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<title>Kery Pocker</title>
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Buy sell new equipments and used heavy construction equipment machinery for sale with heavy machinery for sale]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c299287</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:20:30 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Andy</title>
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I was at Sheridan when the lockdown happened... it was a little creepy since we were locked up for hours and didn't know what was going on... But for all the people saying it was the scariest moment of their life, that's pretty pathetic. If a guy comes in the door shooting a gun... well... we all gotta go sometime... What makes you think that a gunman is going to burst in through YOUR locked door compared to the hundred of others in the school?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c265558</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:36:17 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Mathew J. Daniels</title>
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I guess that's why gun control IS a good idea.  Just another day in the good 'ole USA.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262600</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:26:00 PST</pubDate>
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<title>RBeezy</title>
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hey look! another University shooting in the states!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/university.shooting/index.html

but of course, such fears are unfounded.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262453</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:17:41 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Mathew J. Daniels</title>
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@ Kyle Bennett - do you even have any kind of education?  I read the first piece about your toaster ordeal and was amazed at the lack of any intelligence of any kind.  If you want a toaster, then buy a toaster.  Fear originates from ignorance and used by governments.  All that crap about "society has been held hostage under patriarchal rule and from which much of the construction of this type of fear originates", maybe you should grow a "pair" as well.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262369</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:14:30 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Mathew J.  Daniels</title>
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I find it disgusting that AMERICAN FEAR propaganda has spread to Canada.  Oh...I've got a sniffle, must be the Avian flu or Anthrax or something.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262346</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:17:17 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Kelly</title>
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@ Eva: there's a lot of aggression and violent language coming from those typing fingers of yours.  You really should consider some kind of anger management therapy.  I am concerned that you might escalate that kind of controlling domineering language into actual violence against someone who doesn't behave the way you want them to.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262246</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:00:01 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Michael</title>
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I called it! During the lockdown - a tripod - I knew it!

http://www.willems.ca/blog/?p=600

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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c262053</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:50:10 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Jerrold</title>
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Police have confirmed that <a href="http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_19557.aspx" target="_blank">it was in fact a student carrying a microphone tripod</a> from Sheridan College's Media Arts program that triggered the 3h emergency lockdown. Whoooopsies.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c261927</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:14:55 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Eva</title>
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who are you to say nothing has ever happened to me? You don't fucking know me! I have had other terrible things occur in my life before actually and this was BY FAR the scariest so I recommend knowing before speaking... or typing in this case. Regardless what the guy was carrying me and my friends still thought a gunman was in our school and was going to burst through the door at any second. If you've never lived through something like that than you seriously have no fucking idea what it's like. And for your information (seeing as you guys are noisy and are butting into things that have nothing to do with you) the guy did come forward (because he's decent and wanted people to stop worrying unlike some of you would do) and he was carrying a camera stand. 

Anyway besides the point, don't fucking tell me how I feel. You're not me, you weren't there, so you have no clue. Fuck off and don't fucking talk to me you piece of shit!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c261912</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:32:48 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Pat</title>
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What's with the social-construction of fear debate going on?  Even if fear is a personal construct, doesn't that make it less possible to deny or take from someone?  Asking somone to "grow-a-pair" reinforces the construct of gender in which our society has been held hostage under patriarchal rule and from which much of the construction of this type of fear originates.  
Or maybe I read it wrong and the person meant breasts, not balls.     ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c261875</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:42:55 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Kyle Bennett</title>
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They don't need to find the guy, even if it was a gun, he's gone and no-one got shot or even threatened. It's over, and he was and is no threat.

And Eva, it's not the scariest thing that ever happened to you, because nothing at all happened *to* you. Your fear was entirely your own making.  You've allowed your life to be put at the mercy of others, so get used to cowering under your desk for hours, it's going to be the story of your life.  In a sane school, you and/or some of your classmates would have brought guns to school as a matter of course, and been prepared to defend yourselves in the extremely unlikely event you ever needed to.  That your school is a victim disarmament zone only makes it more likely you'll need to some day, and that you'll have no means besides your bare hands and a sharp pencil (and maybe a heavy tripod) to do it with. Things like VT could happen at your school *because* it's so unusual to see a gun that grown men swoon at the sight of anything that even resembles one. ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:00:56 PST</pubDate>
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<title>jordanlund</title>
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They had a similar event here only the suspect object was, get this... a rolled up yoga mat.

I'm not kidding.

http://media.barometer.orst.edu/media/storage/paper854/news/2007/05/14/News/suspicious.Man.Prompts.Concern.On.Albany.Campus.Student.Located-2903106.shtml

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:26 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Eva</title>
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If you guys read the papers properly it says that it MAY have been a tripod whICH Means they're not 100% sure so obviously they have to be cautious and find the guy just in case it was a gun. AND if you guys weren't at the school when this happened then don't fucking leave a comment. You have no right being so fucking rude when you don't know what it was like. I was there and it was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. For three hours I was hiding in the dark under a desk thinking a guy with a rifle was going to come in any minute and shoot me. I'm happy the teacher reported the guy, he was looking out for OUR safety and I'm glad the school reacted, once again, looking out for our safety. Better to be safe than sorry ass holes. ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c261189</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:03:50 PST</pubDate>
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<title>UWP</title>
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This reminds me of my father, 1977 in Poland. We've been there for holidays, he's originally coming from there and wanted to see his old home etc. so we went on holiday there during the cold war. He just took some pictures with his camera, normal street life. An officer came and arrested him. Later they told him, that in this street there was someting like a "military building" (in fact there was nothing like this). They took the pictures from the camera and let him go, but I guess the whole thing was quite normal for the eastern block at this time. Strange that the western block is now doing the same bad things: constructiong crimes where no crimes have been. Very sad, thank God I don't have kids, this world will become very hard in the future...
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:02:47 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Paul</title>
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The worst part is if the guy comes forward and says it was him with the tripod, they'll likely fine him for the cost of bringing out the police and emergency teams.

Never mind it was a completely bogus report - they have to pin the costs on someone.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2008/02/tripod_prompts_lockdown_at_sheridan_college/#c261177</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:14:45 PST</pubDate>
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<title>C Murray</title>
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Such an age of fear, constant fear, overwhelming fear.  Always without a single shred of rational thought to go with it.
So he is walking through the school and an idiot from a distance thinks it might have been a weapon.  Was he alone in the school?  Were there no students or other faculty not passing by him?  If there was you think they might have had a better look and they would have reacted?
This is the problem, the media have taught us to fear everything.  Decades of teaching weakness has resulted in people who are both unable and unwilling to take chances and to think for themselves.
Knee jerk reactions over nothing is the name of the game and we are all players.
When I was a kid, a psycho girl in Cleveland opened fire on a school.  It was the source of the Boomtown Rats song I Don't Like Mondays.
Everyone saw it for what it was, a freak occurrence, a terrible tragedy, a sad, disgraceful act.  No one panicked, schools across the nation were not locked down, the media didn't run 24/7 horrorshows for our voyeuristic pleasure.
we moved on.

That doesn't happen anymore.  Everyone lives in constant fear of everything all the time without using reason to affect judgment.

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:11:43 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Dan</title>
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Hey, lets be clear about one thing here. Police reported that the suspected gun MAY HAVE BEEN a tripod. It was not clearly exposed and therefore police still don't know what was actually there. I can't imagine that police are exhausting too much effort in trying to find the perpatrator, however the fact that the person is still wanted for investigation makes sense in the idea that it may have been a shotgun. 

I got out of the school just before it happened, and I spent all afternoon communicating with people locked down in the school. 

The professor may have overreacted at the situation, but also know that EIGHT other people witnessed the 'long, dark tubular object' and were concerned. I'd say thats cause enough to contact campus security. and it was at the campus security's discretion to call police. Students and professors are all used to seeing tripods around, there are photography and media arts students with them constantly. 

But I can't say I'm surprised at seeing this conversation. If there weren't people blaming the overreaction, there would be an outcry of people ranting about the lack of reaction. I personally would like to thank the Halton Regional Police for the quick and efficient reaction, and commend the professor and other witnesses for taking action. We're not living in fear of terrorism, we're being smart about protecting ourselves.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:14:00 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Sheryl</title>
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Posted by: Alex Delarge at February 10, 2008 3:46 AM 

Sheridan College eh..Humber College is a bit different, someone was able to be robbed at gun point at the student center..thats a bit of a double standard dont you think?
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Hey Alex, do you have a link to the story?  Im a Humber alum (2003) and remember all to well the craziness that would happen on campus (repeated bomb threats around midterms (where my Program director was enlisted by the police to help look for the bomb!), muggings on campus, assaults in rez(!), sword fights at the nearby hospital(????!!!!).  'Good' to know nothing's changed.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:36:27 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Jerry</title>
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Once time, I placed my brief case on the x-ray conveyor for airport security.  The person running the x-ray yelled, "Stop...  Look at this..."  Security personnel showed me what happened.  My umbrella became a barrel, the calculator became a magazine, and the key ring and key became trigger and trigger guard.  ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:28:35 PST</pubDate>
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