Unbelievable

Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee.
Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost all of their possessions in the fire, along with three dogs and a cat.
"They could have been saved if they had put water on it, but they didn't do it," Cranick told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
The fire department from the nearby city of South Fulton would not respond because Cranick lives outside of the city limits. The FD provides service to those residents for an annual fee of $75. They showed up to stop the fire from spreading to the neighbors house, who had paid the fee but stood by and watched as Cranick's house burned to the ground.

Let me get this straight - The city of South Fulton is not a socialist community in a foreign land, but they charge for emergency services? The people living outside of the city limits pay the same taxes as the people inside the city limits. I don't get it. Wow.