10Sep 2024 by R&O No Comments
The Guilty Taxpayers

The Guilty Taxpayers

Crime, Economy, Life, Life in Vancouver, Observations, Politics, Rants
While making my way to work in 2011 along Powell Street in downtown Vancouver I was given a pamphlet while waiting at a traffic light. The guy who approached me as I sat at the light mumbled something about 'Save the downtown Eastside' as he presented his informative missive. The title read 'BOYCOTT! Pantages/Sequel 138 - Condo$ are Destroying Our Low-Income Community'. This is asking the working, contributing taxpayer to support their quest to maintain the tattered, depressing hell-hole that is our downtown Eastside. Let's save the slums, the misery, the abject poverty and the legions of drug-addled, homeless people wandering into traffic. Vancouver's downtown Eastside eats the city from within, spreading its filth and drug addiction through violence and crime, affecting the lives of all that live and work…
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13Jun 2014 by R&O 1 Comment
Animal Abusers

Animal Abusers

Animals, Assholes, Crime, Rants
[caption id="attachment_5400" align="alignright" width="280"] Dog killer Emma Paulsen[/caption]Self-employed dog walker Emma Paulsen killed six dogs, one of them her own, by leaving them locked inside a sweltering truck canopy under a blazing sun until they perished. She reportedly left the canopy window open and a single bowl of water which is next to useless when the temperatures soar within the confines of a fiberglass canopy. So what did this miscreant do after discovering the animals in her care were dead? She hid the bodies and fabricated a story about the dogs being 'stolen' by an unknown thief. Absolutely disgusting. And then there's the eight assholes at Chilliwack Cattle Sales who were caught torturing cows. These shitbags were recorded by an undercover worker of Mercy for Animals Canada beating, kicking and…
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22May 2014 by R&O No Comments
Love Those Villagers

Love Those Villagers

Crime, Observations, People
There's obviously no lack of wacky, insane stories that come out of China such as nude suicidal brides, tasty dog menu items, rampaging knife wielding schoolyard killers and many more. One thing I've noted is the lack of irony in these stories. Until now. Check out this gem via CEN... Armed police converged on this village in central China's Henan province after an enraged local man killed eight people including three children with a knife because they had damaged the feng shui of his house by putting up a mirror. The argument started when villager Li Hsing, 40, discovered that his neighbour had put a mirror on the front of his house to deflect evil spirits. The problem, according to Li, is that the mirror was pointing directly at his…
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09Jun 2013 by R&O No Comments

One Less Scumbag

Crime, People, The Law
Thieving scumbags are all around us, snatching purses, removing the contents from our cars, breaking into our homes and causing nothing but headaches and misery. So it's exceedingly satisfying when one of them gets caught, and even more so when it's caught on video. A lowlife, miscreant piece of shit had the misfortune to attempt his shoplifting caper in the presence of an off duty North Vancouver RCMP officer. And it was documented in its entirety by an intrepid videographer who narrates the collar while conversing with a 911 operator. I found it hilarious that the thieving douche continually asks his captor, between sobs and whinging, "Why are you doing this"? I think we could all ask the very same question of the thieving douche, couldn't we? Behold, the disruption…
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