The South Bayview Bulldog

There’s much excitement and admiration expressed in a video published over the weekend for a hooded man who fills a bundle buggy bag with liquor from a LCBO store in Scarborough and then leaves without paying. James A Hess posted the apparently anonymous video to his Twitter account. Comments heard on the video range from “this guy is brilliant” and “that’s (big F) hilarious bro” and an admiring “Wow.” Mr. Wonderful and the videographer did however create some good material for the police. Let’s see if anyone knows the thief.

Couldn’t see a thing ahead

Whiteout (above) is what drivers saw as broadcast by CP24 and (below) more tangle

Incredible tangle on Highway 400

Shipment delayed

OPP say between 50 and 70 vehicles piled up on Highway 400 southbound south of Mapleview near Barrie in whiteout conditions Monday. Miraculously, no serious injuries were sustained. Kerry Schmidt of the OPP said that about 10 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries as a precaution.

Vehicles have all been removed from #Hwy400 SB south of Mapleview Drive. Highway remains closed for plowing and road repairs.
Updates to follow #Barrie #PileUp #WinterStorm #WhiteOut pic.twitter.com/fqOunoH7MX

— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) February 25, 2019

Multi vehicle pile up on #Hwy400 SB south of Mapleview #Barrie #PileUp #WinterStorm #WhiteOut pic.twitter.com/LYR8H9mlFt

— OPP Highway Safety Division (@OPP_HSD) February 25, 2019

Look out below!! Piece of metal on the roof of 1519 Bayview is flapping around in the wind. Pedestrians should keep an eye out for flying debris today 😖 #stormto pic.twitter.com/fivJZMJ9B8

— SBayview (@SBayview) February 25, 2019

Eglinton and Midland/CityNews

A woman has received leg injuries when she was aparently hit intentionally with a car by another woman with whom she had had a fight. This occurred outside a bar at Eglinton Ave. E. and Midland Ave. around 4:30 a.m. Monday. A witness told 680 NEWS that after the driver struck the woman, she reversed and tried to hit her again. The car then struck two other vehicles and a building before speeding off.

Among the most vivid images of Sunday’s wind storm is video showing huge chunks of ice tumbling up onto the Niagara Parkway off the Niagara River near the Peace Bridge. The road had to be closed for several hours near Mather Arch. Witty social media comments like “construction of the wall between Canada and the U.S has began” were seen on social media.

Perfect for climbing/Wikipedia

Now charged with mischief/CityNews

Lots to hang onto/Scotiabank Arena

A man climbed one of the 70-foot decorative towers in the Fane Zone of Scotiabank arena Sunday and had to be brought down by the fire service. He has been charged with public mischief. Reporters are asking why he did it. Because he could. The call came in about 5 p.m.

Son of Mother Russia

MPP Lindsey Park

Jason Dalton

Faces, faces and first off this stoic gentleman (left). He’s a young soldier-son of Mother Russia, guarding the Putin victory train. It rolled out this weekend to show fellow Slavs some 500 EU and US weapons and other exhibits taken from Syrian rebels fighting against the wonderful president-for-life, Bashar al-Assad. Sheesh. Then at centre, MPP Lindsey Park (Durham) is a Golden Girl of sorts for insisting that self-sufficient elderly people should be permitted to live together in single family homes. Finally at right is Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo. His story is that the Uber app took over his body and made him kill six people.

What can we say?

A young reporter chirps out more than four minutes of news about the new $3,500 (US?) Huawei phone called the Mate X. It debuted at the Mobile World Congress event Sunday in Barcelona. This video was posted a short time ago and it already has nearly half a million hits.

Keven Menager of the Mt. Pleasant BIA warns merchants locally about a scam call to a member of the BIA.  This one had a new twist on the fraud to get a credit card number given verbally over the phone:

Got a call saying they were from TD visa Centre, gave an “employee number” and said that the last Visa sale we had manually entered had been erased at their end because someone on our end had “hit the enter key too quickly” and that they needed me to give them the card details over the phone for them to  “make sure the funds got deposited to my account.”

No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on Feb. 27 will be approximately $13 million.