Man Banned Indefinitely

[ferryrider42]

Man barred from ferries after issuing bomb threat
Cindy E. Harnett, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, August 16, 2007

A Nanaimo man who threatened to send a letter bomb to B.C. Ferries has been banned indefinitely from travelling on the fleet, Ferries spokesman Mark Stefanson said Wednesday night.

"He was unruly and belligerent and said he'd send a letter bomb to B.C. Ferries," Stefanson said. "We have a zero tolerance policy. He has been banned from travelling on B.C. Ferries' indefinitely."

The incident happened Aug. 10 when the man, expecting to drive on to the 8:15 p.m. sailing from Tsawwassen to Duke Point in Nanaimo, got into an argument with a ticket agent over the busy state of the terminal and poor service.

B.C. Ferries' security and Delta Police were notified. The man was arrested and detained overnight. His car was towed.

On July 28, another bomb threat was made against B.C. Ferries that halted ferry traffic for five hours and delayed thousands of passengers. Delta police ordered a forensic analysis of the tape containing the telephoned bomb threat.

www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=adb70f93-d84f-4055-b21d-6e24dd3875f4&k=90615

[Koastal Karl]

It is interesting how it was the same route as the previous bomb threat. Tsa to Duke for a Queen of New West sailing. People are such idiots sometimes. He should be locked up forever! That will fix him!

[Curtis]

I'm surprised his sentence wasn't much worse. I feel as though he got off easy.

This remind you of an Incident in 2005??

[Mac Write]

I think it's overkill. since allot people in arguments say stuff they don't mean. What's next ban everyone who causes a scene? like yelling because they were told you had reservations then BCF cancels your reservations when you get there? Or disabled people who as part of there disability have trouble/can't control what they do say?

[Balfour]

macwrite said:

I think it's overkill. since allot people in arguments say stuff they don't mean. What's next ban everyone who causes a scene? like yelling because they were told you had reservations then BCF cancels your reservations when you get there? Or disabled people who as part of there disability have trouble/can't control what they do say?

It's not overkill. Any threat like that needs to be taken seriously and that includes those who are mentally challenged because they need to learn to control that sort of thing and besides, there are programs out there that help people like that.

Now, the article is vague on specifics, but any behaviour that's unruly and belligerent would definitely warrant having security or the police called.

[kylefossett]

prqueenkid16 said:

I'm surprised his sentence wasn't much worse. I feel as though he got off easy.

This remind you of an Incident in 2005??

much worse? like what jail? in canada there is precedence set for punishment for commiting crime. this is why you don't see a guy with a grow-op going to jail for many years and only going for a few months

[Mill Bay]

prqueenkid16 said:

I'm surprised his sentence wasn't much worse. I feel as though he got off easy.

This remind you of an Incident in 2005??

If this was still the days of steam, they could have sentenced him to shovelling coal down in the boiler room.

[Low Light Mike]

I'm very happy with the message that BC Ferries is sending, by banning this person.

People need to be held accountable for things that they say that are threatening, even when intoxicated.

Good on BCFS for banning this bozo.

[Scott]

How effective is a ban? Couldn't he just grow a beard?

[Ferry Rider 42]

I tend to agree that the actual effectiveness of the ban is debatable. These sorts of things are very difficult to enforce at a business such as BC Ferries where no sort of identification is required.

Even so, BC Ferries did make the right decision is banning this individual and in making the ban public. In the end it's not the effectiveness of the ban that will be important, but rather the message BC Ferries is sending.

[Jon]

Anyone know just how many Muslims are empolyed with the BC Ferry system?

[Low Light Mike]

Jon said:

Anyone know just how many Muslims are empolyed with the BC Ferry system?

Oh, let me count the possible ways to respond to this question:

- to take at face value, but to change the word to "employed".

- to try to read into the reasons behind the question

- to try to determine if this is a joke, or serious query.

- to go on a tangent about why this would be illegal for an employer to track.

- to go on a tangent about why this would be irrelevant.


Of course all he's asking for is a yes or no, so I'll take the nerd's way, and be give a response to what he's asked:
"No."

....oh, I miss the days of intelligent trolls, who were more creative in their trollisms.

[Political Incorrectness]

Look no further than the problems of the semi privatized BCFS thread that was just recently bumped with a very long post. click here