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Episode 1x10: If this was in the US


When Blake and the marshal walked up to the guy guarding the body, he had a rifle slung over his shoulder. US cops would have been more concerned with the fact that he had a rifle than with the dead body on the ground. Later he takes it off so that he can set it down on the ground. If he'd done that around US cops, they would have all pulled out their guns, pointed them at him and started screaming at the top of their lungs "DON'T MOVE!!! PUT THE WEAPON ON THE GROUND NOW!!!"

Hell, they just shot a guy to death in New Mexico for the horrible crime of "illegally" camping in the hills.


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yeah well I'm still miffed about the guy who asked diretions to the algary stampede, and was shot by an amerian beause he dared to ask diretions.....

susan

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Walt Wawra, a police officer from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was vacationing in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Debbie when he encountered a situation that made him reach for his off-duty handgun.

But the weapon wasn't there because he had been told he has "no need to carry one in Canada." So he fired a letter to the Calgary Herald instead to complain about his inability to protect his family from the city's riff raff.

Case in point: While strolling through Calgary's bucolic Nose Hill Park, Wawra and his wife were suddenly confronted by two men who stepped in their path and, "in a very aggressive tone," demanded to know if the couple had "been to the Stampede yet" (the city's annual rodeo, which celebrated its centennial this year).

"We ignored them," Wawra writes, but "the two moved closer, repeating: 'Hey, you been to the Stampede yet?'"

That's when the 20-year police force vet got angry and "quickly moved between these two and my wife, replying, 'Gentle-men, I have no need to talk with you, goodbye.'" Walt and Debbie then continued on their way, leaving the Stampede Brothers behind looking "bewildered."

But what if they had done more than simply ask the same question twice and then move on? What then? Wawra reflects and concludes:

sorry got it a bit wrong...

that was the article that I was referring to.....

a gun toting amerian who was miffed, beause we didn't allow him to carry a gun...and how dare a ouple of Canadians ask him a question

susan

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Susan, according to his statement, the two men moved in front of them, strike one. Asked the question in aggressive tone, strike two. Moved in front of them again when they attempted to leave, strike three. A little more than simply, "to Canadians who dared to ask a question" I guess in your mind, the American will always be wrong?

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BTW, Susan, the two Canadians were not shot by the American, please get your facts straight before you start bashing us.

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