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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:30 am Post subject: My hometown is apparently taken over by organized crime. |
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It seems dear old British Columbia is riddled with crime. Interesting article...been a while since I lived there. Anybody been to BC lately? Is it really getting bad now, or is it the same as ever?
http://tinyurl.com/6be67c
Wow, that's a massive link. Anyway; I'm skeptical in some ways, but not in others...I'd be curious to hear what other BC people might have heard.
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Julius

Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: Re: My hometown is apparently taken over by organized crime. |
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blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
It seems dear old British Columbia is riddled with crime.. |
And this complaint comes from someone by the name of "burglar lurga". |
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ReeseDog

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:41 am Post subject: Re: My hometown is apparently taken over by organized crime. |
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Julius wrote: |
blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
It seems dear old British Columbia is riddled with crime.. |
And this complaint comes from someone by the name of "burglar lurga". |
I think you've misread the OP's name.
BC makes some of the best rope in the world. The demand for this fine product naturally draws criminals. |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: Re: My hometown is apparently taken over by organized crime. |
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Julius wrote: |
blurgalurgalurga wrote: |
It seems dear old British Columbia is riddled with crime.. |
And this complaint comes from someone by the name of "burglar lurga". |
I am no burglar, sir. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:43 am Post subject: |
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the fact that so many vancouver cops and businessmen are ordained hell's angels helps a lot.
that city sucks on so many levels. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: |
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uberscheisse wrote: |
the fact that so many vancouver cops and businessmen are ordained hell's angels helps a lot.
that city sucks on so many levels. |
what do you mean by ordained?
could you explain why you think it sucks on so many levels? |
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Quack Addict

Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: |
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I love Vancouver. I've only been there 3 times back in the early 90s. I saw Pearl Jam before they released their first album. In Canada you can get loaded at 19...and what do you know...I was 19. I didn't get the km/mph thing either so I was doing 60mph in a 60 kmh zone (60km is like 35 mph) loaded on canadian beer yelling at the hookers....wow...that was a long time ago. Anyway...sucks for the 'Couve now. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:45 am Post subject: |
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blaseblasphemener wrote: |
uberscheisse wrote: |
the fact that so many vancouver cops and businessmen are ordained hell's angels helps a lot.
that city sucks on so many levels. |
what do you mean by ordained?
could you explain why you think it sucks on so many levels? |
ordained - have gone through the process of becoming a hell's angel.
why does it suck?
1. highest and lowest income postal codes in canada, within 30 minutes of each other.
2. city government can't tell shaughnessy fartsuckers to take a hike, instead ruin a viable business neighborhood to enable transportation to an event that's going to last 10 freakin' days.
3. a city government that does its best to destroy small watering holes and thereby destroy its once vibrant music scene
4. the olympics.
want more, wait until tomorrow. sure it's lovely to look at, but that city is a bermuda triangle of greed, negativity and douchebags who think the first two things are cool. |
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hockeykorea
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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yea vancouvers getting pretty bad.
i'm from surrey, and the stories i hear are sometimes shocking.
anyone ever read the english section of those Metro newspapers?
i think that writer is from vancouver or surrey since half the stories are
surrey stories.
vancouvers the bum destination of north america. |
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friendoken
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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I am presently attending Royal Roads University on Vancouver Island and I have travelled to Vancouver several times, although I have never lived there. To me it seems a strange combination of Montreal (striving for old world legitimacy and European class) and Toronto (lots of big shiny skyscrapers glinting in the sunlight). I've also been around Canada from coast to coast and I find Vancover people some of the most pretentious and unfriendly Canadians I have met.
Even little Victoria isn't escaping a crime scene. A man slaughtered his family and in-laws in prestigious Oak Bay not so long ago, and the homeless street crime scene is rampant. Downtown Victoria at night is a little scary. Downtown Vancouver (some areas anyway) can be downright dangerous.
If forced into a decision, the east coast wins in a landslide. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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friendoken wrote: |
I've also been around Canada from coast to coast and I find Vancover people some of the most pretentious and unfriendly Canadians I have met.
If forced into a decision, the east coast wins in a landslide. |
seconded on both points. born in vancouver, lived there most of my life, and the city embarrasses me on how it can't get over itself.
that thing about "old world legitimacy/skyscrapers" is so on point.
only thing is vancouver is under 150 years old at best, and our "old world" scene meant "steal as much native land as possible and then a point grey 3 bedroom house will be worth a million bucks in 100 years". seriously, most beautiful scenery on traditional fishing grounds. and it's full of annoying white douchebags who don't need to work anymore because property values have soared.
the skyscraper thing is just funny because if you try to build a skyscraper in vancouver all the rich folk on fairview slopes and in shaughnessy piss and moan about their mountain views.
and the thing that bugs me the most about vancouver - bar gentrification -
(my term). the amount of liquor licenses in the city is finite - so the city is doing its best to close the skid row pubs that sell draft for 2 bucks a pint. they then flip that liquor license so that an annoying fruitcake who owns a bunch of real estate on granville st. can open an "urban lounge", where beers start at 6 bucks a sleeve (not a pint, but a sleeve).
some of the poorer folk have only a couple of vices and they're being taxed and overcharged out of them. it's criminal.
yes, my city, beautiful as it is, is annoying like fiberglass shavings in your underwear. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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But there is one more factor, a major one, that explains why, counter-intuitively, the median income has fallen by more than one-tenth in those 25 years and doubtless is still falling, yet luxury cars, high-end condos, electronic gizmos and flashy restaurants abound (I loved the snootiness of the Globe and Mail writer, surely bound for her natural habitat in Manhattan, who gave a ho-hum review of a Vancouver meal that cost $635 for two).
Crime. Especially drug crime.
BC Business magazine recently reported that British Columbia's marijuana industry is valued at $7.5 billion a year, more than Old Economy forestry and fishing and second only to the construction industry.
Inconsiderately, the illegal drug throngs don't report their incomes to StatsCanada. (Nor does the "grey economy," which is also silent and has been estimated at 15 or 20 per cent of the official economy. Who knows?) This is highly unpatriotic behaviour, and distorts, if it doesn't completely discredit, official income figures.
Is it any surprise that Joe and Jane Median, working hard at honest jobs, have so drastically fallen behind, while Porsches, Mercs, Jaguars and such roam the streets and high-cost holidays and second homes flourish? |
http://www.canada.com |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: My hometown is apparently taken over by organized crime. |
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Fix the link eh? use tinyurl.com |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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British Columbia is not a town.
Geography F
Englisheee F |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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"the fact that so many vancouver cops and businessmen are ordained hell's angels helps a lot.
that city sucks on so many levels."
So what's wrong with The Angels?
AFFA |
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