Thursday, October 25, 2012

Today's Chuckles from the Times-Colonist

Big story in this morning's Times-Colonist headlined "Severed head found in Edmonton alley; link to body probed."   Apparently the Edmonton police are trying to figure out if there's any possible connection between the head recovered from a dumpster and a headless body found around the same time in a ditch.   Must probe...

And a Montreal bureaucrat is roundly scolded for saying it wasn't his job to report corruption he witnessed at City Hall.   This same guy, retired city engineer Gilles Surprenant had earlier admitted pocketing $600,000 from rigged contracts.   Surprenant excused himself, saying:  "I'm not a villain.  I am a civil servant who has been corrupted."  Gilles seems to think it was the contractors' fault for waving all that money under his nose.   Must probe...

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