You’d probably look this happy, too, if you were inclined to rob booze from the NLC, did so twice in two months, and then got away with it.
According to VOCM, it’s been almost a year since the man pictured here in a surveillance image allegedly walked out of a liquor store in Holyrood and drove off with stolen goods for the second time. He’s been eluding the RCMP ever since.
VOCM is now reporting there has been “Debauchery at St. Augustine’s Church“. Lets get the facts straight:
… oh, wait, there are none. Someone who was not identified claims that people buy and sell drugs on the church steps and that they’ve now found “evidence” of sexual activity, which was also left unexplained.
The church’s response is even more bizarre: they’ve erected a 14 foot high wood carving over the front door.
Which looks really cool, but all this has left me utterly baffled. That is, until I read the Wikipedia article on St. Augustine:
As a youth Augustine lived a hedonistic lifestyle for a time, associating with hooligans (Latin: euersores, literally meaning wreckers) who boasted of their experience with the opposite sex and urged the inexperienced boys, like Augustine, to seek out experiences with women or to make up stories about experiences in order to gain acceptance and avoid ridicule.
Highly appropriate, but still, a very confusing series of events.
I wonder if they analyzed the evidence …with science?
Edit: CBC has the real story. Thanks to reader jaimesey for pointing it out. Turns out, VOCM didn’t even get a picture or an accurate description of the actual gate that was erected. I’m sure they’ll revise the story on their website to correct their errors eventually.
MUN, VOCM and CBC are all over the recent arrest of three 20-something guys and a 17 year old gal. They’re accused of stealing laptops from the library.
I had to laugh at CBC’s Television coverage. Just watch for 20 seconds and you’ll see what I mean as their writers nail their major demographic. Bonus monocle near the end.
…anyway, Charges will also be laid against some of the people who purchased the stolen laptops. Knowingly having stolen property worth less than $5,000 is a summary offense.
The really sad part is, a student’s computer is their life at this time of year. All this coverage probably dissuades would-be crooks from ruining someone’s academic career. I can get behind that. This incident demonstrates that sketchy b’ys are not hard to track down on a campus with closed circuit TV cameras everywhere.
Good job, RNC/CEP.
“There are two men and five women. Oh, my son you have my sympathy (laughter). You and Gary are not going to get your way on anything, you know that don’t you (laughter). It’s just going to be like being at home, buddy (laughter). We’re being nasty to your lady councillors aren’t we (laughter). No, you’re going to have a good crew out there.”
The original edition of this post contained some errors in transcription. Here is the exact transcript of what Simms said. Signal apologies for any confusion.
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From oversized classrooms to overworked parents, today’s kids are pretty much left to their own devices. As a result, it seems they’ve started going feral.
From VOCM.com:
The City of Mount Pearl is stepping up enforcement in light of a vicious assault in the city. A 34 year old man received serious facial injuries after he was attacked by a group of young people on the weekend. Mayor Randy Simms says while it was a disturbing incident, it was an isolated one. Simms says they will be talking with Municipal Enforcement and RNC. He says this event has taken them aback, but he wants to assure that Mount Pearl is still a safe city. He reminds people to use common sense precautions while walking the trails.
Common sense precautions like what? Avoid young people?
Sorry b’ys, but these aren’t an isolated group of kids who suddenly decided to go savage, and simply beefing up security isn’t going to make this problem go away.
I suppose we could blame the drug dealers and their irresistible candy.
I mean, there’s got to be some direction other than towards ourselves that we can look, right?
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A man armed with a handgun made off with a quantity of drugs from a St. John’s pharmacy. The brazen daylight holdup happened at a drug store on Campbell Avenue Thursday afternoon. The man is described as short, in his late forties or early fifties. He was wearing a hat, a two tone blue jacket and jeans. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the RNC or Crime Stoppers.
Considering he couldn’t even wait until the cover of night, I suppose “brazen” might be one way of looking at it. “Fucked up and desperate” might be another.
Remember when this never used to happen? Our province and its people are worth more than this. The current system is in need of review.
VOCM’s Question of the Day is:
Do you think marijuana should be legalized and taxed like tobacco and alcohol?
Click here to give your response.
Here are the results as of the time of this writing:
Yes has a significant majority with almost 3000 people polled so far. Time for our leaders to wake up and smell the reefer, I’d say.
As a result, he told Ryan Cleary on VOCM’s Back Talk, a lot of marijuana smokers are turning to alcohol.
That may seem like a win: booze is legal and weed isn’t, right? But surely no one could honestly argue that alcohol is less harmful a substance than marijuana.
Granted, marijuana may make some people paranoid (hello!) and others fairly lethargic, but this can’t compare to the erratically violent or predatorily sexual behaviour alcohol can induce. Nor can it compare to the medical complications alcohol can cause.
Apart from the stuff you’d rub on a wound, is there such a thing as medical alcohol? Not that I’ve heard of. And yet marijuana is prescribed to relieve the symptoms of all sorts of ailments.
The math on whether or not marijuana should be legal is awfully simple.
Of course, it’s not the RNC’s fault that weed isn’t legal. Technically they’re just doing their job when they make a weed bust. But surely they could have the sense to decide which crimes are softer than others and make an educated decision about where to put their focus.
Marijuana busts seem like a waste of resources and something that will only cause more harm than good.
VOCM, in their diligence, have reported this morning on a couple who were bear sprayed last night while siting in a car on Pennywell Road. The male victim, as if being blinded by the incomprehensible agony of a torture designed to incapacitate a bear wasn’t enough, was then arrested and detained under an outstanding warrant.
I’d heard tell of this happening in St. John’s before, the rumour being that the ones holding the bear spray were crack addicts looking to steal coke, crack and/or money from their victims.
The whole situation with the guy who got sprayed last night having an outstanding warrant doesn’t necessarily prove that this was a similar situation, but it certainly lends credence to the notion.
Which ultimately just lends credence to the notion that you should really try your best at all times to never get addicted to crack, lest you wind up trying to rob people with bear spray all the time for a fix.
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Danny Williams was not appreciative of remarks made by Randy Simms this morning on VOCM’s Open Line, so he called the show to politely let Randy know.
Through civilized discourse the two came to a greater understanding of one another’s views on a complex matter, and we all grew as a result.
Just kidding! Danny let him have it. Obviously.
The Telegram has a recording of their convo available for streaming here.
[via ryanstrickland]
