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'An unfortunate waste of resources': Ontario woman facing criminal charge following water gun incident
  • I had ChatGPT make a press release for them to help make the streets of Norfolk County safer:

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    September 12, 2024

    Ontario Provincial Police Norfolk Detachment Launches Water Toy Amnesty Program

    Norfolk County, ON– The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Norfolk Detachment is pleased to announce a Water Toy Amnesty Program, scheduled for Saturday, September 28, 2024. This one-day event offers members of the public an opportunity to safely and responsibly dispose of unused or unwanted water-related toys and equipment with no questions asked.

    The program will run from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Norfolk County OPP Detachment, located at 548 Queensway West, Simcoe, ON, N3Y 4K2.

    Items Accepted

    The Water Toy Amnesty Program is designed to reduce the number of potentially hazardous or harmful water toys that can be found in our community. The following items can be dropped off:

    • Water guns
    • Inflatable rafts, tubes, and floaties
    • Snow balls
    • Stand-up paddleboards
    • Garden and children’s sprinklers
    • Kayaks, canoes, motor boats, yachts, ferries, and freighters
    • Bath toys
    • Snorkel gear and water wings
    • Water slides
    • Pool toys, beach balls, and floating chairs
    • Garden Hoses
    • Life jackets and personal flotation devices (PFDs)
    • Water balloons
    • Water skis and wakeboards
    • Splash Pads, water parks, wave pools, and lazy rivers
    • Any other water-related equipment

    No questions will be asked, and there are no penalties for participating. All items collected will be recycled or disposed of responsibly.

    Why Participate?

    Water toys represent a serious threat to the safety of Canadians. By participating in the Water Toy Amnesty Program, residents can contribute to safer community environments in Norfolk County.

    For More Information

    For further details on the Water Toy Amnesty Program, please contact the OPP Norfolk Detachment at:

    Phone: (519) 426-3434

    Email: [email protected]

    Address: 548 Queensway West, Simcoe, ON, N3Y 4K2

    Join us in this community effort to ensure our local waterways remain safe and enjoyable for everyone. We encourage residents to take advantage of this free opportunity and help protect the environment.

    Media Contact

    Sergeant Wasser Eau

    Ontario Provincial Police – Norfolk Detachment

    Phone: (519) 426-3434

    Email: [email protected]

    Ontario Provincial Police Norfolk Detachment

    548 Queensway West, Simcoe, ON, N3Y 4K2

    (519) 426-3434 | [email protected]

  • 'An unfortunate waste of resources': Ontario woman facing criminal charge following water gun incident
  • Complete and utter garbage. The police in Canada are truly a place where the corrupt and incompetent go to prosper. I live a hop skip and a jump from where this incident occurred.

    Shit I've been through where charges weren't brought. A person in Barrie (while I was stopped there to charge the car) pulled a knife on me and said he cut me. A person in the town here via SMS said they would fuck me up. As a child, the father of the kid who stole my brother's backpack threw a rock the size of a golf ball at me and hit me in the leg (the cop who investigated I learned was a friend of the child abuser and played in the same hockey league with him).

    Please tell me someone is organizing a protest of some sort at this OPP office. Maybe we can organize a water toy amnesty program at this office.

  • Opinion: Ottawa needs to abolish the temporary foreign worker program
  • I think this reply may be a part of the problem with this debate. It assumes that the participants in the program are agricultural workers. This is traditionally true, but under the current program agriculture workers only represent 60%.

    An estimated 15% work in food service, with another 10% in the broader hospitality sector. 5-10% work in construction.

  • Setting UDM Pro to a non-default network
  • UniFi on the UDM is a little archaic with how it uses its default VLAN. I really hope they get to improving this soon.

    Zachariah’s link to lazyadmin.nl is a good resource.

    Note that IP addresses and subnets are not the same thing, and I think your original post conflates them somewhat.

  • Jagmeet Singh abandoned the ‘online left’— and it's catching up to him and his party
  • This right here. There is an appetite for a real party with actual progressive policies. But I guess we'll have to go with Liberal light.

  • Jagmeet Singh abandoned the ‘online left’— and it's catching up to him and his party
  • The party used to have a large and engaged progressive contingent involved in its governance. Most of those people have been driven away or have been banned as members. The NDP is not interested in good governance, they are interested in having a very small elite that controls every single thing about the part, the ridings, and its members and has ZERO tolerance for anyone who wants to do anything that isn't following the orders of the that elite.

    So yeah, the NDP doesn't deserve good governance because that is not what the party wants.

  • Jagmeet Singh abandoned the ‘online left’— and it's catching up to him and his party
  • With anti-democracy Lucy Watson being made national director, the party will be more and more like the Liberals from a policy standpoint. So I guess voting Liberal just skips the middle man?

    If the party actually allowed itself to be ruled by its grassroots, then maybe things would be different, but it is fervently opposed to being accountable to its members - and largely even their own bylaws.

  • Do y'all have any music or playlists you find particularly helpful when trying get work tasks done? (The computer kind of work)
  • This right here. I don’t know why, but Telemann got me through university… well, Telemann and Dexedrine.

  • Siri getting dumber lately?
  • Man, it seems like she is getting more useless by the day. It’s really sad how much the development of Siri has been left to flounder since its introduction.

  • Premier Ford says he's 'not sold' on supervised consumption sites
  • This is very true. None of his monied interest “friends” have sold him the idea yet. Now maybe if the consumption site had some fancy spa and and a parking lot under Lake Ontario, that would get us a site in no time.

  • Toronto cops are parking illegally everywhere with impunity so they can get coffee
  • I mean they murder and assault innocent civilians and face next to zero accountability for that, so I wouldn’t expect them to walk park appropriately and actually walk to get their doughnuts.

  • The single most thing that improved your ADHD?
  • That is awful. I hope you can find relief somewhere.

    I’ve been lucky and the drugs are a godsend for me, despite having the gene that makes me hyper metabolize stimulants (which basically means they don’t last long enough in my system).

    It is seriously under-appreciated how awful this disorder is in the modern world - especially if you are not of the wealthier classes.

  • White and pink noise show promise in enhancing attention in those with ADHD
  • Am I reading this right, 12 studies, all of which have a really modest number of participants, showing a fairly small benefit?

  • Ontario police officer shot colleague 10 times in violent dispute in 2018. Both walk away conviction free
  • There’s the special justice system for the police, then the one the rest of us get.

  • Sheldon's No Frills owner threatening to take away water from cashiers
  • I think the owner thought that Loblaws has had too much good press and wanted to level it out a little with some arbitrary and foolish manager bullshit.

  • Very happy sumo wrestlers playing with puppies
  • Why are their hands made of puppies?

  • Help us rank the worst of Pierre Poilievre's record.
  • Yeah, you never see the Cons trying that sort of thing! Disgusting libs using what a politician actually says and does against them - presposterous!

  • Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?
  • Does no one see the irony of a negative post complaining about negativity?

  • Car Tracking Can Enable Domestic Abuse. Turning It Off Is Easier Said Than Done
  • This is a serious problem, I think we need to ban cars ASAP!

  • Elegoo Neptune 4 Max Tool Holder

    Anyone know where the tool holder that comes on the USB drive with the Elegoo Neptune 4 Max is supposed to mount on the printer?

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