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Bits and Bites – Wednesday February 4th, 2009

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The Vancouver Sun is reporting that the man who was killed in the most recent Surrey targeted hit was 21 year old Ralph Baldini – the same person who rented the north Surrey Penthouse where 6 people were brutally murdered in October 2007. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Three+slayings+hours+Metro+Vancouver/1249778/story.html

Shot while sitting in his vehicle outside of the London Drugs store at Guildford mall – a very busy entrance to the mall – he is the most recent killing in a series of shootings that have occurred in Surrey over the last couple of weeks.  And, interesting enough, I found a small article in the Surrey Now last night  detailing  4 more reports of shots fired over the weekend, that didn’t end tragically.

-1:35 pm Friday- shots fired from a vehicle at heading east on 100th ave near 138 st, target/targets unknown

- 4 am Friday, shots fired at a house at 121st and 94th ave – resident called cops after finding bullets stuck in the walls of his home

-1:44 am Saturday, multiple shots fired  near a  Fleetwood pub, with multiple casings located and target unclear.

-ten minutes later , 1:55 am on Saturday,more shots rang out from a different vehicle near 81st ave and 150th st.- again, target unknown http://www2.canada.com/surreynow/news/story.html?id=b53bb6a0-72c9-4c57-8cde-8f5c5c722dd9

Add these to the already long list of shootings detailed in this recent blog post: http://lailayuile.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/famous-last-words-from-dianne-watts/ , and you have quite the scene in Surrey. Frankly, it’s a joke. Once again I’m embarrassed to tell people where I live, because the impression is ….( as one reader pointed out) Slurry. Scurvey. No wonder the mayor and  most of the council live out of the main parts of the city. . With everything that’s going on lately, the mayor better be praying that nothing goes down at the upcoming Winterfest,most of the activities are located in lovable, shootable Whalley.  Let me end this with an excerpt from an email that was sent to me last night about how one resident feels about Surrey.

” Well, yet another murder in Surrey… ummm two blocks from my children’s school…

Living in Surrey is so wonderful – the peaceful sounds of sirens and gun shots,(the sound of retaliation) the smell of pot coming from the neighbors house and the domestic dispute on the street….the soothing sounds and smells to help me rest at night…Well, the homicide investigation team will be working hard on this case just like all the other unsolved shootings in Surrey…”

I hear you, anonymous, I hear you.

To my American readers: there is a company in Florida using a link to a past blog post of mine on their business website, under the title ” Love Thy Teenager” , clearly trying to evoke an emotional reaction from potential customers that might engage them to purchase their services for parties and functions. http://5secondbreath.com/index.html  – I would like to say that while I do not condone drinking and driving, I also do not endorse this business or its services, or the fact that they are using one my blog posts for a commercial purpose . I have asked them to remove this link  immediately, however they have not acknowledged my contact in any manner.I generally don’t have an issue with other bloggers linking up to past blog posts, but this is clearly a profit driven venture.

The sadness that overwhelms me every time I see the Robert Dzeikanski  tasering video will never subside,and with every bit of testimony it gets worse. Clearly, this is a case where everything that could go wrong – did. And Robert was a victim of a system that broke down at every possible juncture. Although I am disheartened that nothing will likely happen to the RCMP officers who, in my opinion, carry some culpability in his death – one can hope that everyone involved will take away stern lessons from this, and allow changes to the system that can prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. CBC has carried ongoing coverage of the testimony occurring at the Braidwood  inquiry, and the following links will give you access to some of that information : http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/02/03/bc-taser-inquiry-driver.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/02/02/bc-dziekanski-rcmp-kris-barski.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/01/22/bc-taser-inquiry-agent.html

 


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