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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:07:21 -0400 |
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When one goes to a local family restaurant for dinner with one's family it's
generally expected that a meal will be eaten, a tab will get paid and
everyone will leave as they had come in.
At 5PM tonight I took my wife and son to a local 24-hour diner to grab a
fast meal before I was to head out to a recording studio to sing on a
friend's record. Shortly after ordering our food the parking lot of the
plaza housing this restaurant became a command post for our local police
force. Not particularly unusual as we were a block from the police station
and across the street from the boundary of Scarborough that delineates
'Malvern' from the rest of the City. In the past Malvern (where I grew up
and my parents still live) has been a hotbed of gang activity. But in the
last 18 months the warfare has been squashed through some exceptional work
by our Toronto Police services.
What was different about this police parade wasn't just the 17 vehicles that
had pulled into the parking lot, but the police presence itself. A LOT of
unmarked vans with drivers wearing body armour (bullet proof vests and face
visors) like you see in riot situations. And when the armoured motorcade
followed with any number of ambulances and regular squad cars things started
getting uneasy in the restaurant.
We didn't wait around for the rumoured drug bust or gang-related take down.
I took the family home and headed off to the recording session in another
part of Toronto (also a hotbed of gun toting gang members).
At 11 O'clock I left the studio and headed back toward Scarborough and on
the news I heard that the Malvern police unit and 11 others throughout
Toronto and environs had been the scene of arrests orchestrated by the
American FBI and Canadian RCMP joint terro*ism squads. They had succeeded in
rounding up at least EIGHT terror suspects throughout the Greater Toronto
Area (with more busts to be announced tomorrow morning by the RCMP). These
people were driven to the municipality of Pickering in Durham Region (just
east of Scarborough) to be processed. The police station at Hwy 2 and Brock
Road was barricaded and protected with heavy arsenol in case of retaliation.
And guess where my friend was headed whose session I sang on? A block from
that police station.
You should be hearing all about this on the news tomorrow....and it's sure
to go International as there is a connection to some suspects arrested in
Georgia a week or two ago.
These are scary times we still live in.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
http://www.bullseyerecords.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
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