-- "Emran Yousufi's cousin, Abel Mohammadi, and their friend, Ali Abdullah, said the three of them were enjoying Saturday evening inside the Tim Hortons near Highway 407 and Simcoe Street when five or six people showed up with loud music and wearing masks. The group wanted to speak with Mohammadi and he agreed to go outside." --
So let's break this down. You're sitting at Timmy's just minding your own business when a rowdy gang of masked men shows up and calls you out. Despite being outnumbered two to one by this mysterious gang, whom you have apparently never met... you decide to accept the invite to what any reasonable person knows will be a tilt.
Now, that might be how it's done in Afghanistan, or any other third world hellhole... but in Oshawa, which admittedly has seen better days... you could just pull out your phone and call 911. Unless your name is Emran and you think you're Kabul-tough.
'Professional' journalist Beth Macdonell wants to frame this as a larger-than-life tale of a brave hero protecting his cousin, but what we have here is a dumbass and totally unnecessary example of third world machismo that spilled a stomach-churning amount of 'people juice' all over a shabby donut store parking lot. Nothing romantic or honourable about that.
My message to the folks in Oshawa (and I have a brother who still lives there) is to get the f@ck outta Dodge, before you are visited by this ugly, mindless & increasingly frequent phenomena one Saturday night... or you can simply continue to risk being disembowelled... just like Emran.
