Posted on 01/19/2021 7:24:25 AM PST by rickmichaels
A Simcoe, Ont. mother says she was fined $880 for dropping off three of her children at their grandparents’ home for babysitting.
Natasha Kohl, a mother of four, told CTV News, she had dropped off the three children at her in-laws’ house in Delhi last weekend, so that she could do some grocery shopping.
Her fiance, she said, wasn’t able to look after their children at that time. “He wasn’t able to help me and it was actually my birthday, so I wanted to get home so I could spend the night with him and my kids, so I took them to my father-in-law,” she said.
When she returned to pick her kids up, they were having lunch with their uncle and cousins, who also live in the house. “So I was with them as they were eating their pizza,” Kohl told CTV News.
Once they left the house, Kohl said she was pulled over by a provincial police officer.
“He turned on his lights and pulled us over and my daughter said, ‘Why is he pulling us over?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know,’ so I waited for him to come to the window and that’s when he said they had complaints of high traffic in the house,” she told Global News.
Once ticketed, she was informed that officials would be speaking to her father-in-law about the complaint as well.
A news release posted by the provincial police states that two people were charged with failing to comply with the Reopening Ontario Act.
“It was determined that police were contacted after several people were seen at the residence. Officers attending the area subsequently stopped a vehicle seen leaving and conducted an investigation,” Const. Ed Sanchuk said in a news release, posted by OPP’s Norfolk county detachment.
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What is next? The thought police?
Jerk face neighbors, and stupid jackbooted laws.
Pure Stasi - neighbors informing on neighbors over something that is irrelevant.
People accept losses of freedom in return for an opportunity to rat out their neighbors. Something very wrong here.
Stasi is right. And the FIB has turned into the KGB. This is a soviet style marxist takeover, right under people’s noses.
So much for moving to Canada.
Like everything government does today, this is about revenue. Being gratuitously nasty is a side benefit. As an aside, not only are the police and government alienating people, they are damaging their ability to govern. The fallout from their actions may tear civil society apart. There gave been two cases that I know of where the citizens disbanded their oppressive police. Both speed trap towns; one in Florida, the other in Texas.
Grandparents is a stretch. The couple is unmarried and going to his parents. Not shocked but just wish the article was accurate.
In my experience (and I live in Canada) the population is divided into leftist snoops minding other peoples’ business and libertarian conservatives who basically don’t care so long as no gunfire erupts from the neighbor’s property.
This pandemic has brought out the inner scold in many of our citizens in both countries. At the same time, some people are entirely oblivious of regulations apparently and wander into places unmasked. I don’t really get the logic of the masks entirely, I think the low grade ones we are sold are basically worthless, so I can sympathize with the anti-maskers. I wear one mostly to reassure nervous young people who see an older dude and think, “oh no, I might kill this guy by breathing near him,” or perhaps, “hey yeah, I might kill this guy by breathing near him.” Either way, I would rather they didn’t. Second hand pot smoke alters my brain functions.
Forgive me for saying so, but grandchildren are as necessary to grandparents as food and medical care, maybe even more so.
We were scheduled to see ours in April before the China Flu scuppered the trip. We rescheduled for November and now are trying to reschedule for a THIRD time. Meanwhile, we've had a new arrival who we have only been able to meet by video chat.
I consider myself quite normal and mentally healthy when I say that we love our grandchildren even more than our children. The state has zero business interfering in such a natural relationship.
“Grandparents is a stretch. The couple is unmarried and going to his parents.”
Perhaps you need to reread the article ...
I hate to but will since apparently I made an error. Lol.
You can add Portage, Ohio to your list. It was a speed trap town until they fired their nazi cop. Never had an issue, but don’t speed in town.
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