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voyager said:
It's Oshawa, what do you expect?

Its' not hate speech, but you could definitely make the argument that it's criminal harassment, especially if it continues.
It's also not outside the realm of possibilities that the mother wrote it for some perverted reason.
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It was in Newcastle. Not that I'd put it past anyone from Oshawa.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I hate chicken shit letters like that with a passion. In the past, we have had anonymous letters left under our door for various reasons signed "concerned neighbour" or "all of your neighbours" etc for stupid things.

If you are going to write something like that, at least have the stones to say who you are.
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what kind of stupid things?
 
corksens said:
what kind of stupid things?
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one letter said we were running a machine shop in our 1200 sq foot condo, we determined who it was and it started a feud for about a month until he and I fought in the hallway outside our door, then he moved out from next door. we told him we weren't running one but he insisted we were

another bitched about my mother's care for my son saying she yelled at him and would be reported to the ministry, I figured it was some busybody and ignored it but my mom was pretty shook up about it.
 
I'd prefer snarky letters (not to the extreme of the letter posted) over neighbours that like to chew you out in person. My next-door neighbour built a fancy curb along my driveway, which only ran alongside their own pathway beside the houses (but they ran the curbing beside my driveway down to the street), and then proceeded to complain to me when my lawnmower left minor marks on the curbing that was now less than a foot from where I parked my car and effectively dividing the previously shared pathway I'd used to push the mower to the front of the house. Oh, and there was literally no consultation with anyone living in my house about the curbing. Or the privacy fence they ran along it a few years later. The fence stopped their complaints, but I had to take down the gate on the other side of the house to get the mower through, and even in the smaller of my cars can't really have space to open both passenger and driver doors.



Then again, placing a note somewhere on your property is sort of a boundary I don't want someone annoyed enough to type a scolding letter to cross.
 
voyager said:
It's Oshawa, what do you expect?

Its' not hate speech, but you could definitely make the argument that it's criminal harassment, especially if it continues.
It's also not outside the realm of possibilities that the mother wrote it for some perverted reason.
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Definitely was indeed hate speech.
 
johnunit said:
I'd prefer snarky letters (not to the extreme of the letter posted) over neighbours that like to chew you out in person. My next-door neighbour built a fancy curb along my driveway, which only ran alongside their own pathway beside the houses (but they ran the curbing beside my driveway down to the street), and then proceeded to complain to me when my lawnmower left minor marks on the curbing that was now less than a foot from where I parked my car and effectively dividing the previously shared pathway I'd used to push the mower to the front of the house. Oh, and there was literally no consultation with anyone living in my house about the curbing. Or the privacy fence they ran along it a few years later. The fence stopped their complaints, but I had to take down the gate on the other side of the house to get the mower through, and even in the smaller of my cars can't really have space to open both passenger and driver doors.



Then again, placing a note somewhere on your property is sort of a boundary I don't want someone annoyed enough to type a scolding letter to cross.
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There is only one way to deal with joint projects along property lines...put it all on one side.

Of course you should talk to your neighbors, but above all else, keep the fence/pathway/whatever on your side and then there is no issue.

I am really lucky to have awesome neighbors on both sides - especially the ones where I share a laneway.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I hate chicken shit letters like that with a passion. In the past, we have had anonymous letters left under our door for various reasons signed "concerned neighbour" or "all of your neighbours" etc for stupid things.

If you are going to write something like that, at least have the stones to say who you are.
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it was from jays....about your gingerness ...
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
Neighbors suck.
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I can't believe every home-buyer doesn't research their neighbours at least a little bit, try to come by the neighbourhood at different times, see if you can talk to anybody.

Up the road a ways (enough that is not that bad for me), some people have a couple hounds, and they are ****ing noisy. They bay and wail away at the worst hours. I know people have complained, and the deal is the by-laws allow for hunting dogs. Now, these aren't used for that, that's just how these *******s are getting around things. I know for a fact that they have caused people close by to move...so you are basically are pawning off your trouble on somebody else lol.

I lived with a couple friends for a while and our house was the party house. I look back now and I'm ashamed at how shitty we were to our neighbours. They did come by and ask us to be good when they were showing the house lol, and we figured it was the least we could do...but now That I'm older I can imagine buying a house only to discover you live next to hellspawn.
 
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...assad_regime_launched_gas_attack_killing.html

The opposition in Syria on Wednesday accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of launching a massive gas attack that killed nearly 500 people. That number has yet to be independently confirmed but, if accurate, represents by far the worst reported use of chemical weapons in the nation's two-year-old civil war. It would also be the worst known use of chemical weapons globally since Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in the Iraqi town of Halabja in 1988.

[Update 12:01 p.m.: The Syrian National Coalition, Syria's main opposition group in exile, now puts the number at 1,300 killed.]
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...95747a-0991-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html

CAIRO — The world’s most influential Islamist movement is in danger of collapse in the land of its birth — its leaders imprisoned, its supporters slain and its activists branded as terrorists in what many are describing as the worst crisis to confront Egypt’s 85-year-old Muslim Brotherhood.

In the week since Egypt’s new military-backed rulers ordered a brutal crackdown on camps filled with protesters calling for the reinstatement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, the group that used its organizational muscle to win the country’s first democratic elections, held in late 2011 and early 2012, has been cast into disarray.

Analysts worry that its members, bitter and angry after the deaths of more than 1,000 Morsi supporters in the past week, could abandon the Brotherhood’s decades-long commitment to nonviolence, particularly as its leadership loses its grip on them. Some pro-Morsi demonstrators have been spotted with weapons, and attacks against security forces in the volatile Sinai Peninsula have intensified since Morsi was deposed July 3.

Meanwhile, the movement is battling a level of popular hostility perhaps unprecedented in its history. The Brotherhood’s strategy of confronting the government with sit-ins and marches in recent weeks seems only to have inflamed public opinion.....
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angelfish said:
Yikes so many calories (what do you expect to happen).

http://www.citynews.ca/2013/08/21/12-fall-ill-at-cne/
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The CNE has shuttered one of its most popular food vendors while Toronto Public Health (TPH) investigates at least a dozen cases of stomach illness.

Toronto EMS said it assessed 12 people complaining of gastrointestinal symptoms on Tuesday and took five to hospital.

Officials wouldn’t confirm reports the patients had had the cronut burger before becoming ill, but on Wednesday, the Ex ordered Epic Burgers & Waffles, the vendor that sells the item, to close while officials investigate.

“CNE has instructed the Epic Burger [sic] in the Food Building not to open until TPH’s inspection is complete,” said TPH spokeswoman Kris Scheuer.

The amusement park didn’t say how long the stall — which passed its last TPH inspection on Aug. 16 — would be closed.

Earlier Tuesday, TPH confirmed that it is investigating the incident.
 
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