CANADA GEESE are a complete and utter nuisance. They happen to bear this country’s name, and, as such, have come to be seen as a national symbol of sorts, along with Mounties, beavers and maple syrup. But our default national bird can also be quite a pain, particularly beyond our borders. Recall Canada geese were [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Unusual Punishments'
Goosegate
July 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Oh Canada, Unusual Punishments, Weird and wacky
Tags:America·animal cruelty·animal culling·Bald Eagle·Brooklyn·Canada goose·Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger·freedom·New Jersey·U.S.A.·United States·US Airways Flight 1549
Worst mother on earth
July 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Currently, Uncategorized, Unusual Punishments, Weird and wacky
THERE ARE BAD parents. Then there are horrible, evil, menace-to-society parents. It’s under the latter category you can place Tamara Broomfield (seen at right), a Toronto-area devil woman who fed her two-year-old son cocaine for more than a year, almost killing him at one point with an overdose. The single mother, 28, was convicted last year for administering cocaine [...]
Tags:child abuse·cocaine·crime·drugs·firing squad·justice system·law·Ontario·overdose·Tamara Broomfield·Toronto·Utah
Tragic tattoo typo
April 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Currently, Pop Culture, Unusual Punishments, Weird and wacky
I CAN ONLY snicker when stories like these surface. A Nova Scotia woman wanted a tattoo of the phrase “You’re so beautiful” put on her arm. (Straight off, I don’t get it. Is she referring to herself as beautiful, or someone else and she thinks her arm is the best place to declare this? Or is some dude paying [...]
Tags:court·grammar·lawsuit·Nova Scotia·tattoo·tattoo artist·typos
House of horrors
November 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters, Oh Canada, Unusual Punishments
A RAID on the Toronto Humane Society last Thursday has resulted in animal cruelty charges against a handful of agency employees, including its president and chief veterinarian. The action was prompted in large part by a Globe and Mail investigation that revealed diseased animals who were left to die in their cages because of what the paper [...]
Tags:animal abuse·animals·cats·cruelty to animals·dogs·ethics·Globe and Mail·pets·Toronto·Toronto Humane Society·Toronto Star·veterinarian
Balloon Boy was a hoax
October 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture, Unusual Punishments
IT WAS ALL a hoax. One that had been in the works for weeks, too, apparently. Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday that Richard and Mayumi Heene – the Fort Collins, Colo. couple who days ago reported their six-year-old son Falcon had floated away in a wayward helium balloon – “put on a very good show [...]
Unusual punishment, not cruel
September 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Unusual Punishments
THREE BRITISH MEN were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic planes using liquid explosives hidden in drink bottles. The case resulted in new restrictions for airline passengers – as anyone who flies is painfully aware of – including limits on how much liquid and gel we can carry aboard a plane. (In some cases, [...]
Tags:airplane·airport·Britain·explosives·Muslims·security·terrorism·UK·YouTube
