Uh, yeah, so we should believe the leader of a country like that, okay, yes, thallium is far less bloody than the hakapik.
Seal clubbing isn’t an Olympic event, is it?
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Uh, yeah, so we should believe the leader of a country like that, okay, yes, thallium is far less bloody than the hakapik.
I don't know if it was here or on a news forum I read that someone was living in Nfld at the time Macartny and his wife came to protest. After they were gone some one in St. John's came up with the idea of a button. They sold like crazy I guess. (I made a avatar from the idea. I'm savin' it for the right forum.)
Halifax bus driver who beat toy seal with stick won't be charged
Anti-seal hunt protest taking place at time of incident
Last Updated: Monday, March 16, 2009 | 8:15 AM AT
A Metro Transit bus driver in Halifax won't face criminal charges after he jumped out of his bus and used a stick to beat a toy seal being used as a prop by anti-seal hunt protesters.
Transit officials say they are investigating the incident internally.
Anti-seal hunt protesters set up on Spring Garden Road, the busy downtown Halifax shopping district, as part of an international day of action against seal hunting on Saturday. The protesters were using a toy seal covered in fake blood as a prop, to help make their point that sealing is inhumane.
The driver was behind the wheel of his bus when he spotted the protest.
"He exited the bus and went over to the area where the protesters were, and began beating on the stuffed animal seal that was on the ground there," said Staff Sgt. Don Fox of the Halifax Regional Police.
The driver used a stick to beat the stuffed toy.
Fox said police officers removed the driver from the protest area and contacted his supervisors. The driver then got back on his bus and continued with his work day, according to police.
"I know that the incident in question is under investigation," said Lisette Cormier, spokeswoman for Metro Transit. "We'll be speaking to the operator in question … so I hope to have a lot more details then."
Cormier said Metro Transit officials hoped to comment further Monday or Tuesday.
This comes several days after another embarrassing incident involving a Metro Transit bus driver, when on Tuesday a driver refused to let a Muslim woman wearing a veil over her face get on his bus.
An eyewitness to that incident told CBC News that the driver was upset that the woman was wearing a headdress that allowed only her eyes to show.
The woman was eventually allowed on the bus.
Halifax bus driver who beat toy seal with stick won't be charged
Anti-seal hunt protest taking place at time of incident
Last Updated: Monday, March 16, 2009 | 8:15 AM AT
A Metro Transit bus driver in Halifax won't face criminal charges after he jumped out of his bus and used a stick to beat a toy seal being used as a prop by anti-seal hunt protesters.
Transit officials say they are investigating the incident internally.
Anti-seal hunt protesters set up on Spring Garden Road, the busy downtown Halifax shopping district, as part of an international day of action against seal hunting on Saturday. The protesters were using a toy seal covered in fake blood as a prop, to help make their point that sealing is inhumane.
The driver was behind the wheel of his bus when he spotted the protest.
"He exited the bus and went over to the area where the protesters were, and began beating on the stuffed animal seal that was on the ground there," said Staff Sgt. Don Fox of the Halifax Regional Police.
The driver used a stick to beat the stuffed toy.
Fox said police officers removed the driver from the protest area and contacted his supervisors. The driver then got back on his bus and continued with his work day, according to police.
"I know that the incident in question is under investigation," said Lisette Cormier, spokeswoman for Metro Transit. "We'll be speaking to the operator in question … so I hope to have a lot more details then."
Cormier said Metro Transit officials hoped to comment further Monday or Tuesday.
This comes several days after another embarrassing incident involving a Metro Transit bus driver, when on Tuesday a driver refused to let a Muslim woman wearing a veil over her face get on his bus.
An eyewitness to that incident told CBC News that the driver was upset that the woman was wearing a headdress that allowed only her eyes to show.
The woman was eventually allowed on the bus.
Halifax bus driver who beat toy seal with stick won't be charged
I LOVE this guy!!!!!!
lol
Dennis Miller, as quoted by Ron James
I wish I'd said that.
Or beaten the stuffed seal, either one.
I found that article simply hilarious. Too bad he stopped his bus to do it (because that got him suspended), but I'm picturing how funny that would have been to see.
Considering all the ridiculous sports that they have been putting in the Olympics, I wouldn't be the least bit surprise if "seal hunting" was in.
PETA are a bunch of idiots who unfortunately are funded by a bunch of rich braindead morons.