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Skybird · 10-06-10, 12:43 PM

I read it in the German news today, too.

I'm divided on this story.

On the one hand, there could have been danger to innocent third parties.

On the other hand, the "victim", if one can call him so, repeatedly refused to pay the yearly fee of 75 dollars that is mandatory for fireprotection outsiode the city parameter, something like this. At least that is how nthe German news repoirted it to be: a yealry, mandatory fee for getting firefighter's support even when being outside their official engagement zone

If you do not sign in to a fire insurrance, you hardly can sue any insurrance company for compensating you if you do not have a contract with them.

If you do not pay your taxes for stateservics like road maintenance, police protection and emergency service, you have noit call to m ake that they owe you to come to your service for free.

And if the rules were known to this man (and they were, since he was asked for the payment) that there is a yearly fee for getting protection by the fire brigade while staying outside their official engagement zone, then he has no call against them when he does not pay that fee and thus they did not come to his rescue.

Many people are in perfect knoweldge about theikr rights, and what they can legally claim. They are always the first ijn the line to gain beenefits from these rights. But when it is about them to give back in return, they mysteriuously are gone , all of a sudden.

If you want protection by a public service, you have to give back - for exampel by paying according fees, taxes, etc, money that is needed to maintain suchz services. It's not for free, it does not maintain itself. If you ive outside ther tax district, and want to benefitr from said services nevertheless, and when you therefore get asdked to pay a certain fee for that, I wondfer how anybody can demand said services if he needs them - when he has not payed for them, as was asked of him. It was my understanbding from the German report that the man was not so poor that he could not afford to pay taxes or said fee.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,609 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I read it in the German news today, too. I'm divided on this story. On the one hand, there could have been danger to innocent third parties. On the other hand, the "victim", if one can call him so, repeatedly refused to pay the yearly fee of 75 dollars that is mandatory for fireprotection outsiode the city parameter, something like this. At least that is how nthe German news repoirted it to be: a yealry, mandatory fee for getting firefighter's support even when being outside their official engagement zone If you do not sign in to a fire insurrance, you hardly can sue any insurrance company for compensating you if you do not have a contract with them. If you do not pay your taxes for stateservics like road maintenance, police protection and emergency service, you have noit call to m ake that they owe you to come to your service for free. And if the rules were known to this man (and they were, since he was asked for the payment) that there is a yearly fee for getting protection by the fire brigade while staying outside their official engagement zone, then he has no call against them when he does not pay that fee and thus they did not come to his rescue. Many people are in perfect knoweldge about theikr rights, and what they can legally claim. They are always the first ijn the line to gain beenefits from these rights. But when it is about them to give back in return, they mysteriuously are gone , all of a sudden. If you want protection by a public service, you have to give back - for exampel by paying according fees, taxes, etc, money that is needed to maintain suchz services. It's not for free, it does not maintain itself. If you ive outside ther tax district, and want to benefitr from said services nevertheless, and when you therefore get asdked to pay a certain fee for that, I wondfer how anybody can demand said services if he needs them - when he has not payed for them, as was asked of him. It was my understanbding from the German report that the man was not so poor that he could not afford to pay taxes or said fee. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.