This is just a reassurance that once you move in, you can shoot rats if your property should become infested. It's a sign of community commitment to sanitation.
The Canadian border guard enjoy comfortable staff facilities including swimming pools and gazebos. Trouble is ... United States citizens have heard about the great lifestyle in Canada and have to be shot as they try and cross the border - I guess it's a bit like the US and Mexicans.
February 27, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Anonymous said...
Wow! Sounds like a great place to live! The people are SO friendly! LOL
Mid-C Frank: a "ranch" in Canada is a very, very large one-story house - 3,000 square feet and up. (And yes, 3,000 square feet is a very large house in Canada. You try heating one of those behemoth McMansions you see in the States when it's thirty below - and try paying the gas bill too.)
A "bungalow" is a one-story house smaller than a ranch. The crazy American idea that a bungalow can have two stories has never infected us.
They’re simply concerned with the possibility that they’ll be hit with the old “Keep neighborhood children from jumping the fence to use the pool” clause delaying closing. No neighbor kids in that pool, no way. Well, alive one anyway.
February 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Anonymous said...
Handguns are illegal here in Canada, but registered hunting rifles are allowed. Maybe he is hunting the neighbours?
I think they are shooting squirrels...and maybe gophers too. After all with this bad economy, a little backyard hunting can really help with the grocery budget.
Either a squirrel has gotten into that man's birdfeeder, or the neighbors dog has, yet again, defecated on his lawn and he's getting his revenge.... what can I say... we don't have much for entertainment here in Canada.
February 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM
Anonymous said...
I say if they're plucking off the goose population before the land in the pool, more power to them.
February 28, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Anonymous said...
I had to look it up to make sure it was not my neighbour. Thank goodness he is hours from me.
they back onto farmland, they're obviously hunting moose. the moose are everywhere here. you can chug your beer next to the poor and pick off dinner at the same time
The Irony of course is that Guns are much harder to get a hold of for us Canadians. As well it is illegal to a) fire a gun in a city and b) fire a gun within 30 meters (98 feet) of a building. That or I'm confused and it's 30 feet but either way they are clearly breaking laws.
Also we Canadians get the luxury of spelling words like neighbor however we like :D I can add random letters :P
March 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM
[Image] Jess found this listing. Ah, so wholesome: just two people out in the gazebo. Two people enjoying a summer day... two people armed with guns, aiming out at the neighbors (or neighbours, since they're Canadian).
Really. That's what I see. Am I wrong? And if I'm right, is that Hurley? If I'm wrong, then what are they doing -- shooting lost explorers with blow darts?
""Serene small town living""
19 Comments -
This is just a reassurance that once you move in, you can shoot rats if your property should become infested. It's a sign of community commitment to sanitation.
February 27, 2009 at 6:25 AM
The Canadian border guard enjoy comfortable staff facilities including swimming pools and gazebos.
Trouble is ... United States citizens have heard about the great lifestyle in Canada and have to be shot as they try and cross the border - I guess it's a bit like the US and Mexicans.
February 27, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Wow! Sounds like a great place to live! The people are SO friendly! LOL
February 27, 2009 at 7:13 AM
I learned something new: Our Canadian neighbours spell ranch: "bungalow" !
But glad to see their small towns are peace-loving, and armed, like ours.
February 27, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Boy do they have extreme weather there - snow in the front yard, blue sky and fresh pool in the backyard!
February 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Obviously, they are trying to shoot an unruly pool net. DUH.
February 27, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Mid-C Frank: a "ranch" in Canada is a very, very large one-story house - 3,000 square feet and up. (And yes, 3,000 square feet is a very large house in Canada. You try heating one of those behemoth McMansions you see in the States when it's thirty below - and try paying the gas bill too.)
A "bungalow" is a one-story house smaller than a ranch. The crazy American idea that a bungalow can have two stories has never infected us.
February 27, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Well, the thing is, you're gonna be safe in this neighborhood. And since these are the guys moving out, you will be safe from them as well.
February 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Doot, doot, doot, hunting out mah back door!!!
(sung to the tune of CCR's Looking OUt My Backdoor)
February 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM
They’re simply concerned with the possibility that they’ll be hit with the old
“Keep neighborhood children from jumping the fence to use the pool” clause delaying closing. No neighbor kids in that pool, no way. Well, alive one anyway.
February 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Handguns are illegal here in Canada, but registered hunting rifles are allowed. Maybe he is hunting the neighbours?
February 27, 2009 at 2:06 PM
I think they are shooting squirrels...and maybe gophers too. After all with this bad economy, a little backyard hunting can really help with the grocery budget.
February 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Sing it with me!
"Skeet surfing..."
LOL!
February 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Major props for the Lost reference. Everyone knows not to move into The Others' Hood. Buwahahaha!
February 27, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Either a squirrel has gotten into that man's birdfeeder, or the neighbors dog has, yet again, defecated on his lawn and he's getting his revenge.... what can I say... we don't have much for entertainment here in Canada.
February 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM
I say if they're plucking off the goose population before the land in the pool, more power to them.
February 28, 2009 at 8:28 AM
I had to look it up to make sure it was not my neighbour. Thank goodness he is hours from me.
Donna
February 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM
they back onto farmland, they're obviously hunting moose. the moose are everywhere here. you can chug your beer next to the poor and pick off dinner at the same time
March 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM
The Irony of course is that Guns are much harder to get a hold of for us Canadians. As well it is illegal to a) fire a gun in a city and b) fire a gun within 30 meters (98 feet) of a building. That or I'm confused and it's 30 feet but either way they are clearly breaking laws.
Also we Canadians get the luxury of spelling words like neighbor however we like :D I can add random letters :P
March 19, 2009 at 9:35 PM