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Captain Bly

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At my local Timmies around 11:00am when there was an incident at the drive thru and a guy appeared with a gun threatening the guy behind him at the window with a gun! It progressed to the guy attacking the car with a baseball bat and them driving off without paying. By the time the cops arrived (I called them) they had both gone and the drive thru staff were hysterical.

This was in Mississauga in a relatively quiet area, what the hell is going on?
 
Strange. Sometimes I buy a coffee for the person in the car behind me. Am I doing it wrong?
 
rhuarc29 said:
Symptom of a high-stress society. People snap.
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maybe or maybe not......the guy had a baseball bat in his car in Dec for god sakes....was he expecting trouble that day or was there some indoor batting cage he was headed for? a few weeks ago a guy stabbed somebody during a road rage incident.....maybe i am naïve because I have never had a knife in my possession driving a car..and I,ve driven for decades...….is it that people are looking for trouble?..or simply irrational jerks acting out?
 
ogibowt said:
maybe or maybe not......the guy had a baseball bat in his car in Dec for god sakes....was he expecting trouble that day or was there some indoor batting cage he was headed for? a few weeks ago a guy stabbed somebody during a road rage incident.....maybe i am naïve because I have never had a knife in my possession driving a car..and I,ve driven for decades...….is it that people are looking for trouble?..or simply irrational jerks acting out?
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Probably irrational jerks just acting out. Guys like that need to be given a jail sentence to keep them off the streets. However, considering that we are talking about the Canadian justice system here he will likely just be warned.
 
I think it's a couple of things. One it's the high level of stress in Toronto and prob Vancouver. These are the only real cities Canada has that can be considered world class cities. All the other cities are more towns. So people looking for opportunity come to either of those two cities but everyone else has the same idea and there is only so much jobs, food, housing, etc to go around so the economic inequalities increase and people snap.

The other thing is the inconvenient truth that people don't want to talk about. A lot of the people snapping come from parts of the world where life really means nothing. Violence is much more normalized and people snap and Canadians who have been cuddled from the harsh realities in other parts of the world are shocked to see someone get shot down or slashed down with a machete. Look at Jamaica look at places like Mexico or Brazil. Life means nothing there and that's like it's becoming in the large cities. I think the innocent era of Toronto is done. It's on the path to becoming a violent city like Chicago or New York except it has all the violence and that's about it. Sad part is people so cold here this will only close them off even more so it is becoming a miserable place to live in.

Just to put it in perspective. Each day in Mexico (the country not the capital) 10 women on average get killed. If you go to a place like Chicago the gang violence is so bad that easy 10-20 murders probably happen a week.

For many of us that are stuck here until something better comes along you just have to keep to yourself don't trigger people and everytime someone gets killed just brush it off because that's the new normal. The biggest thing is making sure you or your loved ones don't go looking for trouble because sure as shit no one would have helped you before now they really won't help you and probably step over you on their way to get a coffee or something.
 
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