OT: One More Off Topic Off Season Thread

[Stoneman89]

Sticking with the LRT issues, it was reported that a 55 year old woman was sitting quietly on a station bench last night around 8:30 pm, minding her own business, when a couple of TWELVE year old GIRLS started to harass her , and then ultimately beat her within an inch of her life.

Hey, let's all take the LRT for fun and games!

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Sticking with the LRT issues, it was reported that a 55 year old woman was sitting quietly on a station bench last night around 8:30 pm, minding her own business, when a couple of TWELVE year old GIRLS started to harass her , and then ultimately beat her within an inch of her life.

Hey, let's all take the LRT for fun and games!

Sickening.

My 65 year old neighbor was walking over catwalk at the Heritage LRT to meet his wife and walk her home the other night at 8:30 pm when he was attacked by a gang of about a half dozen young men (he said they weren’t teens).

Luckily his dog saved him, as it went from adorable Labradoodle to insane 70lb rabid killer but had he not had his dog he’d be yet another LRT casualty.

But our Elected Overlords at City Council tell us “we don’t have a gang problem in the city OR a crime problem with the LRT” while they are trying to slowly remove vehicles off the roads and make us reliant on their useless crime ridden transit system.

When I was on our community league board I got into it with every city representative that graced us with their presence to tell us we didn’t have a crime or gang problem at Heritage.

Bunch of f***ing morons down at City Hall.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Sickening.

My 65 year old neighbor was walking over catwalk at the Heritage LRT to meet his wife and walk her home the other night at 8:30 pm when he was attacked by a gang of about a half dozen young men (he said they weren’t teens).

Luckily his dog saved him, as it went from adorable Labradoodle to insane 70lb rabid killer but had he not had his dog he’d be yet another LRT casualty.

But our Elected Overlords at City Council tell us “we don’t have a gang problem in the city OR a crime problem with the LRT” while they are trying to slowly remove vehicles off the roads and make us reliant on their useless crime ridden transit system.

When I was on our community league board I got into it with every city representative that graced us with their presence to tell us we didn’t have a crime or gang problem at Heritage.

Bunch of f***ing morons down at City Hall.

Seems like we have LRT just to import our gangbanger factions into every corner of the city. The City steadfastly denies the problems or that much of the ETS property and stations is regularly become gangbanger turf. That gang there wouldn't just be there for brief period. They are setting up shop there.

Could say a lot more as I've been involved in these issues in my career. But Edmonton has a huge gang problem for a vast number of reasons.

Years ago I was serially reporting that all of Churchill Square, Station, and DT Library and environs had become regular gang turf. For years it was just allowed to exist. Problems were ignored if not exacerbated by allowance of the same. Also reported mega gangbanger activity at Coliseum and Stadium stations. All ignored. Nothing done about it.

We live in a city where a pack of 10-20 gangers can get on an LRT train or bus and nobody asks questions. They are just allowed to be out in force. Any sensible city stomps on these kind of pack problems immediately. Not here.

What is required here is real expenditure on targeting gangs and a criminal justice system that deals with the offenders adequately. We used to have decent gang units here. Not anymore.

The morons are the people that constantly vote for the morons in office.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[Drivesaitl]

Feels strange that I won't have one more post speaking about Christine Sinclair playing in a match. Sinclair has been around the Canadian Football scene since the millennium and now no longer. Canada won the game 1-0 in a sleepy affair with Australia who seemed mostly interested in letting the greatest womens footballer ever get a W on her last day.

But as it was in so much of Sinclairs time here her brilliant passes foiled more by team mates not being up to task. Sinclair still made about 3 passes last night which were surgical precision. No scoring attempts and of course Sinclair doesn't have the break speed to get open as well and frankly the service to her is missing.

But she did it. She inspired so many girls to take up the game and many played with her yesterday. That were kids that had Sinclair posters up on the walls when they were young

In this age few people reach up and inspire. Christine Sinclair was always magical in that regard. Feel sad this chapter is over.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

How is the Friday Beer guy not falling down drunk at the end lol. Pretty sure he’d win a Who can pee the longest bet at the toilets after.

 

[Stoneman89]

Feels strange that I won't have one more post speaking about Christine Sinclair playing in a match. Sinclair has been around the Canadian Football scene since the millennium and now no longer. Canada won the game 1-0 in a sleepy affair with Australia who seemed mostly interested in letting the greatest womens footballer ever get a W on her last day.

But as it was in so much of Sinclairs time here her brilliant passes foiled more by team mates not being up to task. Sinclair still made about 3 passes last night which were surgical precision. No scoring attempts and of course Sinclair doesn't have the break speed to get open as well and frankly the service to her is missing.

But she did it. She inspired so many girls to take up the game and many played with her yesterday. That were kids that had Sinclair posters up on the walls when they were young

In this age few people reach up and inspire. Christine Sinclair was always magical in that regard. Feel sad this chapter is over.

She's been a heck of a player and ambassador for the country.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[bellagiobob]

Guy speaks the truth. That would clean you right out.

 

[Stoneman89]

Guy speaks the truth. That would clean you right out.

 

[Beerfish]

No bigger nut lickers in the media than the tsn baseball experts phillips and mitchell. They're as bad as the guys paid by the oilers to ball wash.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Watch until the very end to hear the sound the scooter guy makes.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[Beerfish]

Watch until the very end to hear the sound the scooter guy makes.

You have to assume that the gate has always been open in the past, hopefully someone put a warning at the top of the hill or something.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

You have to assume that the gate has always been open in the past, hopefully someone put a warning at the top of the hill or something.

Or hopefully people use their Mark 1 Eyeballs.

 

[Beerfish]

Or hopefully people use their Mark 1 Eyeballs.

The way all three of those guys were going there was no stopping or seeing and they had been through there before. No one rides down there that fast unless they know a gate is open.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

The way all three of those guys were going there was no stopping or seeing and they had been through there before. No one rides down there that fast unless they know a gate is open.

Or they are not using their Mark 1 Eyeballs.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

I’d say it’s Bourbon O Clock heading towards Old Fashioned Time.

 

[harpoon]

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I’d say it’s Bourbon O Clock heading towards Old Fashioned Time.

Don’t have too many and forget to put the GDT up. Remember it’s an early game tomorrow. Don’t want to mess with the streak.

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

Don’t have too many and forget to put the GDT up. Remember it’s an early game tomorrow. Don’t want to mess with the streak.

Getting on it right now as a matter of fact!

 

[5 Mins 4 Ftg]

 

[Stoneman89]

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I’d say it’s Bourbon O Clock heading towards Old Fashioned Time.

I made a batch of smokey Manhattans yesterday for our guests using my new smoker kit. As expected, a huge hit. Great minds think alike.

 

[BlackDogg]

Don't BBQ much lately. Price.of meats is beyond bad.

 

[Stoneman89]

Lol, Bad Grandma.

 

[Spawn]

Sickening.

My 65 year old neighbor was walking over catwalk at the Heritage LRT to meet his wife and walk her home the other night at 8:30 pm when he was attacked by a gang of about a half dozen young men (he said they weren’t teens).

Luckily his dog saved him, as it went from adorable Labradoodle to insane 70lb rabid killer but had he not had his dog he’d be yet another LRT casualty.

But our Elected Overlords at City Council tell us “we don’t have a gang problem in the city OR a crime problem with the LRT” while they are trying to slowly remove vehicles off the roads and make us reliant on their useless crime ridden transit system.

When I was on our community league board I got into it with every city representative that graced us with their presence to tell us we didn’t have a crime or gang problem at Heritage.

Bunch of f***ing morons down at City Hall.

Lots of blame to go around. This isn't just a city hall issue. I'd put a police force unwilling to do their job despite being the highest funded police force in the country per capita and a provincial government that continues to dismantle services related to homelessness and addiction right at the top of the list as well.

I will also add that I've worked downtown for nearly a decade and take the LRT to and from work. I have never had any sort of risky encounter or ever seen the roving gangs that Drivesaitl suggests are taking over the city. That isn't to say there aren't problems. Of course they are. But to some extent they are overblown.