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Typical Whackers
OK guys i was looking online for the Whacker Inciter LED Light when i came across the official definition of the term "Whacker". This is hilarious and sadly true hope you guys like it and lets here some stories about the whackers you guys know. Ill throw mine in after the definition...
1. Whacker: Someone who has an extensive number of emergency lights, whether legal or illegal. This person usually has several excuses to justify their light installations or usage. You can see these people in the larger population centers where surplus lights are more abundant. Usually they have light bars, dash lights, grill or hideaway strobe for no reason and try to find reasons to use them. Possible occupations of the typical whacker are security guard or some community safety club. Whackers tend to get hostile when confronted about their lights and they will name several tasks to justify their usage. Some stated tasks could be highway assistance, snow removal (with no plow attachment on the vehicle), an unforeseen emergency that will never happen, or anything that comes to the imagination in the heat of the argument. Some even go as far as to start up a business and outfit a retired police car just to have lights on a vehicle they own. These businesses usually are short lived and only do minimal business to keep the "company" they started alive. Usually whackers will have web sites celebrating their lighting abuse and you will see numerous flashy animations and pictures of real emergency vehicles with little to no real content. When confronting a whacker, you'll realize soon enough that they are always right, you are always wrong in their eyes. It's a mental state that only can be crushed by a dose of reality or leaving the whacker phase. The average whacker is probably a 16-28 year old white male, working a small or dead end job, lacking power at their job or in their personal life and is obsessed with police/fire shows, catalogs, or books.
Ok now the Whackers I know proudly show it. Down the Road 2 good friends of mine are the official "Sub-Station 17-Whackers R Us" LOL, full bar lights, millions of fire extinguishers in the beds of their trucks with traffic cones... extra lights trailers so extra equipment from the station incase of a huge incident(trailer they built their own)
Now for me I am with "The Whacker Brigade" LOL Me and my friend Lauren Bass started it when we got our new gear and when i got my new Vector blue light.
1. Whacker: Someone who has an extensive number of emergency lights, whether legal or illegal. This person usually has several excuses to justify their light installations or usage. You can see these people in the larger population centers where surplus lights are more abundant. Usually they have light bars, dash lights, grill or hideaway strobe for no reason and try to find reasons to use them. Possible occupations of the typical whacker are security guard or some community safety club. Whackers tend to get hostile when confronted about their lights and they will name several tasks to justify their usage. Some stated tasks could be highway assistance, snow removal (with no plow attachment on the vehicle), an unforeseen emergency that will never happen, or anything that comes to the imagination in the heat of the argument. Some even go as far as to start up a business and outfit a retired police car just to have lights on a vehicle they own. These businesses usually are short lived and only do minimal business to keep the "company" they started alive. Usually whackers will have web sites celebrating their lighting abuse and you will see numerous flashy animations and pictures of real emergency vehicles with little to no real content. When confronting a whacker, you'll realize soon enough that they are always right, you are always wrong in their eyes. It's a mental state that only can be crushed by a dose of reality or leaving the whacker phase. The average whacker is probably a 16-28 year old white male, working a small or dead end job, lacking power at their job or in their personal life and is obsessed with police/fire shows, catalogs, or books.
Ok now the Whackers I know proudly show it. Down the Road 2 good friends of mine are the official "Sub-Station 17-Whackers R Us" LOL, full bar lights, millions of fire extinguishers in the beds of their trucks with traffic cones... extra lights trailers so extra equipment from the station incase of a huge incident(trailer they built their own)
Now for me I am with "The Whacker Brigade" LOL Me and my friend Lauren Bass started it when we got our new gear and when i got my new Vector blue light.
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Permalink Reply by Really living is optional on
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Using this definition and list that I found online I would have to say that I fit the bill as a whacker:
Whacker (noun): Any EMT, Firefighter, Rescue Worker
who enjoys his job simply for the pleasure of...
A. Hearing their own voice on the radio
B. Using lights and sirens on the ambulance/fire truck
C. Using lights and sirens on their personal vehicle
D. A life time subscription to Galls because of the sheer amount of stuff ordered from them
E. Having more stuff on their work belt then Batman
F. Only showing up (whether they were dispatched or not) for the 'good calls'(car rollovers, structure fires, High angle rescues)
G. once in while having patient contact
H. Wearing anything that has their fire company on it so they can get 50% off in stores or food
I. Wearing their Class A uniforms to parades and to public events
J. Driving around with a bumper sticker that says... "My wife said ‘if I go to the fire house one more time I'm going to leave you'...boy I'm going to miss her..."
K. Taking their lunch break and going to the fire house
J. Calling their favorite Rig or engine "my baby"
L. Sneaking out of their house at 2:30 in the morning so they can go wax their "BABY"
M. Having pictures at work of their "BABY" and keeping the pictures of their real children at home
N. Having at least one room full of Fire and EMS stuff
O. When on vacation visiting the local Fire and EMS departments
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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And over the years, I have found that people who are offended by being called a "whacker", usually ARE!
Around here, we call each other "whacker" as a term of endearment, because no one gets upset and we limit hat pins on hats to just TWO!
Art
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Permalink Reply by Allen Wahlstrom on
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leave it to Siren to take the starch out of this conversation...
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Art I have it on good authority that you are wrong. It is actually in Texas at least a 1993 Dodge Ram diesel pickup...
Here's why:
When they roll up to the station and it's a 100 F day they can leave the truck running to protect the dash mounted PC with global positioning sat link and combination paging, lightbar/siren system up for the next run.
When you arrive at the station there are anywhere from 1 to 5 of these idling outside the station.
The 84 escort would be the car burning in front of the station when you returned...
just my 2 cents.
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none at all...ok so I did need a stiff drink after.
Oh you were tryingto help her...how did I miss that...LOL
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I think you have your mind in the gutter lady!
I was jsut trying to be punny. IS nice to see someone who gets it!
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I noticed, but I couldn't say anything for fear of insulting the gay community.
And I have gay friends, but I'm not gay.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Not trying to start anything.
I'll stop now.
Art
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Hey!, get off my tupperwear. Leather upsets the cows down here...
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" I love my poor dead gay son!!!"
wait sorry is this really a place for movie quotes...and I knew a gay guy once, does that give me license to use the word "gay" in conversation??? OK so I have a family member or two, ok so maybe three who are gay or should I say living an alternitive lifestyle...isnt that the pc term now?
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You ARE aware that they made a diesel version of the Ford Escort?
The reason I know is that our Asst. Chief drove one.
I suppose that they could catch fire.
Everything reaches its ignition point, right?
Except, maybe for those damned packaging peanuts. Sumbitches are everywhere and can NEVER seem to get rid of them.
Art
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you might be right, the 84 escort was reportedly made with recycled packing peanuts!
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Permalink Reply by ee779 on
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Thankyou, You have just proved more than 3/4 of our company members are "whackers"! lol
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