Hey, it's Weird Shit Wednesday again!
This is very unCanadian*. As a former Mountie said, “This is the kind of stuff you might see in developing countries where you have dictatorships and coups.” (From the Globe & Mail.)
No suggestion this has anything to do with the Quebec protests you may have read about here. Those are pretty much (so far) provincially focussed. Anything aimed at the federal Conservative HQ would, if any kind of protest (and not some random maniac) presumably have to do with the unpopular (well, it DID get elected last time with a majority after some time as a minority government) prime minister and his minions.
A second package, this one containing a hand, was found in the mail system and, according to this article, not addressed to the Tories (they didn't say whom it was being sent to), so it sounds like a random maniac. A Conservative MP said, “I don’t think any of us are thinking this necessarily has anything to with politics.”
Understatement of the year (by the same ex-Mountie as above): “To me, when you start sending human body parts, there’s got to be some level of mental illness.”
Oh oh - a possible, nay probable Quebec connection: On Tuesday morning, a janitor working outside a building in the Côte-des-Neiges area of Montreal’s west end found body parts, including a torso, in a suitcase in a pile of garbage.
This caused some speculation about the Mafia, which is active in Montreal. But this has been discounted - they may be brutal but not insane. The same ex-Mountie said: “Organized crime generally will keep a low profile. They would never do something like this to bring [attention]... Their motivation is money. Short of making an example of someone who, for instance, is an informer, I have never seen them get involved in this kind of thing – particularly with a political party.”
*We Canadians like to think of ourselves as pleasant polite people (albeit with an evil soul-destroying socialist health-care system), but we do have spectacular crimes FTTT - the pig-farmer in B.C. who literally butchered dozens of prostitutes and may have fed same, via sausages, to his friends. And recently the head of an air force base, well-respected and all, was caught after his secret hobby of stealing women's underclothes and, eventually, their lives, was uncovered. And there was the Monster of the Marachi... We do have our underbelly...
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I like your Weird Wednesdays, Myriad.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Hackensack_man_stabs_self_throws_intenstines_at_police.html
Do you honestly think this body parts package is some fringe political protest? Where the fuck would some fringe lefty protestors even GET some severed body parts in the first place, huh? Wake up!....winkly doo
No one noticed? Too polite to question?
Maybe the thing originated within the postal system itself - someone got goofy with the paper cutter and then HAD AN IDEA?
{{shaking head}}
Rated for WSW :D.
I threw up more than a little inside of my mouth over it.
I did not click the gruesome video. I had not eaten by raisin toast yet....
Weird Wednesdays is a fine thing Myriad. I sure hope the Torys are soiling their underwear, but not over the body parts.
Over the outrage ongoing in Quebec.
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I assume it has to do with the Quebec protests and very un Canadian like indeed.
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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Truly un-Canadian...
He is being described as a washed-up porn star who posted you-tube videos showing himself killing cats. One of the current news items says the police may have a video of him killing his human victim.
No connections to org. crime or to protests - 'just' a lone whacko.
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120530/mtl_magnotta_120530/20120530/?hub=MontrealHome
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* The talks are going on and the government presented an offer to the students, who are receiving global support of solidarity in many other countries.
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Even in Canada....
Well, apparently not.
This is why I wear my cast iron socks when I visit Canada.
They saved me when I was clanking through the Eaton Center and a Canadian tried to lob off my foot.
From what I read in the Quebec media, the video of the murder and the dismemberment is available on-line. The owner of the "extreme gore" website has refused to pull out the video (at the request of both the Montreal police and the FBI).
From La Presse (in French):
Affaire Magnotta: un site web gore refuse d'enlever la vidéo du meurtre
This is terrible...