Why is it that some people always have to ruin things for others?
There is a wonderful dog park at the end of Massey Drive. We took Daisy there for a stroll Sunday afternoon. There are all kinds of great dog owners and mean dogs aren’t allowed.
While walking along the trail, or rather being dragged along the trail by Daisy, we were approached from behind by someone on an ATV. Yup, an ATV in the dog park.
He drove right past the sign that pointed out to all those with opposable thumbs that motorized vehicles are not allowed.
One might think that the visor on his helmet obscured his vision but, that would only have happened if he was wearing a helmet. Be wary of those who ride ATVs and snowmobiles without helmets because they don’t care for their own safety. And that means they don’t care about yours either.
When ATV driver came up behind us on the trail, he obviously thought that we should jump off the trail so he could pass. We didn’t, so he passed within a foot of us on the trail, even though there was plenty of room for him to go around us (the trail is in the middle of a field, after all).
He then took off up the hill.
About two minutes later we heard some more noise behind us only to see someone on a snowmobile ripping around the field, around the people who were out taking their dog for a walk.
Remember, this is at the end of Massey Drive in the city. Both the ATV rider and the snowmobile driver had to drive down a city street (neither ATVs nor snowmobiles are allowed on public roadways) to get to the dog park.
In addition, the dog park backs onto a residential subdivision. I’m sure the folks whose backyards face the dog park loved to hear a snowmobile ripping around … they are so conducive to a nice quiet Sunday afternoon.
There are thousands of areas very, very close to the city to go ATVing and snowmobiling. Why do some have to be idiots about it? It’s people like these two no-minds who give snowmobilers and ATV riders a bad name.
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Don’t know what you can read into it, but here are some political numbers. When NDP leader Carole James was in town for the candidate selection meetings, about 120 people attended her speech. When Premier Gordon Campbell was in town last week to attend a Liberal fundraiser, about 1,000 people attended.
And, in case you wanted more political numbers, Bill Tielman reported on his February 12 blog that internal Liberal polling puts the party nine points behind the NDP and that both Shirley Bond and Pat Bell are in trouble in the Prince George ridings.
There you go, some political numbers to chew on.