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At the end of the year, thieves and robbers are fighting for KPIs, and theft crimes have surged in Canada in recent weeks, and the Chinese Quarter has also fallen. On Christmas Day, there was such an exaggerated scene on the overhead train in Metro Vancouver -- a man dragged 34 winter coats that he had snatched (stolen) from nowhere, and slowly walked into the carriage. According to the Vancouver police, at around 5 p.m. on December 25, a staff member at the Joyce-Collingwood Skytrain Station saw a man "carrying" a row of winter clothes on the train, and immediately called the police.
Police then rushed to the carriage and found the 35-year-old man. It is better to say that it is found, it is better to find that this person is dragging a whole row of cars on hangers, and it is difficult to see it.
This person is also an "acquaintance" of the police, a homeless man, who was also wearing 2 coats at the time of arrest, adding up to 34 coats, with a total value of more than 6,100 knives. Seeing this scene, I guess the police are speechless...
At present, the person has been released, and the police have not filed a complaint at this time, but further investigation is underway, and the charges of illegal possession and trespassing are being prepared to be brought against him. Police initially suspect that the man stole the coats from Metrotown and are currently actively verifying. Recently, there have been a series of cases of theft and robbery of commercial houses in the Greater Vancouver area. Just last night, armed robbery broke out in the Kingsway and 9th Avenue areas of Burnaby, and the police rushed to the scene after receiving the report and evacuated the surrounding businesses urgently!
In their latest statement today, Burnaby police said they "entered the building and confirmed that the suspect had fled the scene and no one was injured." "Because of this commotion, this area was once cordoned off by the police, and the evidence investigation and robbery investigation department have taken over the case. Not only in the Greater Vancouver area, but on Christmas Eve, a store in the Chinese district of Ontario was stolen, and some people organized a group to "buy" a whole truck for zero yuan, which made the local residents dumbfounded and shouted: What is wrong with this society? According to media reports in the east, the crime occurred in a busy area of a Chinese district in Markham, where two adult men and a teenager formed a "theft group" and broke into the store to loot. Photos from the scene show that their goal is clear, which is daily groceries. The rear seats and rear compartments are filled with canned and frozen food, cooking oil, and beverages.
At the forum, Canadians were shocked and lamented the current society - "When people are reduced to the point where they need to steal food to eat, it means that there is something wrong with this society." "I don't know if they're too hungry, but don't steal from other people, go to the food bank." "Of course, it's one thing for the world to be bad, but it's also true that there is a spike in thefts and robberies every year towards the end of the year.
Not to mention Christmas Day, at the end of November, everyone has already begun to prepare for performance.
In the eyes of North American thieves, Canada goose is definitely a "big fat meat".
On November 29, the Washington, D.C. police issued the latest warning - in the past 48 hours, there have been three consecutive robberies of "Canada geese"!
Similar cases continue to happen, and it is impossible to prevent them, and the police can only warn everyone helplessly: you can wear an Apple AirTags tracker on your down jacket when you go out, so that you can retrieve it later.
I know that Canada goose is popular, but the robberies in recent years are really more exaggerated than the other, as if in the eyes of the robbers, this is not a cold coat, but a walking banknote...
The police said that this robbery gang has a total of 3 people, and the characteristic is that they do not rob wallets and jewelry, but focus on Canada geese!
One victim said. She was walking down the road in her coat when she heard someone compliment her and say, "Your goose is beautiful", only to realize that they were trying to rob it the next second.
In a panic, she threw the hot coffee out of her hand and ran away while the robbers were distracted. Looking back now, she still broke out in a cold sweat, "I have never been so tired from running in my life."
According to local police statistics, the three "Canada Goose thieves" succeeded three times in a short period of time, and each time the "Canada Goose" down jacket was worth more than $1,000.
There have even been cases of students being assaulted while walking on their way to school, when the three men pulled up next to him in a car and demanded that he hand over his "Canada Goose" down jacket.
The student refused, and ended up being beaten to the ground and eventually snatched his coat.
Canada's well-known brand "Canada Goose" thin and light model is priced at about 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, and the classic model costs tens of thousands of yuan, which has become the target of theft and robbery in recent years.
It's just that I didn't expect that this year's west coast of Canada ushered in a warm winter, and everyone didn't have time to put it on, and the "Canada goose" theft case came again...
Anyway, it's the end of the year, Christmas has passed and there is a New Year's Eve, and there is a Spring Festival later, all of which are New Year's Holidays.