18 April 2008

I'm bracing myself...

For the deafening Miller/McSlippery chorus... demanding an immediate, all-encompassing ban on sharp metallic objects...
Bystanders looked on helplessly this afternoon as a 29-year-old Toronto man was repeatedly stabbed and killed outside a west-end film studio. Police were questioning a suspect tonight in Toronto’s 14th slaying of the year.

Plania said the attack, with what he described as a 15-cm. hunting knife, was swift and brutal, felling the victim instantly.
No knife... no funeral.

That's how it works... right, guys?

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UPDATE: Arrest in latest murder
On Friday, police announced Shahin Pirouzi of Toronto was charged with second-degree murder. He was to appear at the Old City Hall courts later in the day.
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RELATED: In other knifing news...
A man has been taken to hospital after being slashed in his head in the city's northwest end.

Emergency crews found the victim, in his mid-20s, in front of a Jane St. apartment building, just north of Sheppard Ave. W., with a "laceration to his forehead," just after 1:30 p.m., Toronto Ambulance duty officer Connie Christie said.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"I'll look forward to the inevitable "Ban Knives" Facebook page... that'll teach them."
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