[quote name='smketrfdny' timestamp='1335393001' post='482999']
Mike, in many ways the internet has just made a few million more washwomen. I get the emails from FDNY on Yahoo and some yahoo (pun intended) HAD to be the first to release Lt. Rich Nappi's name BEFORE the job did officially. Pissed a lot of people off (like here) and it seems today that everyone has to be the first, common sense and decency be damned. So be it fire apparatus, or a LODD name to release, or to just be an asshole, we now have the internet to spread rumors faster and any gaggling group of women ever could. Saw some HFD guys at the funeral, didnt get a chance to say hello to them
Stay safe, Brothers.
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I don't think we can relate releasing false information about an apparatus contract and the death of a fellow firefighter. I agree 100% that no one should be releasing any info on the death of any body from any department until there department does it officially, anyone who feels the need to be the first to release that kind of info is an ....hole in my book! But I don't think that releasing info on fire truck contracts is that detrimental, if it's that big a secret than no one outside of the people involved in the bidding process should be getting any of the info until something official is announced. But I agree that I would say the majority of what I have gotten has usually turned out to be true information.
Just my opinion....
Mike, in many ways the internet has just made a few million more washwomen. I get the emails from FDNY on Yahoo and some yahoo (pun intended) HAD to be the first to release Lt. Rich Nappi's name BEFORE the job did officially. Pissed a lot of people off (like here) and it seems today that everyone has to be the first, common sense and decency be damned. So be it fire apparatus, or a LODD name to release, or to just be an asshole, we now have the internet to spread rumors faster and any gaggling group of women ever could. Saw some HFD guys at the funeral, didnt get a chance to say hello to them
Stay safe, Brothers.
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I don't think we can relate releasing false information about an apparatus contract and the death of a fellow firefighter. I agree 100% that no one should be releasing any info on the death of any body from any department until there department does it officially, anyone who feels the need to be the first to release that kind of info is an ....hole in my book! But I don't think that releasing info on fire truck contracts is that detrimental, if it's that big a secret than no one outside of the people involved in the bidding process should be getting any of the info until something official is announced. But I agree that I would say the majority of what I have gotten has usually turned out to be true information.
Just my opinion....
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