[Public-List] Nothing to do with our boats....

[Gordon Laco via Public-List]

I guess that’s a more interesting story than a couple of students building a
club house;  it’s turning comedic here.   The media is under scrutiny here
now in order to determine their part in creating the uproar.


On 02/03/15 8:17 PM, "Michael Grosh" <dickdurk at gmail.com> wrote:

> They have found two non muslim terrorists. They will not give up that position
> easily.
> MichaelGrosh
> #220
> 
> On Mar 2, 2015 2:22 PM, "Gordon Laco via Public-List"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> Hello friends,
>> 
>> It hard to believe that launch day is only about six weeks away here on the
>> Upper Great Lakes;  we¹ve had a real winter for the second in a row.  Well
>> that¹ll be good for water levels....
>> 
>> I think the uproar involving a Œtunnel¹ at Toronto¹s York University
>> discovered near one of the venues for the upcoming PanAm Games has made the
>> news outside Canada.  Security boffins were yakking their heads off on CNN
>> and other services besides our own about the level of security being laid on
>> for the event, and how such a thing so obviously terror related could have
>> happened in our otherwise secure city....
>> 
>> Well today it turns out that the two dorks who dug the thing have been
>> caught.  They¹re two Œyoung men in their early 20¹s¹ who dug it as a sort of
>> club house.    Apparently the security service at the university had already
>> found the tunnel and had the thing staked out so that they could catch the
>> owners.   Then the police got word that the media was about to announce the
>> story so decided to speak first to get in front of the story.  The
>> international press took over from there and the story spun out of control.
>> 
>> All that reminds me of a peck of trouble I got into when I was in public
>> school.  In the mid-60¹s the film ŒThe Great Escape¹ had come out to much
>> fanfare.... And low and behold, one of my classmate¹s Dad was one of the
>> escapers. Man, we were proud.
>> 
>> My buddies and I became obsessed with the story.  Naturally we decided that
>> our Stalag POW camp was our school; and we set about setting up an escape
>> committee.  I became Œthe forger¹ and spent a lot of time I should have been
>> doing work at my desk making fake ID documents, travel passes to places like
>> ŒStettin¹ and so on which we passed around and carried in our pockets.  We
>> got into sneaking about,  passing notes back and forth etc.  The school took
>> notice and finally pounced when we started disappearing at recess to go into
>> the Don Valley where we had a little hide out we were stashing our stuff in.
>> 
>> I remember being hauled in front of the principal with my friends and having
>> what the school thought was evidence of a shoplifting ring laid out before
>> us.  There was no shoplifting.    I¹ll never forget the look on the face of
>> the principal (Mr Epson) as he slowly realized what we were really doing.
>> Thinking back as an adult, I reckon he was doing his best not to break out
>> into laughter at us.   What miserable little dorks we must have looked as
>> the story was squeezed out of us.
>> 
>> But, I was twelve years old.... I wonder what the two with the tunnel are
>> doing right now down at Metro Toronto Police HQ?
>> 
>> Gord
>> #426 Surprise
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