03-21-2013, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
Got this from a few people on IM, one person told me Leduc the other said Swift Current, I am guessing Leduc is correct :P
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I'm going to guess Highway 1.
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03-21-2013, 03:18 PM
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#22
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Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco
my heart goes out to the hundreds hurt in leduc
I had to laugh when I saw that.
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03-21-2013, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: blow me
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From the Weather Network's Facebook page.
Last edited by RedMileDJ; 03-21-2013 at 03:24 PM.
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03-21-2013, 03:22 PM
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Holy crap. What is this, communist China??
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03-21-2013, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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LOL at twitter and social media. In an effort for people to be the first ones to scoop a story society fails again
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03-21-2013, 03:26 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Hope there were some Russians in there with some dash cams.
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03-21-2013, 03:29 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Calgary
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Hope they are all okay.
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03-21-2013, 03:36 PM
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That is nuts! Hope they will all be ok
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03-21-2013, 03:39 PM
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good thing traffic had slowed to 95 kph........crazy crash scene, but not surprisng given the weather and number of vehicles on that road.
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03-21-2013, 03:44 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: blow me
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I thought this was...interesting...and kind of funny.
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03-21-2013, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ
From the Weather Network's Facebook page.
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A few points.
Almost guaranteed one of those trucks started the chain reaction,they drive like maniacs in bad weather because their big, heavy and can see better.
The Alberta HWY department is criminal,plows can keep the roads fairly clear before it stops snowing.
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03-21-2013, 04:24 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by T@T
The Alberta HWY department is criminal,plows can keep the roads fairly clear before it stops snowing.
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Huh? Are you suggesting they did something criminal to cause this accident? Or are you saying something else?
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03-21-2013, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ
I thought this was...interesting...and kind of funny.
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Just because your HGH is manufactured in Canada does not make you Canadian.
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03-21-2013, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Huh? Are you suggesting they did something criminal to cause this accident? Or are you saying something else?
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Didn't think I needed green text,figure of speech
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03-21-2013, 05:08 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by T@T
Didn't think I needed green text,figure of speech
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You do, don't assume it comes across right. For a second there I thought you were just another youtube/cbc/herald/sun website commenter.
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03-21-2013, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
You do, don't assume it comes across right. For a second there I thought you were just another youtube/cbc/herald/sun website commenter.
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Speaking of which, have facebook responders always been as bad as youtube responders? Jeez. I only recently started using facebook to get news from places like Global, but it's ridiculous how people talk on there.
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03-21-2013, 07:25 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Facebook has always been pretty bad. But still better than YouTube.
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03-22-2013, 09:22 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Calgary
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I am heading up to edmonton today for a hockey tournament. Lets just hope this doesnt happen again!
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03-22-2013, 09:30 AM
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300, to 100, to actually only 22 being transported to area hospitals.
Roughly 80 minor injuries were treated on scene and not transported at all.
Thankfully only 1 was a serious injury.
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03-23-2013, 04:13 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by Madman
300, to 100, to actually only 22 being transported to area hospitals.
Roughly 80 minor injuries were treated on scene and not transported at all.
Thankfully only 1 was a serious injury.
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Yep, that's what we're going to get from now on with social media playing such a big part in early news reporting.
The problem is the lack of filter. I don't know what it is, but as soon as someone posts something on twitter, it becomes relevant. I'm not saying everyone's stupid enough to believe everything on twitter, but people in general are willing to give anything posted on twitter the time of day, which those same people aren't willing to do in other situtations.
If a creepy looking weirdo was sitting in a coffee shop and turned to a table of people and said "I heard over 300 people were injured in that big crash by Leduc". The table of people would say "Wow, that seems high, where'd you hear that?". "Uh I don't know, I just heard it". Then those people would say "Uh yeah, that guys probably full of ****".
But if that same uninformed weirdo turns on his computer and types out that 300 people are injured on twitter, it instantly becomes "part of the discussion". It becomes a figure that is passed around the web, and becomes a figure that now has to be refuted and corrected. But why did it have to be refuted and corrected if it was just random people guessing on the internet? Because that's how powerful social media has become.
Social media is the weirdest thing in that it's become so useful and so useless at the same time, if you know what I mean.
Last edited by jayswin; 03-23-2013 at 04:16 PM.
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