A quote I found in regards to this is:

This is Dean Evans at one of the world's most challenging race tracks at Bathurst in Australia. The conditions are a bit damp, and the other drivers are hesitant to get off the racing line and try the grip there. Dean isn't. He goes for it and the results are impressive.

That's the McDonald's at Bathurst and Dundas, in Toronto (FYI).

GotDAMN Bruti79, that's blatant! Another reason to resent rather than respect city officials I did a search and found there's now an option for fighting parking tickets online, implemented earlier this year: http://www.toronto.ca/pay-toronto-tickets/disputes.htm
Limited, but it's something.
>> ^Bruti79:

>> ^rosekat:
Similarly here in the Greater Toronto area, Parking Enforcement has issued me tickets that are false. A ticket for unmetered parking, when I've STILL GOT TIME on the meter, and one for parking past midnight in a paid parking zone in which it is CLEARLY permitted. The tickets are low enough ($30-$40) that it's cheaper to pay them than to take time off work to fight them - which often requires two trips to the courthouse. Plus I live 25 mins to an hour outside downtown Toronto depending on time of day. It's SO damned aggravating to have to suck it up and pay for a blatant cash grab!
To gripe further, I'd love to take transit in but the transit system is so underdeveloped that it's simply not a timely option.

Fact!
I used to live near College and Bathurst in little Italy, and would catch parking Enforcement on a side street writing a pad of tickets. They'd walk out and issue the tickets as parking in expired parking zones, but they issued the ticket an hour before the time expired on the sign, and it was written on the ticket as an hour after the allotted time.
I caught another one once while in the car, and looked at him as he filled out his stack of tickets, he turned his car on and drove off. I came back down that street an hour or so later, and all the cars had been ticketed. =P

>> ^rosekat:

Similarly here in the Greater Toronto area, Parking Enforcement has issued me tickets that are false. A ticket for unmetered parking, when I've STILL GOT TIME on the meter, and one for parking past midnight in a paid parking zone in which it is CLEARLY permitted. The tickets are low enough ($30-$40) that it's cheaper to pay them than to take time off work to fight them - which often requires two trips to the courthouse. Plus I live 25 mins to an hour outside downtown Toronto depending on time of day. It's SO damned aggravating to have to suck it up and pay for a blatant cash grab!
To gripe further, I'd love to take transit in but the transit system is so underdeveloped that it's simply not a timely option.


Fact!

I used to live near College and Bathurst in little Italy, and would catch parking Enforcement on a side street writing a pad of tickets. They'd walk out and issue the tickets as parking in expired parking zones, but they issued the ticket an hour before the time expired on the sign, and it was written on the ticket as an hour after the allotted time.

I caught another one once while in the car, and looked at him as he filled out his stack of tickets, he turned his car on and drove off. I came back down that street an hour or so later, and all the cars had been ticketed. =P

>> ^Sarzy:

Pretty sure that's Toronto. canada


Sure is - along Bloor between Spadina & Bathurst

Helluva story. Here's the whole thing from Wiki:

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Canada. The riot can only be understood in the context of the anti-semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.[1]

The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits Park between two local clubs, Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor.[2]

The riot occurred soon after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and in the midst of the Great Depression. The Toronto papers, including the Telegram and the Toronto Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed as lawyers, professors, teachers, etc. in Germany, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.[3]

At that time, the Jewish community in Toronto was predominantly poor and working class. They were also the subject of discrimination and were excluded from summer resorts outside of the city. Jewish families and youths in particular would therefore cool off during the hot summer months by staying in town and going to the predominantly Anglo Beaches area in order to swim. This resulted in complaints and resentment from some local residents. Some of the locals formed "Swastika Clubs", which openly displayed the Nazi symbol to express their displeasure and make Jews feel unwanted.[4] The leaders of the Swastika Club initially insisted that the swastika had nothing to do with Hitler. They said they merely wanted to keep the Beach clean. After a meeting with Jewish leaders backed by City officials, the Swastika club agreed to drop its symbol and its name. At that point, several of the members joined the Swastika Association of Canada that was much more open about its links to Hitler.[5]

The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. Police were warned that there could be trouble at the second game, but those warnings were ignored. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started.[6]

The Toronto Daily Star described the event the next day:
“ While groups of Jewish and Gentile youths wielded fists and clubs in a series of violent scraps for possession of a white flag bearing a swastika symbol at Willowvale Park last night, a crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob and surged wildly about the park and surrounding streets, trying to gain a view of the actual combatants, which soon developed in violence and intensity of racial feeling into one of the worst free-for-alls ever seen in the city.

Scores were injured, many requiring medical and hospital attention... Heads were opened, eyes blackened and bodies thumped and battered as literally dozens of persons, young or old, many of them non-combatant spectators, were injured more or less seriously by a variety of ugly weapons in the hands of wild-eyed and irresponsible young hoodlums, both Jewish and Gentile".[7]
”

No one was killed in the riots. There was criticism of the police for not being ready to intervene, as they had been during previous potential problems in the Beach area.[8] After the riot, Mayor Stewart warned against displaying the swastika and there were no further riots.[9]

The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents.

In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.

Button reckons he could do 2:30 with a few more laps (see here). I was impressed the Lowndes was only 1s slower, too... people forget that he has raced single seaters, but even taking that into account it's not bad.

That pretty comprehensively trumps the one I found... and it'll be topical at Bathurst enduro time, too

Once inside the building, they barricaded themselves in and set to work. Equipment used to make weapon components were trashed and computers, filing cabinets and office furnishings were thrown out of the windows. Once they were done they calmly waited for the police to arrest them. Two activists who supported them outside the factory gates were also on trial. All of the defendants have argued that what they did was not only morally necessary but crucially that it was legal. U.K law allows the commission of damage of property to prevent greater crimes.

Two of the accused, Simon Levin and Chris Osmond have extensive experience of working in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement. Chris Osmond told the court that ’the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza at that time meant it was imperative to act’. He cited the words of Rachel Corrie, the U.S activist who was killed by an IDF bulldozer in Rafah, as an inspiration. The court heard a passage of Corrie’s diary ’I’m witnessing this chronic insidious genocide and I’m really scared, this has to stop, I think it is a good idea idea for all of us to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop’.

During the trial the court heard not only from the defendants themselves but from Sharyn Lock, who was an international human rights volunteer in Gaza during Cast Lead. She was inside Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City when it was attacked with white phosphorus. She concluded her evidence by saying that she had no doubt that those who armed the Israeli Air Force ’had the blood of children on their hands’. The jury saw footage of the air attacks on the UNWRA compounds where civilians were sheltering and have been given an edited version of the Goldstone report.

Recently elected member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas also gave evidence supporting the decommssioners, saying that the democratic process ’had been exhausted’ as far as the factory was concerned.

On January the 17th 2009 the bombs had already fallen relentlessly on Gaza for three weeks. Massive, passionate demonstrations and pickets had been held in many cities around the country and the world in protest against Israel’s war crimes, but to no avail. A growing sense of helplessness was grabbing hold of the movement as the Palestinian body count stood at over 1400 and counting. 300 of the dead were children. It was against this background that the “citizen’s decommissioning” of EDO MBM/ITT took place.

EDO/ITT is an arms manufacturer, based in Brighton since 1946. They were acquired along with the rest of EDO Corporation by the multinational arms conglomerate ITT in December 2007. Their primary business is the manufacture of weapons systems such as bomb release mechanisms and bomb racks. This includes crucially the manufacture of the VER-2 Zero Retention Force Arming Unit for the Israeli Air Force’s F16 war planes.

Over the years, EDO have consistently denied supplying Israel, and despite over fifty court cases campaigners were not able to properly expose the links between the factory and the IAF. However the serious nature of the charges against the seven (the factory sustained nearly £200,000 of damage and may not have recommenced production for weeks) means that for the first time courts took the argument that EDOs business is fundamentally illegal very seriously.

Paul Hills, the Managing Director of EDO MBM, spent his five days on the witness stand last week being confronted with all the evidence gathered by campaigners over the years –evidence which exposes a complex network of collaboration between British, American and Israeli arms companies and the way in which their deals are clouded in secrecy. The Decommissioners were able to present Mr Hills, for the first time, with a dossier of evidence showing how EDO MBM use a front company in the U.S.A to indirectly supply components for the F 16 to Israel. Under U.K law the supply of weapons components that might be used in the Occupied Territories is actually a crime.

After hearing Hills’ explanations of his company’s business practices, Judge George Bathurst-Norman said that, despite Hill’s denials of dealing with Israel, it was clear that their was enough evidence to justify a genuinely held belief they did. He also offered the opinion that End User Certificates required for arms export licences were “ not worth the paper they are written on” as they can be easily manipulated.

There is a history of juries in British courts finding anti-war activists not guilty when they attack machinery used in war crimes. In 1996 four women from Trident Ploughshares decommissioned a Hawk jet that was about to be shipped to Indonesia – they were found not guilty. In 2008 the Raytheon 9, who damaged a factory in Derry supplying weapons to Israel during the 2006 Lebanon war, were acquitted by a jury and only two weeks ago a group of nine women carrying out a similar action at Raytheon during the Gaza attacks were also found not guilty by an unanimous jury.

On Friday, the jury found Simon Levin, Tom Woodhead, Ornella Saibene, Bob Nicholls, Harvey Tadman, Elijah Smith and Chris Osmond not guilty of “Conspiracy to Cause Criminal damage” by unanimous verdict in Hove Crown Court.

Chris Osmond said “This action was taken because of EDO MBMs illegal supply of weapons to the Israeli military. We brought the suffering of ordinary Palestinians into a British courtroom and confronted with the evidence they took the brave decision to find that our actions were justified.”

The decommissioners’ stance made it clear to companies like EDO that they can no longer count on not being held to account for their actions. There are now a growing number of people in the international community who are willing to risk their own liberty to stand up for the people of Gaza and to challenge Israel’s war crimes through whatever means possible.

Hey, it was smart to get on the Subway. They usually get on a Bathurst and take it to Runnymede. That's a cold long way to fly in the winter.

>> ^Bruti79:
Actually, this needs a Canada tag. This tattoo shop is at Bathurst and Bloor in Toronto, I live down the street from it.


Thanks, before you mentioned it, I couldn't figure out any tags that would apply to this video...
most tattoos would fall under "art", but this tat doesn't qualify as art (IMHO).

Actually, this needs a Canada tag. This tattoo shop is at Bathurst and Bloor in Toronto, I live down the street from it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'racing, lotus elise, lotus, elise' to 'racing, lotus elise, lotus, elise, 2005, Dean Evans, bathurst' - edited by spoco2

http://www.videosift.com/video/Kangaroo-Escape-at-2007-Bathurst-Aust-V8-Supercar-Race

Dupe of: http://www.videosift.com/video/Kangaroo-Escape-at-2007-Bathurst-Aust-V8-Supercar-Race

*discard

Here's mine