You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by indes

Canada's justice system is something else.

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/colin-tw...girl-1.6978831

4.5 Years for killing a 10yr old driving drunk.

Nice.

Likely will be free in less than half that time.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by indes

Canada's justice system is something else.

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/colin-tw...girl-1.6978831

4.5 Years for killing a 10yr old driving drunk.

Nice.

And a two-year ban on driving lol.

[indes]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Likely will be free in less than half that time.

I'm not sure if the math checks out but mowing that guy down in a couple years can't be worth more than 6 months, don't even have to get out of the car.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by indes

I'm not sure if the math checks out but mowing that guy down in a couple years can't be worth more than 6 months, don't even have to get out of the car.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. It's not even half the sentence, it's a third?

Can't inconvenience those convicted criminals after all.

https://www.canada.ca/en/parole-boar...act-sheet.html

[indes]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Actually, I think I'm wrong. It's not even half the sentence, it's a third?



Can't inconvenience those convicted criminals after all.



https://www.canada.ca/en/parole-boar...act-sheet.html

That's wild. All I'm saying is if that was my daughter I would have a hard time not looking for justice, since the precedence is set. I mean I guess as long as I make sure I'm drunk and don't stop to call an ambulance.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by gallione11

Just read that one of the larger wildfires in the US, (Chico -- Northern California) was caused by an idiot pushing a burning car into a dry ravine. WTAF? Bad enough with all the natural starts, but the human caused ones almost always seem to grow the most. They did arrest the guy -- hopefully he's put away for life.

I couldn't understand what you meant. He pushed it down there to save people from a burning car? Then I looked it up and it seems like he started the fire intentionally and pushed the car into the forest.

Sounds like such a great guy though.

Stout was arrested in 2020 for a DUI in Bidwell Park, where the fire started, and he has older convictions for child molestation, which require him to register as a sex offender, as well as robbery with great bodily injury, for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was still on probation for the DUI when he was arrested Thursday.

Usually drunk drivers stick to driving drunk, child molesters stick to molesting kids, robbers stick to robbing, arsonists stick to lighting fires. This guy offended for the cycle!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/californ...t-19597023.php

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by butterfly

I couldn't understand what you meant. He pushed it down there to save people from a burning car? Then I looked it up and it seems like he started the fire intentionally and pushed the car into the forest.

Sounds like such a great guy though.



Usually drunk drivers stick to driving drunk, child molesters stick to molesting kids, robbers stick to robbing, arsonists stick to lighting fires. This guy offended for the cycle!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/californ...t-19597023.php

Dang, if he was Canadian people would be losing their #### about the Canadian justice system.

[RichieRich]

Finally did it. Submitted a 311 on a neighbor. Not an immediately adjacent one otherwise I’d go have a friendly chat. But not comfortable with that.
Backyard smelly smokey fire pit.
During a fire ban no less.

Otherwise they’ve been good people in the neighborhood for years, except for several smelly Smokey fire pits annually.

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Finally did it. Submitted a 311 on a neighbor. Not an immediately adjacent one otherwise I’d go have a friendly chat. But not comfortable with that.
Backyard smelly smokey fire pit.
During a fire ban no less.

Otherwise they’ve been good people in the neighborhood for years, except for several smelly Smokey fire pits annually.

Dang. RGMG…. I appear to be wrong about there being a fire ban right now in Calgary. Still…. Sigh….. not good form. Still a smelly Smokey fire.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/wi...che=zviomxnayn

[BlackArcher101]

Thoughts and prayers

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Finally did it. Submitted a 311 on a neighbor. Not an immediately adjacent one otherwise I’d go have a friendly chat. But not comfortable with that.
Backyard smelly smokey fire pit.
During a fire ban no less.

Otherwise they’ve been good people in the neighborhood for years, except for several smelly Smokey fire pits annually.

Lol you submitted a complaint and didn't even know there was no longer a fire ban? You're that bad neighbor.

[chemgear]

At least he didn't burn his neighbor's house down in response . . . with a fire.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

Lots of crime is due to lack of education and poverty but drunk driving really isn't. It seems to be a crime of hubris. They don't think that they're doing anything wrong. Shaming these people would be a great first step towards curbing it. Make them walk around with a sandwich board saying, "I drove drunk and killed a little girl". If that doesn't change their habits I don't know if anything will, even prison.

Drunk drivers tend to be alcoholics who drive drunk a lot. It’s very difficult to get this group to change their behaviour through social messaging and shaming. Once they’ve killed someone, it’s too late.

The only way to stop them is to catch them multiples times and take away their licenses. But you can drive for years and years without hitting a check stop, because they’re costly to operate. So the question is how much are you willing to increase the annual operational budget of the police in order to catch 10 or 20 or 30 more drunk drivers a year and eventually get some of them off the road?

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

Lol you submitted a complaint and didn't even know there was no longer a fire ban? You're that bad neighbor.

You see my immediate follow up confession? Essentially saying I’ve grinded my own gears. Therefore that supersedes your grinding I think! Ha.

I’m not entirely “wrong” though. There are some other details I had omitted here on CP still necessitated some bylaw education, but not a fine. I’m good with that. A sergeant did respond to my submission and indicated as such. Here’s what’s currently posted online:
https://www.calgary.ca/safety/fire-pits.html

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by chemgear

At least he didn't burn his neighbor's house down in response . . . with a fire.

Considering their fire pit is right next to a wood fence, their wood shed, and under a tree… and dry brown grass… they have all the ingredients for a wonderful rip roaring outa control extravaganza. Being just a few homes over doesn’t make me comfortable.

[Weitz]

I dont go down south very often but it’s hilarious that the bridge on 22x still isn’t done.

I’d be embarrassed to be a part of that project.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Weitz

I dont go down south very often but it’s hilarious that the bridge on 22x still isn’t done.

I’d be embarrassed to be a part of that project.

I'm going on 40 and I swear I was going on 30 the first time I started hitting construction zones on that bridge.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I'm going on 40 and I swear I was going on 30 the first time I started hitting construction zones on that bridge.

I'm 47. They've been screwing around with that bridge since I was 16.

[81MC]

The fools who think the passing lane ending in 200m sign is their queue to move right on over to the left lane. ####ers, that big area with no dotted lines is the merge area, there is no need to change to the left lane before the end of the passing lane when you have cars passing you. So much hate.

[chemgear]

I really just need to install one of these. It would solve all my gear grinders.