Edmonton police priorities
February 25, 2008
Edmonton leads the nation in gun-related murders (most of which are likely drug or gang-related), but our boys in blue (grey, actually) are devoting themselves to tracking down the dangerous vandals who spray-painted the work “Paki” onto an election sign for Edmonton MLA Aman Gill.
Oh, don’t get me wrong — I’m no fan of racism. Still, in the grand scheme, this kind of seems a non-starter, and was probably just a couple of junior high kids with nothing better to do whilst cutting class thinking it’d be good for a laugh to draw a penis on an election sign. It’s not really worth going after the little brats when, especially in Mill Woods, one can probably find a lucrative drug-pushing operation less than five blocks in any direction from where this act of vandalism took place.
This would be why I hate Nexopia and kind of like Facebook
January 17, 2008
If Facebook — which counts seven million Canadians among its 60 million members — has become the national water cooler for adults, Nexopia is the corner convenience store attracting their pierced and tattooed kids. The Canadian site now has 1.2 million members, only six per cent of them 23 or older.
“We’re like the rock and roll Facebook,” says Nexopia spokesman Chris Webster.
“Kids are so into their Nexopia life that (many) of them either spray paint or carve their user names onto walls and on buses. I think it’s that kind of street-level interest that keeps us fresh. Nobody’s spray-painting their Facebook accounts all over the city, as far as I know.”
That’s just great, stupid. Encourage the little twits to vandalize buses and business property. Vandalizing things is not “fresh”, it’s a bloody misdemeanor and warrants jailtime (or at least a lot of community service hours cleaning up said vandalism).
