Re: Left for Dead in a Saskatchewan Winter

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:50:05 -0500, "Cricket" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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>"The Enlightenment" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "bouncer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> > Left for Dead in a Saskatchewan Winter
>> > A Survivor's Story Exposes Police Abuse of Indigenous Canadians
>> >
>> > By DeNeen L. Brown
>> > Washington Post Foreign Service
>> > Saturday, November 22, 2003; Page A01
>> >
>> > SASKATOON, Saskatchewan -- Two white policemen picked up Darrell
>> Night
>> > outside his uncle's apartment one January day before dawn. There had
>> > been a quarrel, and Night, who had been drinking, was shouting
>> > obscenities.
>> >
>> > Night, a member of the Cree Nation, recalls thinking the cops were
>> > going to throw him in the drunk tank, but they drove straight out of
>> > town. They took him to an isolated spot three miles outside
>> Saskatoon.
>> >
>>
>> 3 miles?  That's about 45 minutes walk.
>>
>> Lesson:  Don't get drunk and abussive.
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>Southern city boy?
>
>In the blizzards of the eighteen eighties, people froze to death, stone cold
>sober, between their own house and barn.  It was common to rig a rope
>between the two to follow - and people still got lost and froze to death.
>Between their own house and barn.
>

Shit happens, then you become a frozen desert.



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