Thursday, August 26, 2004

goin' for a stroll

Ya so the other day we decided to go for a walk insted of staying home watching movies like usual.
Just imagine us walking along holding hands (aawww aint it cute) well it's about 10:20 am and were coming into the parking lot of Timhortons for a coffee while we walk (we're about 3 blocks from home at this point) There are a few cop cars in the parking lot "the usual jokes about cops and doughnuts with coffee inserted here) but wait the cops are out side looking up, so we fallow there lead and decide to look up before entering the Timhortons. Imagine, to our surprise there is a skinny man whit out a shirt and plenty of tattoos standing on the M of the Timhortons sign. hummm. We go in "do you often have people standing on your sign" I ask "is that what's going on" replies the girl behind the counter sounding rather uninterested... 'The job is as good as the coffee" she (fake)enthusiastically informs us, out of the blue. hmmm -people are strange-
So, we go outside and being humane we have to stay and watch the cracked out guy on the roof. Time goes by, there's a few more cops and an ambulance now as well as more spectator's.
More time goes by and now the man has a cinderblock in his hand and is threatening to through it of off the roof at the cops as they try to talk him down, he is now on the peak of the roof (which is only two storys high) He yells something at the cops "blaablabbllaa" hmmm
The crowd is steadily growing. After a while the man slides back down the roof to the Timhortons sign where it all started, he then starts beating the sign with the cinderblock smashing it good, but he soon drops the block as he looks back at the crowed and grins. he then proceeds to grab a small flap of plastic that is now protruding from the sign and places bolth feet on the storm drain and leans way back out over the cement below and bounces up and down as we look on sure that he is going to splat any minute (from one whole story up) - hay it would still hurt O.K. so he gets bored and goes back to bashing the shit out of the sign with his fist.
Time passes and more people have gathered 100 or so. Crazy shirtless man starts pulling light bulbs out of the sign and throwing them at the crowd yelling "this would make a good pipe" as he laughs "anybody got a hoot" he is also grabbing chunks of plastic from the sign and chucking them at the crowd who the cops are moving slowly away from the building.
This goes on for a long time nobody really seams to have any idea what to do, many of the crowd members chant "jump, jump, jump" and the cops arrest a few of the more unruly onlookers. the crowed is at about 200 + 15 cops 2 ambulances 4 fire men with 1 truck and a whole entourage of Crown ________ security. Holy fuck are these security guys ever a joke, one of them managed two almost cause no less then five traffic accidents by doing such dumb things as backing the wrong way down the highway while there was oncoming traffic, I think that this pathetic little man was feeling very important about being in uniform.
Time goes on. hmmmm.
The crazy roof man eventually has completely destroyed the timhortons sign and has moved on to the hiest point on the roof 30 feet up or so. He is now ripping shingles off of the roof and throwing them at the people who are watching him. Mostly this guy just seams to be having some slightly misled and confused fun, he doesn't really seam to interested in the crowd below him.
Hmmm.
The only explanation he gives is that "I grew up here and I love this city and I come back to it and it is infested with crime and drugs". hmmm, does this kind of activity sound familiar. It should to this fuck on the roof who was yelling "I LOVE COCAINE" only a few short moments earlier.
At around this point it is 12:40 am and we finely decide that this will go on forever and we go home to our comfy bed and go to sleep.
In the morning I read the news and find a small blurb on this incident which informs me that the 26 year old Kelowna resident that spent over 4 hours on the roof of Timhortons came down of his own accord and no injury's were sustained, he was to appear in court that day.
This is were I have chosen to live. HHmmmm. Well at least it isn't boring.






1 Comments:

At January 31, 2007 at 8:57 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, robbery, crackheads on doughnut store roofs... You live in crazy town!

 

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