Crime is Nice. We're Canadjun, eh?
Metro Vancouver has moved in one swell foop - or is that, one fell swoop? - from being The Wild West Show to being Crime Central West.
11 mob hits in less than 3 months.
Lovely.
But, as that great American philosopher, Alfred E. Newman, would have it, "What me, worry?"
Heck no.
We've got Wally Opaque to keep us calm.
Gosh and golly, I just feel like I've had a cup of warm milk and a cookie.
Thanks Wally, and how's The Beav?
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I put it to Wally on an open line some time ago that as a judge he himself had been part of the problem, so why would anyone expect him to be part of the solution.
Wally stickhandled his way out of that (well, Sean Leslie gave him a bit of a hand along the way) but he may have strained something in the process. ;-)
Wally's gotta go.
I was walking the dog in Mundy Park some time back, got into the car afterwards, radio on, news flash - two vehicles in running gun battle right along Austin by Mariner, right by the park. Stray rounds anyone?
The cops have never figured out who, what or why lead to shots fired and a lake of blood in the lot at Lougheed Mall late at night how long ago now. Nothing. As usual.
My wife's car and another on the block were broken into again (upteenth time) Thursday night. This in itself isn't special anymore. However, this time a neighbour came along and intervened, so the two pieces of walking excrement turned on him. No arrests, of course, forget it.
Our once peaceful neighbourhood has become an open air drive-thru for drug dealers and their customers, so its not hard to see the connection with the rising property crime (home break-ins are also through the sky).
They get their fresh dope, but alas, now they have no money again, but that's okay 'cause *smash tinkle tinkle*...
>:< as hell
It doesn't surprise me that the Lougheed mall neighbourhood has seen a rise in crime. I think as soon as skytrain is extended to an area, crime goes up. Many undesirables have no problem riding all over, without paying. We moved away from there 13 years ago and went a bit further east. I'm in no hurry to get skytrain.
Not that we're without crime, just this past week I watched as some twenty-something man tried to pick our front door lock. There were no cars in the driveway, he assumed no one was home.
"It doesn't surprise me that the Lougheed mall neighbourhood has seen a rise in crime. I think as soon as skytrain is extended to an area, crime goes up. Many undesirables have no problem riding all over, without paying."
Bingo. We've lived here forever and seen it all go to Hell. No turnstiles, no cops, no problems. Its atrocious. All the bland assurances beforehand were so much BS and those who fell for it get to hear about it from those of us who didn't.
And it may be coming to your town soon, folks.
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