http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=15f_1302937945 Items in channel 'Captain Canuck' Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:48:38 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=15f_1302937945 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:25:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b11_1347019393 Captain Canuck We've all come across a fellow LiveLeaker at some point that for one reason or another has targeted us for trolling or stalking. I remember the multi-account thumb brigades that would swoop in and thumb everything I posted down. The site solved that problem by making the comment score irrelevant. A thumb down means even less now. Some stalkers would take it up a notch and post a barrage a crap and then block you so you couldn't respond. That too was rectified by the site because now when they block you, they also block themselves from commenting back. So what is a stalker to do these days? Well, I've had a rather creative one recently. He's been sending me private messages with two dots in the subject and two dots in the message body. Not just a couple messages. Actually it's been a few thousand. Every morning I log in here there's anywhere from 300 to 600 messages waiting. More follow in the afternoon and he's often up past midnight adding more. Usually I get about 1000 a day. Presumably he figures I'll have to spend more time deleting them than he spent sending them. This morning I found over 400 messages, except today he's blocked me. Ironically that prevents him from sending any further messages. So why would a stalker who's that bent on inundating me with messages give up? Well it's because I would send him a message saying that if he'd been by I didn't get the message. Other times I'd just send a simple "Hi". It must have been frustrating for him to have me cheerily send him a message or two everyday after he'd spent hours sending me garbage. Here's the punchline. If you ever have this happen there's a very easy way to solve the problem short of blocking. Use the FireFox web browser and install "CheckFox". This add-on allows you to highlight all of the messages on the page and with one click, all of the checkboxes are checked. Then click "delete" and they're gone. What took your personal stalker an hour to do is cleaned up in seconds. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b11_1347019393 Captain Canuck Got a Stalker? stalker, troll. firefox, checkfox, checkbox, messages Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:23:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f6_1342214357 Captain Canuck The Ontario Power Authority gave Eastern Power $10 million as a "sign of good faith" while trying to convince the company to stop construction at the Mississauga gas plant the Liberal government had promised to move. But the OPA doesn't consider the money part of the cost of relocating the plant and it isn't counted in the $180 million Energy Minister Chris Bentley announced it would cost the public to move it to Sarnia. The Liberals had reversed themselves on the plant in the middle of last fall's election, and promised to move the plant in the face bitter local opposition. "Before agreeing to a cessation agreement, Eastern Power/Greenfield South wanted a sign of good faith, recognizing that a permanent relocation agreement would take months to negotiate," OPA spokesman Patricia Phillips wrote in an email. "Eastern Power identified resolution of a separate dispute it had with OEFC (Ontario Electricity Financing Corporation) as a gesture of that good faith." That separate dispute didn't involve the OPA but the authority still felt it would be "a good mechanism" as it was due to inherit the OEFC's disputed contract with Eastern anyway, Phillips said in her email, which she did not agree to elaborate on. That dispute involved a so-called "non-utility generation" (NUG) contract for power from Eastern's Keele Valley biogas plant. To show its good faith, the OPA advanced $10 million to Eastern, with $4.6 million of it to be refunded "once the dispute was settled", Phillips said. "To this point, a contract has not been finalized," she said. The remaining $5.4 million has gone to Eastern, she said, but shouldn't be included in the cost to relocate the company's plant. "In summary, while a simultaneous consideration, the NUG payment was with respect to resolving a separate electricity contract dispute," Phillips said. "As a result, it is the OPA's view that the $5.4m is not a relocation cost." Internal OPA emails released by the Legislature's estimates committee show the authority was scrambling to convince Eastern Power to stop construction on the Mississagua gas plant even after the Liberal government had announced in October 2011 it would be moved. Opposition parties were having a field day at the time as work went on at the supposedly scrapped plant. Just days after those emails show OPA officials discussing giving Eastern a $5 million "adder" to its Keele Valley contract, a resolution to the dispute and end to the construction was announced by Bentley on Nov. 21. Phillips said though that ultimately, Eastern did not receive an adder to the contract, and that money was "on a separate matter". The OEFC said, also in an email, that it was prepared to terminate its contract with Eastern on Keele Valley if the OPA was able to reach a new deal with the company, but it continues to "hold and administer the Keele Valley contract." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f6_1342214357 Captain Canuck Liberals Spending Millions of Our Money to Get Re-Elected liberal, ontario, government, waste, election, corruption, mcguinty, bentley, power, electricity Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:16:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e8e_1335489278 Captain Canuck Taxes are taking a bigger chunk out of Canadians' budgets than basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter, a new report from the Fraser Institute says. The public policy think-tank calculated that over the past 50 years, an average family's total tax bill has increased 1,738%, the report Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2012 said. Over the same period, the cost of shelter increased by 1,185%, food by 518%, and clothing by 500%. "Taxes from all levels of government make up the single largest expenditure facing Canadian families," Charles Lammam, Fraser Institute associate director of tax and budget policy research, said in a release about the report Thursday. "In fact, the total tax bill has grown more rapidly than any other major item in an average family's annual budget since 1961." The report notes in 2011, the average Canadian family earned income of $74,233 and paid $30,792 in taxes, for a total tax bill representing 41.5% of family income. In 1961, the average Canadian family earned income of $5,000 and paid $1,675 in taxes, for a total tax bill representing 33.5% of family income. The report also notes in 1961, the average family spent 56.5% of its income to pay for shelter, food, and clothing. By 1981, the spending demands had evened up: 40.8% of an average family's income went to governments in the form of taxes, while 40.5% was spent on shelter, food, and clothing. By 2011, the situation was nearly opposite that of 1961: the average family spent 33.6% of its income on the necessities of life while 41.5% of its income went to taxes. And the fact that the federal government and most provincial governments are running budget deficits means current taxes don't even cover all government spending, so the situation is actually worse than it appears, the report said. "These deficits are essentially deferred taxes into the future since the shortfalls must ultimately be repaid by working Canadians," Lammam said. "If we include government deficits in the calculations, the total tax bill for the average Canadian family is actually $33,455 in 2011, not $30,792. This means the average Canadian family faces a future tax bill of an extra $2,663." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e8e_1335489278 Captain Canuck I Know Taxes Are Neccessary, But This Is Ridiculous Canada, tax, deficit, tax rate Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:55:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d8_1335383490 Captain Canuck The David Suzuki Foundation's charitable status needs to be reviewed, the group EthicalOil.org says. The group wrote to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on Tuesday, saying there's been "mounting evidence of political and partisan activity." Registered charities are prohibited from engaging in partisan activity. "The David Suzuki Foundation is a highly political organization. With the mounting evidence of partisan and political activity, it is time for the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate," EthicalOil.org spokesman Jordan Graham said in the release. In a 44-page letter e-mailed to the CRA, the oil lobby group details political and partisan activity it says the David Suzuki Foundation took part in. It says that includes Suzuki endorsing Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's record and appearing in a Liberal advertisement, persistent calls to political action, frequent condemnation of government policy, and trying to sway the senate to abandon their inquiry on foreign funding of charities. "With 12 registered lobbyists, the David Suzuki Foundation has more lobbyists on staff than most government relations firms," the release from EthicalOil.org said. David Suzuki Foundation's director of communications James Boothroyd said the move by EthicalOil.org is not a surprise. "We are proud of the work we do at the David Suzuki Foundation, especially given the overwhelming support we receive from people all across Canada. We also take great care to ensure that we operate within the guidelines of the Canada Revenue Agency and that we are transparent in our financial records," Boothroyd said in a written statement sent to QMI Agency. "It is not surprising that Ethical Oil, a front group for the tarsands industry, would like to see the David Suzuki Foundation lose its charitable status. We see this as part of a sustained campaign to silence Canada's environmental voices." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d8_1335383490 Captain Canuck David Suzuki's Foundation Apparently Doesn't Like It When Another Front Group Takes A Page From His Book david, suzuki, canada, front group, environment, charitable status, politics, partisan, oil sands, ethical oil, CRA, hypocrite Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:13:00 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c8_1334776189 Captain Canuck The Austrian hamlet of Fucking is sticking to a name that has made it a magnet for English-speaking tourists, sign thieves and the stuff of Internet fame. Franz Meindl, mayor of the town of Tarsdorf that includes the hamlet, dismissed news reports that residents were pushing to change the name to something less controversial such as Fuking or Fugging. "I don't know where this comes from in the international press," an annoyed-sounding Meindl said by telephone on Wednesday from the Upper Austrian town near the German border. "This was discussed a few years ago but nothing came of it. It is certainly not under discussion now." Media reports said local residents in the town - whose name apparently derives from Adalpert von Vucckingen, who lived there in the 11th Century - had grown weary of tourists stealing town signs and striking indecent poses for photos. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c8_1334776189 Captain Canuck Interesting Name for Town in Austria austria, town, strange name, fucking, hamlet Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:35:02 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=215_1333729583 Captain Canuck WINNIPEG- From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2012 8:44PM EDT The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That's 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears' ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it's considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic. The study shows that "the bear population is not in crisis as people believed," said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut's director of wildlife management. "There is no doom and gloom."Mr. Gissing added that the government isn't dismissing concerns about climate change, but he said Nunavut wants to base bear-management practices on current information "and not predictions about what might happen." The study's conclusions drew concern from Andrew Derocher, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta who has been studying polar-bear populations for years. Prof. Derocher said the 1,013 figure is derived from a range of 717 bears to 1,430. "It's premature to draw many conclusions," he said, adding that there were no comparative figures and the upper end of the range, 1,430, was highly unlikely. Prof. Derocher also said some details in the survey pointed to a bear population in trouble. For example, the survey identified 50 cubs, which are usually less than 10 months old, and 22 yearlings, roughly 22 months old. That's nearly one-third the number required for a healthy population, he said. "This is a clear indication that this population is not sustaining itself in any way, shape, or form." The debate over the polar-bear population has been raging for years, frequently pitting scientists against Inuit. In 2004, Environment Canada researchers concluded that the numbers in the region had dropped by 22 per cent since 1984, to 935. They also estimated that by 2011, the population would decrease to about 610. That sparked worldwide concern about the future of the bears and prompted the Canadian and American governments to introduce legislation to protect them. But many Inuit communities said the researchers were wrong. They said the bear population was increasing and they cited reports from hunters who kept seeing more bears. Mr. Gissing said that encouraged the government to conduct the recent study, which involved 8,000 kilometres of aerial surveying last August along the coast and offshore islands.Mr. Gissing said he hopes the results lead to more research and a better understanding of polar bears. He said the media in southern Canada has led people to believe polar bears are endangered. "They are not." He added that there are about 25,000 polar bears across Canada's Arctic. "That's likely the highest there has ever been." There's much at stake in the debate. Population figures are used to calculate quotas for hunting, a lucrative industry for many northern communities. Hunting polar bears is highly regulated but Inuit communities can sell their quota to sport hunters, who must hunt with Inuit guides. A polar-bear hunting trip can cost up to $50,000. Demand for polar-bear fur is also soaring in places like China and Russia and prices for some pelts have doubled in the past couple of years, reaching as high as $15,000.The Nunavut hunting quota in the western Hudson Bay area fell to 8 from 56 after the 2004 report from Environment Canada. The Nunavut government increased it slightly last year but faced a storm of protest. Over all, about 450 polar bears are killed annually across Nunavut. Mr. Gissing said a new quota is expected to be announced in June. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=215_1333729583 Captain Canuck Climate Change Gets Another Kick In The Teeth climate change, climate, polar bears, study, survey, global warming, arctic, canada Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:43:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c7_1333204808 Captain Canuck For those who love bacon to death, there's a new bacon casket for you. Seattle's J&D's Foods, known for launching whacky bacon products, has launched the Bacon Coffin for those who can't bear to be without the salty pork product even while buried six feet under. The meat-inspired casket comes with a bacon air freshener on the inside and looks like a bacon strip on the outside. "You ate bacon, you decorated your body with bacon, your car with bacon and your home with bacon. And now, you can peacefully rest wrapped in bacon," said a statement from J&D's Foods. The casket is $2,999.99. The company makes Bacon Lube, Baconnaise spread and Bacon Lip Balm, among other products. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c7_1333204808 Captain Canuck Bacon Casket coffin, casket, bacon, death, funeral Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:34:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae6_1332531135 Captain Canuck TORONTO - The elephant at Queen's Park this week is George Smitherman. The political ghost of the former health minister turned energy minister turned super infrastructure minister has haunted everything from the auditor's report on the Ornge air ambulance scandal (Smitherman was at the helm of the health ministry when it started) to Energy Minister Chris Bentley's announcement lowering the price the government will pay for wind and solar under its feed in tariff (FIT) program. The Green Energy Act (GEA) was Smitherman's baby. It offered ludicrously high prices to producers of wind and solar power and guaranteed that high-priced alternatives would be sold into the grid before cheaper traditional energy from Niagara Falls and nuclear plants. Worse, costly green energy sent hydro bills skyrocketing. That massive impact of the GEA shows up disastrously on the electricity bills of mid-sized businesses, many of which are getting squeezed out of business by something called the, "global adjustment," - a line item that's adding millions to their hydro bills. Rural Ontario has been devastated by the GEA. Small towns and villages had massive wind farms foisted on them over vigorous objections. They're a blight on the countryside and instead of bringing employment to hard-pressed areas, many of them are owned and operated outside this province. Energy Minister Chris Bentley announced Thursday that future wind turbine and solar projects will be approved on a points system basis. New projects will get extra points if they've engaged the community and the municipality in the process and if they involve a school, hospital or university. "We haven't done everything people asked us to do, but we have made a number of steps in terms of where these projects can be located in the future that I think reflects that we've been listening," Bentley said in an interview. That's not good enough, says Tory critic Vic Fedeli. Unwilling host communities could still have turbines foisted on them. Some of the cheapest green energy in the world is generated at Niagara Falls - and we're throwing it away. We have an excess of electricity. You can't store it, so the only way to get rid of it is to spill water that could be used to generate electricity for 2 cents a kilowatt hour at Niagara. Instead, until now we paid more than 80 cents a kwh for solar and 13.5 cents for wind. Bentley announced Thursday those prices are going down - to 54.9 cents for solar and 11.5 for wind. That's still unaffordable and will still push up electricity costs. Fedeli says the government has added 1,700 kw of costly renewables, claiming they were reducing coal use. That's not true. "In fact, coal use was up 28% in 2010," he said. "For every megawatt of wind and solar that's been added, clean renewable water power has been reduced by that amount," he said. The Liberals allowed $300 million-worth of electricity that could have been generated at Niagara Falls to go down the drain. As well, nuclear plants have been taken off-line, he said. "At the very time that we need to be strengthening Ontario's economy, the Liberal government has doubled down on the wind and solar projects which have killed jobs throughout Ontario," he said. There's a trio of Smitherman elephants in the room: Green energy. Ehealth. Ornge. Any parade of pachyderms, has a couple of clowns running behind, cleaning up the mess. And this week, that sad task fell to Bentley and Health Minister Deb Matthews. They were out there every day - shovelling the manure. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ae6_1332531135 Captain Canuck More Ontario Liberal Scandal liberal, hydro, scandal, air ambulance, ornge, green energy, niagara falls, wind, solar, ontario Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:56:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a58_1332449631 Captain Canuck TORONTO - That's one rotten Ornge. "To the nose of this watchdog, this just didn't pass the smell test," Auditor General Jim McCarter said Wednesday after releasing a special report on the province's troubled air ambulance service. "The ministry didn't do its job in protecting taxpayers' money." Tens of millions of dollars were wasted and patient safety possibly compromised, McCarter said, when senior execs at Ornge started weaving a convoluted web of private, for-profit companies out of the non-profit ambulance service in 2006. The result is a corporate structure so complex, even McCarter and his team of auditors aren't sure they've identified all the firms involved and were never able to track all the revenue streams. Ornge was so opaque and dense, McCarter said his own investigators wound up explaining some of the corporate structures to the its own lawyers at one meeting. What enabled the Ornge corporation to go rogue, McCarter said, was a weak and inadequate operating agreement signed in 2005 with then health minister George Smitherman, which enabled Ornge to borrow money without ministry approval, prevented the ministry from recovering assets or funding and even sheltered Ornge from being called before a committee for questioning. Ornge execs - who stonewalled McCarter at every step of his investigation - even told him at one point "it's not government money, it's our money," he said. McCarter stopped short of blaming Health Minister Deb Matthews by name but said the ministry was resistant to acknowledge the seriousness of the situation, was lax in its oversight and ignored countless "red flags" on the file. Matthews, who announced Wednesday a new operating agreement with Ornge and new legislation to toughen oversight of the agency, placed the blame on Ornge's senior execs and board members who she said misled her about what the corporation was up to. She's since called in the OPP to investigate. "I am sickened when I see people who are in a position of trust who abuse that trust," Matthews said. "We're talking about people who took money out of the pocket of taxpayers in this province..., so they could put it in their own pocket. I am outraged by those actions." And Matthews brushed off calls from both opposition parties demanding she resign. "I have taken real responsibility with the changes I have made," she said. "This is clearly an issue that is unacceptable and I have taken my full share of responsibility for that. "But my number one job is to fix the problem and I am doing that." Tory MPP Frank Klees - who has led the charge on Ornge since first raising it in the House last spring - said there is ample evidence now that Matthews had oversight powers and failed to exercise them. "This report is just confirmation of the fact that this minister under her watch allowed this scandal to develop and to grow," Klees said, calling for the minister's resignation. "When people hear about shell companies, diverted millions and missing funds, they think of organized crime not their health care system," New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath said. ***** Key findings of Auditor General Jim McCarter's special report on Ornge air ambulance service include revelations that Ornge: Purchased its Mississauga HQ with $15 million of borrowed money. Ornge then leased itself the space at 40% over market value over 25 years, paying $2 million more than comparable tenants over five years Used profits from that overpriced rent to borrow more money, some of which was channeled back to a now bankrupt subsidiary Bought 11 used helicopters - some up to 30 years old - for $28 million, used them for less than two years and then began selling them for less than $8 million Spent $148 million on 12 new helicopters for air ambulance use, then put 12 seats in two of them, making them unusable for medical purposes Received at least $4.8 million from the helicopter maker in a contract that was shifted from Ornge to a subsidiary shortly after the auditor's probe began, making it impossible for McCarter to review Received another $2.9 million charitable donation from the helicopter maker to improve patient care and training. Ornge then spent $500,000 of that money on two custom built Orange County Chopper motorcycles, one of which has never made it to Ontario Received $13 million a year for inter-facility land transfers but only performed 15% of the projected 200,000 trips Bought 10 new planes and 12 new helicopters when its own analysis showed six planes and 10 helicopters were needed Paid five senior executives at Ornge a total of at least $2.5 million in annual salary Paid six Ornge board members total of $643,000 in 2010/11 as a "retainer" with one member receiving more than $200,000. The auditor was denied employee expenses to review Amassed $210 million in publicly-funded assets shifted to private, for-profit firms http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a58_1332449631 Captain Canuck Another Fine Liberal Mess in Ontario corruption, liberal, air ambulance, scandal, ontario, taxpayer, rippoff Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:40:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=577_1332448442 Captain Canuck TORONTO - Municipalities can get green energy projects faster if they want them but still can't say no if they don't under new Feed-In-Tariff program rules, Energy Minister Chris Bentley announced Thursday. "We've listened very carefully about where to locate these projects," Bentley told a crowd of green energy advocates and industry players at Ryerson University. The long-anticipated FIT review, which also slashed FIT subsidies from renewable energy as expected, will give priority to any project that can show it has local support, Bentley said. There will also be 10% of capacity that are set aside for projects with "significant Aboriginal involvement. Local opposition - especially to industrial-size wind farms - devastated the governing Liberals' rural caucus and left the party with a minority government. Progressive Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli said the changes will not satisfy rural communities who wanted more ability to say no. "This doesn't fix the real problem," Fedeli said. "It still removes the public's venue away." On the price side, the Ontario Power Authority will now offer contracts for small rooftop solar projects at 54.5 cents a kilowatt hour, down from 80.2 cents a kWh. Wind drops to 11.5 cents a kWh from 13.5 cents and solar ground-mounted under 10 kilowatts falls to 44.5 cents a kWh from 64.2 cents. Prices for water projects, biomass, farm biogas, biogas and landfill gas all remain the same. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=577_1332448442 Captain Canuck Ontario Municipalities Can't Reject Green Projects ontario, green energy, hydro, high prices, reject projects, green, wind farms, liberal Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:41:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61d_1332355132 Captain Canuck LONDON, ONT. - Police have named the suspects arrested in connection with a St. Patrick's Day riot here. So far, 15 people have been charged with 19 offences. Six of them are Fanshawe College students. The names of the alleged perpetrators responsible for $100,000 in sundry costs to city taxpayers have been the source of much anticipation in both casual talk and on social media sites. A Facebook page titled Fleming Riots St. Pat's Day 2012 was constructed for the sole purpose of outing those who took part in 1,000-person march on police that ended only after a news truck was overturned and torched, fences were torn down and streets littered with hundreds of broken bottles. Police, too, publicized dedicated phone and e-mail sources for the public to use to help them track down the worst of the worst. Fanshawe College President Howard Rundle recently said that eight students have been suspended pending further investigation. It's possible one or more may get expelled. The names and charges are as follows: Jacob Biggelar, 19, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly Jordan DeRose, 18, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly Peter Donohoe, 19, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly Michael King, 19, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly Blaine Mills, 21, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly and two counts of assault police with a weapon Kory Puklicz, 19, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly Brian Garton, 25, is charged with: obstruction of police Stephania Smieja-Henry, 20, is charged with: obstruction of police and resisting arrest Michael Moore, 20, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly and mischief under $5,000 Ryan McMahon, 24, is charged with: being a member of an unlawful assembly mischief under $5,000 Police also said two 15-year-olds were charged with offences including being members of an unlawful assembly and assault of police with a weapon, but cannot be named because of their age. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61d_1332355132 Captain Canuck Police ID and Arrest St. Paddy's Day Riot london, st. paddy's day, riot, fanshawe, students, st. patrick's day Sun, 18 Mar 2012 12:15:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b4_1332087140 Captain Canuck LONDON, ONT. - The east end of London became a war zone Saturday night as hundreds of rioters in the Fanshawe College area of the city attacked police and burned vehicles. More than 50 officers in full riot gear surrounded by an alcohol-fuelled mob on St. Patrick's Day held a one-block sector of Fleming Drive for more than an hour before being repelled by a downpour of broken glass from thrown bottle, rocks and even wooden planks torn off of fences. A CTV truck parked in the middle of the violence was overturned and set on fire. Flames shot 20 feet into the air interspersed by violent explosions, one of which illuminated more than a block of houses in bright orange and sent many in the crowd screaming for shelter. Even as the truck was exploding, rioters were throwing bottles of alcohol at it causing many smaller blasts, each one inciting the crowd more than the last. Many danced around the flames, while others fed the inferno with any wood they could find to keep it ablaze. Some risked injury by tossed a couch and a mattress into it as others roared their approval. Not long after, at least one more vehicle was torched. A firefighter on the scene told QMI Agency that some rioters were treated for burns. It's not known how serious those injuries are. There were no reports of police or other emergency workers being seriously hurt. "This is awesome, isn't it?" one shirtless young man bellowed. "I've never seen anything like this." He was asked what started it. "Well, over there, all these cops were on the street and we just started, ah, kicking down fences and throwing the wood at the cops and they backed off and then there was the CTV over here and a couple of the boys, they just tipped it over and a couple of the other boys, they just burnt it... That's...the boys for you." Police kept most of the mob at bay until after 11 p.m., hauling away a few young men in handcuffs, but with each one they arrested countless more bottles smashed on and around their cars. The crowd's courage grew every time a bottle shattered on a windshield of a cruiser until police had no recourse but to retreat and leave the streets to the rioters. The violent riot that rocked the city Saturday night may be the worst - but not the first time St. Patrick's Day celebrations have rocked London. In fact, every year, the police roll out Project LEARN (Liquor Enforcement and Reduction of Noise) and step up their patrols in student neighbourhoods near UWO, Fanshawe and along Richmond Row to curb the rowdiness, but the results seem minimal at best. Among residents in the area, St. Patrick's Day has become an annual horror show with no end in sight. Many said they're fed up with the booze-soaked young people and want something concrete done after this year's carnage. Angry residents further north on Farnsborough watching the carnage blamed police for letting the situation get out of control. They said the crowd had been getting rowdier for hours and wished authorities had stepped in sooner before it was too late. "You could see it coming," the man, who didn't want his name used, said. "Every year, something crazy happens on St. Patrick's Day. I'm fed up with it." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b4_1332087140 Captain Canuck Disgusting St. Patrick's Day Display St. Patrick, riot, college, students, violence, police, angry, residence