Beware of Canadian flashlight users.
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Stress_Test
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WriterWriter says:
Are Americans terrified of everything – including flash lights at night????
Seriously. You people have told yourselves so many 'ghost' stories that now you're afraid of your own shadows….
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I have to admit, he's got us there when he calls us "terrified of everything".
To test the theory, go outside and start doing something strange and unusual (like playing with flashlights!) and see how long it takes for the cops to show up!
Are Americans terrified of everything – including flash lights at night????
Seriously. You people have told yourselves so many 'ghost' stories that now you're afraid of your own shadows….
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I have to admit, he's got us there when he calls us "terrified of everything".
To test the theory, go outside and start doing something strange and unusual (like playing with flashlights!) and see how long it takes for the cops to show up!
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Vesper
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I once saw a Canadian with a flashlight. I'll never forget it. :candle:
Bullzeyebill
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What is the point of this thread? To inspire ill feeling between Canadian's and US folks? Knock it off. Not tolerated on CPF.
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Vesper
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Wow! That's the point of this thread? I guess we're doing a poor job...
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Nah, it's another example of the phenomenon of people calling the cops when they see someone using a flashlight at night :shakehead
This seems really counter intuitive, but there are several threads in the archive stories similar to this. For some reason people think you're up to no good if you're poking around in the dark with a flashlight... but if you think about it, you wouldn't use a light if you were up to no good and trying to keep a low profile!
Strange aspect of human nature I guess!
I'm a Canadian with a Flashlight - although after over 16 years in the US I think I've just about become an American (getting paperwork together for citizenship application) - so maybe I'm not that scary. :sick2:
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I'm 3/4 Canadian, with flashlights, and am also a black belt (your basic triple threat). I'm scary without the flashlights. I wonder if those Canadians were wearing hockey masks with blood on their shirts? That might justify the fear people had. I wouldn't worry about a Canadian with a flashlight, but I wouldn't want to mess with one of their hockey players. Their hockey resembles angry football players tackling people on something as hard as concrete, practicing karate with blades on their feet, while hitting people with sticks, and knocking out teeth. That's something that justifies fear.
GLOCK18
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I once sold a flashlight to a Canadian, so its my fault sorry guys.:nana:
Seriously? That has got to be sarcasm...
Like Stress_Test said it is another call the cops there are weirdos story...
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Big deal, you see the same thing here during the Christmas shopping season at WalMart! :laughing:
(I say that in jest, but there's some sad truth to that too... I think it was just last year there was a freakin' shoot-out in a WalMart)
Bullzeyebill
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OK, OK, I sort of reacted to the link in the second post, and though this thread would go south. Sorry guys.
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OK, OK, I sort of reacted to the link in the second post, and though this thread would go south. Sorry guys.
Bill
WHOOPS, I didn't realize that was a link there. I deleted it from the post, because that link does take you to the "comments" section of the page where all the insults are taking place.
RyanA
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We all know that Canadians just pretend to be mild mannered and friendly to bide time until they can annex us. We're building the fence at the wrong border.:nana:
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It just so happens I am on vacation in Montreal right now and have neither scared nor impressed anyone with my flashlights and no one has called the police or the gendarrmes. But they do take their hockey players seriously. Plus you can walk down the street with a long hooked stick and nobody even looks at you. I did see some sticks last night with blinking red lights on them??? I will leave you to guess as to what that possibly was for now. eh
RyanA
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See, Gman's one of 'em, Neale is one of 'em! We've been infiltrated! I'd say head for the hills but the dang mounties are probably lying in wait.
LumenHound
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I think Jay Leno would get a kick out of that newspaper clipping.
DUQ
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Just wait until I get down to Florida in June 2010 and I'm bringing my lights....Ooooo Scarrrry
