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Morning Brew: February 4th, 2008
Photo: "Warming up in an Empty Lot" by blogTO Flickr pooler ulove2explore.
Your morning news roundup for Monday February 4th, 2008:
TTC status update: derailment!?
Late last night, a train leaving Kennedy station came off the tracks and slide into a wall. No injuries were reported. Service between Kennedy and Warden Stations is via shuttle bus this morning, until they've finished cleaning it up and figuring out how this happened.
A Brampton teen has been expelled from school after he chose to include "inappropriate subject matter" in his grade 12 Creative Writing exam. His fiction piece was centered on a disgruntled student that ultimately ended up killing a teacher. Is this kid too creative for his own good, about to snap, or did he just have a temporary lapse of good judgment?
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A couple of Iowa teens came to Toronto, bought a giant heap of weed, took it to Sault Ste. Marie and hid it under the dock of a riverside home. But when they later returned to retrieve it, they fell through the ice, were rescued, and arrested. It was an easy arrest for the police, who didn't even have to tell them to "freeze" (go ahead and slap that knee).
Zipping down a city street at close to 100km/hr is a terrible idea with terrifying consequences. An elderly man is lucky to be alive, and a suspected street racer has a collapsed lung and likely also a painful legal battle ahead of him.
Splitting an average suburban house into an 18-bedroom rooming house, without proper permits, is illegal. A Scarborough homeowner is being forced by the courts to return the human pigeon coop back to its original state.
New York beat New England in a stunner of an upset in the Super Bowl last night. I'm heading down to Boston to console me some Patriots, and the original Morning Brewmaster will be bringing you the roundups for the next few days.
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This was about 15 years ago now, and I still haven't gone on a murderous rampage... yet.
:- )
couple that with the fact that most of these pimply-faced protagonists telegraph their future carnage with stories, blogs, message board posts etc., then you'd have to be an idiot to not react.
this kid's essay is the canary in the mineshaft. whether or not he intended to act on it I'd rather hear about the prevention rather than read about aftermath.
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on the other teen story it proves my longstanding theory: weed just makes you stupid.
School violence is up, but gun violence in school is down since 1992. There's reacting and over-reacting.
Do agree that pot makes people stupid (now I WILL hear it: - )
In my case, the teacher correctly assessed from the narrative that though I was a ticking time bomb of rage, I wasn't set to go off for another 15 years or so, so he let it slide :>.
cough.
Loozrboy, you were destined to express your rage through random blog posts. I hope they've been cathartic.
Besides, as Aaron pointed out, if they were really concerned about this kid, why not get him some counselling? How about talking to him or his parents? The first his parents heard about this is when the police showed up.