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Well done, Terry. My old stompin' grounds seems to be getting worse as time goes on since I left St. John's 20+years ago. Good to see that their are folks like Terry around.
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GAP said:Most people just don't want to get involved.
midget-boyd91 said:I've got a question. It is slightly off-topic, but not too far. What would make it so that the Mounties wouldn't get involved? What takes priority over an event like this? The reason I ask is because the movie rental place down the road was involved in an armed robbery and when the person behind the counted made the call to the local Mounties, she was told that the police were not going to be able to respond because of a busy night (I think it was New Years eve or some other party filled night), and it took nearly half an hour for the Mounties to show up.
midget-boyd91 said:I've got a question. It is slightly off-topic, but not too far. What would make it so that the Mounties wouldn't get involved? What takes priority over an event like this? The reason I ask is because the movie rental place down the road was involved in an armed robbery and when the person behind the counted made the call to the local Mounties, she was told that the police were not going to be able to respond because of a busy night (I think it was New Years eve or some other party filled night), and it took nearly half an hour for the Mounties to show up.
EX_RCAC_011 said:My cousin was in charge of the drug squad in NFLD (RCMP).And as far as I can remember there were only two dogs in all of Newfoundland,"Jerry"and "Storm".Did the RNC finally get a dog squad?
St.Johns is full of little punks on Oxy and coke.When my family who grew up in Buckmaster circle says "it's getting hard in town".....yep it is.They were using needles as well to hold up stores as well.Drugs and poverty breeds crime such as this.
We had some losers get in a racket with us downtown one night,said they were from "the blocks"(WTF right?).And of course one of the boys (loaded)I was with said "yah well were from the bay".Fighting occurred.Downtown is getting bad.You see them camped out in every closed store doorway.Smoking up or bumming money to get more.
Sad really the RNC don't have a better foothold on the whole city.Time for some more recruiting?
Just a Sig Op said:Are we talking about drug dogs, tracking dogs, or attack dogs? I don't know much, or anything really, about police dogs, but I'd assume they'd all be seperate. (I vaguely remember somthing about a police dog named "storm" but I thought he belonged to the RCMP... in Gander maybe... I'm fairly certain both the RNC and the RCMP maintains K9 units in Newfoundland...)
Wow... if somone from Buckmasters circle is saying it's getting hard... it's getting hard... for anyone who doesn't know... Buckmasters circle is sort of like Sunnyvale minus the trailers...
Seriously though, in many ways, St. John's has cleaned up substantially from where it was in the past...
The "blocks" probably refers to the the public housing projects in the western end of downtown (AKA the Froud Avenue Community area).
Don't know if I'd say downtown is bad, having a reasonable amount of experience with it myself, but stupidity occurs everywhere...
The RNC have been going through a large recruiting drive for the last few years, and are continuing this drive. They're actually running their own training courses at MUN now.
EX_RCAC_011 said:Yep storm was central and Jerry was avalon.Jerry was my cousin's dog.Big sweet dog too,he kept him at home.
I looked around and didnt find text however here are 2 dogs on the RNC website,guess they did get dogs.
http://www.justice.gov.nl.ca/rnc/pictures.htm
St.Johns has cleaned up in certain ways,however IMHO the heavy drug problem is out of control there.I found there were more "homeboy's" doing dope on the sidewalk there than most other larger cities I've been in.However it was during the D day time peroid at MUN.
Remember you couldnt get pizza delivered at buckmaster lol.Buckmaster is quite quiet now in comparrision to hte 80's and shay heights has cleaned up big time too from what I hear.
Ahh ok low income housing."The blocks" sounds tougher I guess.
You from the rock as well?
Baden Guy said:And this one from todays TO Star:
U.S. senior `snaps' masked attacker's neck
Feb 24, 2007 04:30 AM
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica–A vacationing U.S. senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his travelling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.
The group of about a dozen cruise-ship passengers were climbing out of their vehicle Wednesday when the masked trio – one with a gun, the others with knives – attacked.
Suddenly, one of the tourists, a former U.S. marine in his 70s, pounced on the gunman and put him in a headlock, breaking his collarbone before eventually killing him, according to Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.
"His neck was completely snapped," Hernandez said.
Police identified the dead man as Warner Segura, 20. The other two assailants fled. Hernandez refused to identify the tourist who killed Segura.
The U.S. embassy confirmed the account, but also refused to release the name of the former marine. Costa Rican officials said they wouldn't charge the American tourist because he acted in self-defence.
ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS
geo said:The USA, the home of the litigious Lawyers that take up cases on speculation and a percentage of awards.....