Crime at the Beaches

For those of you that live in Toronto, you've probably heard about the story that broke yesterday. For the rest of you...check out this link.

I was playing beach volleyball on Saturday in that same sand but we all played pretty poorly that day. Sunday was supposed to be our day of retribution so Tchao, Danielle, Stan and I hopped into the car and drove down to Ashbridges. We met up with Mike who told us there was police tape all around the courts and no one was allowed to play. Confused and interested...we went over to the courts and began to walk around. We slowly started hearing stories and seeing news reporters talk about the crime. Seeing the cops out there with there metal detectors and rakes was quite weird. The process was taking forever too. In the time we were there (30 minutes), they probably covered at most 2% of the whole beach volleyball court area. They continued all afternoon and apparently today, they are back out there (This time with more manpower, metal detectors and a high strength magnet).

I was listening to the Bill Carroll show on CFRB this morning and it was very interesting. He was calling this an act of Terrorism because it had the deliberate intent to hurt (or kill) someone and has caused a sense of fear among residents of Toronto. The crazy thing was that no one was calling in. He compared this to the issue from a couple months ago when someone poisoned the park so dogs got sick. The lines were jammed and people couldn't stop talking about it. Now, in this case when it affects humans - no one is calling and there just isn't that same sense of fear that there was with the dog incident.

I am not sure what to think about this crime. Someone actually conceived this plan. Bought wood and cut it up into 2 by 3 inch pieces. Then, cut grooves in the wood and glued pieces of razor blades into the grooves so they would stay face up. Then, they went to the beach late at night b/w Saturday and Sunday and proceeded to lay these things (blade side up) under the sand in the courts. Who would do something like that?

What a crazy story. I'm glad no one got hurt though...



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