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Police beef up patrols after unconfirmed 'threat' in Toronto - CityNews Toronto

I'm going to the Eagles concert this Sunday with my wife and some friends. Hopefully these are just rumors.
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Police beef up patrols after unconfirmed 'threat' in Toronto - CityNews Toronto

I'm going to the Eagles concert this Sunday with my wife and some friends. Hopefully these are just rumors.
terroristås hate Don Henley
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terroristås hate Don Henley
No, no. I think its Don Felder they hate. He won't be there.
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No, no. I think its Don Felder they hate. He won't be there.
maybe Felder is the 'threat'
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And the Foo Fighters are at the ACC Tonight.

Apparently Wonderland is on alert as well.
Foos and 50,000 folks at Skydome tonight, not the ACC - which we all know is now the Scotiabank Arena...

City TV (as of 3pm) reported someone called in to Toronto Police warning of individuals using vans as a sidewalk weapon outside Skydome. CN Tower is right beside Skydome for non-locals.
Foos and 50,000 folks at Skydome tonight, not the ACC - which we all know is now the Scotiabank Arena...

City TV (as of 3pm) reported someone called in to Toronto Police warning of individuals using vans as a sidewalk weapon outside Skydome. CN Tower is right beside Skydome for non-locals.
I never stopped calling it the Skydome in the first place. :)
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Probably another Pr... that feels ignored or misunderstood and decided ... Fu.. them... let's blow them up or run them down...
Probably another Pr... that feels ignored or misunderstood and decided ... Fu.. them... let's blow them up or run them down...
the guy who starts threads on how to ignore people and praises the benefits is now complaining about the results of his actions.
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I was planning on taking my son to Toronto this weekend....Eaton Centre, Silver Snail, L & M, My buddy's cafe, The Distillery District, and now my wife won't let me take him down until August.

Absolute Garbage.
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Call one of her girlfriends to take her out shopping.
Then escape with your son.
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“Vehicle ramming”? Maybe a concern about one of the Indy drivers?
Didn’t they grab a gut blower today somewhere. Although he’s probably out on bail by now.
I am going downtown tomorrow night by myself. I am not going to let this wreck my night. I am going to meet up with a couple of friends in the Distillery district and then we’re going sailing on Lake Ontario on one of their friends sailboat. Should be fun.

I heard about the extra police presence downtown TO as well and the news about the ramming threat. I will not change plans because of this.
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I used to live beside the cn tower and there were higher police presence things like once a week. It just wasn't on the news.
there is one simple trick to going downtown in complete safety, regardless of the circumstances.
just dress like this guy, and no one will ever find you

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Was the nature of the possible threat ever revealed? There's no mention of it today in the news or paper, so I assume that whatever the threat was, the state of alertness has subsided. But what the hell were people supposed to be on the look-out for in the first place? Wasn't made particularly clear. That's not especially helpful in any way.

I've recounted the story before of how the folks in the apartment below us were hustled into our place by SWAT team members, telling them "Get inside! Get Inside!", without any indication of what the concern was. After 90 minutes or so of waiting, in the dark, I phoned the police station,who said they could not tell us. I asked what we were supposed to be afraid of or on the look-out for. Was it a person, or an animal? The woman at the police command center finally relented and said "It's a person", but could not relay more than that. The following morning, we learned that the person in question had held his girlfriend and girlfriend's mother hostage at knife-point for a while before running away and trying to steal my car before ducking into the bushes. He walked up to an officer at a Tim Horton's the following morning and quietly turned himself in. In the meantime, we had a helicopter buzzing the property with a search-light much of the evening.

Sometimes an announced threat is as real as portrayed, and sometimes much less than portrayed. A debrief from authorities would have been nice.
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Was the nature of the possible threat ever revealed? There's no mention of it today in the news or paper, so I assume that whatever the threat was, the state of alertness has subsided. But what the hell were people supposed to be on the look-out for in the first place? Wasn't made particularly clear. That's not especially helpful in any way.

I've recounted the story before of how the folks in the apartment below us were hustled into our place by SWAT team members, telling them "Get inside! Get Inside!", without any indication of what the concern was. After 90 minutes or so of waiting, in the dark, I phoned the police station,who said they could not tell us. I asked what we were supposed to be afraid of or on the look-out for. Was it a person, or an animal? The woman at the police command center finally relented and said "It's a person", but could not relay more than that. The following morning, we learned that the person in question had held his girlfriend and girlfriend's mother hostage at knife-point for a while before running away and trying to steal my car before ducking into the bushes. He walked up to an officer at a Tim Horton's the following morning and quietly turned himself in. In the meantime, we had a helicopter buzzing the property with a search-light much of the evening.

Sometimes an announced threat is as real as portrayed, and sometimes much less than portrayed. A debrief from authorities would have been nice.
Possible van ramming
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