August 2023

Summer is ending and in Vancouver it feels like summer stopped yesterday with the first cool, rainy day of the season. Many welcome the end of summer and the coming of long-needed rain. I like it hot. When the summer stops abruptly, I grieve just a little. But I understand how people feel. Sometimes you just want it to stop. This week we are stopping our summer review of weird and wacky food-law stories and looking at cases where people just want it to stop.

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This seems to be the summer of the food fight. This week our Weird and Wacky Wednesday stories once again deal with the throwing of food. Has food become the new weapon of choice?

Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 258Read More »

It’s hot in many places. And it’s important to control your anger. This week we have three wacky stories where people failed to control their anger, behaved badly according to the stories and now have the police on their case. Of course, everyone charged is presumed innocent. They are not presumed to be level-headed, however. The lesson from these stories is that, even if it’s hot outside, try to keep your cool.

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I often wonder about people’s motivations and the factors that cause people to commit crimes. That could be the WWW in each of the three stories this week. Why, why and why? Criminologists and psychologists can debate the reasons people commit crimes. In the stories this week, the answer seems to be greed, stupidity and dishonesty.

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