What's with the truck noise in Toronto today?

December 1, 2004 7:44 AM

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.

posted by DrJohnEvans to Home & Garden (12 answers total)

Best answer: 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.
posted by Gnatcho at 8:06 AM on December 1, 2004

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

Thanks!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:10 AM on December 1, 2004

Maybe they can see you naked. Close your curtains.
posted by monkeyman at 10:33 AM on December 1, 2004

Hey cool, more Torontonians!

(Sorry, that wasn't very helpful.)
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 3:45 PM on December 1, 2004

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.)
posted by philfromhavelock at 3:53 PM on December 1, 2004

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)
posted by Chuckles at 5:56 PM on December 1, 2004

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.)
posted by SoftRain at 7:52 PM on December 1, 2004

Response by poster: Hey cool, Torontonians!

Yeah, it looks like more than one of us are students.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:04 PM on December 1, 2004

Response by poster: We'll have to have another meetup sometime soon (the last one kinda fell through). Preferably after exams.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:10 PM on December 1, 2004

>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 :)
posted by philfromhavelock at 9:00 PM on December 1, 2004

I was at Bloor and Spadina until April or May.

I miss the city. Even the random protests.
posted by blacklite at 5:32 AM on December 2, 2004

Response by poster: Ha, yeah.

"Hey, these people are protesting something... can't quite figure it out... okay, gotta hit the grocery store on my way home..."
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:21 PM on December 2, 2004