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| From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
| Subject | Re: A terrifying thing happened during dinner tonight (O/T) |
| Date | Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:18:29 -0700 |
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That's incredible. I actually went to check the headlines to see what
is deemed newsworthy by the media, and found the following BREAKING NEWS:
"Penelope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey Split"
Sheesh....
Marty
Jaimie Vernon wrote:
> 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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