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Re: Crime in your area
I have come to the conclusion that crime in Canada is definately worse and I have found the source of this crime:
British Immigration :thumbsup: Just take a look at the following thread: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...97#post9400297 I can find atleast half a dozen british people who would steal the shirt of a cradle's back given half a chance. :) |
Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by el_richo
(Post 9399087)
Spent some of my day watching the police in fancy SUV's shoot at, then jump on, a nutter with what looked like a sword (i was on the 25th floor looking down so could easily have been a baguette) in downtown Vancouver.
I also had my iPod nicked this weekend after i left if out for 2 minutes in the gym changing room. After reading some of the happier stories on here i was hoping it would have been returned with a few extra songs on it and some new headphones but nope. I hope they get tinnitus, the pricks. :thumbdown: I think this thread has brought me bad luck cos i never had any issues like this in the UK :thumbdown: |
Re: Crime in your area
It's normally pretty sleepy around here, not a great volume of crime and significant crimes are few and far between.
Last night someone called in a [hoax] bomb threat to the local hospital. The patients were subsequently evacuated, a baby had to be flown out by helicopter to the IWK in Halifax, those who were gravely ill had to be transported out too. I understand there was also a patient in quarantine and there was some uncertainty about how to best deal with his "situation".. A lot of sadness and anger around town today. No idea if they'll find out who did this or what they'll charge them with but it feels to me like attempted manslaughter to me right now ... not cool at all :thumbdown: |
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Read the local paper yesterday (which is not something I usually do) while I was in the garage waiting room getting my winter tires off. The paper was about 8 double pages thick, and in it was:
2 fatal shootings in the Timberlea area Bomb threat in a New Glasgow hospital Murder trial in Schubenacadie Defrauding of a veterinary surgery in Bear River Drive by shooting in Sydney Illegal cigarettes trader in Truro Child porn perv arrested in Halifax Carjacking in Halifax Sex related charges of man in Cole Harbour Break-ins in Spryfield Car crime spree in Lower Sackville It was like reading the Bracknell news in England :blink: |
Re: Crime in your area
I got unrobbed today, the bank credited me with the money taken upthread. It was some sort of fraud involving the use of my bank card details. Unavoidable if you use cards, thought the bank.
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I don't think we have a category for being un-robbed. That's going to skew our very fine research on this thread
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Re: Crime in your area
personally we've been affected by more crime in UK but not too much luckily. Bike's stolen from locked shed when we lived in Bournemouth.
Car stolen from driveway, petrol siphoned, an attempted car theft from same driveway few years later (they woke my dad who proceeded to chase after them down the street in his tighty whities - enough to scare any chav off i tell ya!) My poor grans house was burgled while she was in hospital - place completely ransacked to the point where they took apart her boiler in the hope of finding money! - the police found a sock used by one of them there was blood inside where they had cut themselves and turned out to be a woman - sick bitch! - all of which happened in a small town on the outskirts of Bristol Been in Vancouver area for nearly two years and not been personally affected by anything (touch wood) saw a pick pocket on a bus get busted, but that's about it. |
Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by stacey.cook1
(Post 9408475)
personally we've been affected by more crime in UK but not too much luckily. Bike's stolen from locked shed when we lived in Bournemouth.
Car stolen from driveway, petrol siphoned, an attempted car theft from same driveway few years later (they woke my dad who proceeded to chase after them down the street in his tighty whities - enough to scare any chav off i tell ya!) My poor grans house was burgled while she was in hospital - place completely ransacked to the point where they took apart her boiler in the hope of finding money! - the police found a sock used by one of them there was blood inside where they had cut themselves and turned out to be a woman - sick bitch! - all of which happened in a small town on the outskirts of Bristol Been in Vancouver area for nearly two years and not been personally affected by anything (touch wood) saw a pick pocket on a bus get busted, but that's about it. Take a stroll around Main and East Hastings of nice summer evening. |
Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 9408583)
Take a stroll around Main and East Hastings of nice summer evening.
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Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 9408679)
Where's that? What do you see?
It's a charming and quaint little area in Vancouver, the world class city. |
Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 9408583)
Take a stroll around Main and East Hastings of nice summer evening.
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Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 9408715)
It's a charming and quaint little area in Vancouver, the world class city.
Originally Posted by stacey.cook1
(Post 9408721)
...some of the most polite homeless Ive ever come across
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Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 9408745)
:rofl:
Like that earlier comment about a more thoughtful kind of thief in Canada. ;) |
Re: Crime in your area
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 9409054)
I suppose this is a bad time to point out that Canada is a very varied place. The thieves in, oh, say Moncton, are much less thoughtful than in, oh, say, Kelowna.
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Re: Crime in your area
Personal experiences of crime in UK:
None. Zero. Nada. Nix. Even left my keys in the door of my terraced house in an Essex market down after coming back from the pub one night and no-one entered my house to rob, murder or otherwise mess with me. and in Newfoundland: Bicycle stolen from (unlocked) garage. Christmas Pressie necklace, unwisely left in glovebox of car on drive & unlocked, taken. Driveway markers (the things you put out in the winter so you know where your drive is when plowing/blowing/shovelling snow) taken. I'd say I live in a much safer and more upmarket area in Newfoundland than I did in Essex. Go, as they say, figure. |
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