The scene which always makes me cringe and want to throw something at the TV is when Superman 'helpfully' [Roll Eyes] turns on the fire hydrant for the kids, so that water gushes out all over the place.
As many of you know, hubby is a firefighter. And every darn summer, firefighters lives are made hell by children turning on fire hydrants to cool themselves down. It's dangerous, it lowers water pressure, leads to a high possibility that when firefighters actually need that water during an emergency it won't be there for them, and they get verbal and physical abuse from parents who don't want them 'spoiling the kid's fun' when they come back twenty times in the same day to the same fire hydrant to turn it off.
Just had to say, I was amazed to hear during this past summer that my city actually *intentionally* opened fire hydrants in the city. They called them "street showers" and posted in the paper and on the news what blocks they would be on. They did it to help citizens cool down, though, because we had a serious heat wave (about 100 for about two weeks, and with our humidity the heat index can jump to 115 or so) and a lot of people don't have fans or air conditioning. Nonetheless, I was still stunned to hear that the city would actually do that intentionally, especially as I would assume that they might have *more* fires during that season.
