That poor Fire Fighter! INJURIES SUCK

Ok, I know I have not posted in a long time. Part of it was lack of inspiration, the other part was me not caring too much. But this can not and will not be overlooked. I tried. My brother in law Chuck emailed this to me and I sat on it for a day. Partially to see if it enraged me enough to sit and type my aggravation out, the other part was me trying to find a little bit of good in it. Well, as my unemployed ass sat in bed last night, I couldn't help but think "what a dick head, your a injured firefighter getting 100% tax free". That's right, as a fire fighter in mass, if you are hurt on the job, you get 100% tax free until you can return to work or retire out. If you retire out injured, at my last check it, is the average of your top 3 years of by, multiplied by 72% and that's what you get. No taxes taken, you get health care and a few other little things. That is (and rightfully so) a thank you from the state to police officers and fire fighters who injure themselves in the line of duty and can not work any longer. I know this because, I worked with plenty of people police and fire that HAD to take it. Personally, my father had a stroke as a police officer. His doctor stated that it was work/stress related. The cities doctor stated otherwise...guess who won!! Ya, I am a tad bitter on this subject. So now onto injured fire fighter turned professional body builder Albert Arroyo. If you know the story read on, if not here is the link to the story.

Now, first of all I am no FIRE FIGHTING BASHING. I have a few friends in the business and I will be the first to state that I would take a gun toting lunatic against a fire burning ANY DAY. A fire and not be rationalized with, a lunatic can be on one level or another. Fire Fighters in general are ALMOST as wonderful as the news makes them out to be. Honestly no group could live up to the hype set forth by today's media when it comes to Fire Fighters.

So Albert I have two questions, is your IQ the same number as you placed in the competition (number 8) and WHAT THE F*^k. How friggen arrogant can one man be. Its not like you called in sick to go to the RED SOX game or to go to your kids school play. YOU COMPETED IN A NATIONAL BODY BUILDING competition. Were you confident that there was no camera's there or press coverage. What if you won, its not like you competed under an assumed name. You DOLT! Are you that good of a guy where you never pissed ANYONE OFF, so you were confident NOBODY IN THE WORLD would turn you in. ASSH*OLE.

Ok, that made me feel a LITTLE better. now let me jump pages to his Lawyer, James S. Dilday (that joke writes itself). This obvious ambulance chaser, who consulted ARROYO, but had not been hired by him (I don't believe that) states "The bodybuilding helped him cope, emotionally and physically, with the travails and rigors of working as a firefighter". Ok, keep going you should now say "UNTIL HE HURT HIS BACK THEN HE COULD NOT LIFT WEIGHTS"...say it damn it...SAY IT. Where the hell is Sam Kinison when you need him. This guy would be F^*king fired already for not coming up with a better line. It wasn't even a Boston Fire Fighters Union Lawyer, that's how you know this is such B*LL SHIT, his own brothers and sisters aren't coming to his aid.

Now back to Arroyo, 'cause I ain't done yet. He got on the job (slang for started work) in 1986. His current salary is $68,133, that's not peso's my friends. So, I spoke earlier of how the injury retirement would go. If he RETIRED with an injury it is the average of his top 3 years of pay multiplied by 72%. But he is out INJURED, still on the job. So he gets %100 tax free.I needed help figuring what he was making but thanks to quicken, Microsoft money and my toes I came up with this figure, $68,000 give or take a few hundred. Oh, and medical coverage and what ever else any other active fire fighter received. That is what he got paid to get ready for this competition. if he retired it would be close to that, not to mention the public servant equivalent of a private 401K that HE pays into (I wouldn't argue that he should get that), health care, and a nice watch, and a party at St. Florians Hall (The Boston FF union/function hall).

And, again, its not like this guy was a front line JAKE (slang for fire fighter) running into burning buildings. He was a fire fighter assigned to be a BUILDING INSPECTOR. He isn't the guy or gal that jumps off the truck, turn out gear (fire fighting gear) grabs an axe and saves granny from a 4th alarm fire. He is the guy that is going to show up and tell you your sprinkler system sucks.

So, Congrats on coming in 8th Arroyo, cause in my heart you are the 1st place ASSH*OLE.

(oh, and if this was a cop it would have made NATIONAL news and his family would be incarcerated with him. but that's a different story on why the news sucks and the double standard that happens there)