you know what…first of all, fck you 5 big dudes for targetting a small young girl on her way to work. for sucker punching me and then proceeding to kick the shit out of me and steal my money. then fck all the drivers on windsor and north who drove by and didn’t stop to help. Your worse then those 5 boys. you are selfish and a waste of a life. I have a black eye, my entire body feels like it’s on fire…but at least you weren’t late for work. I hate you people
—the carrot tattoo barista girl
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.
Ah, Windsor and North. How I don’t miss that area.
Sucks to be you – thanks for sticking up for her, though. Shame about the aftermath.
And another bitch is born… seems like a daily occurrence around here. I wonder why?
I don;t know Kay..I suggest you ready the daily papers in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary etc etc. is life in a big city (I have lived in 3 of the above named towns). I feel no safer, or no less safe, in Halifax. But hey, if you feel that the West End of Calgary is any better, feel free to relocate.
I hear Vancouver is nice Kay.
So yeah, get the fuck out of NS whenever you’re ready.
We’ll help ya pack.
Bobby, are you talking Strathcona or Pump Hill “West End” of CowTown or do you mean South Calgary along Elbow Dr, Canyon Meadows, Breaside or any of those other “run down?” neighbourhoods?
Those big cities you mentioned don’t claim to be full of “friendly” Nova Scotians in their come-live-here or come-visit-here national TV advertisements, do they? I’d never expect to find them there, only here, so you can see my confusion in light of such contradiction.
hali… such a typical response from Haligonia. This seems to be the extend of Nova Scotian problem solving… if you don’t like US treating you like a piece of shit then LEAVE, we’ll help ya pack. You know what that adds up to? ASSHOLE NEIGHBOURS, that’s what.
Just compare the population of those cities to the HRM and then fold in the drive-by shootings, kidnappings, stabbings because people sat in their car doing nothing but looked at someone the wrong way, murdered homosexuals and now little girls beaten in public while nobody does anything… fold that into the mix and what do you have? A quaint little town full of friendly people? No! You’ve got big city news in a small town. THAT should tell you, on average, how fucking friendly you Nova Scotians are.
Would asshole neighbours help you pack?? I think not.
Anyone notice that kay has a me,me,me problem? Well one of many.
Um, I don’t think anyone “stuck up for her.” I think the small, young girl is the one who was beat up if I go by her tag line, “the carrot tattoo barista girl.”
See this why I find people’s negative and baseless assumptions to be so frustrating. They cannot see (or they don’t care) how their thinking can impact others in the long run. It is likely that some drivers did not stop due to outright fear, but it is more likely that most did not stop because they made stupid and baseless assumptions that the OP was somehow at fault here (rationalizations that enabled them to look the other way). Assumptions like: she knew her attackers and she provoked them in some way. You know what I mean…people create little stories and rationalizations about others so that they will not have to become involved (whether due to fear or laziness). Op could have been dragged to a hidden area, raped or even killed because no one cared enough to risk their own comfort in order help her. Disgusting.
Its too bad no one stopped to help.
I have stopped my car before, only to find out that what looked like someone getting beaten up was really just a bunch of punks goofing around, I live near a high school and see this crap all the time, but to think that not one person thought to stop and check on this poor girl….maybe from the road, people couldn’t actually see what was happening, or so I’d like to hope, I guess that;s the story I will tell myself, HKM. Totally know what you mean.
OP stated: “5 big dudes…proceeding to kick the shit out of me”.
I would think that there is no mistaking this. But, someone could have stopped to make sure that their assumption was correct on the off chance that it was wrong.
“maybe from the road, people couldn’t actually see what was happening”
Maybe. But if OP could see the people (in their cars passing by her) from the ground through her smashed eye and a flurry of assaulting feet, I would think that they could see 5 big dudes kicking the shit out of a small, young girl down on the ground before them.
Notice how it is the person who did stop to help (at another time) who is making excuses for the people who didn’t stop. She, as a good samaritan, cannot believe that people would deliberately refuse to help a lone person under attack.
this is a serious bitch, I know this girl and she didn’t do shit all to deserve this and what do you assholes do? Turn the bitch into something about yourselves… pathetic, especially you Kay.
I know this girl too, she’s sweet and kind and also really tiny. This wasn’t a nighttime attack either, it happened at 7am, while everyone was on their way to work. It’s really alarming and pretty disgusting that no one passing by stopped to help her, she could have easily died or suffered permanent damage because people decided to look the other way.
Shame on you, Kay, for once again derailing a bitch to use it as your personal soapbox. You’re an asshole.
this is a shame… I read about this all the time in the papers here but never really encounter any of this. where do these hooligans live?
Mustn’t be near me….
this isnt a surprise really, its wholly disgusting however. A few years back my buddy and i watched 12 (race withheld) men jump two older fellas, then attack us when we called 911 and were administering first aid…all while hundreds of people stood by and did nothing. Its abject cowardice on the behalf of the population. Now, i know there are some within our communities that stand up and rightly so, but they are few and far between. the funny thing is that usually these cowards just need to be frightened by SOMEONE standing up and hollering to stop…but the cowardice that remains in the greater population defeats this idea. As far as the whole halifax as friendly bs…ive been to several shit hole places in the middle east and felt safer there than i ever have in halifax. I had to close my eyes in egypt to keep from crapping my pants over the way they drive…and then wished to god i was back as soon as i returned and had my memory refreshed on halifax drivers. Oh and ive also lived in every major city in canada through my work, and ive always felt safer in winnipeg and the Niagara region…go figure…i guess its not just kay that sees the light….but dont fix the problem, just blame the person who sees the problem.
actually fat, having read for months and months and months the bs a lot of you put out, you may not be the disease, but you are definitely a symptom of it. the particular brand of nonsense many of you bring to the bitch section is totally assanine. so in this case, the problem was the general public being nothing short of cowards in not stopping the attack of a petite woman. whats the solution? this should be the only focus…not your continuing war with someone who quite honestly, when referring to the attitudes of a vast many of the people in this city/province is correct. now…what is the solution…bury your head in the sand more?
Two years ago on New Years Even in Dartmouth a man was driving down the street when he saw a man beating a girl. He pulled his car over and jumped out to intervene. His reward? He was knifed several times and ended up in critical condition and to my knowledge has never been the same. So yes, people do stop. And no I am not a native Haligonian. My work has taken me all over the world. I have seen better cities and I have seen worse. And for what it is worth, I would have pulled over and helped. But Kay, really dear, you need help or you just need to get out of here. That is not being mean, that is being nice. IF you hate it so much, if the people disgust you so much, then just GO. Life is too short!
A couple of years ago a friend of mine tried to intervene in a violent situation and she had the pleasure of getting her head kicked in. I can understand lack of incentive to pull over and step into the middle of a tussle like this. That being said, I hope, had I been one of the drivers passing by, I’d have to good sense to at least call the police (and who knows, maybe someone did but they weren’t fast enough?) if I didn’t think it was a good idea to get myself in trouble.
I want to throw an idea out there, however. Sometimes when you’re motoring by on your morning commute, you just don’t see things happening on the sidewalk provided they don’t interfere with your driving. Yeah, she could see them, but if the motorists were moving at a pretty good speed, there is a good possibility that they didn’t see very much going on.
I do know who this person is, based on their name, and I’m sorry to hear that something so tramatizing has happened her. Feel better soon!
I agree with Kay.
I don’t think this city is friendly at all!!
you can’t even get good customer service in any establishments anymore!
I am not saying that you have to run in and switch places with victim. I am saying, call 911. Then, block traffic if you have to get some back up. Hell, you don’t even have to get out of your car–go up over the curb and pick them off (I mean bump them, not kill them). I don’t know. But do something.
I just find it hard believe that no one noticed. How many bitches do we get here talking about stuff they saw on the way to work? Yet 5 big guys putting a pounding on a girl during prime time morning traffic is missed? I find it hard to believe.
NGF keeps posting the same comment that crosses a line and I keep taking it down. Get the message: do it again and you’re off the this board.
Andy, are you “Desi” in disguise?
HKM, we get it: you don’t understand how a scene like this could be missed. Several people have given very plausible reasons how it could be missed – or at least misjudged.
I know on my drive to work I’m not gawking around taking everything in. I’m doing my best to get to work, focusing on driving. Especially since many other drivers are still half asleep. If someone cuts me off, yeah, I notice. If there’s a girl getting attacked somewhere off the street, chances are I’ll miss it entirely. Aside from that, from a split-second glance out the side window while driving, it would be near impossible to tell the difference between a fight and kids roughhousing.
“Go up over the curb and pick them off.” Are you kidding me? Are you Bruce Willis all of the sudden? It’s easy to say what could and should have been done, but you weren’t there and you don’t know how it was, so don’t spit out self-righteous drivel about what you would have done differently. If you want to prove me wrong, go don a cape and fight crime by night, leaving a telltale sign it was you. Otherwise, shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear you prattle on any further.
NGF – I said to myself Who is Desi? Then I looked at that moron’s comments. That user is totally GOMBS’ed!
“5 dudes 1 girl” is one of my favourite porno movies.
This is a new criminal low for Halifax if this is what it sounds like – One girl getting jumped at 7AM (who thinks about mugging or getting mugged at this hour?) and another girl getting mugged as a result of stepping in. If there is a gang of 5 big dudes wandering town preying on the weak before they’ve had their chance to even get a morning coffee in, Halifax has bigger problems than I thought. I’ve almost gotten used to the idea that once in a while groups of dudes taunting me into a fight when I’m walking home alone at night. This kind of coward crime is bullshit and if the cops can’t be everywhere at once maybe it’s time we had some other radical kind of deterent here (conceiled weapons permits, CCTV, bear spray, etc).
What is GOMBS?
God damnit ‘nevermind’, you beat me to it!
I guess great (and perverted) minds really do think alike.
“GOMBS” = “Gone off my board, son!”?
Okay, Andy/Desi – show me in the Coast-LTWWB rules area where its okay for kay to write whatever she wants but nobody else is permitted to.
Lame, dude.
I love the way we bitch. I really do. hahaha! Fat!
Junkie, this is not a “new low”… this is commonplace and I’d guess the thought process you’re sharing is also common, “maybe it’s time we had some other radical kind of deterrent here (concealed weapons permits…”
Violence begets violence. The “peace process” has to start somewhere. I believe it starts with the individual.
wow, kay, keep demonstrating how you play the victim when people tell you off while living by your insane double standard that somehow states that you’re valid when YOU DO THE SAME THING.
you’re in your 40s, have a family, have a job and yet you still spend most of your time on a message board arguing with avatars and screen-names.
“Oh, I’m kay! Its O-kay when ‘I’ do stupid things or talk inane shit or hurl insults at others – but if you/they do it to me, I’ll run to the mods crying and playing the victim like Oceanlady does when I attempt to single her out in a putrid attempt to make myself feel better. And sure, you’re all jealous of me as I’m married to a rockstar and don’t have a gay son and I ‘could’ be spending time with them now but they’re beneath me just like you Nova Scotians so I’ll waste more time here proving how I’m a big, fat idiot.”
Kay, that’s why I put etc. – I know there’s other methods to deter this sort of thing other than violent ones (I also put CCTV) – those are just among the first to come to mind. I myself am a firm believer in instead of sending criminals to jail to have them work (and earn) for their victims. Unfortunately after 5 dudes kick the shit out of a small girl whatever they get is too little too late. Violent offenders nearly always get off easy in our current justice system and simply playing some sort of “peace-card” sounds equally useless as my violent deterent ideas. Are you some kind of hippie???
I have to say, I’m very curious about how a real life encounter between Kay and NGF would go down. I imagine it might happen a little something like this:
[Setting: Scotia Square food court, naturally. It is a busy Friday afternoon at approximately 12:30, with few seats available. Kay is sitting at a table by herself eating a Mama Burger combo from A&W, coke to drink, and reading The Coast. NGF, carrying his recently purchased falafel plate from Ray’s and noticing nowhere else close by to sit, approaches Kay’s table].
NGF: Excuse me, is it OK if I sit here?
Kay: [While reading ‘The Coast’ and eating her Mama Burger] Yeah, no problem, go ahead! [Under her breath]: …you miserable Nova Scotian swine.
NGF: Thanks.
[Several minutes pass with several brief, split-second glances shared between the two. These glances are generally harmless and based in curiosity only, but there is an air of flirty undertones between the two, an ever so slight mutual attraction that each knows will never be due to the wedding rings sported on each of their respective, appropriate fingers. In a somewhat hesitant manner, NGF decides to begin what he hopes may turn out to be a pleasant, friendly, brief chat over lunch].
NGF: So, what’s happening in The Coast this week?
Kay: Ohh, not too much, a few shows…the usual, I guess. I’m actually just reading the “Love the Way We Bitch” section now. I find it pretty entertaining.
NGF: Oh yeah, me too! Man, some of the idiots who post there, eh? Not everyone, of course. There’s this one guy, qpmzwonxeibcruv, who’s a real stand-up guy. I love his posts. They are so intelligent and entertaining. In fact, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t even visit The Coast website at all! I want to be him.
Kay: Oh yes, I agree, that qpmzwonxeibcruv is definitely one cool cat. I hear he’s single and very handsome too – mothers, lock up your daughters! If I wasn’t married to my rock star husband, I’d be all over him in a heartbeat.
NGF: Oh… you say your husband is a rock star? What kind of music does he play? Is he playing this weekend, by any chance?
Kay: Uhh, you know, no offense, but I’d rather not really tell that information to a complete stranger, y’know? It’s, uhh, kind of a secret.
NGF [somewhat puzzled]: Oh, OK, fair enough I guess. Sorry about that.
Kay: Yeah, I find it’s usually typical Nova Scotians who can be quite nosy like that… I mean, not you necessarily, no offense, just in general. People kind of mind their own business more where I’m originally from out west, AKA the Mecca of Canada.
NGF [perplexed]: Ohh, so, not from around here, eh? … Sorry, if you don’t mind me asking, do you post on The Coast by any chance? I’m just kind of curious, you remind me a bit of someone from there.
Kay [slightly trembling]: Uhhm, why… do you want to know? Maybe, yeah, sometimes I guess. Why? Do you?
NGF: Oh, it’s nothing, just wondering. Anyway, I’ll be right back.
[NGF smoothly leaves the table to go to the men’s washroom to polish his gun].
To be continued…
that was hilarious! thanks for the laugh! LTWWB is awesome entertainment
Junkie, Hippie? no. Well under 40? yes.
“NGF: Oh yeah, me too! Man, some of the idiots who post there, eh? Not everyone, of course. There’s this one guy, qpmzwonxeibcruv, who’s a real stand-up guy. I love his posts. They are so intelligent and entertaining. In fact, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t even visit The Coast website at all! I want to be him.”
Its true! I’d totally say you’re a mega-cool cat. Or I’d just say, “Yeah, I’m him! :D”
Kay, everytime you mention your age you get younger and younger. You’ve got severe mental issues or you’re a horrible drunk/pill popper (hippies don’t bother with that). Instead of trying to make yourself look hot shit maybe you could go read your bastard son a bedtime story instead of having him roam the streets on a Friday looking for old Nova Scotian ladies to assault.
Hey qpmzwonxeibcruv……
Genius. Saving this for the archives.
Here he goes again… joy
Love it!
HI, DINO! 😀
AND HI, VIRGO! 😀
WADDUP N to da GF
Ain’t no thang butt a buffalo-wang, Dee-to-da-I-N-d’Oh!
wtf u smokin’ gurl
“Ain’t no thang but a chicken wang, D-I-N-O!” with buffalo instead of chicken and the rest a ramble…
First half is from The Fresh Prince. Get off the cheap wine and cigars, Don Juniorne!
Oh! I mean, “ham(burgers)”!
Wwwaaassssuuuppp!
Thanks, I spent way too much time on that than I ever should have and it still didn’t turn out too great, but I tried. That’s what happens when you have nothing better to do on a Friday night!
get a little hide a way gun, then pop them in the head as they run away. would work wonders, if people actually carried a small weapon. bet you the boys would think twice before fucking with anyone else. and yes, i am licensed to carry a firearm.and i do. so anyone fucks with this boy, game fucking over, forever to them.
Are you serious LIFE SUCKS?? Er….since when has a gun made anyone think twice before fucking with someone else?? I wonder how much more traumatized that poor girl would have been if she’d also had a gun pointed at her head when she was jumped. I’ve always felt that guns tend to attract 2 types; either criminals, or else paranoid, overly- defensive, angry hotheads… people kinda like the way you sound here!
The last thing this, or any city needs is more or any guns. Cast your eyes south to see what “the right to bare arms” havoc has ensued because of that ridiculous law.
CCTV cameras would be good in certain locations, after the privacy loonies have whined of course.
Softly softly doesn’t work nor does get tough – there must be a half way point that can reduce crime?
qpmzwonxeibcruv… classic! I laughed out loud at work and tried to cover it up (because work isn’t supposed to be fun) and my neighbouring cubicle collegue thought I was choking.
I once got jumped, went to hospital next day. Cops were called and stood by me as the getaway car drove off (drunken driver) Days later, we were told that if we pressed charges because of disclosure they (from INdianbrook) would maybe harass us or someone they knew. Why have police? if they come to the scene, stand there assume everyone is drunk and it doesn’t count? Let the driver go off drunks with the girls who beatme up…then days later say “these types” will come and haunt you…That is what happened.