Quebec Is The “Hold My Beer” Capital Of The World. Jesus.
Source: The case of a woman who received two tickets and was arrested because she didn’t hold an escalator handrail in a Laval métro station is going to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The case stems from an incident on May 13, 2009, when the appellant, Bela Kosoian, was stopped by a Laval police officer at the Montmorency station because she wasn’t respecting a pictogram instructing riders to hold the railing of the escalator.
Kosoian argued that the pictogram with the word “attention” was not, in her view, an obligation, and did not hold the handrail as the looked in her bag for money to buy transit tickets. Laval police said at the time that she received three separate warnings, refusing each time. The situation degenerated after she refused to identify herself, “because I did not do anything wrong,” she said. She was forcibly arrested by the officer and another who arrived as backup, according to court documents.
Police kept her detained for about half an hour before releasing her with two tickets — $100 for having disobeyed a pictogram and $320 for having obstructed the work of an officer.
Quebec might as well be on an island instead of smack dab in the middle of Canada.
Honest to Christ. Last week I read a story about the head of elections getting catfished into handing over her password to some hacker, this week the by law police are forcibly arresting old women for refusing to hold onto the disease-ridden handrail on a public escalator.
In Quebec, they have an entire police force dedicated to making sure your business sign is in French first or French only. Seriously.
While the rest of the world burns in a period of inimical laws and regulations, Quebec screams ‘hold my beer’ again and we mock them with their own news. Now Canada’s highest court gets to decide if old ladies have the freedom to refuse to get hand foot and mouth disease.
Good deal. Thanks, Quebec. You’re the sad case next door that makes us feel like things ain’t so bad.
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