I live quite close to a highway overpass. Strictly an overpass, no on/off. This never made the news at all, but a young Asian female jumped to her death from there just a few years back. I heard she was of high school age, and even though the fall onto the blacktop was fairly high, it apparently didn't kill her. Getting subsequently run over by a Semi truck did. Sometimes makes you wonder...
Asian families hide any sort of 'dishonour' like this, so it is never mentioned, talked about, and shall forever be silenced.
Also, it is still legal for a minor in Canada to possess and consume tobacco products. Sales are tightly restricted, but possession and consumption laws have not changed. I smoked occasionally in Elementary School, and am glad to see these laws have not changed.
Also, realized today that minors can still get a Firearms Licence in this country. I thought they might have tossed that a few years ago, but no. If you are 12 years of age, you can get a Firearms Licence, which gives you the exact same rights to possess and shoot as an adult has, and to also purchase ammo, minus the capability for handgun possession. Handgun possession has to wait until 18. They cannot buy or sell long guns though... They have to 'borrow' them from others until 18 years of age. A licence means unsupervised possession and use, which I have never heard of a problem due to the issue of this licence. Bricktop would NOT approve.
Also, in British Columbia, mandatory helmet use while pedaling a bicycle was implemented like 20 years ago. Non-use is an offense under the Motor Vehicle Act.
The fine is minimal, and most Cops don't even want to bother enforcing this rule anymore. Just keep pedaling away in fact, and don't even stop, and the Cop will leave. He will not want to initiate a pursuit, and I'm not fucking joking. The amount of paperwork they'd have to do, to pursue a bicyclist for not stopping due to no helmet, is something that they best ignore...
An example of a stupid law forced in. This is an interesting law change, as both the left and right of all spectrums did not want this law implemented, but it went through anyhow.
Don't stop to get the ticket. Just pedal away. Thank me later.
I got my first shotgun at age 11. It was a .410 for rabbit hunting. Then I got a 20 gauge a year later.
My father got me a cheap ex military rifle for hunting roos and deer when I was 14. Later, he trained me with revolvers and auto mags at target practice on our farm. That was before Port Arthur happened.
Most of the gun cabinet disappeared overnight. I reckon he buried them somewhere. Nobody knows or is willing to say where. He passed on a long time ago.
It's sad that one incident must affect so many, but it is the way of the new world now, it seems.
Even here, many people have very deep basements, and it is reasonable to assume that there may be some items hiding down there that may have been 'forgotten'...
I say furry muff about that.
People who reserve options for a rainy day are wise. People like Bricktop who complain about the rules yet push top down authoritarianism are stupid.
They deserve what happens to them since they're cowardly morons with entitlement issues.
His intentions are good, although misguided at times. I'm sure with his work he's dealt with some things that we would not...
He needs proper guidance. Where the fuck is his wife? He sits online 24/7...
My ex would not put up with my ass sitting in front of the screen 24/7.
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Yeah. The sanctioned state theft on peaceful people who did nothing except inadvertently break petty and stupidly ineffective regulations.
You have to be a special kind of shitbag in order to rationalize bailing up people and stealing from them.
Bricktop is defo going to hell.
There is no doubt he's a control freak.
What can be done to help him?
More medication.
There must be something more that we can do for him...
An intervention? Unlikely.
He's stupid, set in his ways, strung out on SSRI's, and relying on his old age pensions.
He's not going to see the light before he expires in a geriatric bed sit crying about the fires of hell coming at his eyeballs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKvTtLzFKAw
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I remember when that law went into effect here! Was like 20 years ago or so you're right. I felt like that was the beginning of the pussification of America. I never enforced my son to wear a helmet. I got him a cool military looking one, but I didnt make him wear it.
As a kid, flying down a hill on a bike with the wind in your hair, that was freedom.
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I remember when that law went into effect here! Was like 20 years ago or so you're right. I felt like that was the beginning of the pussification of America. I never enforced my son to wear a helmet. I got him a cool military looking one, but I didnt make him wear it.
As a kid, flying down a hill on a bike with the wind in your hair, that was freedom.
I broke my foot doing that.
Was barreling down a very steep country road and a sibling standing alongside decided to kick out their skateboard to see what would happen.
My back wheel shot up, my foot came off the pedal, and jammed into the spokes while I was doing about 70 to 80 KPH.
managed to stop skidding my flesh off after 15 or so feet.
Got a broken foot and huge embedded gravel rash.
I chased that sibling hop by hop for 20 minutes uphill.
Our mother shielded them from death.
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I broke my foot doing that.
Was barreling down a very steep country road and a sibling standing alongside decided to kick out their skateboard to see what would happen.
My back wheel shot up, my foot came off the pedal, and jammed into the spokes while I was doing about 70 to 80 KPH.
managed to stop skidding my flesh off after 15 or so feet.
Got a broken foot and huge embedded gravel rash.
I chased that sibling hop by hop for 20 minutes uphill.
Our mother shielded them from death.
Lol, that reminded me of a few stories from my childhood lol.
When I was a kid, short cut off jean shorts were the thing. I remember riding down the hill on a skateboard, not standing but sitting, and it was a slim board called a Stingray. Thing got going so fast, that it started to wobble, then it flung me sideways. I scraped the hell out of my leg, and remember picking rocks out of my ass cheek lol.
Another instance, same hill, I was going down on a bike, and other kids would wear roller skates and one would grab my seat and hold on, the others forming a chain. They loved flying on skates lol. One day, this one kid, when I pulled over to let a truck pass, he kept going. Well I caught up with him, and he came out of nowhere from the side of that truck. I was flying, couldnt stop in time, and nailed him with the bike, and both of us went flying. Good times lol.
One time, this one kid threw a rock, hit me in the lip, started bleeding. The other kids were worried about me, while the other kid took off running. I hauled ass after him, was gaining on him, hes hollerin' MAMA! MAMA! and she came out and saved his ass just before I could grab him lol. The fucker.
There's something strangely rewarding and fulfilling about a sociopathic alcoholic and a proven troll and insecure deceiver discussing my mental state.
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