Another terrOrist atTacK thWarted…

Posted on 9 May 2006 by Dave

Vancouver’s “Finest” have done the unthinking again.
On a bright, Thursday evening, Constable Chalmers was driving around the Eastside looking for trouble with his trusty computer-toting sidekick, when suddenly it appeared to appear in the guise of a masked man gingerly walking across Victoria Drive right behind their unmarked, pollution-spewing vehicle.
Wasting no [...]

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