The Local News Thread: Proud/Ashamed of Your Area?

[cobainwasmurdered]

I've been wanting to make a thread like this for awhile because there isn't a good thread to just talk about local news but that's where some of the most crazy shit goes down. Whether it's at the State/Provincial level that doesn't get a lot of national attention or even smaller at your local level this is a place to talk about it. What is your area like and is anything going on now or in the past notable?

I live in Abbotsford BC and as some know it has been the Murder Capital of Canada several times this century and is a major (for Canada) drug and gang center. It's been cleaned up to a certain extent as far as the gangs go but it's still not a great place. It's main benefit is that it's fairly affordable and the weather is nice. If you want to be near Vancouver without paying an arm and a leg this is as close as a lot of people can get.

Right now drugs, especially Fentanyl are making a huge impact on the province and Abbotsford especially:

http://www.abbynews.com/news/376787631.html

Fatal drug overdoses are now killing far more people than car crashes in Abbotsford and across B.C.

Fresh off the worst year for fatal illegal drug overdoses in its history, Abbotsford is on pace to break that gloomy mark in 2016, with eight such deaths already reported through the end of March.

Those numbers echo provincial figures that showed a 30 per cent surge in overdose deaths in 2015 from the previous year. The rate of overdoses has climbed even further through the first three months of 2016, with a staggering 201 people dying through the end of March, prompting provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall to declare a public health emergency last week in an effort to allow officials to better reach those at risk.

Across the province, illegal drugs are now killing many more people than motor vehicle crashes; last year 300 people were killed in accidents involving a motor vehicle, compared to 476 who overdosed on illegal drugs. In Abbotsford, 24 people suffered fatal overdoses in 2015 and the rate of overdose deaths is 70 per cent higher than the provincial number. By comparison, seven people died in motor vehicle accidents.

Oh also in the winter our cops shot a cow wandering around the city 24 times because fuck it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cow-shot-abbotsford-review-1.3335775 We combine city and farm town problems here.

"I did see a police officer with an assault rifle and about a dozen cops behind the cow following it up Sumas Way," said Abbotsford resident Josh van Koll.

 

[Lord of The Curry]

I suppose as a Torontonian I'm excluded because our local news is also national news.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

typical arrogant Torontonian thinking they're the center* of the universe

*spelled the American way because that's the kind of exceptionalism that Toronto partakes in.

 

[Lord of The Curry]

Not the universe, just Canada. And it's true ;D

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.abbynews.com/news/391056311.html

There seems to be no end in sight to what some are calling an epidemic of drug overdoses in the region, with newly released statistics revealing five people died from illicit drugs in Abbotsford in July alone.

The July figures bring the year’s total to 21 deaths in the first seven months of 2016, the same number of deaths in the city during the four-year period from 2007 to 2010.

The total number of overdose deaths in B.C. has increased by approximately 74 per cent over the same period last year.

There have been 433 illicit drug-related deaths in B.C. this year, more than 80 per cent (348) being men and 235 of which were people between the ages of 20 and 39.

The Fraser Valley region has seen 139 drug deaths this year.

Fentanyl just tearing through here like a motherfucker.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/police-get-involved-as-more-peanut-butter-found-smeared-in-toronto-playground

This is beyond fucked.

 

[Lord of The Curry]

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/08/25/air-show-too-traumatic-for-newcomers-who-escaped-war.html

So is this but for all the wrong reasons.

 

[ViciousFish]

http://www.mylloydminsternow.com/8120/three-charged-attempted-tractor-theft/

That's way better than the guy who stole $59,000 worth of gas.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

This one is for Kreese:

This dude was just busted for being part of a child porn ring:

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/08/25/three-women-one-man-charged-in-child-porn-and-bestiality-ring/

Reading through Reddit comments, apparently he was arrested but acquitted of three different sexual assault charges back in '91. Who knows how many people he assaulted.

He looks like a fat Jake Ellenberger now.

 

[treble]

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/08/16/brockville-women-fling-dog-poop-at-each-other-in-neighbourhood-dispute.html

This is also the place where the guy threw the propane tank on the campfire over the flat-earth argument.

 

[devo]

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/08/25/air-show-too-traumatic-for-newcomers-who-escaped-war.html

So is this but for all the wrong reasons.

 

[treble]

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/08/16/brockville-women-fling-dog-poop-at-each-other-in-neighbourhood-dispute.html

This is also the place where the guy threw the propane tank on the campfire over the flat-earth argument.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2016/09/07/brockville-dog-stabbing-suspect-also-faced-impaired-charges-after-e-bike-crash

Eventful summer.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.abbynews.com/news/395818081.html
Fucking KKK mailers weighed down with WHITE rice (so clever) being dropped all over the local cities here. The reaction has been outrage at least but super fucked up.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.abbynews.com/news/399592551.html

2 girls stabbed during school hours, 1 dead so far. There's a video clip going around on social media. Luckily my kids haven't seen it.

I went to this school for awhile and we live pretty close to it. Really fucking crazy. I'm shocked. I don't think anything has happened like this here.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.abbynews.com/news/410847035.html

MORE KKK pamplets! Fucking hell. This fucking city. http://www.abbynews.com/news/410674005.html At least we got people on the goose shit problem finally. SHAKE THEM EGGS! That's gotta be a terrible job. "I shake geese eggs for a living so they wo't shit everywhere".

 

[Mickey Massuco]

for bz, this hits p. damn close to home:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/13/ny-dropping-teacher-literacy-test-amid-claims-racism.html

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I don't know what to say

 

[Mickey Massuco]

would your sig serve as a good reaction gif?

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Yes

 

[OldSchoolWrestling]

The junior college I attend was on lockdown today in Livermore, California because someone was reported walking with a rifle. The police tracked down two students and it turned out they had nerf guns. Pretty dumb.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/five-overdose-deaths-nine-hours-abbotsford-1.4377068

In the first eight months of 2017, 1,013 people died from a suspected illicit drug overdose. That number was 922 in 2016.
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It's really horrifying. There are people I went to school with or know from around the community on this shit and you just expect to see them in the paper.

 

[Epic Springs]

There was a shooting in Lower Manhattan today. Ended with a truck plowing some riders in a bike path. 7 confirmed dead as of now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/nyregion/police-shooting-lower-manhattan.html

Fuckin' people...

 

[Gert]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/beef-brady-owner-won-air-nfl-games-players-protest/AQALVWLzeZac2zDPd4OqBM/

Saw this tonight for the first time as I went to the liquor store by my girlfriend's house to get ready for WS G6. They had a sign above their restaurant the said "No NFL, We Stand for the Anthem".

If business is great to support this, it must be only on NFL nights; totally dead there at 7:00 pm tonight.

Reading this article has the same narrative always seen; "I respect the right to protest, just not how I don't want people to protest".

This bar is easily in the worst part of town business wise, so I am really shocked they are still open anyway.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://globalnews.ca/news/3846441/at-least-2-abbotsford-police-officers-hurt-in-suspected-shooting/

i'm down in this area all the time often at that time of day. So are my mom and alot of other people I know. Really scary. Guy who did it is a 60 year old from Alberta which was not what i expected.

 

[BruiserBrody]

The first 90 seconds is awkward goodness:
https://streamable.com/id3d3

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Municipal election today. Finding 8 city council and 7 school board that I can be SURE aren't homophobic and religious fuckheads is impossible but I think I managed to get it as close as possible.

The candidates for Mayor were SO bad. I ended up voting for a guy who is among other things, a indy pro wrestler (and I voted for him DESPITE that, not because of)

To go with our opiod crists we not shockingly have a nice little gang war going, https://www.abbynews.com/news/fatal-shooting-was-targeted-and-related-to-gang-conflict-police-say/ we're almost at 40 for the year in the lower mainland
. Last year I think Abbotsford had like 4 or 5 times the murder rate of Canada's national average.

the deaths all plotted out from 2009-to now: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=18u0QER64-OR_Kacg_EoKQpDUU5g&hl=en&ll=49.039477345090766%2C-122.2922348911228&z=13

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.abbynews.com/municipal-election/im-elated-braun-wins-incumbents-returned-en-masse-banman-back/

The wrestler got his ass kicked as expected but we kept the anti-SOGI people https://www.abbynews.com/municipal-election/voting-day-abbotsford-votes-no-change-school-board-deals-blow-to-anti-sogi/ mostly out so we struck a pretty good blow against the homophobes.

 

[SFH]

A guy I knew professionally for years (and have never really liked) is apparently gearing up for a local political run. He lives in a different neighborhood than me but is in our neighborhood watch Facebook group. Yesterday he posted, "Expect to see John Doe (our mayor equivalent, because Louisiana) posting pictures from the big Church event today. Nothing more than a photo op to him."

....as it turned out Doe is an usher at that church and it was his granddaughter's first communion.

Dumb ass.

 

[SFH]

The Mississippi River is getting really high, close to going over the levee system, and to avoid flooding major metro areas like Baton Rouge and New Orleans they're opening the Morganza spillway. This will lead to lowering the river but flooding rural areas and flooding people near my home. One of my buddies is probably going to get water just because we can't have the big cities flood, so fuck the small towns.

 

[KingPK]

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2019/09/06/fall-river-mayor-jasiel-correia-arrested-for-allegedly-extorting-marijuana-vendors

My hometown, ladies and gentlemen. Fucker was recalled due to ANOTHER fraud investigation AND reelected in the same fucking day earlier this year!