Tuesday, September 04, 2007

More than a little unsettling

This happened a wee bit too close to home for my liking:

Five Bodies Found in Home in Oak Bay, BC* (CBC News)

*P.S. Note to the CBC: since when is Oak Bay a "seaside village"? I'll grant you that it's by the ocean. As is the rest of this city. But they're calling themselves a "municipality" now, because they're part of this city. One of the wealthiest parts of the city, in fact. Please stop confusing us with Vancouver, where they're all "I'm not in Vancouver, I'm in Surrey!" In Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, and Esquimalt are all part of the city. If you write "Victoria" on our letters, they arrive at our houses. For the first while, I didn't even know that I actually lived in Saanich instead of Oak Bay, because it's only a difference of a single block. In fact, Saanich police were called to that crime scene, because they're all the same. Because we're all coming to admit that we're all one city. (Next step: admitting that we're a big city with big city traffic, and that we need to adapt to that. The step after that is admitting that we get snow for at least a week every year and ought to own a snow plow, but that requires admitting that climate change is severely affecting our city.)

Added later in the afternoon: Now the updated news item has added in references to the murders as happening in Victoria, and have referred to Oak Bay as "a Victoria community." The words "seaside village" have remained, however.

Update moments later: I turns out that the reporter must been using Oak Bay's Tourism site, which has the tagline "Victoria's Seaside Village."

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