Is it just me or do these assaults seem to be happening more frequently lately?
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cbc.caPosted Mar 31, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC
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cbc.caIt might just be the new car effect. You think they're more frequent than before because you pay more attention to them.
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New car effect coupled with a massive increase in personal connectivity. Media outlets can get ahold of a story, get it verified and posted online in a matter of minutes. In the past, they might not have even gotten wind of the story of someone getting beat up downtown at the bars.
I remember back when I used to actually go down to the tannery fairly frequently, there would be people fighting or squaring off to fight, sometimes 1v1 and sometimes groups. It was such a common occurrence that no one even batted an eye.
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Yeah I definitely find downtown much tamer now than it was when I came to Fredericton (back in 2000) - you just hear more about it when something does happen.
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I think everyone is generally safe, usually the people who end up being in any altercation haven't been randomly targeted, not saying that anyone deserves any violence but most of it ain't random.
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i think brad woodside brought about a more-stable environment than i would have seen firsthand, had i grown up here
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I can just see it now.
Some punk at the bar is about to stir up trouble. "Nawww man, dun do it! Brad Woodside will getcha!"
Seriously, this is the worst cherry picking I've seen in a long time. That is such an insane leap to blame the mayor for a drunk person's activities. When I worked in bars, there was events like this 5x per month, every month, and that was during Brad Woodside's rule. This isn't new. You need to seriously look at your perspective on things. Please explain your insane logic for how Brad Woodside prevented drunk people from hitting each other.
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for sure, MindYourP'sandQ's is now working in the financial industry, watching all the child porn he ever wanted, he loves it!!
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youre dumb if you took all that out of my comment. I still know youre dumb but I understand that I did not articulate my idea, sufficiently. at the very least, BW coincided with fredericton calming down. like I said, I'm not a frederictonian in a typical sort of sense. from what I have observed, fredericton was generally seedier up to the later nineties, I remember going to a birthday party in Hanwell trailer park as a kid in like 1997 or 1998 and my group of six friends, including myself, got chased by a bored mob of young teenagers. I can tell also, from the use of the term punk that youre a dumb statist, like your name tells me youre too old to have been hip, even back then, but you remember it well with your 2's and 4's lol. when you worked in bars is probably the era I'm referring to, because from 2003 to date, or so, things appear to have generally calmed down.I can only really think of two incidents in the last years, where people people where robbed/jumped and seriously injured. I'm thinking of that guy coming back from Harvest Jazz and Blues on the northside and a guy in 2012 or so, who was found unconcious on a downtwown sidewalk in front of a church, or something. I'm not a big guy and I've never had a serious problem, walking anywhere from the douglas area through the northside and across the bridge, the uni to odell, that hanwell business was the closest I've come to it, though I know that must involve an element of luck. what I'm trying to say is that BW seemed to act to quell the city, in the way that the Northstar left, for example. I've heard stories of the reserve in the eighties, for example. I don't think the city has gotten a lot worse, per se, I think that we acclimitised ourselves to a accommodating era. so will you tell me, is it good to have been out of your mom's basement, the last ten years?
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Lol.
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Didn't read this.
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What an unformatted mess this is. What I am noticing in my brief skim is that you are consistently using your very specific personal experiences to explain this BS narrative of crime in Fredericton. If you really want to be making the argument that Brad Woodside has anything to do with this, you are going to need figures. Get the figures, study it, find the trend.
what I'm trying to say is that BW seemed to act to quell the city, in the way that the Northstar left, for example. I've heard stories of the reserve in the eighties, for example. I don't think the city has gotten a lot worse, per se, I think that we acclimitised ourselves to a accommodating era.
just think of how shitty that conclusion is...
1.) You heard stories about reserves in the 80s.
2.) You went to a birthday party in the 90s and got chased
3.) something about walking and feeling safer?
4.) the north star being removed as a symbol of Brad Woodside's ability to 'quell' crime.
BW coincided with Fredericton 'calming down'. This is your premise?
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u/blankxslate should send me his address so I can send him some burn cream.
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Just FYI Brad was mayor on and off since about the mid 80's. As someone who has lived in F'ton my whole life, I can say Brad had little to do with 'cleaning things up'. Sure laws changed a bit like minimum drink prices (in 1999) at the bars (probably the biggest effect on downtown incidents), but that was a provincial initiative. If you aren't seeing the seedier bits, you just aren't paying attention.
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The Tannery is a horrible place at 2am. Wife used to work the occasional late nights down there.
I could be wrong, since I don't end up there as often as I used to, but I remember during the Sweetwater/iRock days when there would be brawls leading into the street on a fairly regular basis. It seems like it has been an ongoing issue, but I don't know if it has worsened or improved.
It's the same thing really, hasn't changed at all. A bunch of intoxicated people forced into a small area to wait for a taxi home.
I worked there twice a week for years. Nowadays I get called when someone is sick. I used to carry a knife with me just in case. Guys would literally stop me on my bike and challenge me to fights.