This Just Doesn't Happen Here.

[Mausey]

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=news_home&articleID=1862172

We may loose a Mountie every once in awhile, but this is unheard of. No names released yet, I just hope none of them are officers that were stationed here in years past. :cry: My heart goes out to their families.

[Master Harper Andrea]

It's very sad....and it goes to show that criminal activities are pervading every aspect and corner of the world. We have had a couple of armed robberies and a shooting here recently, and we don't have that stuff much here either. But four young men....that's so senseless and sad.

Is that anywhere near you?

[jjmouse]

Such a pointless tragedy. Four young men, four familes. All of the troop will feel this loss as well. So sad.

[Keita]

Oh no! :sad:

[Shazza]

That is tragic, Mausey. :(

[B`dgyr]

:cry: :cry:
I pray for their families.
:cry: :cry:

[S'amm]

:sad: :sad: No words will come just now. :sad: :sad:

S'amm

[pammie]

Hey Mausey you beat me to it. Since I first heard the news I've afraid that someone I know might be involved. All the officers that have gone through our small community (with very few exceptions) have been really great people. A few years ago we buried our local Sargeant and his wife after they were killed in a traffic accident. Shorty before that a well liked officer who had transferred was killed in an accident returning home to his new detachment after testifying here.

My thoughts too are with the families and I'm sure that they, as their communities will miss them very much.
:ouch: :ugg: :sorry: :( :cry:

[Caerwyddyn]

How awfully sad ! :cry: :shake:

Years ago, when I was a Tupperware Manager (YES, Caerwynn was a ''Tupperware Lady'' :faint: ) I used to often see a lovely family with 7 children...
The second-eldest girl was to be Married and I did her ''Shower-Tea'' in her new home, all ready to begin her new life with her new husband, a Policeman.
She bacame pregnant and had started to arrange the ''Baby-Shower'' for a few months time...

THEN her mother rang - Her dear husband had been killed when he went to the door of a 'suspect' (of what I don't know) and was shot !
Point-Blank ! :eek:
(it was in all the newspapers...)

She had her baby quietly and still lives in THEIR home, but has never moved-on........

Loss of a life when soo much is yet to be explored is just soo Tragic !
(and such a Damn WASTE !!!)

... gets off :box: now...

:hugs:~Caer

[Faren]

Such a tragic story. :sad: My heart goes out to all their families.

[C_ris]

That is terrible! Thats the problem with guns, people just have to use them! :roll:

[Mausey]

All of the officers involved were young and fairly new to the service. One had only been on the job for 2 weeks. This was his first posting after graduation. :( The last time there was a multiple on duty death in the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) was 120 years ago, and they weren't even the RCMP then, they were the RNWMP (Royal NorthWest Mounted Police). The entire country is in shock. :cry:

[pammie]

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=ab_home&articleID=1862803

Here is the latest news on the tragedy...it is just terrible. :sad:

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=ab_home&articleID=1862439

This article demonstrates what I said previously about how much our Mounties mean to us in our little towns. :sad:

[Nurianna]

Even in the US the Mounties have an awesome reputation~ I grew up on stories of Mounties always getting their man, and one riot = one Mountie.

:group: all my best to you my friends and to the families of these lads~ :hugs:

[tmdragon]

How HORRIBLE :cry:

:mad: Stupid stupid stupid people and drugs :mad:
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

tmdragon

[wulfin]

Because of this tragedy, one of our radio stations is doing "Props for Cops" and was having everyone phone in with stories about all the good things that either city police or RCMP have done for them. i think this is wonderful, but it is so sad that it takes something like this happening to recognize people that *i* think should be commended on their work on a daily basis.

We are watching this story closely, and it is definitely very said and my heart goes out to all the families involved. Especially since one was young and had just gotten engaged and had been on the force for 2 weeks. :(

[Bobbsy]

I guess the only slightly heartening thing is that Canada...like the UK...is still a society where the death of a policeman is unusual enough that it is a major story. Four at once is horrific. My thoughts are with the families and friends of these young men.

Bobbsy

[TamTam]

:cry:

Thank you for this thread, Mausey. It's been on my mind since they broke into programming yesterday to break the story. It's a horrible, horrible thing, and more surprising that it could happen in such a small town as Mayerthorpe.

I really feel for the families of those mounties. They're in my prayers. I just wish the best for them.

[AnnMarie]

My heart goes out to the families, especially the young lady who was planning her wedding... and now won't have one.

What angers me is the person who's spouting off that this wouldn't have happened if pot was legal. Now, as it stands, I think pot has a lot of valid medicianal uses.... but from what I am seeing in these reports, if it wasn't pot with this assailant, it would have been something else. Nick Taylor using this tragedy to basically further his own agenda is a bit disgusting.

[Caerwyddyn]

Nick Taylor using this tragedy to basically further his own agenda is a bit disgusting.Naturally we don't get the indepth news here in the U.K. but...
''ANYONE using this tragedy to basically further his own agenda is a bit disgusting.
:shake:

My heart really bleeds for the families of those four young men... :heartbeat:

[C_ris]

Naturally we don't get the indepth news here in the U.K. but...
''ANYONE using this tragedy to basically further his own agenda is a bit disgusting.
:shake:

My heart really bleeds for the families of those four young men... :heartbeat:

I agree. ANYONE who uses such tragedies for their own ends is revolting.

[PsychDyke]

That did seem quite self-serving.

While I personally do think that marijuana (and other drugs) should be legal, a tragedy such as this is not the time to be forwarding your own agenda.

I agree w/ Bobbsy, at least it's still unusual in Canada to lose officers like that. It's sad that it happened this time.

Peace, Meredith Psy:fiend:

[Sassie]

I've always felt that Canada was in someways more like Britain than the USA(not that this is in anyway a go at our American cousins)
I have distant family in Canada and my Brother and his wife have been over many times as they love the country. Even He was in shock and can not believe that something like this has happened!
Prayers and thoughts to the ones left to try and carrry on.

[Kalli]

I read about that story in the news. It's really horrible that something like that can happen. My heart goes out to the families and loved ones of those dead officers. :cry: Unfortunatly it isn't the first time either, something similar happened here in Kamloops about twenty years ago. :sad:

[pammie]

Just to update all who are following this story:

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=ab_home&articleID=1868313

It was all really very touching. Every flag in our town is at half mast, our local radio station carried the service live on air. Really beautiful.

[Mausey]

Same here cewp, flags at half mast and all the tv's in the school had the service on. A couple of our mounties went to Edmonton for the service. I've never seen so much red serge in one place in my life. Too bad it wasn't for a celebration instead of something like this. :cry:

[Danae]

I'm glad there are still places in this world where four people getting killed at once is a major incident. I hate to say anything bad about my country, but Americans take for granted the people that protect them most. Police lose their lives all the time here and it is not a big thing anymore. It pains me to think that we value people's lives so little. All of my comforting thoughts go out to the families and friends of the officers. I hope they find a way to pull through this tragedy. :cry:

[TamTam]

I saw it on TV. It was so sad, but I was kind of nice to see so many people come from so far away to show that they cared. There were police from all over the country, of course. There were also cops and military people from Alaska, California, New York City, etc. Even the Queen sent a message of condolence earlier this week. It was very touching.

[S'amm]

I am ex-military (many years ago). Loosing a fellow officer is unthinkable. What the lads and ladys go through in their training, bond them in ways that the ordinary folk will never understand. My heart breaks for them.

I would like to pass on one paraphrased quote from the service which really impressed me and was originally spoken by Martin Luther King Jr.

To heal, we must force out the DARK and not dwell on it. The only way to do this is to let in the LIGHT.

It makes sense but so hard to do. I am glad our Mounties wear the red serge.

They light up the whole world where ever they go. So let the light shine on that majestic RED FLAME AND MAY IT NEVER DIM.

S'amm

[S'amm]

This says it all .....

S'amm

[Mausey]

S'amm, where did you get the picture and is it a freebie? I'd dearly love to print a copy off and give it to the local detachment. It's beautiful.

[AnnMarie]

Wow, S'amm.... that picture DOES say it all... and brought tears to my eyes.

Thanks for sharing it.

[S'amm]

S'amm, where did you get the picture and is it a freebie? I'd dearly love to print a copy off and give it to the local detachment. It's beautiful.


Got me too. If you want to pm me with your e-mail, I can send it to you because I saved it. Glad to let you have it.

S'amm

[Madrigal]

I'm saddened for two reasons. One is the loss. Obviously.

The other... here (Washington DC), if four officers died in a drug raid, it probably wouldn't get much coverage at all, much less a message of condolence from any high-ranking official. Heh. Not 'if'--things like that happen.

[Lisa Lewis]

:cry: :cry: :cry: is all that I can say :cry: :cry: :cry:

[zankoku]

I just saw this thread. and was shocked that we hadn't heard about it in the US.

It is a sad day when ANY Police Officer dies in the line of duty no matter where. They too are the soldiers who protect all of us against the criminal element.

S'amm that was agorgeous picture and does say it all.

Pray for them

Jim