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Watching the evening news and anyone stupid enough to get close enough to the ocean re.:(Peggy’s Cove) to get swept in deserve to drown. Can you say natural selection?
—High and Dry
This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.
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Anyone willing to second these people for the Darwin Award nomination?
Ha. I laughed when I found out they had been swept it. Part of me wishes the would have croaked.
I was at a beach on Sunday, watching from behind the dunes, and there was some adult fuckbag prancing around in the giant waves with a child who looked to be around 10 or 11 years old. Natural selection indeed…too bad sometimes the idiots take others down with them.
Maybe they all have a death wish. Like lemmings.
no stupidity awards here folks, they were all given out yesterday at peggy’s cove and lawernctown beach.
Ya I saw the news last night also. I was laughing. Honestly I don’t feel bad for anyone that intentionally goes out in storms to feel their might and get hit by debris or gets swept away by waves or what have you. A group of people went camping in a cottage in Cape Breton, when they heard the Hurricane was coming, they decided to change their location to a tent in an open field to feel the storm.
No wonder why the rest of the country thinks nova scotians are dumb!
And so you support allowing the RCMP to close roads and prevent free travel by the citizenry, because a couple idiots might stray too close?
What is it about a little storm that lets common-sense fly out the window? Road-blocks and bullying cops are more of a threat than big waves…trust me…
It really seems to be the latest thing here in NS, innit? “Storm panic”
LMAO
Frosty- ok. So the cops should not (GASP!! HEAVEN FORBID!!) close the roads to protect people from their own idiocy. I can go for that. On one condition. When their idiodic mornice ass gets swept into the water the cops should not have to risk their lives to go in and get them. Deal?
Sure Bobby, erm, you see that a lot eh?
Cops actually risking their lives saving people? (TV doesn’t count)
You got any stats on how many RCMP died last trying to save people?
I’d love to read them…
And the RCMP are NOT protecting the citenzenry from shite by closing and barricading the roads…they’re making their job easier at my expense (and yours too, you’re just too inexperienced to know it yet)…
Hm. I went surfing in Hurricane Bill the other day away from NS. Perhaps natural selection missed me?
Dino…sweet
In fact today I was horrified to read that over a dozen people were pulled and banned from Queensland Beach by the RCMP on Sunday!
Um, hey RCMP, don’t you have helmetless skateboarders to harass?
I live 15 feet from the same water that hits Queensland…they gonna come pull me from my house next?
hey, guess what Constable Plato, Queensland is a south-facing beach in an easternly wind you idjit!
Unbelieveable. There was more surf the day before when the winds were south-westerly. Eastern shore/Peggys cove – different matter altogether, maybe surfing Dino can help you get it…
Please google “wave fetch” you pepper-spraying, shaved-head, your-best-years-were-in high-school, RCMP idjits
“Road-blocks and bullying cops are more of a threat than big waves…trust me…”
Oh no! What’s next? Martial law? Get over yourself Frosty, and get back to reality.
that`s how it starts, bRoc old chap, thats how it starts.
First, everyone applauds the increased police powers…”Well, those kids SHOULD know better!”….The RCMP jumps in to save us from our helpless selves (and thereby taking the focus of the recent killings by their members)…
We all applaud as they report in to the media – “RCMP has cleared the beach!” Even though every beach in NS is not subject to the same weather systems!
Next, it will be “RCMP” closes off exits from Halifax during terrorist threat, for the safety of the citenzens…” Not much farther to “RCMP decides to limit traffic on holiday weekend – saves lives!”
“RCMP decide that only 24 and over can drive Friday-Monday…to SAVE LIVES!”
“”RCMP reduce road deaths by 100% by closing highways permanently…”
You think I’m crazy? How many years did YOU spend in Central America police states?
thought so
Never did spend time in Central America, but have lived my whole life in Canada. To believe that a similar thing can happen here is ludicrous, but by all means, continue with your paranoid diatribe, it’s highly entertaining.
Hey Frosty you should get together with Nice Going Fat. He believes that 911 was all an inside job and a conspiracy. Seen any UFO’s lately? As for the cops Frosty the next time yoru dumb fucking ass gets in trouble, just do not bother calling them as I am sure they do not want to be taken away from issuing tickets to skateboarders.
Oh and idiot, a little sidenote for you. My nephew was one of the RCMP officers who was gunned down in Myerthorpe Alberta. Apparently he forgot that he was supposed to be harrasing the citizenry.
Ng Phat may be right, do YOU think you have ALL the truth about 911?
Listen,
Mayerthorpe was a terrible tragedy, one whose effects rippled all over the world. Sorry for your terrible loss…
However,
I WILL say, that another tragedy followed on its heels, and that is the rail-roading and wrongful persecution of Dennis Cheeseman and Shawn Hennesey by the local “justice” system.
Egged on by a vengeful and hostile RCMP (who we now see, since the conviction, are often willing to lie and fabricate evidence – something many of us have known for years), these two men were set up for the fall by being charged with FIRST DEGREE MURDER, even though NEITHER OF THEM WERE THERE.
Let that sink in for a minute. Both men admitted they dropped him off earlier that night at his home. Both men admitted that he had been “ranting”, as he often did, about “getting even” with the cops if they came and busted his grow house. One had earlier even lent him a rifle, although not the one used. They weren’t totally innocent, no, they sold pot for Rosko, they admit that…they were also frightened of him, after all, he was a lunatic that had ranted and raved for years…
And the RCMP, based on that, charged them with FIRST DEGREE MURDER!!
Whatever these two victims did…drive the killer to his house, lend him a hunting gun (NOT “the” gun used!) whatever they did…it wasn’t fucking murder. And the RCMP knew full well it wasn’t, but they pushed and pushed to have these men charged….knowing the two of them would be too afraid (in light of public anger, and thirst for revenge) to go to trial. And so they both plead guilty to manslaughter (which they STILL didn’t do!) and are now rotting in prison.
Although they psychologically ‘coerced’ into pleading guilty, and that plead usually sticks after no matter what, there IS going to be an appeal, based on some technicalities…it’s the only hope for these two small-time crooks that brought down the full wrath of the RCMP…
An appeal that has every chance of success now that Canadians can see, due to the “YVR 4” killers, how far some members of our shamed national police force will go to protect their own and cry havoc to all that would come against them…
In some twisted way, I can understand it. Like any other “gang”; when the going gets tough, the RCMP circle their wagons…
…the difference is, it’s you and I that can sometimes feel the brunt of their wrath…
If you have not read the truth about these two men, I urge you to research them. There is a plethora of RCMP and “ghost-written” propaganda out there to weed through, but the truth is out there.
Even the 5th estate has done a show on this travesty of justice, as public opinion turns against this injustice. Eventually they will be released, as the truth gets out, in the meantime, watch your six…
Frosty- the fact is that you (and others) are painting the good men and women who risk their lives for us all with the same brush. Just as I do not believe that every redneck is an uneducated asshole, people should not think that every cop is a tazer loving killer. Strangely, when cop haters get in trouble, the first thing they do is dial 911.
TTFN, lemmings don’t have a death wish. Disney made it up and pushed all those poor fuckers off the cliff for the movie. It lead to protection of animals in Hollywood.
“”Frosty- the fact is that you (and others) are painting the good men and women who risk their lives for us all with the same brush.””
Please feel free to show me where I said that ALL cops are corrupt/bad/liars?
You’re pulling a “mole rat” on me, bud, lol…
As far as that tired old mantra “risking their lives for us all” goes, here’s a list of jobs with higher fatality rates than the RCMP –
1) Commercial fisherman
2) Logger
3) Pilot
4) Farmer
5) Iron worker
6) Roofer
7) Power Lineman
8) Truck Driver
I have done three of these jobs…you’re welcome, Bobby33.
😉
I draw your attention towards the reaction of Haligonians in the “mainstream” media to the Draconian RCMP beach closures during the tropical storm ‘Bill’
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Search/113980…
It seems that a large number agree with me that giving the RCMP the power to restrict our movement at the first sign of a bit of bad weather is a far greater threat than a couple idiots that got too close and got soakers…
I am surprised that Coast readers…who I would have guessed were more libertarian, or at least more ‘into’ personal freedoms than most, are so supportive of the nanny-state and the police intrusion into our right to move about…
Perhaps this “bitch’ forum is not a true cross-section of the reader-ship.
LESS powers to the police, not more.
Let them do a better job with the laws we have first, please…
I think we have to ask a very basic question… why do we have government? Is government Daddy-for-Adults? I say no. Because we care about our society as a whole I feel it’s government’s duty to educate the public and never has there ever been a public better informed than the likes of cell phone touting surfers in 2009. That said, I believe child endangerment is a more appropriate charge if charges are looking to be laid. At least where young children and their idiot parents are involved. (and the world gasps as Micheal Jackson dangles his child from a balcony)
I think we also expect police to pay special attention to our young adults / teenagers as well. If I knew the cops talked to my idiot kid who lied and said he was at a friend’s but was really at the beach testing hurricane waters I’d be some pissed if his ass wasn’t removed from the beach.
If the beaches were dangerous because of contamination from sewage we’d expect the municipality to properly inform the public and even go so far as to remind brave swimmers of the real danger. Industrial contamination, rip tides and hurricanes are not so different in this sense and government is responsibile for all pubic beaches and all crown land. Some will die. Some will not. Not so long ago we didn’t know if a storm was a hurricane… it was just a storm always making waters dangerous. Now that we know it’s going to be THAT bad, did we make an effort to inform and persuade without penalizing the stupid little Canadians? That’s good enough in my book (the Earthing’s guide to freedom (so to speak.)
But when it costs the citizens tax money or resources/people/cops/rescue we want the well informed public to take responsibility for their obviously unacceptable stupid behavior AFTER the stupidity bites them in the ass. Ticketing beach dwellers before stupidity allows an act of God to end their lives is an effective deterrent that breathes “don’t fuck with your Draconian Lord” and also creates effective and entertaining content for the Darwin Awards.
Inform: yes…mandate? No.
I grew up in a house 15 feet from the waters of St. Margaret’s Bay, and have sailed/rowed/surfed and swam in every type of storm since the early 70’s…
The trouble with HRM and the RCMP making “blanket” shore-line closures willy-nilly all over the province, is that it doesn’t take into consideration the geographic location of said beaches…
…In fact, the swell was much worse the day before the “hurricane” (snicker) as the prevalent southerly swell washed onto Queensland/Hubbards beaches, after a fetch of hundreds of miles from due south…
By Sunday afternoon, the easteryly and nor’eastery winds of the “hurricane” had all but “flattened” the swell coming into St margaret’s bay…there was absolutlely no need of a “police closure” here, they just look stupid and bullying by doing so…
The eastern shore and Peggys are different matters entirely, not being bound by land on three sides…
IQ tests for cops and mayors, please…
Like I said, if you were my idiot kid testing the waters and a cop came upon you then just walked away after a little chat about your personal safety.. and you died… I’d want that cop’s head for dinner! If you were a parent you’d agree. (Parenting changes overall perspective in a BIG way)
Nobody is going to stop you from willfully drowning in your own private ocean-front back yard but to allow disaster to happen to our kids on public beaches is unacceptable, society agrees.
Oh, and I’m sure hurricane waters could give a rats ass about how much land there is to the right and left of it’s rip tide. I’m not a oceanic specialist but if you’d like to talk IQ and common sense nobody is going to swim faster than the rip tide or even see it coming. Being in hurricane waters is a DEATH WISH and, thanks to our government, EVERYBODY knows it.
A “rip” tide on its own is simply a current close to parallel to the beach (rather than directly in and out like a wave).
Like a “crosswind” while flying, it has no effect on the actual swimming, only the true direction of the swimmer. It’s easy to use it to your advantage, and return safely to shore…albeit farther down the beach.
Winds alone do not cause a “riptide”.
I do agree though, if your child is an idiot, combined with having not been taught about safey swimming and sailing in rough water, than he is best to keep out of the ocean. However, for the reat of us, we do not require the RCMP to come down and order us all away from the beach because of Kay and her disfunctional family.
Your idiot kid may also risk his life by jumping off a building roof
with an umbrella – and yet we don’t permit the RCMP to outlaw elevators…
I was at Queensland Beach the day of the storm. I do not remember seeing any “idiot” teenagers, only strong and athletic looking young men and women enjoying the small swell. The RCMP had left with their tales between their legs by mid-afternoon when even they saw that bthere was no danger. None.
The beach closure was a kinee-jerk over-reaction from an HRM still reeling, embarrassed and angry over it’s unprepared-ness for Juan 5 years ago…
Don’t allow the RCempty the powers to restrict our movements, fight it.
Otherwise, you are fucking cowards, and it won’t be long before you will need a “pass” to leave your little apartments after dark…
For once, I’m agreeing with frosty; to a point. I don’t think it’s up to the RCMP to ensure people stay off the beaches. Kay also makes a good point; government should make us aware of storms, be it a ‘hurricane’ or a dud lol. With all the coverage Bill got during the week before it hit us, anyone who wasn’t aware needs to go back to their caves! Darwin awards is right!
Bobby33, you have my deepest sympathies. That was a horrid tragedy. I agree with you, as well, that not all RCMP officers are power tripping Taser abusers. Unfortunately, the media only sensationalizes the bad apples, and not the shining bunch.