Oh yeah...sorry.
http://videosift.com/video/Vancouver-Expo-86-Part-III-GM-Holographic-Exhibit

You've reminded me of something hilarious from the expo, but I can't find a picture of it. There was a 2D sculpture of a Canadian Mountie, I think near the roller coaster, that totally had a huge boner! It was really the end of the arm, but the way it was made the elbow is in back, but in front was just a little triangle just below waist level. It was too funny, and obviously not intentional. Oh, the things you notice when you're 16.

I almost drove off the road laughing when they played the "singing mountie" segment and interviewed his exasperated partner.

Imagine a law enforcement officer that tries to correct your behaviour by laying the tunes on ya.

Turns out the officer who took the shooter out was a retired RCMP officer employed in the largely ceremonial role of Sergeant-At-Arms. A role I was surprised to find out was armed.

I don't have any real objections to him being armed, but S-A-A is more-or-less a glorified security guard. The only weapon you see him with is a bad-ass looking mace. In the US, the S-A-A is the guy you see announcing the arrival of the President in the House of Representatives before the State of the Union addresses. You can imagine how much security the shooter would have had to passed to get the same place in D.C.

Some of the questions right now are about how the fuck the guy got to the doors where Parliament sits largely unopposed. I mean, it's Canada, the last attack on a Prime Minister consisted of a pie to the face, but you'd think there'd be a metal detector checkpoint and/or a couple Mounties milling about.

Then again, unauthorized crossings at our shared border -up until 9/11- were protected mostly by traffic cones.

@ ChaosEngine-One example of cops barely being able to handle a situation that grows increasingly widespread, reaching into the land of the mounties as well-Believe it ChaosEngine, that prisons and the military and the police all follow the same recruitment scenario with a larger picture beyond what you and most so flippantly believe in using your senses and the programming that has been driven-into you 24/7 365 through constant reinforcement through television commentators, so-called alternative media sources, et-all.

Speaking with someone form Canada recently regarding corporal punishment in U.S. schools, they were aghast to hear that such a thing exists or existed this due primarily to a completely alternate scenario there, their TV programming not having been hi-jacked by perpetrators of the condition that exists in America today, rampant crime, over-bloated prisons, homelessness, poverty of education, a few items on a long list of defective and deliberate aspects of the control-grid of assholes who run the show.

Say that you are not effected by such a ruse and you either are oblivious or from another country. You simply haven't been to war yet nor have you likely never been a victim of injustices that effected yourself on a personal level.

Admittedly, I have always fought the system's cues to conform to injustices, and the fight is daily, as evidenced here in trying to convince those still inebriate, of an obvious condition. SO they whined and justified their actions. Great. The State says its ok, it must be thus, right?

Some of these were pretty funny!!! I bet you liked the Canadian Superhero one. Have you ever played on that site www.faceinhole.com I love that site. You can put your face on anyone's body...they probaby have a mountie one. You too could be a mountie. Oh yeah, I checked, there are 3 mountie options to choose from (don't know if you can see this through the link)... http://www.faceinhole.com/us/search-results/?SearchCriteria=mountie

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This reminds me of a story I read where 4 chan like people call the police and use various techniques to describe what is happening with the end goal of getting a swat team to show up at a target's house and do what they do. I think they referred to it as "swatting" someone. It's scary that small municipalities (and large ones) have swat teams that would fall for this and even scarier that they have them to begin with. We need more Andy Griffith style bobbies or Mounties or something. Get rid of these assholes in swat who are using those techniques to create their own law. Just go knock on the fucking door! Or send a robot to knock on the door! Christ.

Personally, I love the new episode with Burt Reynolds. The Mountie/Train one was great too. Who am I kidding I love Archer!

Thanks for the link, I have heard of this one but haven't seen it, will check it out. I have seen "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" and on Youtube there are some of the racist clips, like Bugs Bunny in "Southern Fried Rabbit", where he pretends to be a slave in front of Yosemite Sam.

On the same subject, one thing I noticed firsthand was for the longest time in the early 70s the TV would show the complete cartoon where Elmer Fudd plays a Canadian Mountie and at the end he has Bugs Bunny in front of a firing squad. He asks Bugs if he has any last requests and Bugs says "I wish......I wish.......I wish I was in Dixie" and it cuts to a scene in a cotton field with several guys in black face singing "Camptown Ladies". Then one day they stopped showing the final scene, they would cut to the closing "That's All Folks" right after Bugs says "I wish I was in Dixie".

I was confused at first at the change, then slowly figured out why they stopped showing that final scene. Let me see if I can find it online.

thanks again for the link.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
By the way, have you ever seen "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs"?.

It's one of the "Banned Eleven" Looney Tunes that are considered too blatantly derogatory to black people to syndicate. Video link is below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven

http://videosift.com/video/Coal-Black-and-de-Sebben-Dwarfs

Damn! I forgot aboot you dang Canadians! You're too close!

I will give you 5 virtual twonies. Go down to your local mountie station and ask for them there. They'll be waiting for you.

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
Silent 'e'. Live in Canada. Send cash please... prefer Canadian dollars or English Pounds, the Yankee greenback is so unstable these days.

In reply to this comment by brycewi19:
10 (virtual) bucks to anyone who can pronounce the name of the town who is NOT from Washington!

The terrible part about the whole G20 blow out is Chief Bill Blair will get burdened with most the blame, when it was the Head Mountie acting directly under Harper who was call all the shots. The chain of command is just starting to come out, and poor Chief Blair is about number three or four on the totem pole. He's a great cop, and got stuck in a shitty situation =(

When I was wrapping up in High School, I trained for four months to physically hit the peaks necessary in order to apply to be a member of the RCMP. I wasn't going to let my diabetes keep me from it at all, and it was some hard, hard work.

Then the hammer came down when I went to apply and I was told that due to the cataract surgery I had when I was 10 years old I couldn't be a Mountie. It was a blow at the time, and to this day I still wish now and then that I could've become a Mountie.

Ahh, love that uniform.

I actually liked learning about the mounties in highschool, people like Sam Steele.

My grandfather WAS a mountie, he was actually the bugel boy that woke everyone up in the morning. True to form however, he'd wake up, stick his head out the window, blow the Reveille, shut the window, and went back to bed.

I miss him.

>> ^Mashiki:
The average cop is already lugging between 40-60lbs of equipment,

And how much do you think video cameras weigh these days? I would bet that any police department in the US can buy, off the shelf, a device smaller, and lighter than the badges they currently wear, which will capture audio/video for a week, I just want them to paint it gold and pin it to their chest.

privacy issues not only for the police, but for the average citizen.

Law enforcement is a special case, they get special exemptions from the law, and as a consequence they should be held more strictly to the law, not micing and caming them while they are on duty constitutes a clear and present danger to the privacy, security and liberty of average citizens.

the first person you'll end up calling when you're in trouble is the police.

That is demonstrably untrue, I have been assaulted, I have had my property stolen and destroyed, and at no time did it ever seem to me a good idea to deal with the police. I have, on three occasions, dealt with the police at the request of others affected by various crimes, so I can say with authority, the police are a complete and utter waste of time.

I have also been arrested, and detained for over half an hour, by mounties, without a shred of basis. While I found this annoying, they were at least, unlike police in the states, vaguely polite about it when they let me go.

If you don't like how the police are, go join a freaking service and work your way through it, become the chief and change it.

That testosterone fueled racist psycho fest is self selecting, I would not want to be a member, nor would I be able to rise through the gang ranks without playing the game, and becoming one of them. I prefer to suggest structural changes that might have an actual effect on the state of affairs.

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