G20 running thread..Canada's largest city shut down ...but there's no traffic

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I think Dixie, Dixon, Renforth, Courtenay Park, may all be closed temporarily at some point

I know they were going to close the Renforth exit on the 401 Eastbound as well.

When they shut down the Gardiner for motorcades going east into the city, they'll make everyone exit on the westbound Gardiner from the southbound 427. That'll be nice. Maybe everybody could just keep driving to Hamilton.

There are about six cop cars parked down the street from our office

 

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Right off the Twitter. First major arrest.

Some guy with a car full of weapons (chainsaw! crossbow!) arrested down by the St. Lawrence Market.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/police-arrest-man-with-arsenal-of-weapons-in-g20-traffic-zone/article1616347/

 

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What a clusterfuck. You couldn't get me to go out by the airport or anywhere near the donwtown core for all the money.

About a month ago we had cops from both Peel and Metro using our parking lot to practice crowd control measures on bicycles. The airport is in Peel's territory so they have a pretty big involvement in this too.

 

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Of course you aren't going to attract the attention of an area FULL of cops with some ugly thing stapled to the top of your car and a bumper tied on with string. Fucking moran.

 

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I think we need an international law mandating that all meetings of world leaders take place in the Galapagos. These guys and gals are pests for any urban area.

 

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Last year, the Dodgers were in Pittsburgh during the G20 summit. One of the writers asked a player what he thought of the G20 thing and he said, "Oh, I just like the regular Gatorade."

 

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CNN just had a report on this, including video. How this guy expected to get anywhere with that piece of shit car is beyond me. These are the kind of guys the OPP pulls over on the 400 every long weekend. Shit on the roof, bumper held on with string, chainsaw in the trunk....

 

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Lots of good stuff at #g20 on Twitter


After seeing 25 cops standing in front it is clear that the most important delegate at the #G20 is Tim Horton's

RT @alexboutilier Seriously, was the guy trying to assassinate a world leader or fend off a post-apocalyptic zombie horde? #g20 #wtf

 

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And here's a photo of the arrest.



One guy, about a dozen cops on bikes.

Was he going hunting or something? A crossbow?

 

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If they were camouflaged, how did she see them?

 

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Could see the gun turrets peaking out.