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Most Canadian heist ever: Guy in goalie gear robs Manitoba beer store

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I was in Brisbane.

William-Bashin-Bill-Barilko-March-25-1927-c-August-26-1951-celebrities-who-died-young-31630951-650-385Really.

RCMP in Manitoba are on the hunt for two people who pulled off a beer store heist in the community of Russell.

One of the suspects had a hockey stick and was apparently dressed as a goalie.

In surveillance footage from Aug. 15 posted on YouTube, the men are seen smashing a door and walking into the store to steal a bunch of beer.

Police said the one suspect may have been “a defenceman or forward in disguise as he was wearing jersey #17 — a non-traditional number for goalies.”

“Anyone with information about this theft or has played against a goalie matching this description is asked to call Russell RCMP,” the RCMP added.

In others matters Canadiana the full concert of the Aug. 20, 2016 Tragically Hip show that was broadcast around the country – and world – is now up on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H2ew1MwyQM.

I laughed, I cried, I rocked.

 

School staff member tells student that moose poop is nutritious; principal on leave after watching prank

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I’m not a camper; I’ve slept outside five times in my life. Four of those times it rained. While that was uncomfortable, no one tricked me into eating moose poop (that I know of).

According to CBC (that’s a network in Canada) multiple students on a school camping trip were offered what they thought were chocolate-covered almonds by an adult chaperone – which turned out to be moose poop nuggets. Things got worse when some of the students actually ate the turds while a school staff member and the principal watched. Dumb.

"I put it in my mouth and I took a bite out of it. And then everyone laughed," Brook, 14, said Friday. "Everyone laughed at me and made fun of me. So I went up to my tent and started crying."

Principal Bob Kovachik, a teacher and a resource officer at Walter Whyte School in Grand Marais, Man., watched as an adult chaperone passed off the moose droppings as chocolate-covered almonds during the school-organized trip on May 25.Brook said that when the joke was revealed, the adult went to her to apologize.

"The guy came up to my tent and said ‘Sorry’ and that he shouldn’t have and that he didn’t know it would hurt me that way," Brook said.She said a school staff member also spoke to her.

"She … said it would help me because it was nutritious," Brook recalled. The staff member also told her that moose only eat grass.

She tried to rinse her mouth, she said, but it was not easy because she wears braces.

The principal is now on leave and parents were told he will not be returning to the school. 

Nutritious, because they only eat grass? Moose are ruminants, and often carry pathogenic E. coli in their poop. Authors of a 2005 Norwegian survey of wild cervid poop found E. coli O103 in over 20 per cent of tested turds.