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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.9ne...b-badf93dc6f11
The narrative sounds slightly different from one account to another. When I was trying to ascertain the exact location of the sighting from the volunteers and the community's Chief Leroy Constant, I heard it described as at the garbage dump, near the garbage dump, rummaging through the garbage dump and between the garbage dump and water treatment plant. Mixed messages can of course happen via Chinese whispers when it comes to witness accounts, but it is worth noting.
In the days since the Bear Clan Patrol called in the possible sighting, they've raised about $3058. They've also received a lot of publicity - featuring on news bulletins all over the world, including ours
And yet despite all the resources thrown into searching York Landing immediately after the tip off, nothing was found. One police officer told me their sniffer dog was on the ground so quickly that afternoon, there is no way the pair wouldn't have been sniffed out if they were indeed in that forest they reportedly ran into. Not only that, they deployed air resources with infrared capabilities to look over the area and saw nothing. It just doesn't make sense. These two suspects can't just disappear into thin air,
There are several explanations for the false alarm in York Landing and I'm not going to spell them out. Whatever happened, every hour counts on the clock when a nationwide manhunt of this importance is underway. |
Is this supposed to support the idea that it was a fake tip? All of the bolded could be factually correct over the course of about 1 minute. Doesn't seem unreasonable that the 2nd/3rd hand account would have slight discrepancies, especially when it seems there were probably two different eye witnesses?
Personally, if I were a conspiracy theorist (which I'm not in this case) I would have gone with this paragraph (though I haven't heard anything else about this claim of capture?)
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The other thing that doesn't smell right is the way the reported sighting was handled by the community's Chief, Leroy Constant. In the evening hours after the sighting was called in, Constant declared that the two fugitives had been captured. That spread inaccurate information like wildfire across social media, even prompting some Australian media to start reporting the incorrect information. It was incorrect, police had not captured McLeod and Schmegelsky.
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Their GoFundMe Page states it has a goal to raise $100,000. In nine months, 425 people have donated a total amount of $34,665. Based on the page's comments, donors are happy and supportive of the work they are doing in the community - and this is obviously a cause close to peoples' hearts in this part of the Province.
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$3k over a few days sounds pretty good, but they'd already managed over $30k previously (almost $3k a month)
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As for locals who reported hearing gunshots, I later found out there were only two gunshots fired. They were from a tactical officer's firearm who fired into the ground. He had become separated from his team and he couldn't reach for his radio, so it was his way of communicating to his peers where he was in the bush.
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I'm the last person to question the competency of the RCMP/searchers in this case, but this seems like an interesting tidbit that shows how easy it is to get 'lost' in this bush, even if you're not trying to...
Overall, kind of interesting to me that a few big revelations/lingering question marks seem to have come from international sources, and no 'corrected record' has really been established (the other being the alcohol checkstop by the RCMP/not RCMP guy(s) who may or may not have seen camping gear and/or maps). I can't say I've read every article from Canadian news outlets, but they don't seem to have gotten to the bottom of things with primary sources very well?