Back to big city life. This year I've come across some good events and stories, including witnessing my first street fight in downtown. My sheltered upbringing in a Vancouver suburb paralyzed me from doing nothing other than stand from a distance with a naive stare on my face, but I witnessed it nonetheless!
Toronto has no shortage of crazy shit going down. Earlier this month, a massive crowd of Tamilian-Canadians clogged downtown and Dundas square for 12 hours protesting against some genocide the Sri-Lakan government is guilty of. I had a quick chat with one of the protesters, but I had a tough time following what he was saying due to the fact that he had a picture of a severed head on his sandwich board...
I came across one of the craziest stories in the press last weekend. As the story goes, three teenaged boys were standing around on the subway platform waiting for the train when they were randomly pushed by some guy off his meds onto the track just as the train was arriving to the station. One of the boys kept his balance, but the other two weren't so lucky. With the incoming train screeching on his brakes, one of the kids stuck on the track reacted to his spidey sense by pulling himself and his friend (who was stuck on the track) safely under the platform just before the subway breezed by them. The guy who pushed the kids was chased by foot and eventually tackled by a TTC fare collector through the streets. Just image being in that station when all of that shit went down.... wow!
And finally, today allegations of a residential cockfighting ring in a Toronto suburb has recently surfaced. You couldn't write this kind of stuff if you wanted to....
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