If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

I stumbled on this site by accident ... I am a civilian employee with the Calgary Police Service but if there is anything I can do for anybody coming this way (or planning to) please let me know. I am a native Calgarian and I'm sure I can help you with most queries.

:beer:

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Any insight on crime levels in Calgary? Is it still relatively safe compared to bigger cities?

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

check this out

http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/060720/d060720b.htm

There seem to have been a few murders in Calgary this year ..... about 12 so far?? Almost without exception they are gang or drug related. In our area in the NW the largest numbers of crimes seem to be thefts from or damage to vehicles.

The guy who fitted our blinds the other week was late cos his ladder was knicked from the back of his truck overnight! I was shocked to see a bus shelter with broken glass this week..... I wouldn't have been shocked in the UK, it would have been the norm, even in Sunny Worthing!

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Nothing unusual in our area.

See smashed glass in bus shelters quite regularly on Dalhousie Drive, although not for the last few weeks.

Maybe they caught someone. Nah that wouldn't happen.:rolleyes:

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

See? I told you Dalhousie was a "less desirable area" :p

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

It's that damned LRT station. :mad:

Brings in all the undesirables. They'll all move up to Crowfoot when it opens. :p

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Smashing the bus shelter glass seems to have become a favourite past time for vandals - I don't know why the heck the city doesn't just use super strong plexi-glass instead of keep replacing the regular stuff all the time - surely be cheaper in the long run :confused:

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

The shelter I saw was on the north edge of Crowfoot ..... it's started already!! :eek:

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

I've even seen it in SCENIC ACRES :eek: (Just the shelter on the main road in from Nose Hill, though)

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

As far as I understand the city doesn't own the bus shelters. They belong to the advertising company.

One explanation I've heard as to why they use a type of plate glass is clarity. The plexi-glass goes cloudy and is easily scratched then you can't see through it, either to see the bus coming or potential threats either or the advertising and they certainly wouldn't want you to miss the ads. :rolleyes:

Whether that's true or not I don't really know. Plus apparently it does take a serious amount of effort to actually shatter the stuff.

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

I bow to thy superior knowledge, oh wisest of the wise one! :p ;) :D

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Hey that's just what I heard.

It could be just a load of "cod's wallop" for all I know.

Now if someone can tell me what "cod's wallop" is we'll all be set. :rolleyes::D:D

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Does this help?

This mainly British colloquial expression is recorded only from the 1960s, but is certainly older. Its origin is uncertain. Some argue it may be from cods, an old term for the testicles that derives from the Anglo-Saxon sense of cod, a bag. It is also suggested that wallop may be connected with the dialect term meaning to chatter or scold (not with the word meaning a heavy blow).

One explanation has it that it refers to the late Hiram Codd, who—despite his archetypally American first name—was British, born in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in 1838. He spent his life working in the soft drinks business. In the 1870s, he designed and patented a method of sealing a glass bottle by means of a ball in its neck, which the pressure of the gas in the fizzy drink forced against a rubber washer. Making the bottle was a technical challenge, since the ball necessarily had to be larger than the diameter of the neck. It was only in 1876, when he teamed up with a Yorkshire glass blower named Ben Rylands, that the answer was found. The Codd bottle was an immediate success; surviving examples are now highly collectable. You opened them by pushing the ball into the neck, and openers in the shape of short, thin cylinders were supplied for the purpose. One unexpected problem was that children smashed the bottles to use the glass balls as marbles.

The suggestion is that drinkers who preferred their tipple to have alcohol in it were dismissive of Mr Codd’s soft drinks. As beer was often called wallop, they referred sneeringly to the fizzy drink as Codd’s wallop, and the resulting word later spread its meaning to refer to anything considered to be rubbish.

This story reeks of the approach to word history called folk etymology. As one writer has put it, it seems rather too neat an explanation to be true. But nobody’s come up with anything better.

World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2006.
All rights reserved. Contact the author for reproduction requests.
Comments and feedback are always welcome.
Page created 18 November 2000.

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

Hi Tickets
Um I think the crime questions have more than been covered any advice on the best places for teenagers with an interest in the arts sorry I know its an obscure one but as your on the ground so to speak you may be able to point us in the right direction

Re: If you are coming to Calgary ...
 

If you are meaning theatre for teens to get involved with you could try Storybook Theatre my son was involved with them in his late teens and early twenties.:)

Here's the link to their "About us" page.

Hope this helps.
Steve