Are these guys banned too?
Posted on 11/06/2007 7:06:11 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Charges 'ridiculous'
Mischief investigation targets plans for mock gunfight at mall
By KENNETH JACKSON, SUN MEDIA
An Ottawa teen believes cops were too quick to pull the trigger on a mischief investigation that involved shaping his hand into a gun and yelling bang in a mock gunfight.
Henrick Vierula told the Sun he doesn't deserve to be charged with multiple criminal offences after participating in a phenomena known as a "flash mob" at the Rideau Centre on Friday.
"The whole thing is ridiculous," said Vierula, 19.
Vierula and other participants were to shape their hands into a gun, point them at each other, yell "bang" and collapse to the ground.
POLICE CUSTODY
Only Vierula and 18-year-old Stephane Laurence-Pressault -- who's also been charged with mischief and disturbing the peace -- participated in this flash mob because many of the other mobbers knew mall security was on to them.
Vierula and Laurence-Pressault tried to make a go of it anyway and were escorted into police custody by mall security.
"I don't think I was disturbing anyone's peace. We were the only ones. It was supposed to be a flash mob, but there wasn't much of a mob," said Vierula.
Staff-Sgt. Paul Johnston said police were tipped to the prank by a couple of concerned citizens who alerted them to a Facebook page.
"We got a call that there might have been a real gun," said Johnston, adding the prank tied up police resources -- even the tactical unit. "We had officers en route when they could have been responding to other calls."
On Facebook, police learned of the location inside the mall, the precise time and that more than 1,000 people were invited to participate.
A spokeswoman for the Rideau Centre said the prank could have been upsetting for customers.
"The Rideau Centre is private property. We take our obligations to ensure our customers feel safe and secure seriously," said Cindy VanBuskirk, general manager.
The event was organized by the Ottawa Flash Mob Society, which has held several mobs at the Rideau Centre.
One included participants dressing in red and hitting each other with rolled up newspapers for five minutes.
"It's just a lot of fun and a random thing you can do. It makes everyone around you question what you're doing," said Kim Kandravy, who participated in the newspaper flash mob on Feb. 10.
Kandravy said police are drawing way too much attention to the pranks by laying criminal charges.
"It's not like we are doing anything wrong. It's just dumb and police are making too big a deal of it," she said.
As for Vierula, he's concerned about possibly having a criminal record and said his parents aren't pleased either.
"They are not happy about it, clearly," he said.
Once Canada’s cops can no longer tell the difference between a hand and a gun, the place is simply not safe.
Unchecked feminism leads to the nanny State.
I guess “Bang, Bang you’re dead!” is murder!.......
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/international/canada/
Dumb Laws in Canada
Any men left in Canada?
The Canadians are following the British example of utterly losing their marbles.
Even 20 years ago, I remember reading a puzzled adult oriented comic book artist, whose comic book had been censored in Canada for “depicting rape”. What it actually depicted was a woman beating seven bells out of two *attempted* rapists, just thumping the heck out of them. At one point I think she was using karate, then got her hands on a baseball bat. The two attempted rapists were left as crumpled, unconscious, broken and bleeding piles of mess on the street when she finally walked away, none the worse for wear.
There was a mime across town trapped in a box...
Are these guys banned too?
Now you’ll need to register your hands. Hopefully, they won’t ban them.
There is an old flirtation line {joke}: “have ever been Finger Banged?... {that Gesture}... BANG”.
How will Canada handle that?
Lord, just when will the real men step forward and begin to raise their immature brats? Soon, I hope.
exactly right. The Warrior class needs to rise up and utterly destroy the leftist and the insane PC world they brought to civilization. If we cannot find a way to destroy the left, they will certainly destroy all that we hold dear.
So, stupid, but harmless, pranksters are responsible for your stupidity, which they are already taxed to support?
Were they filming a banned X-Box commercial?
“We got a call that there might have been a real gun”.
BULL!
That’s a lie to cover their butt!
They “might” have been issued a real brain!
Sounds like the Rideau Centre doesn’t want the business of teenagers or anyone else with a sense of humor. The Ottawa Flash Mob Society should organize a boycott of the Mall and picket in front of the mall until charges are dropped.
“We got a call that there might have been a real gun”.
You mean someone up there still has one? I thought they
were illegal.
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