Satire

From The Onion today:

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department

CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. "Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist," Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down." Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service.

As I pointed out on Reason Magazine's deeply disfunctional weblog, maybe if he didn't have to pay so much in taxes, he could have afforded smoke alarms, sprinklers, and fire extinguishers and wouldn't have needed to involve the fire department at all.