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2005-03-04 Great White North

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Posted by tipper 2005-03-04 9:37:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 WTF? Pot? This is crazy.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 10:49:28 AM|| 2005-03-04 10:49:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That gazillion dollar gun registry in Canada sure made a difference.
You would think the killer had to have had a fully automatic Uzi,AK,M-16,AR-15 or some such to get 4 RCMP. Unless the RCMP went in completely relaxed and panicked. There has to be more to story. I'd hate to be the next grower arrested by RCMP who gives any lip,or even twitches while being arrested.

Posted by Stephen 2005-03-04 1:41:11 PM|| 2005-03-04 1:41:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Pot farmers can be damned crazy. Don't buy into that kindly-60s-leftover myth. Think "Copperhead Road". There are parts of Appalachia where you don't want to go wandering off the roads or main trails.

Posted by Mitch H. 2005-03-04 2:24:03 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-04 2:24:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto Northern California, Oregon and Hawaii. Especially in National Forests.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-04 2:27:52 PM|| 2005-03-04 2:27:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Most RCMP deaths in a single day in 120 years! IT'S A QUAGMIRE!!! LEAVE NOW!!!

Posted by M. Murcek 2005-03-04 2:43:41 PM|| 2005-03-04 2:43:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Mitch is right. Remember the Whiskey Insurrection?

That region is libertarian heaven-don't nose around people's property unless you want a snootful of buckshot.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-03-04 2:43:43 PM|| 2005-03-04 2:43:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Great link, Mitch--I never realized Maxim actually had stories! I'm usually distracted by the... ads... Yeah, that's it!

Posted by Dar 2005-03-04 3:04:58 PM|| 2005-03-04 3:04:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't recall the Whiskey Insurrection (altho we can agree it's something worth fighting for). Was Alan Alda in it?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-04 4:09:38 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:09:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Whiskey Insurrection

Shipman : Hope this helps.

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-04 4:17:41 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:17:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Shipman-With you on that one-a nice shot of Bushmills would suit me just about fine right now.

That region-gateway to Appalachia, all along the Ohio River, was my dad's birthplace. In its furthest eastern range, in PA, when the US was still young, the Irish settlers in the area raised a ruccus on exhorbitant whiskey tariffs. Mrs. D is a much better history buff and probably has much more complete historical info. As far as the people of that area, though, they don't take kindly to trespassers.

Posted by Jules 187 2005-03-04 4:18:02 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:18:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Rochfort Bridge, Alberta -

Looking for info -
Other than the new article in different forms,
I found the following :

Yellow Pages For Livestock Breeders

County Landfills

and

Odd Woman With Flower Pots on Clothesline Must be windy there.

The map says it is on the Hwy west of Edmonton halfway to the BC border...

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-04 4:31:10 PM|| 2005-03-04 4:31:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Sounds like the killer had a bit of a track record. It's surprising the Mounties didn't go in with more gear to deal with him. They were equipped with soft body armor and hand guns. That doesn't sound right when you have come to repo the property of a man who has been brewing, growing and distilling contraband since childhood.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-03-04 10:33:22 PM|| 2005-03-04 10:33:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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