Too Funny News item from The Onion

The Onion, the satirical online newspaper, has a great article, reprinted in its entirety here...

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

Of course, this is one of the issues that I depart from the Libertarian Platform. There are some services that should not be privitized, police and fire fighting being a couple of them.