Watch the video...especially towards the end where you can see the hand stamping, and for more read the full story at STATter911.

Post your war stories here ...

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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on January 25, 2010 at 9:16pm

Yeah and these are the same people who bitch when it takes us too long to get to them in an emergency because of other people slowing us down. It's a never ending circle.

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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on January 26, 2010 at 7:20pm

what a idiot!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Davis on January 28, 2010 at 7:48am

I was working for a casino in Vegas a few years ago as a Medic for the security staff. One night while working we had a pretty substantial earthquake that shook the casino and hotel. The director of Security advised us to assist with the evacuation of the casino floor. One elderly lady, sitting at "her slot machine" refused to leave because she didn't want to loose a chance at hitting the big payout.