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  • Re: [OT] Cops charged for doing their jobs

    From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun May 24 10:41:10 2026
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    On Mon, 4 May 2026 12:33:19 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    I don't imagine the airport would be very keen on diverting incoming
    planes to other airports or pausing takeoffs on a moment's notice when
    there was a person nearby fleeing justice, just so that the police could >operate their helicopters (or "airships" as the LAPD call them).

    I think any contingency plan would have to involve airport security
    working with the local police or more likely just dispatching all police >cars near the airport. I imagine airport security would decline the >opportunity to participate if they are unarmed and management would not
    want them to leave their normal duties if they were armed to perform a >manhunt because it would leave them without resources to handle issues
    with travellers.

    Perhaps, but I've seen planes land and passengers NOT allowed to
    disembark as RCMP officers were coming on board. In this particular
    case a very old passenger had had a fatal heart attack roughly 20
    minutes before landing and the police were there to ensure the
    ambulance attendants were able to get their gurney to the right row to
    remove the departed lady from the aircraft. (I got too good a view of
    this as I was seated two rows directly behind her)

    After she was off the aircraft passengers were allowed to depart in
    the usual way though when coming up the tunnel you saw the ambulance
    attendants and officers waiting for the coast to clear. Presumably
    since they had had time to verify that she was in fact gone there was
    no urgency and that they went to the morgue rather than emergency.
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun May 24 10:45:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv

    On Sun, 3 May 2026 16:32:00 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    I lived in Toronto from 1988 to 1996 and for the last three years
    commuted to a job via the DVP (Don Valley Parkway) and took it
    occasionally the other years. I don't remember a single construction
    season where there weren't lane closures lasting months at a time to
    permit construction on long stretches of the DVP. Things never seemed
    much better after the work was done either, although it was easier
    driving in the winter when there weren't any road closures.

    That would have been before the building of the pay route Highway 407.
    Have you driven that route since 407 was completed? I'm interested in
    knowing whether you think it has improved things.

    (The last time I was anywhere near there was last summer when I and my
    children went to Burlington - which Rhino knows is an outer suburb
    west of Toronto - for my mother in law's 90th birthday. I was
    astonished how much construction and how things had changed at my old
    campus in Hamilton)
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