OT: How Canadiens view Detroit - Red Wing article in Edmonton Sun
When an article starts like this, it just has to make your day:
"DETROIT — Welcome to Detroit, where the forecast, as always, is muggy, with a chance of murder.
When you’re trying to breathe a little life back into your year, this is not the place to visit. And not just because they use more white chalk at crime scenes than they ever did in the schools."
Wow! Thanks Robert Tychowski of the Edmonton Sun for that upbeat start.
Link: http://www.edmontonsun.com/sports/myoilers/2010/11/10/16078546.html
November 11th, 2010 at 4:02 PM ^
As a Canadian, I am disgusted. Ugh. Is that really necessary?
November 12th, 2010 at 9:19 AM ^
I've lived and worked in such "bad" cities as Flint and Detroit. Yet, where is the only place I've ever had my car stolen? A church parking lot in Windsor.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
Disneyworld is dangerous compared to Canada.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:09 PM ^
Dang, we are going to Disneyworld next month... I better be prepared.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:14 PM ^
If you look at Mickey the wrong way he and Goofy will take you out back behind the Epcot Center and stomp the shit out of you. You haven't felt pain until you've been beaten by a baseball bat while "It's A Small World" is playing in the background. I learned that one the hard way.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:35 PM ^
Yup the last time I was at Disneyland (same difference), the lady in front of us in line let her little kid drive her automatic wheelchair, lost control of it, and rammed it into a crowd of people. Moral of the story - wear helmets at all times.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:37 PM ^
Haha they're so happy at the beginning of the video.
November 12th, 2010 at 7:51 AM ^
As long as the helmets got wings!
November 11th, 2010 at 5:00 PM ^
we were in the Animal Kindgom, or whatever they call the part of the park with monkeys that smells like animal poop and fat people, posing for a character picture - 2 little kids, mom and dad, with Eeyore, Tigger and Pooh. I was in the back row and instantly noticed Eeyore taking a liking to my wife. He put his arm around her, started rubbing her shoulders, eventually the small of her back.
I couldn't belive what I was seeing. When his hand dropped to her beltline, I thunked him upside the head and said "knock it off or you're getting fired today".
It was actually pretty funny, in a "molested by character" kinda way.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:22 PM ^
good thing you got her away. Who knows what this guy was like behind closed doors.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:25 PM ^
Boy is he lucky that was you and not Taylor Lewan.
November 12th, 2010 at 8:46 AM ^
I'm not sure that "Yeah, well you're too safe" is really the counter-argument we're looking for.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:12 PM ^
Fuck that guy. It's lazier journalism than even the Freep is capable of.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:15 PM ^
who was saying that stuff about Detroit, not Canadians.
November 11th, 2010 at 9:20 PM ^
I was wondering when I looked at the title what the hell the Montreal Canadiens were doing commenting about Detroit to the Edmonton media.
As an aside, Edmonton (and the Alberta inferiority) does not speak for Canadians.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:16 PM ^
lets go to war. detroit v canada. i know who im betting on
November 11th, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^
We have unfinished beef with Toledo we need to settle first.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:30 PM ^
Nah, we're good. We pawned it off on Ohio and got the U.P. Double-victory for Michigan.
November 12th, 2010 at 7:04 AM ^
Ahh sometimes I really hate you Michiganders. ( Jealousy mostly)
November 11th, 2010 at 9:22 PM ^
Relax guy; I'm all for your humor and we're a peace loving nation (largely) but on this our Remembrance Day I will note that we're damn strong with character.
November 12th, 2010 at 1:24 PM ^
We'd better get the Baldwins into lockdown, stat.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:16 PM ^
Canadiens? Or CanadIANS? Big difference.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:19 PM ^
Way to kick a city when it's down. If it makes them feel any safer, I think Canadian visitors are largely viewed as too insignificant to be victims of violent acts.
EDIT: Oilers, 4-7-2, play the Wings tonight. So the sportswriter is trying to give the punters back in Edmonton something to feel good about before they get gashed.
November 12th, 2010 at 2:07 AM ^
I live in Port Huron, which is were ALOT of Canadians do shopping at, and I've got to say, I'm more scared of their driving than walking in Detroit.
No offense to any canadians on this board
November 12th, 2010 at 8:51 AM ^
None taken. We have some bad drivers up here. Though, Quebec is worse - Stop signs there are just a reason to take the foot off the gas for a mere second.
November 12th, 2010 at 8:44 AM ^
every once in a while a post comes a cross that brings this crap up. I am Canadian and proud of it. What this jackass wrote is beyond bullshit but the way a lot of you clowns seem to lump every Canadian into a single group when one Canadian says something stupid is every bit as ignorant as the guy writing this article.
When I think of the USA I am smart enough to know that not EVERYONE there speaks with that southern twang (NTTAWWT), not EVERYONE sounds like a New Englander, not ALL of them shoot people and finally, not all are assholes.
In fact, most of the Americans I have encountered are pretty nice people and I don't let the fact that I have encountered some assholes who happen to be from the USA (like a few commenting on this thread) spoil my opinion of Americans at large.
These types of generalizations are something I would expect out of teenagers, not adults.
November 12th, 2010 at 11:25 AM ^
That's what it is aboot.
November 17th, 2010 at 7:11 AM ^
I have it on good authority that everybody murders and steals.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^
What Detroiters think of Edmonton:
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November 11th, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^
Not helping the city's reputation.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:20 PM ^
I think the recent rape-suicide in the trailer park outside of Detroit didn't help much either.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:34 PM ^
That's childs play when compared to the craziness of this, which, of course took place in Canada.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/31/canada.bus/index.html
As one can see, every place has it's bad apples.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
I'm not defending Detroit nor Canada but there is a reason Detroit gets a bad rap. It is what? The #1 city in the nation for murders per capita?
November 11th, 2010 at 5:27 PM ^
I lived there for a while after college and had an amazing apt. on the water for next to nothing.
There are great things going on in detroit (sorry I still haven't been able to link video directly to blog)
November 12th, 2010 at 8:38 AM ^
I never said Detroit wasn't respectable but from an outsiders point-of-view, Detroit gets a bad rap because publicity for the city isn't always for the best reasons. I'm not sure why people are surpised by this stereotype that Detroit has. That's all.
November 12th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
It's not surprising that it has that stereotype. It's just that it's aggrevating that the stereotype still exists. I believe Washington DC has a higher crime rate overall but people don't constantly bash it (except for it's other criminals....approximately 536 of them anyway). I mean yes, there are parts of Detroit that I'm not about to wander around in but then there are nice parts of it.
November 13th, 2010 at 12:26 AM ^
I'm pretty sure that East St. Louis has at least twice the violent crime rate that Detroit does, actually.
November 13th, 2010 at 12:30 AM ^
Yeah:
East St. Louis has one of the highest crime rates in the United States. According to FBI's data of 2007, its murder rate hit 101.9 per population of 100,000, surpassing that of cities such as Gary, Indiana (48.3 per pop. 100,000), New Orleans, Louisiana (37.6), Baltimore, Maryland (43.3), and Detroit, Michigan (47.3), as well as that of its neighbor St. Louis (37.2). FBI data shows East St. Louis' rate of rape exceeded 250 per population of 100,000.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^
and the city's very real crime rate, I don't think the show is having a significant effect here.
November 11th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^
Detroit 187
Not helping the city's reputation.
Disagree - the show gives off the impression that the DPD actually solves murder cases.
Seriously, the city's reputation was so poor before the show that it can't really hurt it any more. At least they're filming on location, so the local economy does benefit a bit.
November 12th, 2010 at 1:18 AM ^
Actually, I don't think the image of Detroit is taking that bad of a hit from Detroit 187. There are many admirable characters on the show.
November 12th, 2010 at 9:11 AM ^
I've got to disagree. Detroit 187 is pretty darn good for the D.
Anywhere you go outside of Michigan, people think Detroit is full of nothing but gang-bangers who want to kill each other.
The show puts real, human faces on what's going on. It's a chance to talk about what the media doesn't: the people who really care about their city, and want to make it better. It's a chance to show all the beauty that Detroit once had, and all the little gems that it still has, and the potential it will always have to be great again.
Of course, bringing jobs into the city is good too. The real benefit though, is empathy (not sympathy). It's getting people to see Detroit as not just a hole in the ground and an object of derision, but as a living, breathing place full of people they know.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:33 PM ^
When you have a badass team like the Red Wings who are a Stanley Cup favorite every year, obviously peeps are going to be jealous. They will be even more jealous when Lidstrom lifts Detroit's 12th Stanley Cup over his head in June. Hopefully it's against Montreal, just so we can rub it in a bit more.
Nevertheless, I think we should invade Canada. Then we can try Crosby as a war criminal.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
When you have a badass team like the Red Wings who are a Stanley Cup favorite every year, obviously peeps are going to be jealous.
I don't think many experts, if any, consider the Red Wings Stanley Cup "favorites" this year...
November 11th, 2010 at 7:40 PM ^
info before posting.. They are #1 in the ESPN power rankings every week.. and quite a few people have favored the wings to win this year actually...