ONE MINUTE MOORE RANDALL MOORE Just sayin’ No one likes to see whacked-out drug
addicts walking our streets. The solution, some say, is keeping them
high. Makes us safer. Keeps them happy. Injection sites, they’re called. The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre
is pushing for an exemption from federal drug laws in order to open what would be called a “safer consumption site”. Giving drugs to drug addicts: like giving
whisky to alcoholics. Like giving up. Like admitting the addicted have no hope. They DO have hope, those druggies
walking our streets. But they have to go clean to get there. Treatment centres are what we need more of − not so-called “safe consumption sites.”
Makes me sick My friend’s 18-year-old nephew was
recently attacked in Kanata. He was walking home when four guys jumped out of a car and demanded his iPhone. Told them to take a hike. Was cut open for six stitches as a result. Another friend’s kid was on an OC Transpo
bus. Sitting near the door, texting. Guy grabs her phone and takes off into the night. Guy on a bike in the College Square area
near Algonquin College. He scopes out a young woman talking on her phone. He loops around and snatches the iPhone from her hand. These incidents are happening every day in
Ottawa. A good friend’s 15-year-old daughter
was raped in Kanata. Raped. She is now in treatment. Young woman waiting for a bus at the Blair
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Road transit station, attacked by four men. Three of the suspects, as of this writing, are free on bail. Makes me sick. Our sons and daughters are being targeted. Impossible, I realize, to prevent all crime.
Not impossible, however, to send a message when we catch the b@*$%#s. If only, eh? If only.
Too awful to know In Orleans, some lunatic has been
threatening to poison dogs. Dog owners are on edge. Like, no kidding. Who in their right freakin’ mind would harm a pet? Or an autistic child. Letter sent to the family
of a 13-year-old autistic boy, saying the family should move or have the boy euthanized. Says the young lad makes weird noises when playing outside. It bothers them. So the solution is to have the little guy put down like dog? It’s even crazier south of the border. Three teenagers in Duncan, Oklahoma shot
a 22 year old Australian baseball player to death for the fun of it because − ready for this? − they were bored! So they shoot and kill this poor guy who was just out for a jog. Now I know why my neighbour says he
doesn’t watch the news anymore. Sometimes I don’t blame him.
Like, who cares? Let’s come for some air: social media air. A relative posts her entire life on Facebook.
Everything. Even the stuff she eats. I don’t get it. Why do people want to share everything they do with the rest of the world? I can’t imagine showing up at the pub and passing around a photo of the lasagna I just had for lunch. I mean, who gives a damn? Twitter. Like peeing into the wind. Same with tweeting, because I find myself
with nothing interesting to say. But I’m working on it. Twitter:
‘Randallmoore26’, if you’re the “following” type. I know, pretty pathetic. Shameless. But I’m in the game. And one of these days I may actually have
something to say.
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