The South Bayview Bulldog

Hydro One has fired an employee for harassing a woman television reporter during what appears to have been a group-attempt to introduce obscene language into homes and bars where FC games were being broadcast. “Hydro One is taking steps to terminate the employee for violating our Code of Conduct,” Hydro One spokesman Daffyd Roderick said in a statement. The Globe and Mail story linked here recounts how the man fairly wallowed in his ignorance. Good reading. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has also pledged Tuesday (May 12, 2015) to find and punish similarly minded-persons by keeping them out of the arena. This abusive conduct is a variation on growing public vulgarity or maybe just the growing ease with which it is distributed. YouTube is notorious for permitting any type of comment. The arrival of Twitter has also introduced vulgar, profane, racist and hateful language into the lives of people who would not normally be so subjected. The celebrated case of Dion Phaneuf and Joffrey Lepui revealed how users of public media like Twitter have no idea that they are subject to prosecution for libel. It was a perfect case of the uneducated (or stupid) barging into the regulated halls of public communication. It may be that many of those who are F-bombing TV reporters think that there is no legal consequence. Not everybody is smart. Below reporter Shauna Hunt of City News confronts the jackasses but they are well protected by their macho armour. Globe and Mail 

The Peter Worthington home on Heath St. E. in Moore Park is has the tell-tale tree fencing in place prior to demolition. The Hudson Drive home sold a year ago $1,440,000.

Nepal has been hit by another earthquake which rescue workers there say has setback their efforts to rescue and support the victims of the first one. This video shows a frightening rock slide caused by the second quake. Video by James Shaw from the Canadian Red Cross.

A 23-year-old woman who did not know she was pregnant (it is said) has given birth on an Air Canada flight from Calgfary to Tokyo. The woman, Ada Guan, was shocked to find what was happening to her. “We just thought she had a bad stomach ache, or cramps or ulcer or something,” said Wes Branch, her boyfriend and now father of a healthy baby girl. He is from Victoria, B.C. “Her belly wasn’t even big. She just thought she was gaining a little bit of a weight. She didn’t think anything out of it.”

They were picking up the pieces from a collision between this Toyota SUV and a pickup truck at Overlea Blvd and Thorncliffe Park Drive. Photo by Rudy Limeback, Leaside and area explorer.

Ottawa Citizen 

Girls are said to love them but a new swimming device that secures the legs inside a mermaid tail is being carefully watched by safety officials. The toy allows young girls to swim like mermaids and is a growing trend — and safety concern — at pools in Calgary and Edmonton. “My kids’ faces just lit up and they’re like, ‘Holy cow, there’s a real live mermaid in the pool!’ So we picked them up and ordered them and it’s great,” the CBC quotes Calgary mother Sharla Stoffman, who purchased “mermaid fins” online for both her daughters. Stoffman’s eight-year-old Charlott describes the feeling of swimming in the sparkly costume as “free,” while her older sister says it’s just like being a fish. But Calgary lifeguards are making swimmers take the following test before they can wear their toys in a public pool. They must swim 25 metres continuously, tread water for two minutes and swim with confidence while wearing the mermaid fin.