Is being a wanker a good or bad thing. Sure I got a mini-lightbar on my pickup. But here in the hill country, WE are the ones who do traffic control on MVA, and the lights keep me from getting hit. I have 2 fd shirts, because there the only thing close to a uniform I have. And I got my Galls catalog because I need to order my ems pants from somewhere. So while I'm a fd/ems enthusiest, not really a wanker.
Here's a wanker. He wears three radio's at all times. His truck has light bar and siren. He bought a fire dept badge, which he wears on his blue vest when he works at Wal-Mart. He had been know to cry if he could not make the truck, likes to ride in them. And at the scene he always got the report box to fill out the report. He also loves to tell everyone he's a first reponder.
The last call we had was a roll-over semi. One of the patients had a amputated arm. He was first on scene. He promply got out of truck, put on the full turn-outs and started to direct the non-existing traffic. He never got close to the semi at all. He had a history of doing things like this, and now no longer is on our fire deptment. He joined the town fd, where he rides around town in a old cop car. He now has a "personal" fire vehicle.
This is my definition of a wanker.