04Sep 2009 by R&O No Comments

Poor Party People

Assholes
Our coveted Asshole of the Week award goes to the Kerrisdale couple that lost their appeal of a $2,800 fine for violating Vancouver's noise bylaw during a 50th birthday party. These two high-flyers were charged by police after their $100,000 birthday party (yes...that's ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!) was busted for noise after the celebration went long into the night and kept the neighbours awake. One neighbour said his children were begging him to do something and one child, with a terminal illness, said it was a couple of days before he 'recovered' from the noise. Uh...right. It sounds like the usual crap from whining neighbours that didn't receive an invitation to the soiree and don't have parties of their own. Don't get me wrong...I feel for the neighbours having to…
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04Sep 2009 by R&O No Comments

Evergreen Toast

Life in Port Moody
It looks like those wild and crazy TransLink folks have pulled the plug on the much ballyhooed Evergreen Line and I for one am heaving a sigh of relief. Regional transportation commissioner Martin Crilly announced the decision based on the simple fact that it costs too much money. Gee...I could have told them that. I would have also told them how my nice, quiet little town would be turned upside down by the influx of thieves and drug pushers that would use the system to peddle their wares and steal from our homes and businesses. This isn't rocket science but the reasoning seems to be 'Anything in the name of development and expansion'. I don't agree with this theory and, as a Port Moody resident I'm glad the Evergreen Line…
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01Sep 2009 by R&O No Comments

The $20,000 Bonehead

People
Leon Lu forgot his backpack containing $20,000 cash at the Vancouver Airport and was lucky enough to have it returned by an honest citizen. This clown was visiting his parents in China and was given $20,000 in cash, 200 crisp Canadian $100 bills, to pay for his school and living costs, placed it in his backpack and promptly left it on a seat at YVR. It's funny but I don't remember my parents ever giving me $20,000 in cash and letting me carry it around in my backpack. So I have two questions for Mr. Lu: 1) What's wrong with a cheque? Some people will kill you for a pack of cigarettes so a bundle of $100 bills might be too much to resist. In future may I suggest a…
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28Aug 2009 by R&O 2 Comments

Still a moron

People
Before I post my comments to this blog I usually create an image, humorous or otherwise, that accurately reflects the gist of my latest diatribe. This wasn't necessary when adding another comment regarding Parks Board Commissioner Constance Barnes as my past blog entry image sums this post up quite nicely. Her latest idiocy involves her stint in the Orchard Recovery and Treatment Centre on Bowen Island for alcoholism and her $3,000 interest free loan from city taxpayers to help pay for it. She decided that staying at the centre at a cost of $18,000 was the only way to solve her current problems and sort herself out. Rubbish! As the child of an alcoholic I don't prescribe to the notion that alcoholism is a 'disease' and consider it an addiction…
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