YOU gotta wonder if civil servants and politicians have to pass some type of test or something? Surely there is, at the very least, a multiple choice questionnaire or open book quiz of some sorts, isn't there.
I'm serious.
There's gotta be something to qualify (and I use this term loosely) people that make laws and rules and enforce them isn't there. And what about all this talk about being environmentally friendly, going green, easing gridlocked rush hour traffic, creating parking spaces in the downtown core...
Anyone?
Is there not some test for these imbeciles??
This from my riding friend in B.C. (British Columbia for my American friends) recently arrived at my mailbox:
BCCOM Update – Oct. 24th, 2013
Yup... you read that right. Our National Police force, responsible for much of Canada's highway and towns, those same guys that repeatedly tasered a Polish man,
(Robert Dziekański (April 15, 1967 – October 14, 2007; was a Polish immigrant to Canada whose death on October 14, 2007 was a homicide.[3] He was tasered five times by the RCMP at Vancouver International Airport...
Full details of the incident became public because Paul Pritchard, an eyewitness, made a cell phone video of it. The police initially took possession of the video, refusing to return it to Pritchard. Pritchard went to court to obtain it, then released it to the press. The final inquiry report released Friday June 18, 2010 concluded the RCMP were not justified in using a Taser against the Polish immigrant and that the officers later deliberately misrepresented their actions to investigators.)
stuck in a Vancouver airport, because he was threatening these four body armored, radio equipped, armed, trained professionals, with a "stapler"!! That's right a cheap office stapler, not to be confused with the deadly "staple gun" in my tool box...
This is even harder to believe than my ongoing battle with the City of Calgary parking authority about encouraging motorcyclists to ride their bikes vs driving the sedan during summer months. My suggestions of opening city property to park bikes or allowing more than a single bike to occupy a metered space, fell on deaf ears. Then when they introduced the ticket dispenser, a test program of which they ran during our winter months, when I pointed out the folly of that idea, their answer was "well we didn't think of that" then to "afix the (paper) ticket to my windshield or place it on the dashboard", then after my pointing out many of us neither had windshields or dashboards... they then suggested I and all my friends, park in pay lots, as their solution.
Thanks Big Brother, for looking after us sub humans too...
Just to prove that lacking common sense is not limited to Provincial or Federal authorities, I was told by my insurance company that I was "only being charged insurance for 7 months... yes," he said,
"I got 5 months of insurance ... for free!"
I'm still looking for the turnip truck I fell from...
I'm serious.
There's gotta be something to qualify (and I use this term loosely) people that make laws and rules and enforce them isn't there. And what about all this talk about being environmentally friendly, going green, easing gridlocked rush hour traffic, creating parking spaces in the downtown core...
Anyone?
Is there not some test for these imbeciles??
This from my riding friend in B.C. (British Columbia for my American friends) recently arrived at my mailbox:
BCCOM Update – Oct. 24th, 2013
Snow Tires:
BCCOM has received a number of e-mails about some RCMP officers that have been enforcing BC's snow tire law to the limit. It states that all motor vehicles must be equipped with either snow tires or chains to drive on most of BC’s highways from Oct. 1st – April 30th. Which is now, being applied to motorcycles without regard to actual weather or road conditions. This effectively bans the use of motorcycles in BC during that period (58% of the year)
We thank all of our members who have written in about this issue. Please know that BCCOM has taken the first steps to contact the Ministry of Transportation about this issue.
HOV LANE: Burnaby – Vancouver Border
Please know that BCCOM , along with our legal council is looking into changing what is now, a dedicated bus lane (Cassiar and Hastings) into a full functioning HOV lane that allows motorcycles as well.
Yup... you read that right. Our National Police force, responsible for much of Canada's highway and towns, those same guys that repeatedly tasered a Polish man,
(Robert Dziekański (April 15, 1967 – October 14, 2007; was a Polish immigrant to Canada whose death on October 14, 2007 was a homicide.[3] He was tasered five times by the RCMP at Vancouver International Airport...
Full details of the incident became public because Paul Pritchard, an eyewitness, made a cell phone video of it. The police initially took possession of the video, refusing to return it to Pritchard. Pritchard went to court to obtain it, then released it to the press. The final inquiry report released Friday June 18, 2010 concluded the RCMP were not justified in using a Taser against the Polish immigrant and that the officers later deliberately misrepresented their actions to investigators.)
stuck in a Vancouver airport, because he was threatening these four body armored, radio equipped, armed, trained professionals, with a "stapler"!! That's right a cheap office stapler, not to be confused with the deadly "staple gun" in my tool box...
That one and the same police force is now ticketing motorcyclists on B.C. roads because they are not using snow tires or chains?!
WTF!!! Are you for real? Checked the calendar and it ain't April fools.
Thanks Big Brother, for looking after us sub humans too...
Just to prove that lacking common sense is not limited to Provincial or Federal authorities, I was told by my insurance company that I was "only being charged insurance for 7 months... yes," he said,
"I got 5 months of insurance ... for free!"
I'm still looking for the turnip truck I fell from...
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