(Edmunton Sun) – RCMP are probing a crash between two of their own cruisers last night.
Around 11:20 p.m.. two Leduc RCMP officers were traveling in separate cruisers east on Airport Road to respond to a crash between a vehicle and a moose on Highway 21.
The officers were traveling in tandem when the collision occurred.
Both officers were transported to an Edmonton hospital where they were treated for non life-threatening injuries and later released.
RCMP often send more than one cruiser to respond to crashes, said Cst. Jodi Heidinger with Leduc RCMP.
“Until they actually determine the seriousness of the accident (they send more than one). It also depends on availability,” she said.
We are paying these guys to much for what we get from their services. Even if we want to believe we get cheap service it’s really not.
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Spot on SC. Thank you for reminding us of the basic element here which seems to have gone astray from the situation in favor of rancor.
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I agree but we are not talking about the General Public but we are discussing two RCMP officers racing to an accident where someone hit a moose and they crash together.
I thought they were professional drivers trained to drive safely but maybe I was wrong?
We know what happen to the RCMP officers, the cruisers and the moose but what happen to the person who hit the moose?
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It is a source of surprise, and may I say some discomfort to me, the manner in which some commentators have chosen to make gratuitous sport of a car crash. Would it not be better to at least wait for the causal analysis before weighing in?
If you have ever been in a car crash , even one at low speed of say 30 to 40 kilometers per hour, you will know there is nothing funny about it.
Mine occurred almost 30 years ago and I recall it like it was yesterday. Here is what happened when an octogenarian (yes, I do mean in his eighties) ran a stop sign at the split second I entered the intersection doing about 35 kph. The first signal was a heart-stopping terror followed by an adrenaline assault in the nanosecond it took my eyes to tell my brain I was going to collide violently with about a ton and a bit of speeding metal which I had no chance to avoid. Then there was the sound of screeching rubber as I yanked the steering wheel and slammed on the brakes, followed by the sickening “whump” as about two and a half tons of metal collided. Dust filled the car and loose items flew around. Then the pain set in as I realized I had injured my hand and leg. I was lucky. My crash was pretty minor and easily survivable. It was also a terrifying event I never want to repeat and wish on no one, regardless of how they earn their living.
First responder services are daily asked to drive at high speed to emergencies. Fire, Paramedic and Police responders sometimes have accidents. I hope none of us think it funny when this happens. If one harbours a general hostility to the RCMP, well it’s a free country and that is one’s right. But at least pick something worthy of your ire.
Laughing at car crashes is cruel and dumb. No matter what the logo on the door (if any) reads. Might as well make sport of birth defects or amputees. Are we not better than this?
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Sounds like a demolition derby at the local fair… only they used police cruisers instead of scrap cars.
So what happen to the injured civilian crash site, when this was all going on, did he get help, did he survive or did he die horrified or laughing?….
Never in all my life did I ever hear of something so disgustingly funny and scary at the same time.
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Deepthroat, so what park of Vancouver do you reside? I will bet it’s the west end!
Funny, you never hear the above rhetoric when Atlantic Canadians are called drunks and welfare bums. Nobody seems to care when Albertans are called rednecks. Where are the people up on the soapbox then?
But, the second someone references the names of a couple of hippie era comedians who got rich making fun of themselves, and you got the thought police jumping all over them.
This all seems a bit Orwellian to me. In my experience the kind of people preaching this sermon live in WASP neighbourhoods and have never had a minority friend in their life.
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Lol, Alcan relax! I was only joking!
Like you, I was using satire to demonstrate how hypocrytical and ridiculious it is for the politically correct to exhibit phony indignation when names of an another ethnic groups are mentioned and not our own. Logically, if one is going to take of offence to one, they should take offence to both. Why is a chinese name any more offensive than an anglo saxon name?
I am tired of people who get all bent out of shape out of any kind of ethnic minority reference, but yet would not sit next to a minority on the bus.
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Well if M&J or C&C are offensive then what?
If this site received html or jpeg it would be nice to be able put in here cartoons from the newspapers.
Perhaps then Abbot and Costello leaning strongly towards Costello who always seem in the best of times to be messing up, would be more appropriate?
I’m so sorry I compare the force to others as it is really not fair to the others….
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Your reference to English names is derogatory and unacceptable.
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Sorry!!!
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Deepthroat: Alcans comment passed the moderator as we believed he was referring to the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. In retrospect, we agree it could be interpreted as you did. The original comment has been modified.
Your reference to Chinese names is derogatory and unacceptable.
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Were their names Mut and Jeff or XXXXX and XXXXX?… How much will this one cost tax payers?
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