Lord thunderin' Jeezuz! We got eagle-murderers runnin' loose, terrists gettin' away with bombin' Air Indee airplanes, leftyLib AdScampers stealin' millions from the public purse, nutjob gun-lovers dealin' stolen car parts an' killin' coppers, punkass teenagers stealin' Chrysler Neons an' all sortsa dangerous rapers an' wife-beaters runnin' loose an' these numbnutses are goin' after a few pore damn bastards standin' out in the open with nuthin' but a shoppin' cart full o' junk.
Well, sez I, them bitchin' biznesses oughta be 'shamed.KELOWNA, B.C. - Street people in the B.C. Interior city of Kelowna have been told by the RCMP they have until April 1 to surrender their shopping carts – or have them seized.
The police said the carts, worth up to $350 each, are stolen property. They said they're simply enforcing the law after complaints by the city and the business community.
But homeless people, who can often be seen trundling around Kelowna's downtown core with everything they own on the carts, said they're crucial for the survival.
Yores trooly,
JimBobby
3 comments:
You know, where I grew up, a lot of shopping carts got taken by high school and college kids, who then did things like riding them down small hills or kept them as trophies or used them to move stuff in the summer then discarded them. So the RCMP is going to crack down on these college kids, too, right?
I guess it's not like the RCMP has the discretion to ignore complaints; if they end up picking up some poor homeless guy and he has a shopping cart and the lawful owner has filed a complaint, the RCMP can't rightly pretend they don't see it. But if Kelowna has enough people homeless that local storeowners livelyhoods are threatened due to lack of shopping carts, then there's something else more important going on in Kelowna that needs dealing with.
So a newer version of the story makes it sound like it might not be as bad as originally reported
Whooee! I ain't so sure the drug dealer angle ain't jest some cover-yer-ass story come out after the massive shot o' bad PR they got from my little boog story an' it's thousands an' thousands o' incensed readers. The cops always use that excuse when they wanna roust vagrants or hippies or protesters.
Here's part o' that Globe story that's funny:
"Candy Sutherland, executive director of the Kelowna Drop-In Centre, said one of her clients spent a night in jail late last week for uttering threats after his shopping cart was either stolen by drug dealers or taken by police."
Yeow! They can't tell the cops from the dealers.
But it's like yer sayin', Jonfeller, there's more t' the story than first met our eyeballs.
JB
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