Have A Safe & Scary Night!

Reporting from Off Scene

Well, as the Halloween season creeps and crawls into our lives, many stores are selling out with decorations, and party favors.

I am quite the fan of Halloween!  I choose to escape my busy and demanding schedule, throw my stern fatherhood/parenting aside for one evening and just have some harmless fun.  I am not out sacrificing animals or my fellow humans. I am not out vandalizing property, etc. either.

I choose to celebrate the lighter side of the eventful night as I try and put a more positive spin on Halloween. Halloween is a scary way to make and have fun. Today's kids have the option to wear funny costumes from movies.  Kids wear Batman's costumes and many other different comic heroes. None the less, kids young and old love to wear costumes and run from door to door and collect candies and there is nothing wrong with this in my opinion.  I guess, being that I am a responsible citizen and I would never harm another person with razor blades in apples... bad candy... I always take my kid(s) out, supervise them on their stroll and always check their stash of candy before they chow down.

To me and my crew/friends, Halloween is about community, sharing and being neighbourly. I have met families I might not of in my neighbourhood by opening up my door and sharing a treat on this night.  Seriously, what other night of the year do we share with complete strangers right from our own doorstep?  If anything, Halloween is a time of fellowship with our neighbours.  Halloween is a time that children get to be whoever they want to be, with joy, fun and silliness.  Halloween is a time for parents to escape from the constraints of a stressful world and be like children again themselves.  I know I do!!!  Halloween to me is not about standing in a fight against good and evil, it's about generosity, kindness and giving.

The origins of the holiday really do not matter to me, so don't bother telling them to me.  The way I see things, if the devil is expecting worship then he must be very disappointed in the generosity, fun, kindness and giving that have evolved around the day instead.  Besides, when Jesus said, "It is finished," I believe he meant it.  The truth to me is that most people including some Christians have nothing to fear on this day or any other day. God is God and his promises are always kept. So yes... I personally have no problem celebrating Halloween, but I do respect those who make the choice not to.

For those of you who do not celebrate this event... enjoy a wonderful Autumn night!

For those of you who do celebrate Halloween..... have yourself one spooky and safe evening!

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I Get Paid - To Break Into Cars

Reporting From On Scene
Incident:  B & E

Nice lady has an infant and a toddler, along with a buggy full of groceries from Walmart. She secures the infant's car seat into the back, and puts the groceries in the car. For whatever reason, lays her purse and car keys on the driver’s seat. The inevitable happened and her infant was locked in. (Toddler shuts the door.)  Thankfully it wasn’t blistering hot outside or like one of our typical -37C winter days.

We used the break-in kit (officially called a lock-out kit) to start working on the door. If you’ve never seen one of these things, it has a small plastic wedge, an inflatable bladder, and a long rod that is also bendable.

To make a boring story shorter, We used the wedge to pry the top part of the door away from the frame enough so I could shove the bladder in along the back edge of the door and inflate it. We then stuck the rod in through the gap and hooked the lock, unlocking the door.


The baby was still sleeping. No damage to the car, not even a scratch.

Mom did make the comment about buying one of the kits and keeping it in her trunk. I managed to bite my tongue, but I wanted to ask her how she planned to get it out of the trunk if her keys were locked in the car. It’s a great thought, but not quite planned well enough.

This is why my keys stay on a carabiner attached to my belt loop. I’ve never once locked them in the car since I started doing that.

All in a day's shift!

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Engineer aka: Chauffeur      
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