Reply #104: There is no indication that the family "couldn't" pay them. The [View All]

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story is that the family didn't pay because they thought they could get away with not paying the fee.

First of all, like most people, they assumed their house wouldn't ever catch on fire. But secondly, and this is important, the owner said that he just assumed that even if he refused to pay the fee, the FD would still put out the fire if something did happen to his house. In other words, he didn't want to pay the extremely reasonable $75 subscription fee, because he figured he could still get protection for free if he didn't.

He was deliberately atempting to be a freeloader, because he thought he could get away with it.