Taynted_Fayth Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Lol sorry I must have skipped over or misread the blind part. I thought he meant he was blind stinkin drunk being woken up/pushed. Like rich ive blacked out in my younger days its never fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 @mikeoncrime: Source says it wasn't fact councillor was drunk. It was his expressed views on police that promoted mayor alert. This would also be newsworthy. Public has right to know Councillors views on police By his own admission he was so drunk he can't say for sure what happened ... He can only spectate. I've been there, not fun to wake up the next morning and friends tell you what happened. Then again I was also in my early twenties at the time. I've had one incident in my life where I was so hammered I acted unbelievably foolish. Never allowed it to happen again. And it didnt involve police and paramedics. This guy needs to grow up and accept some responsibility. He should be apologizing, to the voters, the police and paramedics who tried to help him and the people at the drunk tank who looked after him, not whining about someone calling his boss. Certainly could have turned out a lot different for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyWinnipeg Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Different spin on the story for sure. Do the police have the right to call family/friends of someone in the tank? Violation of privacy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 I'm more curious on how he knows what fine art is and why he would purchase art for himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 I'm more curious on how he knows what fine art is and why he would purchase art for himself? Maybe its not a painting but one of those fancy nudes that he can feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taynted_Fayth Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Sounds like a case of blind ppl wanting to watch tv or deaf ppl going to rock concerts to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatty Liver Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 At least he was in a cab. I think itd look worse if he got pulled over for drunk driving then got belligerent. Ive gotten into fights with cabbies before too they are dicks to drunk ppl You know many blind people who drive? Other then Ray Charles and a Ferrari, I haven't heard of any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 CBC Winnipeg Coun. Ross Eadie apologized to his constituents Monday after waking up at the Main Street Project "drunk tank" Saturday morning, and said drinking doesn't affect his work. "I know they wouldn't relish having a so-called drunk representing them but again, that drinking has no effect on my ability to represent them," he said. Eadie admitted he was likely belligerent after he "had way too much to drink" at multiple bars on the weekend. "When you're blind and you're worked up and disoriented and don't know where you are … I guess I was belligerent and trying to go home," he said. "I'm not really a violent person." "I realize I am a public figure in a political office, but it is troublesome to me that my non-criminal personal activity was directed to the mayor's office," Eadie said. Winnipeg police declined to comment on the matter. Eadie said since the incident was made public, he has received what he calls "abusive" messages and phone calls, some of them from blocked numbers. The lesson here, he said, is to manage his drinking better during times of the year when he is prone to depression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Gordon Sinclair makes me want to gag Wrestling with his demons Eadie makes confession after drunk-tank incident $columnist.title By: Gordon Sinclair Jr. Posted: 11/12/2015 3:00 AM | Last Modified: 11/12/2015 8:10 AM | Updates | Comments: 48 City Coun. Ross Eadie, who sits on the police board, speaks to Gordon Sinclair Jr. about being taken to the drunk tank last weekend. He revealed it wasn't the first time his drinking sparked police action. JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS City Coun. Ross Eadie, who sits on the police board, speaks to Gordon Sinclair Jr. about being taken to the drunk tank last weekend. He revealed it wasn't the first time his drinking sparked police action. Purchase Photo Print There's always more to a story. Especially a news story in which a politician decides it's in his self-interest to add details that had been withheld. So it was that Tuesday morning Mayor Brian Bowman -- out of concern, no doubt, about how his police service was looking in the media -- finally loosened his self-knotted gag and not only told reporters why a senior police officer called him Saturday to report a city councillor was taken to the drunk tank over the weekend, but revealed the identity of that senior officer. The mayor said Chief Devon Clunis made the call out of concern for the legally blind Ross Eadie, who happens to be a member of the police board that oversees the Winnipeg Police Service. By the time the mayor could round up one of his staff to get to the Main Street Project, Eadie was not only sober, he was gone. It was between 10 and 10:30 a.m., according to what Eadie would tell me later, when a homeless man beat the mayor's staffer to it and helped guide the man he saw leaving the drunk tank who was wearing sunglasses and carrying a long, fold-up cane. Eadie, grateful for the gesture, got the man's name. He caught a bus home thinking the story would end there. As it had last autumn when... Well, I'll let him explain it in his own words. Those words and others that add even more to the story. As only seeing public figures in a human way can. We met near city hall over a late lunch. Earlier in the day, Eadie had met in his office with Clunis and Deputy Chief Art Stannard, who walked from the Public Safety Building to explain the call had been made out of concern, not malice, and to offer details about what happened early Saturday morning. Details such as how, after a friend saw Eadie get into a taxi meant to take him home, police were called when the driver didn't know where to take him. Officers tried to find a friend's place before finally dropping him at the Main Street Project. "I live alone," Eadie wrote in a letter of apology Monday. Alone in the North End where he grew up, much of which he now represents at city hall in his Mynarski ward. 'I can sit down and have a beer, socialize. But there are days when you're going to party, right? And the point is at what point do you stop partying?' -- Coun. Ross Eadie What wasn't mentioned is Eadie and his wife are separated. So taking him home wasn't an option for police -- whom he reportedly verbally abused in his drunken state -- or for the cabbie. The apology was written after the Free Press broke the story of the drunken incident involving Eadie. "I don't know who called," Eadie said over lunch. "Maybe it was a police officer who was really pissed off at me," Eadie said with a laugh that quickly trailed off into these words: "I just want it over." But it's not over. Eadie could lose his position on the police board, which would be a blow to him and maybe even the police. He said he gets along well with Clunis. "I'm a big supporter. I love the direction he's going." But while Eadie likes Clunis, he said he has become closer with Stannard. Which prompted me to ask if Clunis, who's a former police chaplain, and Stannard had asked if he's getting any help for the depression he alluded to in his letter of apology, or for his drinking. "I've talked to Art," he said. Then Eadie surprised me with a confession. Or at least the beginning of one. "This happened to me last year. Around this time of year." 'Fall has never been good for me' "What did?" I asked. At first he shied away from answering directly. "Fall has never been good for me," he said. It was in the fall, he explained, at Thanksgiving, when he left a home where his parents were fighting and drinking, and ran to the street. He would end up briefly in a foster home and in the Manitoba Youth Centre for breaking into a laundromat coin box to support himself. By then, Eadie, who was bullied as a youngster, was already blind in one eye. He was only nine when someone threw a tree branch at him that struck his right eye. By the fall of 1984, at age 24, he had lost the sight in the other eye during a drunken house party when he was sucker-punched. "And my prescription glasses shattered into my left eye. So, I'm touchy." Eadie knew he would be blind for life. He remembers an ER physician trying to calm him down. He punched the doctor in the stomach. "I don't like being confined," Eadie said. He thinks that's probably why he was so disruptive with police last weekend. That and his being so drunk he can't remember what happened. It was drinking that helped him cope with being blinded. He drank for two years after he lost the sight in his second eye. Until he was tired of going nowhere and decided to go back to school. In the fall, that terrible time of the year for Eddie. Which brings us back to the rest of his confession about what happened last fall that resulted in Eadie sharing personal matters with his police pal of sorts, Stannard. "Art and I had a discussion," Eadie said. "I was taken to my girlfriend's last year." "By the police?" I asked. "Yeah." "Because you were drunk somewhere?" "But," he responded, "I wasn't as drunk as I was this time." Eadie said it's police protocol to drive someone to a safe place if they're intoxicated. Obviously, that incident was kept quiet. Maybe because Eadie went more quietly and gratefully at the time. Eadie had ordered a glass of Riesling for lunch, which as we wrapped up two hours later he still hadn't finished. I told him I was concerned about him and asked if he would look for help with his drinking. This was his best answer. "I can sit down and have a beer, socialize. But there are days when you're going to party, right? And the point is at what point do you stop partying?... So I just have to refrain from that sort of thing." He said something else about last weekend. "I should have just went home." But there was no one there. Which reminds me. Remember the homeless man who helped guide him out of the Main Street Project? Eadie gave the guy his card and, if the landlord approves, the homeless man won't be homeless anymore. And Ross Eadie won't live alone anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardCoreBlue Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 If you don't think something like this is newsworthy, you shouldn't run for public office. I actually don't understand why anyone would want the scrutiny of public office. One reason, not all who run for public office but for some, is their narcissistic tendencies tend to persuade them. I call these type of people 'ribbon cutters', they love the spotlight, good, bad or indifferent. They tend to give this vocation a bad name. The Unknown Poster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goalie Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Random news eh. Ok. Ronda Rousey got ko'd tonight and lost to Holly Holm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Random news eh. Ok. Ronda Rousey got ko'd tonight and lost to Holly Holm. That's pretty crazy but it's the best thing for MMA. Huge main event for UFC 200 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Note to self: Don't go on these boards until after watching UFC events.... boorns I would of liked to of seen the upset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Note to self: Don't go on these boards until after watching UFC events.... boorns I would of liked to of seen the upset. I was spoiled too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweep the leg Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Random news eh. Ok. Ronda Rousey got ko'd tonight and lost to Holly Holm.She got completely outclassed. With the exception of approx. 15 seconds where Rousey took her down and had her arm, Holm dominated.This loss really reminds me of Tyson. Bad people around her are bringing her down. They also sent her in there with a terrible game plan. kelownabomberfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigg jay Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Rousey was looking past Holm and paid for it. People were calling the upset for a few days now. She looked soft at the weigh-ins & has spent too much time on her non fighting stuff. She has even been talking about retirement because there are no challenges for her. Brandon Blue&Gold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bustamente Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 Don't feel bad for Rousey she has a lot of options outside of the UFC and really getting punched in the face is really not a lot of fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 All this did was make Rousey a ton more money with a rematch. Holly was really the perfect opponent to upset her with her skills. Ronda even said beforehand that Holly "posed a lot of problems". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelownabomberfan Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/g20-turkey-trudeau-1.3319803looks like the Shiny Pony has been a big hit at the G-20. He's being mobbed by everyone for Selfies and being treated like a rock-star. This is probably why he hasn't been able to tell Putin off to his face yet. But it's happening for sure, any day now. basslicker and The Unknown Poster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 So Charlie Sheen is HIV positive and has possibly infected 100 porn stars... I am not making this up. That is disgusting ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelownabomberfan Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 So Charlie Sheen is HIV positive and has possibly infected 100 porn stars... I am not making this up. That is disgusting ! Yikes! 100 porn stars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Apparently the porn industry has to do massive testing because he was throwing sex parties for over a year while having unprotected sex and knowingly being infected. He's been paying off a bunch of people to keep silent as he had infected them. Rumour is that he may have contracted it from a tranny prostitute. Apparently he's doing a big interview in the next few days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basslicker Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/g20-turkey-trudeau-1.3319803 looks like the Shiny Pony has been a big hit at the G-20. He's being mobbed by everyone for Selfies and being treated like a rock-star. This is probably why he hasn't been able to tell Putin off to his face yet. But it's happening for sure, any day now. Haha I'm sure the ex-KGB agent will be shaking in fear when told off by an entitled-spoon fed-trust fund-man child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basslicker Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Apparently the porn industry has to do massive testing because he was throwing sex parties for over a year while having unprotected sex and knowingly being infected. He's been paying off a bunch of people to keep silent as he had infected them. Rumour is that he may have contracted it from a tranny prostitute. Apparently he's doing a big interview in the next few days... A celebrity with a lack of judgement and morals? No way. Hollywood is a cesspool of human filth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unknown Poster Posted November 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 Interesting. A lot of people celebrated or took pleasure in Sheen's exploits. He was funny and entertaining in a human car crash sort of way. Hopefully he will use his celebrity to bring awareness to this issue. In news we can all agree is good: @jjcwpg: Moist south Manitoba today... Dewpoint 8.4°C in #Winnipeg at 2pm, a record for today & 2nd latest occurrence of dewpoint over 8°C since 1953 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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