Lesson for Today - Don't Let the Police Go on Strike!

Here's an interesting story for today........

At 8am, October 17 1969 in Montreal, Canada the local police force decided to go on strike.

Now Canada is not known as a nation with high crime rates. In fact it is common for people to leave their front doors unkocked continously. Canadians certainly don't live in fear of becoming victims to crime. This makes the reaction to the police strike all the more fascinating.

The strike began at 8am. It took only three hours after that for a bank robbery to take place. By midday looting of stores had become rampant. Taxi drivers burned down the businesses of their competitors. Looters and rioters also attacked hotels and restaurants, presumably for fluffy towels. A doctor even killed a burgular who had entered his home. Before the army was finally called in to restore order six banks had been robbed, over a hundred stores looted, twelve fires had sprung up and the cost of the damages rose into the millions.

Who could have predicted such a rapid descent into choas? In Canada?!

Anyway that's my story for today................feel free to leave a comment.............on any post...................let me know someone's out there in cyberspace

Bob