14 December 2008

A sobering statistic

Not to take anything away from our brave soldiers... but statistically... four times as many Canadians are killed in the GTA every year... than in battle in Afghanistan...
Mayhem erupted at a Pickering nightclub's parking lot where four people were mowed down by vehicles in two separate incidents and police fired a shot trying to stop one driver.

A Scarborough man is fighting for his life after a dark metallic blue Caravan hit him and at least two pals in the first incident outside Tropix at Liverpool and Kingston Rds. at around 2 a.m. yesterday.

As Durham cops and medics were tending to the injured in the first incident, a car dragging a body came screeching at them, hitting two ambulances, and the driver in a bid to escape drove at police officers trying to stop him.

Kumar Singh said the wild night began when his 28-year-old son and two buddies left the nightclub and found themselves in a dispute involving the four or five men in the van and bouncers.

His son, who he didn't want to be identified, was treated at hospital and released. But pal Hardat Deyal, 35, who owns his own trucking service, is reportedly in a coma at Sunnybrook hospital. The injuries are life threatening.
I fear for my country.

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