RCMP getting paid to snowboard in Alberta....

[KodiaK]

... to catch weed smokers.

Canada's War on Pot Just Got Weirder

damn don't he look fabulous going down the slopes?

What a cush ass gig. Also, what an out of touch police service the RCMP are for actually doing this.

The officers, who are in uniform and carrying weapons, are focusing their attention on substance abuse on the chairlifts and gondolas.

“It’s going to deter people from bringing narcotics or have that second look of doing something on the ski hill because they know there is going to be a police presence,” said RCMP Cpl. Jeff Campbell, the detachment commander in Lake Louise. (…)

Two officers will be on patrol Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays as well as holidays including March break and Easter weekend. RCMP hope to expand the program once they have more officers certified.”

 

[ndrwrld]

they're gonna totally racial profile Normurai !

 

[the_fornicator]

What a kush ass gig

Fixed.

 

[IgStar]

Fixed.

yes guy

 

[SneakyPete]

Can he fire a weapon while doing tricks on the half pipe?

 

[KodiaK]

can he fire a weapon while doing tricks on the half pipe?

omg a glock 720 tail grab!!!!!!!! He even tac reloaded before he stomped it!!!!!!!!!! Woooow!!!

Dat was off the chain!!!!!

 

[acheron]

is this how they're going to nail that dope dealing Ross Rabagliatiwhatsit for good?

 

[praktik]

Canada's drug policy, firmly looking backwards - not forwards...

Can't wait for the upper shelf generations to just go ahead and move onto the next realm, demography and time are on the pot smoker's side...

 

[Sal De Ban]

makes sensi to me.

 

[sheik rock]

I have a feeling I could outrun most cops on a snowboard.

I actually saw a cop on skis at Big White a few years ago. I just missed clipping him when I came flying out of the trees like an asshole. He probably would have been better going after me for that then wasting time bothering pot heads.

 

[loopdokter]

I'm not involved with skiing/snowboarding culture, but I would assume that dope smokers would be pretty easy to catch because they'd be caught getting high under a tree on the slopes, instead of going down it?

 

[sheik rock]

Most people smoke on the chair lift or dip out of bounds. They should set up a sting for board and ski thieves, I could get behind that.

 

[glych t.anomaly]

I know right ! Board and Ski thieves are way fucking worse the potheads that ride and enjoy cruising.

 

[acheron]

well perhaps these boarding pigs will sniff out some board thieves by accident...

'ello 'ello wotsallthisthen

 

[solacevip]

We will have to see what Ross Rebagliati has to say about THIS!

 

[el presidente Highsteppa]

The Due South and Point Break Hybrid we've all demanded has arrived, much like the Liger.

 

[nuttz]

"While the RCMP ski patrol is a volunteer program,"

It's a volunteer job. I don't know why anyone would volunteer to wear that uniform hahahah

 

[Hi i'm God]

When police say volunteer there is usually a time and a half component to it. Just like suspended with pay.

 

[SJN]

Years ago when Pierre Trudeau was the PM, his kids went to camp on the lake where my cottage is. There was an RCMP protection detail that spent the summer sitting on a boat in the middle of the lake suntanning. Always thought that would have been a pretty sweet gig.

 

[Bumbaclat]

I've lost track of the number of times I've gotten on a recently hot boxed gondola in BC. So they aren't wrong in that respect. Still a waste of time though.