Since we're on to the usual issue of "why do we have to pay", and since this forum isn't here to advise people to commit illegal acts, off this goes to the Romper Room
No rear plate = Free 407.
Interesting...
The police kind of proved his point. Arrested and detained for doing nothing illegal.
I feel bad for the death of a police officer but his death carries no more weight than a soldier or firefighter or anyone who dies while serving society. That funeral was a political spectacle which in my opinion dishonours the dead more than a sign.
Since we're on to the usual issue of "why do we have to pay", and since this forum isn't here to advise people to commit illegal acts, off this goes to the Romper Room
Agreed. And I was a bit taken aback by the "HERO" headlines in all the major Toronto bird cage liners. I always thought a hero was the guy who ran into a burning building to save a child, or the soldier that dove on a grenade to keep his comrades from getting injured, not a guy that got run over when he slipped and fell in the snow while trying to shoot someone in a chase that should have been over and done with 45 minutes prior, but for the incompetence of his superiors in coordinating the stop of one pickup truck in a heavily patrolled area.
I am thoroughly baffled by the gov't choice to sell off the 407 to MacQuarry, and I disagree with some of their billing and rate setting policy, but the theory behind the high prices is congestion management, and it is sound, although inconvenient, and damned expensive. If traffic planners had their way, everyone would be carpooling, on busses or on bikes, cutting congestion in half, and removing the need for most of our infrastructure, but that is a pipe dream and I know it. Reality says we are too much in love with our cages, picking our own radio stations, and chosing our own routes and times of travel. Incidentally, my wife and I both just quit our jobs to start at a new place we could carpool to rather than working in different towns. Now baby is on the way and I'm looking at dumping the car to reduce impacts again. Beatign congestion is a gradual evolution and its up to all teh individuals who share the road to play their part. Sadly we'd all rather pay taxes to keep 10 lanes per direction on the 401 running. That is really no cheaper than teh 407, but you don't see it in a bill in the mail, so you ignore it.
This is sooooo not HTA material. LOL.
Why is the 407 so damn expensive???
Agreed. And I was a bit taken aback by the "HERO" headlines in all the major Toronto bird cage liners. I always thought a hero was the guy who ran into a burning building to save a child, or the soldier that dove on a grenade to keep his comrades from getting injured, not a guy that got run over when he slipped and fell in the snow while trying to shoot someone in a chase that should have been over and done with 45 minutes prior, but for the incompetence of his superiors in coordinating the stop of one pickup truck in a heavily patrolled area.
+1
And if he had lived, invariably, some news personality would have asked him "Do you feel like a hero"?
Dollars to donuts(no pun intended) his response would be "No, just doing my job"
a mentally ill person who was thought to be armed,
didn't another thread discuss this?
i thought the hero moniker was given for his handling of a situation a day earlier, where he de-escalated a standoff with a mentally ill person who was thought to be armed, to the point where no one was harmed.
not arguing the hero status one way or the other, but i thought this was 'clarified' elsewhere. . .
New documentary/movie - Under Occupation: Toronto G20 Operation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YqU9lr9G-0
(full movie)
If one jumps on a grenade in a foxhole to save their buddies and it's a dud, are they still a hero?