alt Hacker NewsI'd interpret the "minus first N per year" to mean that you get a few "free" fires per year - but after that your habits filling your closets with oily rags, overloading electrical extension cords, and smoking in bed will start to cost you.
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eastbound • yesterday at 8:19 PM
I'm sure someone somewhere will interpret it a 3 free demos of firefighters at home for their kid, with sirens and light, pretty entertaining (It's a reference to the Freakonomics study that, if you make parents pay by the minutes for being late getting their kid, they basically take the fine as a slightly expensive childcare facility).
Fire is one of those things that really sucks for you - but also really sucks for your neighbors.
You never want to supply any reason for someone to demur about reporting a fire.