Ivanhoe Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Where the hell is Carnot when we need him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Newfoundland man drives 18 km in wrecked car, cannot remember hitting moose: ‘Hey buddy! You got no roof on your car’http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/newfoundland-man-drives-18km-in-wrecked-car-cannot-remember-hitting-moose-hey-buddy-you-got-no-roof-on-your-car It was around 5 a.m. Monday and Tom Canning was driving to his salmon fishing spot in northern Newfoundland. A car passed him, going in the opposite direction on the highway. Its windshield was smashed and the roof was almost completely ripped off, but somehow, it was still cruising along at 100 km/h. He got a glimpse of the driver and swore the man had no head.Canning looked in his rearview mirror and saw the car swerving in and out of the oncoming lane.“I had to stop him, one way or another,” he said in an interview Thursday.So the fisherman turned his car around and started to chase the tattered blue Toyota. He followed it for two kilometres, going as fast as 110 km/h, until he saw a tractor-trailer coming toward them. Canning watched, helpless, as the car skipped over the yellow line and into the truck’s path.“I don’t know how he stayed on the road,” he said.The car dipped back into the right lane and stopped, waiting for the truck to pass so it could make a left turn onto a gravel road.“I blowed me horn and I jumped out and I ran towards him,” Canning said.When he got to the car, he saw the driver did, in fact, have a head — but it was so covered with blood and moose manure it was barely visible. There were moose organs in the car and a moose hide big enough to cover a table.“I said, ‘Hey buddy! Hey buddy! You got no roof on your car.’ That’s the words I said. And he stopped. … He was buried in blood. He was horrible to look at. Terrible mess,” Canning said.Then I realized, it’s Steve Bromley from Conche … I used to buy my codfish from him“Then I realized, it’s Steve Bromley from Conche … I used to buy my codfish from him.”Stephen Bromley, 49, was on his way home to Conche when he hit the moose Monday. After the crash, he drove another 18 kilometres. When Canning helped him out of the car, he had no memory of the collision.“He was saying things that didn’t really make sense,” Canning said. “I said, ‘What happened?’ and he said, ‘I can’t remember a thing. I must have felled asleep.”At the hospital, Bromley was treated for cuts on his head and a concussion. He remembers Canning pulling him out of the car, but little to nothing of the drive.“To tell you the truth, I didn’t even know I hit (the moose),” Bromley said. “I drove 18 kilometres with the window bit out of her. I thought the air conditioning was left on with the cold air. It’s strange.The local RCMP say it’s not uncommon for motorists who have suffered a head injury to go into a trance-like state and keep driving toward their destination. Cpl. Desmond Mollon said he has dealt with one case and heard of others from colleagues.In 2012, Michelle Higgins pulled into the parking lot of her office in Norris Arm, N.L., covered in blood and moose fur, with no recollection of hitting the animal. “No, I never hit a moose,” she told her colleagues. “I never even seen one.”Neurologists and emergency room physicians attributed the phenomenon to “post-traumatic amnesia” brought on by a concussion.“What that means is they’re not really laying down memories,” said Dr. Brian Levine, neuropsychologist and senior scientist at Baycrest Hospital in Toronto. “The brain isn’t able to create a stable memory for the events, even though they can act and carry out action sequences, like, for example driving.”It’s common in athletes, Levine said, noting that NFL quarterbacks have reported playing in games with concussions and having no recollection of what happened on the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toysoldier Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Yeah, that's what i'm talking about, Canada! Bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Tis only a scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T19 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Tis only a scratch ehFixed it for you eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikel2 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I wont be happy unless the LED light bar is rainbow also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 I wont be happy unless the LED light bar is rainbow also. This aint New York city, we don't have that sort of budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 "Steve, all you had to do was score one more goal in the game against the Fire Department for crying out loud. But no. Well, thirty days driving the Fagwagon for you. And bring Tim Horton's the whole next week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 (edited) "Steve, all you had to do was score one more goal in the game against the Fire Department for crying out loud. But no. Well, thirty days driving the Fagwagon for you. And bring Tim Horton's the whole next week." How much do you want to bet that's actually what they call it and that someone is going to get in some serious shit when it leaks out? Edited July 1, 2015 by Jason L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toysoldier Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Sunny Edmonton in June, eh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Something like that in the US would be the mayors office using the police department to pander for votes......things much different in Canada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R011 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) Something like that in the US would be the mayors office using the police department to pander for votes......things much different in Canada? A bit. I don't know about other provinces, but Ontario police don't report to mayors. They report to a board which is composed of municipal and provincial appointees. Chiefs and boards arr somewhat sensitive to public opinion - media opinion in particular. They've also internalized the changes in attitude towards gay people that most people here have undergone in the last generation, so yeah, the leadership tends to be a bit PC at times. It's generally an improvement over the way things used to be. It used to be that crimes against gays or in the gay community were disregarded by police forces. Some cops used to harass gays when they had a chance to do so. This has mostly changed and police services are trying to reach out to that community to get better cooperation. This car, incidentally, belongs to the Peel Regional Police. They generally have a reputation as a good police service. Peel Region is the county-sized municipality bordering Toronto to the west and its police service happens to be the third largest municipal police service in the country. Peel Region itself is mostly suburbs with some small old town centres and a few farms. I'm not aware of any gay neighbourhoods there like the one in downtown Toronto. http://www.peelpolice.on.ca/en/aboutus/diversityrelations.asp As for that car, that's not just gay-friendly, it's downright ghey. Even the openly gay coppers must dread being the recipient of someone's good idea fairy here. Edited July 2, 2015 by R011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 So this is how it feels to be a 3rd rate military, when we get logistical support from higher tier navies Chilean Navy supply ship arrives to provide support to Royal Canadian Navyhttp://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chilean-navy-supply-ship-arrives-in-esquimalt-to-provide-support-to-royal-canadian-navy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr King Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Meanwhile in the apocalypse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 yes up where I live it's pretty nasty, one of the sources of the smoke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shep854 Posted July 7, 2015 Author Share Posted July 7, 2015 We've been getting some of that smoke in Alabama. Before that, dust from Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Whole damn western and central part of the country is on fire right now. I picked a good time to not travel this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason L Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 http://imgur.com/gallery/h9LRo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Steele Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 http://imgur.com/gallery/h9LRo Thats good, I like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wick92 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 So this is how it feels to be a 3rd rate military, when we get logistical support from higher tier navies Chilean Navy supply ship arrives to provide support to Royal Canadian Navyhttp://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chilean-navy-supply-ship-arrives-in-esquimalt-to-provide-support-to-royal-canadian-navy Is there nothing in the US reserve fleet we could sell/lease/donate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 "Celebrating Diversity"...or else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 http://imgur.com/gallery/h9LRo That is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 No "I am Groot!"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougRichards Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 "Celebrating Diversity"...or else. puke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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