Coronavirus catch-up
Police fined people playing soccer in Ahuntsic on Sunday, handing out $1546 tickets. (Update remark: Obviously I missed the weirder part of this story, about the woman getting a ticket for being sung “happy birthday” to, by friends in cars. It’s on that link and discussed below.)
La Presse has a question-and-answer item covering various practical matters as affected by the pandemic.
When I saw this headline about “criticism” of a dépanneur in Lachine I was afraid it would be a story of racism, but it isn’t. The wife of one of the delivery guys has tested positive and it’s apparently put people on edge. No idea how the news got around, but the little Provi-Soir has been sterilized.
Further update: this account on Global tells about the same woman who received a birthday parade (the location is Beaconsfield and the name is Leblanc in both stories) but says she only received a warning, no ticket.
j2 14:37 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
Wait, in the first link people came by that ladies place and sang happy birthday and she got the ticket?! Is there no test for intelligence in the SPVM?
Personally I’d get them to go sing to the nosy neighbours and get the neighbours a ticket too, since apparently the victim is to blame.
Kevin 14:51 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
@J2
Oooh, I gotta tell my police tech story.
When I was in Cegep I used to have a locker outside the classroom where police technology students studied statistics.
One day they got into a fierce argument with their teacher about which was greater, the number of cards in a deck or the number of weeks in a year.
After an hour of vicious debate and verbal sparring, they all agreed that the two numbers were equal: 50. Fifty weeks in a year, fifty cards in a deck.
jeather 15:10 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
Kevin have you ever seen the work out every other day thread? A true classic.
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
MarcG 15:45 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
I made it to the end of the 2nd page and now my brain is porridge. A curse on jeather.
JP 20:50 on 2020-04-06 Permalink
The Beaconsfield-Birthday singing story in that first link really does seem like an over-reaction, considering I’ve seen way worse lately. One of her neighbours is definitely a jerk who probably has no friends…The part that really struck me was this…” et qu’advenant une deuxième infraction, elle risquait de six mois à un an de prison.” Wow! There are people who do far worse things (dangerous driving, harassment) who don’t get threatened with that that or even come close to it
I have a neighbour who has souped up their car and is constantly revving their engine. Now that I’m working from home, I hear it at least 5 x a day. Hearing it also causes me some anxiety, truth be told. One of my neighbours went to speak with the neighbour’s mother who just shrugged her shoulders. I feel like he’s disturbing the peace far more than the above, and I still hesitate to call the police.
Talking to a couple of my neighbours has also made me realize that not everyone has an appropriate understanding of what’s being asked of us. One of my older neighbours (speaking over the phone) stubbornly insisted that as of last Sunday we were not allowed to step outside at all…for all I know, she might be ready to call the police on me during my next walk. She probably won’t because we help her, but if we were strangers I wouldn’t put it past her
Ian 08:14 on 2020-04-07 Permalink
Just read a story in the Gazette about one of the locals in my hood getting a fine this weekend, and she was told by the cops that you’re not supposed to be going out of the house except to buy groceries. The cop spokesman in the article allowed that you are in fact allowed out of the house as long as you maintain 2 metres space but clearly we are already seeing some cops re interpreting the law in their own special way, as they are wont to do.
I hate to add an extra level of paranoia in these troubled times but as always, don’t trust the cops, don’t call the cops. If they are making stuff up to give fines to middle aged white ladies in the park, I wouldn’t want to be a person of colour that some busybody snitches on.
Kevin 11:37 on 2020-04-07 Permalink
@jeather
I’m splitting my sides laughing. That’s some real TimeCube theorizing there.
Imagine hearing that debate going on in real time and that’s what it was like sitting in that hallway.