About Me
- DonW
- I used to be a P.I., so my camera work came to me with no problem. I photograph people and things mostly street situations.I am all over the map with my photos.Things that are old in appearance with some history attached would be something that I would stop for and photograph. All blogs (c)CopyrightDonW2007
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Last Friday was a disasterous day in our area. The first photo is of a highrise residential building where on the top floor six men were found dead (executed). Four of the dead had long records involving drugs. The other two were innocent victims, one being a gas repairman working on the fireplace and these creeps killed him as well as a resident who lived across from their suite and just happened upon the scene. We are supposed to get a new CRIME BILL soon and I hope this incident will help it along. We have a "catch and release" system here and I don't mean fishing.
Second photo - A twin engine aircraft crashed into the upper floor of this apartment. It is still in their at the time I took this photo. The pilot was killed and two residents were injured but will survive.It was a miracle that the aviation fuel did not burn otherwise things would have been very bad. I belong to our Mobile Support Group and we had the job of re-locating l70 people and it is expected to be a month until they will be able return.
CORRECTION - First photo is of the aircraft incident, second is the murder scene.
I saw this on the news and of course thought "I wonder if Don went to the scene to take pictures?!" Terrible about the murder too; I read about it on CBC Vancouver.
Scary! The aircraft incident is presumably a fluke, but drug-related killings are just too common now over here as well. We get too many shootings of young people by young people, too, with some "collateral damage". A few weeks ago a young Polish woman involved in caring for the elderly was shot dead by a stray shot in a gun battle between two teens. It was just a couple of miles from here.
See Val? Gun control doesn't work in England either.
It does,JoJo - without it there would be shootouts everywhere all the time. I never even think about people having guns, never even seen one.
Don, is it coincidence the blocks of flats are painted the same colour? Did the city authorities have a lot of that shade at a knock-down price? (Can't imagine any other reason to choose it.) I thought before I read your comment that the two blocks were one, and couldn't work out where the hole was in the distant shot!
Interesting observation Val on the appearance of the buildings but they are many miles apart which makes it a little eerie considering both were scenes of violent deaths on the same day.
About the pilot JoJo, he was a WW11 vet with many hours of flying. Had a few minor accidents over the last number of years in his aircraft.Spoke to a pilot friend who thinks it might have been a medical problem. They have to have regular medicals at the age of 82 but the results of the autopsy are not known yet.
when I first saw the photos, I thought it was a before and after scenario. Weird, huh?
there are always reminders around us that life spins on a dime and nothing is certain except this moment (and sometimes I wonder about that!)
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