Guns and Noses

Link to TV coverage http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/70707--huge-arsenal-of-guns-seized-from-downtown-apartment

Huge drama this week as the local armed Police response team staked out our building after a raid on a gun collector's apartment. Mac and I arrived back from a very freezing walk at Cherry Beach Monday morning to find our grounds bristling with cops.

Interviewed by the obligatory tall dark and handsome constable I was able to offer that we had in fact seen a suspicious character lurking extra late Saturday night where he shouldn’t, but we are so used to the shady behaviour of the down and outers, pimps, prossies and homeless that populate our downtown area that after remarking on seeing someone we promptly forgot all about it. Happy to report we did not stick our noses into that one!

We now know that a mere two floors above us hoarded in two locked bedrooms was a cache of arms. Even Pip was shocked when the cops rolled out trolleys loaded with Kalashnikovs and glocks and god knows what else. I’ll attach a link to the local tv coverage. Sent chills through me at first, replaced by anger that our super, the doughty Marie, allowed this stockpile of frightening weapons to be stored in our building. Not a place you expect this kind of stuff to go down.

No word yet on how they got in or out of our supposedly safe building!! We hope the videos from the door and hall surveillance will reveal that riddle.

We were a 24 hour wonder with news crews and when interviewed I sensibly kept mum about the inside goss I’d gleaned from chats with other tenants. I’ll share with you though. The collection belonged to an aged lawyer, whose office had been next door, he’d moved the collection in over a year ago, he's ill and currently lives elsewhere. The guns were not stored in secure lockers and although the bolts appeared to be removed from those we saw taken by the police we have no idea about the ones that got away! Just that they were handguns!!

Add to all that the first real snowstorm of the winter our 75 year old super Marie is set to have a heart attack.

We manage to continue life happily though admit to being rather disappointed at the warm temps and lack of real snow depth this winter.