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[Nparker]

...The vehicle is believed to have been used in connection with an armed pot shop robbery on Harriet Road.

Is it actually a crime when the business itself is illegal and technically shouldn't exist?

[Mike K.]

The details of the attacker were released initially. White, heavy set in his 20s, blue bandana, jeans, hat, and a hoody I believe. Not much to go on, he was well disguised.

 

Hmm, that's the first time I've heard of a skin colour. I was able to track down a single reference to a Vic News article by a reporter that's been fielding some pretty heavy criticism over her less than stellar writing skills. My point isn't to criticize her, only that her writing style is peculiar and a little hard to consume.

 

Since no other media has referenced skin colour (I ran a cursory search, couldn't find a secondary reference, but there very well could be references to a white man somewhere out there), is it possible that detail in her article was a mistake?

[todd]

grizzly machete attack eh? That must've been a bear to investigate.

 

What are you clawing at?

[lanforod]

Still waiting for aastra's polarizing black panduns.

[3isenough]

I have found a couple of sources where it indicated white male simply by googling Machete Attack Oak Bay. 

 

http://www.iheartrad...ttack-1.2569675

"He is a white male, in his 20's, wearing a brown jacket, khaki pants and a blue and white bandana.

The attacker remains at large."

 

http://www.oakbaynew...y-this-morning/

"Police say members from both Oak Bay and Saanich police departments are working to find the suspect described as a white man in his 20s wearing a brown jacket, khaki pants and a blue and white bandana."

[Mike K.]

Right, one of which I posted above, and now you've found a second one (which is a hastily written piece, perhaps even drawing from the Black Press article).

 

So this begs the question. If we know he's white, why was that crucial piece of information left out of the narrative in all but two (so far) articles? The story got province-wide attention and nobody is focusing on the man's ethnicity? Seems odd.

[aastra]

 

Still waiting for aastra's polarizing black panduns.

 

True story: I was going to say something about black humour being the polar opposite of what people expect to see in the crime thread.

 

But now you've pulled the rug out from under me.

 

Maybe it's all for the best. Can you imagine the hulla-baloo if two (allegedly) different forumers had posted the same fiendishly clever & hilarious wordplay at the same moment? It would have been unkoalafied pandamonium. The mods would have come out of hibernation.

[Sparky]

Fenton sentencing delayed.

Moderator hibernation procedure completed.

That is all.

[Mike K.]

A suspect wanted in connection with yesterday's armed robbery was finally taken down by a police dog on Obed Avenue this afternoon following a lengthy police pursuit that stretched across several municipalities.

[Mike K.]

A pepper spray incident following a bag snatching by a female has affected multiple people at the Bay Centre.

 

A woman snatched a bag from a man, who gave chase after her into the mall, where pepper spray was discharged. It is unclear who discharged the pepper spray. Approximately seven or eight individuals are affected.

[Mike K.]

Another male discharged the pepper spray. He is believed to have been complicit in the bag snatching.

 

Pretty big response at the mall right now.

[Bingo]

Plastic or paper?

[Nparker]

Plastic or paper?

If someone snatches a plastic bag, ostensibly to destroy it, would it still be a considered crime in the eyes of our civic leaders?

[Langford Rat]

doesn't this guy know that murses are supposed to be worn cross-body, over one shoulder.

[Nparker]

...murses are supposed to be worn cross-body, over one shoulder.

That's how I always wear mine. 

[Fred12]

A stabbing in centennial square,  wonderful start to the weekend.

[Nparker]

A stabbing in centennial square,  wonderful start to the weekend.

You know, if you don't like the jazz being played you can always just walk away.

[Mike K.]

Four guys clobbered a guy to near death with skateboards. Witnesses at the scene said they could see the flesh hanging off his head and exposed bone.

It's unclear what happened, but the victim, who had the knife, was up against more than he could handle.

Crazy thing is, is I walked through the square about an hour earlier and remarked to my girlfriend how gnarly the place was. Full of people that looked like those you wouldn't want to run into at night. That was my impression. Then an hour later we hear the sirens and went straight to the scene to find nearly a dozen cop cars and a taped off square.

Witnesses at the scene were more than willing to explain in detail what had occurred. And it wasn't pretty.

[HB]

any video or photos of the hanging flesh?

[Jill]

The TC report is less sensational, and says that according to witnesses, one guy pulled a knife on another, and the second guy hit him with his skateboard.

 

The TC quotes the guy with the skateboard as saying: “That guy could have killed me, I’m the one with a knife to my throat.”