Monday, April 30, 2007

West Coast Wackies

If you've ever wondered why our west coast people are considered somewhat wacky, here are two stories from Vancouver [courtesy the Montreal Gazette]:

A driver charged with impaired driving after his car was stopped for weaving on a freeway claimed his attention was not compromised by the 10 beers and double cocktail he'd consumed but rather because his wife was enjoying a new vibrator.

In a hopefully unrelated story, the RCMP have new orders to check inside cars that appear to have been abandoned. This followed the revelation that a dead man sat in his car on the Trans-Canada Highway (presumably on the shoulder) for 3 days despite the car being noticed and flagged by local police and the Mounties. Seems no-one looked inside the vehicle.

Just goes to show that on the West Coast cars can be hazardous to your health.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

THE MAN ON THE HIGHWAY THAT WAS FOUND DEAD WITH HIS DOG AND WAS THERE FOR 4 DAYS.WAS MY FATHER-IN-LAW.ITS REALLY SAD,NO ONE TOOK THE TIME TO CHECK HIS CAR .RCMP AND ABBOTSFORD POLICE DROVE BY IT HOW MANY TIMES WHILE IT SAT ON THE HIGHWAY UNMARKED FOR DAYS.NO EXCUSE FOR THEM NOT MARKING IT .IF YOUR DRIVING BY IT KNOWING IT WAS TO BE MARKED AND ITS NOT,HELLO WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU DO THEN.GET OUT OF THE CAR MARK IT?HAD THEY DONE THAT DAD AND HIS DOG THAT WE GAVE HIM WOULDVE NEVER BEEN IN THE CAR FOR LONG.WE ARE VERY THANKFUL FOR DENNIS BARESCALE STOPPING AND FINDING HIM AND THE DOG.CANT SAY WE CAN THANK THE POLICE OR RCMP FOR NOT DOING THEIR JOB.