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Submitted by Katja (View user info) at 2004-06-25 22:35:40 EDT
A couple of days ago, someone posted a story about how a dog saved his/her life. I just came across this article telling the exact same story. Just wanted to let you all n=know he/she was actually telling the truth. I don't know if this has been poted as of yet.
Friendly dog averts 'killing spree'
Man drove from New Brunswick with small arsenal
Car packed with 6,000 rounds
FROM CANADIAN PRESS
A man who told police he was bent on going on a murderous rampage believed people in his native New Brunswick were nice, so he planned to gun down people in Toronto instead — until a friendly dog changed his mind about the city's residents.
The man drove from the Maritimes with a carload of guns and ammunition intending to kill as many people in Toronto as he could, he told police. But a last-minute encounter with a woman and her dogs in a lakefront park convinced him Torontonians are nice too.
"He wanted to start a killing spree," said Det.-Sgt. Bernadette Button. "He didn't indicate why, but (did say) that the people in the Maritimes were nice so he thought he'd come up to Toronto."
By chance, he encountered a woman walking her two dogs.
"One of the dogs approached him and it was playful and they got into a bit of a tug-of-war," Button said.
"He decided that the people in Toronto were nice and he didn't want to continue with his operational plan."
James Stanson, 43, was charged with eight weapons-related offences after a man surrendered to police Wednesday in front of a supermarket in the peaceful east-end neighbourhood known as the Beaches.
Stanson, wearing a scruffy light-brown jacket, appeared in court this afternoon after being examined by a psychiatrist. A scruffy beard and moustache obscured lacerations on his round face.
Justice Richard Schneider ruled the accused would undergo further psychiatric assessment before June 30 and appear again in court for a progress report on July 14. At that time, the court will decide whether Stanson is mentally fit to stand trial.
Stanson was also remanded to the hospital unit of a Toronto jail so that he can be placed under suicide watch.
Police said a man had a loaded gun in his pocket and a car crammed with more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition and had intended to start firing in the park on a sunny summer afternoon.
The man was a dog owner and his car was packed with doggie blankets and a big plastic dog dish still filled with dry kibble. Police said he had left his own dog in New Brunswick.
The man was a dog owner and his car was packed with doggie blankets and a big plastic dog dish still filled with dry kibble. Police said he had left his own dog in New Brunswick.
Stanson lived in a small, white bungalow that he bought in Wood Point, N.B., three years ago, ATV News reported today.
He lived alone there with as many as five dogs at one point.
A former neighbour, Marion Daye, told ATV News she didn't like Stanson, but said it was obvious he loved animals.
"You knew he loved dogs because they were always with him," she said.
Gladys Wood described him as friendly, but on his own terms. ". . . he'd go in somebody's yard and take his dogs in, let them run all over their garden, whatever," Wood said.
"When he was asked to leave, he'd stand there, do strange things, and laugh at you."
After visiting the park, the man, who police describe as mentally ill, drove around the city looking for a police officer.
Const. Fraser Douglas, 25, was responding to a shoplifting call in front of the nearby supermarket when the man drove up behind his cruiser and honked his horn.
"He asked the officer who he approached for (psychiatric) help, or he was going to do something serious," Button said.
At that point, the man said he had intended to go on a shooting rampage.
Officers tallied the cache Wednesday night, counting carton after carton of bullets.
The list included: a 12-gauge shotgun, a bolt action rifle with a telescopic lens, a 9-mm semi-automatic, a machete, throwing knife, camouflage ski mask, black leather gloves, and 6,296 rounds of ammunition.
All the firearms were legally purchased, according to police.
Police say they have a dog to thank, but do not know the identity of the pet's owner.
Helen Stanson of Guelph, Ont., said she believed her nephew was in Toronto seeking medical help for a heart condition.
A blood vessel in the heart was expanding rapidly and required surgery, she said. "He was a walking time bomb."
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Submitted by VaginaRavager (user info) at 2004-08-03 15:44:58 EDT (#)
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choke on cock
Submitted by comicbookguy (user info) at 2004-06-26 00:02:32 EDT (#)
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I actually read the news article and adapted it into a piece of fiction. However, thank you for your back up.
Submitted by Katja (user info) at 2004-06-25 23:15:56 EDT (#)
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Sorry, my errors. I didn't read what I typed before I hit post.
Submitted by StonedSilly (user info) at 2004-06-25 23:08:22 EDT (#)
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If it was a news article, why does it have spelling errors?
+2 for the post, it made me smile.
-1 for the errors.
Submitted by Katja (user info) at 2004-06-25 22:37:35 EDT (#)
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Sorry about the grammatical errors. I did not run spell check like I should have.