Colby Cosh: No thief, no cops, no lawyers, no problem

Colby Cosh: No thief, no cops, no lawyers, no problem - 04/03/09:

So pay attention, thieves: Only in Alberta are homeowners armed, and ready to shoot straight. Only in Alberta will you find a whole community closing in on you if you try to steal the equipment of a family business. Only in Alberta are we not content to sit quietly and wait for the police to arrive and copy serial numbers. You are much safer plying your trade elsewhere. Preferably in one of those places where the nice people would think it barbaric to shoot you.

This is not vigilantism, though some semi-literate reporters have reserved desk space in Hell by using that term. A vigilante would have fed a thief to the pigs, or dressed him in chains and cinder blocks and taken him for a swim in Buffalo Lake. No cops, no lawyers, no problem