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On 2018-09-11 at 10:09 PM, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/shoplifting-siege-at-city-liquor-marts-rages-on-guards-told-not-to-intervene-492996971.html

 

This story is almost unbelievable, can you imagine a private enterprise allowing this situation to continue unabated?  I'd be mounting a machine gun turret on the roof if it was my shop.  Once word gets out on the street about access to free booze, this problem is only going to escalate.  As MLM is a govt. run enterprise which employs unionized employees they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.  It's likely nothing will be done, as nobody involved is losing money out of their own pockets and the union will not allow their members physical risk by actually confronting the thugs.  Police dept. is happy because more crime means more work and more money!   Only loser is the tax-payer, but golly gee they have bottomless pockets, don't they???

 

 

Edited September 15, 20187 yr by Throw Long Bannatyne

FOX isn’t even pretending anymore. Who gives a **** if he had pot in his apartment when a cop illegally barged in and shot him dead?

 

https://www.chrisd.ca/2018/09/14/winnipeg-liquor-store-robbery/

Whoa...arrests!

https://deadspin.com/floyd-mayweather-and-manny-pacquiao-to-stage-historys-l-1829083942

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/sheriff-us-border-patrol-agent-suspected-of-killing-4-women

 

 

Had to post this. Saw the headline and had to laugh. What a lousy sex life she must have.   The reply by someone was even better “actually it’s the straight people who need to practice”  hahahaha

 

 

The national post.  

I guess cause Drake’s gf is 18 it’s coming across creepy that he’s so close with a 14 year old. 

 

20 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

The national post.  

I guess cause Drake’s gf is 18 it’s coming across creepy that he’s so close with a 14 year old. 

 

Could be worse...

NSFW

 

Edited September 19, 20187 yr by FrostyWinnipeg

 

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/19/the-allman-brothers-bands-dickey-betts-needs-brain-surgery/

Joe’s a great guy. Great honour for him and he deserves it! 

 

I thought they removed that stupid thing

http://www.tmz.com/2018/09/20/president-donald-trump-prison-bars-star-hollywood-walk-of-fame/

On 2018-09-13 at 7:09 PM, Throw Long Bannatyne said:

This story is almost unbelievable, can you imagine a private enterprise allowing this situation to continue unabated?  I'd be mounting a machine gun turret on the roof if it was my shop.  Once word gets out on the street about access to free booze, this problem is only going to escalate.  As MLM is a govt. run enterprise which employs unionized employees they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.  It's likely nothing will be done, as nobody involved is losing money out of their own pockets and the union will not allow their members physical risk by actually confronting the thugs.  Police dept. is happy because more crime means more work and more money!   Only loser is the tax-payer, but golly gee they have bottomless pockets, don't they???

 

 

In my experience the cops have a mixed response to things like this.  I remember from my time working in bars, we often got mixed messages.  For a time, the cops would show up (cause every entitled drunk we threw out would call the cops) and berate us for "thinking you're cops" or "being out of control".  Then we had a community officer who was great and he met with us and told us our job was tough enough without dealing with BS so to call the cops anytime we wanted.  So we did and then got berated for "not being able to handle your own problems."  

I remember my boss angrily telling our community officer that we could handle things ourselves if the cops supported us or we could call them for every incident or a combination of the two but that he was threw with cops showing up with attitudes.  The community officer was totally with us.  But community policing ended and it was the wild west again, a crapshoot as to what type of officer you'd deal with when you needed them (or they were called).  

I noticed in the last couple of police information releases, it seems the LC security was being more active and there have been more arrests.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canadian-retailers-servers-storing-15-years-of-user-data-sold-on-craigslist/

https://mashable.com/article/get-paid-to-smoke-weed

https://www.tsn.ca/woods-wins-tour-championship-for-first-victory-since-2013-1.1179100

6 hours ago, iHeart said:

https://www.tsn.ca/woods-wins-tour-championship-for-first-victory-since-2013-1.1179100

I never thought that this would ever happen again.  

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mosquitoes-are-passing-microplastics-up-food-chain-180970373/

 

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/police-lay-charges-against-3-in-connection-with-liquor-mart-thefts-worth-over-28k-1.4109176

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/elton-john-concert-farewell-winnipeg-1.4838835

3 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/elton-john-concert-farewell-winnipeg-1.4838835

This, to me, is good news. Somehow I've managed to miss EJ on tour before and he was definitely on my must see list. I was considering going to Minneapolis or Chicago to see him.