Just heard on the news a Junior firefighter set a trestle on fire among 18 other things. Apparently he's the son of the ex mayor!
Little bugger in Mayerthorpe setting fires!
- Thread starter JLM
- Start date
We have a few kids going round here setting fire to all the grass at the sides of the footpath that used to be a railway line. I often take the dog down there and many times there's been a huge conflagration in the long grass. It's usually the local Muslim Paki kids who do it.
That a boy Blackie get some racial and religious hatred started, with some luck maybe by nightfall Windsor Castle will be on fire.
I bet you I've driven under that trestle bridge at least a thousand times. It was a marvel to look at and it stretched quite a distance. Being a fire bug is usually indicative of some greater issue.
Geez, I would never have believed it! That atrocity transpired in 1993! I was thinking perhaps 10 years ago.
No. That's long gone.
I'm not trying to start racial and religious hatred. I'm stating an observational fact. Or is such a thing not allowed anymore?
A former firefighter who torched the massive CN trestle bridge outside of Mayerthorpe, Alta., last year has been sentenced to 24 months in jail and three years probation.
Provincial court Judge Charles Gardner sentenced Lawson Schalm, 20, to six months for several small grass fires plus 18 months for the fire on the landmark trestle bridge.
Schalm got three months credit for time served in custody leading up to trial, leaving him with 21 months yet to serve.
Schalm sat next to his lawyer Thursday morning with a serious look on his face, wearing dark gym pants and a T-shirt. His mother and his father, former Mayerthorpe mayor Albert Schalm, sat behind him with other supporters.
Schalm was 19 and a volunteer firefighter when he used a lighter to set 18 grass fires in and around Mayerthorpe during a 12-day period in April 2016.
Clinical and forensic reports found Schalm was not a pyromaniac, yet set fires in a misguided way to gain social recognition.
In an agreed statement of facts presented to the court in March, he admitted starting fires "for the excitement of being called into the fire hall and then responding to extinguish the fires."
The Crown had sought a five-year prison sentence. Schalm's defence lawyer Ed O'Neill had asked for 18 months and three years probation.
Schalm was a member of the Mayerthorpe fire department for about four years. He was a cadet at age 15 and later became a regular volunteer firefighter.
Former firefighter gets 24 months in jail for burning CN trestle bridge in Mayerthorpe, Alta. - Edmonton - CBC News
Provincial court Judge Charles Gardner sentenced Lawson Schalm, 20, to six months for several small grass fires plus 18 months for the fire on the landmark trestle bridge.
Schalm got three months credit for time served in custody leading up to trial, leaving him with 21 months yet to serve.
Schalm sat next to his lawyer Thursday morning with a serious look on his face, wearing dark gym pants and a T-shirt. His mother and his father, former Mayerthorpe mayor Albert Schalm, sat behind him with other supporters.
Schalm was 19 and a volunteer firefighter when he used a lighter to set 18 grass fires in and around Mayerthorpe during a 12-day period in April 2016.
Clinical and forensic reports found Schalm was not a pyromaniac, yet set fires in a misguided way to gain social recognition.
In an agreed statement of facts presented to the court in March, he admitted starting fires "for the excitement of being called into the fire hall and then responding to extinguish the fires."
The Crown had sought a five-year prison sentence. Schalm's defence lawyer Ed O'Neill had asked for 18 months and three years probation.
Schalm was a member of the Mayerthorpe fire department for about four years. He was a cadet at age 15 and later became a regular volunteer firefighter.
Former firefighter gets 24 months in jail for burning CN trestle bridge in Mayerthorpe, Alta. - Edmonton - CBC News
CN workers in Alberta rebuild burned Mayerthorpe trestle bridge in 20 days
CN workers in Alberta rebuild burned Mayerthorpe trestle bridge in 20 days | Edmonton Journal
knockin 'em down...and building them up
CN workers in Alberta rebuild burned Mayerthorpe trestle bridge in 20 days | Edmonton Journal
knockin 'em down...and building them up
Pretty hard to argue that fact- Even the Queen's kids can be little heathens at times!
