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Title: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: HVC on April 12, 2017, 02:03:46 PM
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/major-crime-met-with-proportional-response?utm_term=.nxvQwEVWB#.ln6BO4QMY
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 02:06:48 PM
Quote from: HVC on April 12, 2017, 02:03:46 PM
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ishmaeldaro/major-crime-met-with-proportional-response?utm_term=.nxvQwEVWB#.ln6BO4QMY

That's not shoplifting though - that's a full on B&E to a commercial enterprise. :nerd:
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Malthus on April 12, 2017, 02:26:57 PM
Yeah, yay for misleading titles. Yes, it was some teens and yes they stole candy - but they had to break into a store inside a major amusement park to do it. Folks doing that are likely to attract some unfriendly police attention.  :lol:

They weren't going after some corner store candy shoplifters.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: HVC on April 12, 2017, 02:29:00 PM
lawyers are no fun <_< :P
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 12, 2017, 05:00:09 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Too many unscrupulous accountants and lawyers.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Maximus on April 12, 2017, 05:10:26 PM
So I was talking with an uber driver a while back and he was telling me about his trip to Canada, and one of the things that had stood out for him was the lack of police officers.

Now this is something I have observed as well, but I never made anything out of it because I tended to live in smaller towns in Canada and I figured that accounted for it. However I just did a quick search and wiki's numbers support that, putting the number of officers per capita in Canada at slightly more than half of that for the US.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 12, 2017, 05:19:06 PM
Les flics always seem to be around in Montreal.  Don't really remember seeing a bunch in Toronto.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Zoupa on April 12, 2017, 05:47:22 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 12, 2017, 05:19:06 PM
Les flics always seem to be around in Montreal.  Don't really remember seeing a bunch in Toronto.

You were mostly downtown though. Gotta keep an eye on the bros descending from Boston every goddamn weekend thinking it's ok to get loud, drunk and grab girls because "it's Montreal man! knowadImean?"
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Jacob on April 12, 2017, 06:17:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?

Yup he has. He seemed to feel relatively safe in my company... or maybe that was just a front?
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: garbon on April 12, 2017, 06:59:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?

On multiple occasions.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: garbon on April 12, 2017, 06:59:47 PM
Quote from: Jacob on April 12, 2017, 06:17:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?

Yup he has. He seemed to feel relatively safe in my company... or maybe that was just a front?

You were quite keen on that leather bar. :whistle:
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Jacob on April 12, 2017, 07:01:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 06:59:47 PM
You were quite keen on that leather bar. :whistle:

Just trying to show you a good time...
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Monoriu on April 12, 2017, 07:43:28 PM
I am glad that, for once, they take theft seriously.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Oexmelin on April 12, 2017, 08:07:58 PM
It shouldn't be taken this seriously.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Monoriu on April 12, 2017, 08:11:35 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 12, 2017, 08:07:58 PM
It shouldn't be taken this seriously.

I don't expect them to catch every thief, but it would be nice to know that not 100% of them can get away with it. 
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: viper37 on April 14, 2017, 12:10:55 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?
yes.  He even met with an horrible homophobic, anglophobic person while visiting our country and nothing bad happened.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: viper37 on April 14, 2017, 12:12:10 PM
Quote from: Zoupa on April 12, 2017, 05:47:22 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 12, 2017, 05:19:06 PM
Les flics always seem to be around in Montreal.  Don't really remember seeing a bunch in Toronto.

You were mostly downtown though. Gotta keep an eye on the bros descending from Boston every goddamn weekend thinking it's ok to get loud, drunk and grab girls because "it's Montreal man! knowadImean?"
nonsense.  Bruins fans are charming people.  It's the Habs one you got to watch for.  :P
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: garbon on April 14, 2017, 01:47:32 PM
Quote from: viper37 on April 14, 2017, 12:10:55 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 12, 2017, 05:01:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 12, 2017, 02:29:24 PM
Canada seems like a very unsafe place.

Have you ever been G?
yes.  He even met with an horrible homophobic, anglophobic person while visiting our country and nothing bad happened.

That's how you tell it.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 14, 2017, 01:53:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on April 14, 2017, 12:12:10 PM
nonsense.  Bruins fans are charming people.  It's the Habs one you got to watch for.  :P

Actually my general impression is that Anglo Canadians are bigger knuckleheads in Montreal than Americans.
Title: Re: You don't steal candy in Canada
Post by: viper37 on April 16, 2017, 04:12:05 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 14, 2017, 01:53:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on April 14, 2017, 12:12:10 PM
nonsense.  Bruins fans are charming people.  It's the Habs one you got to watch for.  :P

Actually my general impression is that Anglo Canadians are bigger knuckleheads in Montreal than Americans.
During springbreak, both group can be knuckleheads.   They're not used to drinking, they come over here where it's still very liberal, so they drink until they nearly pass out.

During hockey games, Boston fans have a certain reputation they sometimes try to uphold, and with Habs fans, that creates... frictions.  That's like having a party where you invite Bandidos and Hell's Angels with their patches.  ;)

Not to say that some Montreal fans don't do crazy shit in Boston either.