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October 01, 2005
Mounties pay Svend Robinson $10,000 for what?
Vancouver, BC (AP) - Disturbing news on the home front today as we learn that the Mounties paid Svend Robinson $10,000 for pain and suffering after he was apparently hit by a rubber bullet while participating in a riot, in Quebec, during the 2001 free trade summit.
Pain and suffering?!?!?! It was a god damned misunderstanding or just plain stupidity that got BC’s favorite back door bang buddy in trouble this time and I don’t think the taxpayer should foot the bill for one man’s sexual fantasies gone bad.
Here’s how it played out: Svend was doing some reading and found rubber bullets accurately described as: “….8 to 9 inch pliable cylindrical rounds that are fired from special rifles.”
So there was Svend, in the middle of the crowd below, running around calling himself ‘Ben Dover’ and taunting any officer he could while yelling, “ME!! Shoot me you bitch!!” and then grabbing his ankles providing a target of convenience.
Turns out they did shoot him, but they shot him in the leg. His calf was cut and his pants were torn. As if that hasn’t happened to him before.
And THAT I think, is the crux of this issue. It’s not that he WAS shot, it’s that he wasn’t shot where he wanted it and so he felt put down and humiliated, ergo, the pain and suffering. Seen below explaining his anguish to someone described only as a ‘friend with benefits’ Svend broke down.
“Wasn’t my ass good enough for them? I go on the damned stair climber 30 minutes a day for god’s sake. I even have it waxed!! So what was wrong with my ass? That’s all I want to know. They made me feel so completely not beautiful. I’m just a mess. I can’t do my job and I just sit around crying, eating chocolates and watching ‘Cabaret’ over and over again.”
Well, boo-fucking-hoo. I’m a taxpayer and just because Svend didn’t get a rocket propelled dildo up his ass, I don’t think that we should foot the bill. Pain and suffering. Yeah right.
And for the record, earlier reports that the RCMP Commissioner’s office had described the incident as, “The most fun we’ve ever had with $10,000.00” have yet to be substantiated.
~ AP
Posted by Anonymous Pundit at October 1, 2005 09:33 AM