Not done often but it has now been done. Tuesday night in Gatineau, the town across the river from Ottawa, a city well known for cheap beer, strippers and cheap beer, a 20 year old man showed up at the Hull detachment on De La Carriere looking for a place to spend the night.
The sergeant on duty explained the Gatineau police are not hoteliers and referred him to community resources.
Not good enough for buddy; he left the station and proceeded to smash the windows of the station. Problem solved re sleeping indoors: the cops arrested the fool for vandalism and he appeared in court Wednesday.
Only in La Belle Province where the unthinkable happens on a regular basis.
WFDS
Showing posts with label Jail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jail. Show all posts
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
234...Toughest Job In The World
Journalist.
More specifically, being a journalist in North Korea.
More, more specifically, being an American journalist in North Korea.
To that end The Los Angeles Times this morning offers late-breaking news that, after a two-day trial, that Laura Ling, CNN's Lisa Ling is her older sister, and Euna Lee, both of Current TV, were convicted of a grave crime against the state and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. I never want to go to jail but I really never want to go to jail in North Korea and as for hard labour, well, I am rather delicate. Ms. Link and Ms. Lee were tried by the nation's highest court so there's no appeal, but most seem to agree the isolationist regime will be using the journalists as bargaining chips with Washington.
On top of jail avoidance I never want to be a bargaining chip either.
For your erudition, Current TV is partially owned by the inventor of the Internet, Vice President Al Gore, and is painfully hip with a reliance on viewer produced content i.e. smart young adults with video cameras who are killing time before going to grad school or getting real world jobs but have a passion for telling stories. It is on cable networks in the United States.
12 years.
That sucks.
Big time.
WFDS
More specifically, being a journalist in North Korea.
More, more specifically, being an American journalist in North Korea.
To that end The Los Angeles Times this morning offers late-breaking news that, after a two-day trial, that Laura Ling, CNN's Lisa Ling is her older sister, and Euna Lee, both of Current TV, were convicted of a grave crime against the state and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. I never want to go to jail but I really never want to go to jail in North Korea and as for hard labour, well, I am rather delicate. Ms. Link and Ms. Lee were tried by the nation's highest court so there's no appeal, but most seem to agree the isolationist regime will be using the journalists as bargaining chips with Washington.
On top of jail avoidance I never want to be a bargaining chip either.
For your erudition, Current TV is partially owned by the inventor of the Internet, Vice President Al Gore, and is painfully hip with a reliance on viewer produced content i.e. smart young adults with video cameras who are killing time before going to grad school or getting real world jobs but have a passion for telling stories. It is on cable networks in the United States.
12 years.
That sucks.
Big time.
WFDS
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
197...Proud To Be A Canadian
Sometimes it is hard to be proud to be a Canadian.
Janice Tibbetts reports in Wednesday's Montreal Gazette that the government of our home and native land is arguing in court that Canada's legal duty to protect its citizens, even children, ends at the border and there is nothing in domestic or international law that obliges the government to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation.
The government contends it has done plenty to ensure the "well-being" of the Guantanamo Bay detainee; they have supplied him with magazines and everything!!!
Brings a tear.
WFDS
Janice Tibbetts reports in Wednesday's Montreal Gazette that the government of our home and native land is arguing in court that Canada's legal duty to protect its citizens, even children, ends at the border and there is nothing in domestic or international law that obliges the government to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation.
The government contends it has done plenty to ensure the "well-being" of the Guantanamo Bay detainee; they have supplied him with magazines and everything!!!
Brings a tear.
WFDS
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