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No, haven't been for years. Didn't give it a thought. You?

Never been never will. Same with gay naked parade too. Never bin never will go. Just not my bagorice dude.

Taste of the Danforth however? We going this aftnoon, anyone else attending this street food basar. ?

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9541122)

No, haven't been for years. Didn't give it a thought. You?

I made the mistake of getting caught on Yonge Street about 6 years ago during the "festival"......never again.

I just don't know what benefits it brings to the city other than some one is shot dead every year.

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Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 9541386)

That's a great festival. Should I get past my hangover I might head down too.

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Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 9541671)

That's a great festival. Should I get past my hangover I might head down too.

Yup....Never fails to impress :p

http://www.tasteofthedanforth.com/ta...hedanforth.php

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Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 9541667)

I just don't know what benefits it brings to the city other than some one is shot dead every year.

Large numbers of tourists spending vast amounts of money. When working in the US I found it was the only the reason most people had heard of Toronto so name recognition as well.

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Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 9533458)

Anybody go this year? :)

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/ar...ddled-car?bn=1

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/ar...bbean-carnival

We went with friends from the uk to stay in the Sheraton on the Sunday night, unaware of the festival. The hotel had over a thousand festival goers staying there! It was bedlum! We had 5 young kids with us and it was all very intimidating. They shut the pool at 4 pm due to all the partying going on. By 5pm, hundreds of people drunk slugging out of whiskey bottles. The car park was filled with hoddies sat on cars, smell of pot everywhere, rap music blaring! Police were dotted around doing nowt.
We went out for the eve- nervous leaving the kids with a babysitter.
Got back at 11pm- out floor was filled with drunks, girl passed out- music blaring- not nice men giving it all that! This went on till 6.00am!
We called security a number of times ( these were not the the types you yelled out the door to shut the chuff up!)

Security did naff all!

Anyway- it was just crazy- loads of people complained and we did get a refund!

Never again!!!!
Got back at