BS: Road hockey or road hogs

Subject: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:16 PM

On the TV just now. Enfield, Nova Scotia... the latest place where some people are stunned as me arse.

RCMP have told the kids to get off the streets after complaints from neighbours. It`s been done before. Rothesay, New Brunswick has a bylaw against it. Idiots.

They say it`s not safe!!! Well, drivers should slow down and let the kids yell CAR like kids have done for as long as road hockey has been going on.

Struck ****s!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:21 PM

Holy moly! Now there is a story on the news that says everyone who owns a dog should own a muzzle in case their dog gets hit by a car because wounded animals often bite.

Jaysus H! Don`t leave your house, eh. Ya might get some dust in yer eye in the wind or a pebble in yer shoe.

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 13 Apr 10 - 04:30 PM

People play road hockey on my street sometimes. I don't have a problem
with it, and I don't understand why other people would. Especially when
it's kids playing hockey.

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 08:53 AM

Anti-road-hockeyism breaks out in around Ottawa every couple of years. It always seems to originate in one of those suburbs with looping streets where a driver can't get up any kind of speed anyway if s/he has the brains God gave a goose.

The complaints are often based on noise -- like the whap of stick on tennis ball and the yells of scuffling kids are more offensive than, say, hip-hop blatting from the outdoor speakers of the guy-next-door's supersonic stereo.

I think these people think moving to the suburbs gives them the right to live in a bubble hermetically sealed to keep out the noise, smells and activities of others.

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: Beer
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 10:19 AM

It's much like the folks who move out of the city and buy a property next to a dairy farm as an example. Then the shit hits the fan as a matter of speaking. I think if they tried to enforce a street hockey law like this in Quebec they would burn down the court houses.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: bobad
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 10:28 AM

Montreal — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 11:04PM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2010 8:37AM EDT

The good old street hockey game is again under attack – and it's fighting back.

David Sasson was playing ball hockey with a dozen kids on Choquette Street in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux when the police blew the whistle.

A neighbour had filed a complaint under long-standing municipal bylaws, similar to those in most Canadian cities, which make it illegal to play any game on a street.

"I couldn't believe it, I had no idea hockey on the street was illegal," said Mr. Sasson, who is the father of two boys, aged 7 and 10, who were players.

Officers watched the game for 45 minutes on an unseasonably warm March Saturday. They twice called the woman who made the complaint, asking her to drop the matter, according to Mr. Sasson. A municipal official said the woman, who didn't relent, was just tired of the noise. Mr. Sasson refused to break up the game and was handed a $75 ticket.

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 10:39 AM

I think the problem is twofold. First there is the damage done to the streets by the blades of their skates and second are residents offended because instead of using the old "CAR" call, it has been updated to "PUCK OFF."


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 10:59 AM

Road hockey? It must be a Canadian thing. Around here it's usually baseball or football.

It's not the obstruction to traffic that bothers me; it's the risk of damage to cars parked along the street.

Subject: RE: BS: Road hockey or road hogs
From: gnu
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 02:02 PM

Jim... around here, most parents won't let their kids play near parked cars for that very reason. And, in my neighbourhood, kids are not allowed to use the "new" orange street hockey balls as they damage more than cars... it's the old tennis ball punctured with a nail.