Comments on: What's with the truck noise in Toronto today?

Question: What's with the truck noise in Toronto today?

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:44:14 -0800

I'm in Toronto, currently just northeast of Queen's Park Crescent. Why have there been trucks blowing their horns outside my window for the past two hours?

I'm assuming it's some sort of protest (Bush-related, I imagine). Does anybody have any details? I can't find any breaking news which would tell me.

By: Gnatcho

Gnatcho — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:06:59 -0800

It's film industry people. That's what my roommate told me (live right near Queen's Park). They want lower taxes so that Toronto can continue to be attractive to the film industry.

My roommate now hates them.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:10:26 -0800

Ah, yes. Here it is. Previous Google attempts did not include the word "film". I'll know better next time.

Thanks!

By: monkeyman

monkeyman — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:33:04 -0800

Maybe they can see you naked. Close your curtains.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:45:19 -0800

Hey cool, more Torontonians!

(Sorry, that wasn't very helpful.)

By: philfromhavelock

philfromhavelock — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:53:54 -0800

I thought it was Bush-related, too. The crowds on the lawn and police cars and fire trucks around the Crescent. I got closer, they were generic NYC vehicles.

>Hey cool, more Torontonians!

(I thought that needed repeating.)

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:56:45 -0800

I heard about this on the radio, but they didn't mention the being a public nuisance aspect, so I didn't connect it until philfromhavelock mentioned the NYC vehicles thing.

>Hey cool, more Torontonians!

(I bet we could keep this going all week)

By: SoftRain

SoftRain — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:52:36 -0800

Not at all helpful but: Dude, we must be neighbours. (I slept through it though. I heard vague honking in the distance, but my window faces away from the park, so somehow i just totally was oblivious all day.)

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:04:28 -0800

Hey cool, Torontonians!

Yeah, it looks like more than one of us are students.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:10:05 -0800

We'll have to have another meetup sometime soon (the last one kinda fell through). Preferably after exams.

By: philfromhavelock

philfromhavelock — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:00:10 -0800

>Yeah, it looks like more than one of us are students

I'm at utoronto.

>We'll have to have another meetup sometime soon (the last one kinda fell through). Preferably after exams.

That's a groovy idea - although this mightn't be the right meta-room to be discussing it :)

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:32:23 -0800

I was at Bloor and Spadina until April or May.

I miss the city. Even the random protests.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:21:49 -0800

Ha, yeah.

"Hey, these people are protesting something... can't quite figure it out... okay, gotta hit the grocery store on my way home..."