96 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By Crazy People”

  2. They already have them…they are called “KFC”, or from the old school, Kentucky Fried Chicken

  3. I would be more than willing to take in any stray chickens. They’ll have a great home in my belly.

  4. If you think that’s crazy, you should see the new rules for raising those backyard chickens in Vancouver.
    Remember the good old days,when every fall we’d lop the heads off the chickens with an axe and chopping block? Not now in Vancouver. If you want your chicken demised, you have to take it to a veterinarian and have it “mercy-killed”.
    Alternatively, you can take the chicken to a”registered slaughter house”.
    The nearest one is probably in Chilliwack or Abbotsford, so you’ll spend $20 on gas taking your chicken to be processed.
    Might as well just buy the damned things from a supermarket.

  6. Chickens? I couldn’t get past the Harley. Its Spring, when a no-longer-young man’s thoughts turn to motorcycles.

  8. dmorris beat me to it.
    “though the guidelines suggest making it illegal for owners to kill their own chickens, she worries that could prove difficult to enforce.”
    Seriously? Maybe its because I grew up in hickville next to neighbours who annually fried a selection of their poultry that I find this rediculous. I don’t remember if the other guy using the axe was a veterinarian, but I know I wasn’t. 🙂
    People are so damn stupid its hard to comprehend.
    I wonder what they’d do if they saw me “harvesting” wild turkey?

  9. You must be talking about Gregor Robinson progressive bicycle riding Mayor of Vancouver. Yes … Vancouver … where even homeless chickens can find a social worker.
    Vancouver is San Fransicko North … believe it.
    Here’s a bit more …
    You can keep I think, up to nine chickens in your yard/coop, but no roosters.
    You can collect and eat the eggs, but if you want to eat one of the chickens … well that’s a big problemo … you can take it to an abattoir and have a profession chicken murderer kill it for you, but you cannot do it yourself.
    A few “I plan to live forever on organic food” types will likely take a run at this. Others will do it to please their kids and regard the chickens as pets. It will all get tiresome and there will need to be a dramatic expansion and funding of the government chicken coop for homeless chickens.
    Yes it’s insane and that is why we cannot ever win another war, succeed as a cohesive society or resist the Islamic Jihad or keep budgets under control.
    Watch for a protest against the dumping of chicken shit everywhere because it’s not lawful to put pet turds in the garbage.
    Watch for local ‘real’ organic egg producers to go out of business as the market dips for a year or two.
    Watch for kids at emergency rooms as a result of chicken attacks.
    The entertainment on the West coast is second to none.

  10. Allowing backyard chickens has to be great news for taxpayers in Vancouver. With the average price for a single detached house in Vancouver now over $1 million, just think of the hit in property value if you lived next door to one of these chicken farmers. Good news, unless of course, you want to sell your house and move away.

  11. Ditto Allan@10:33
    Obviously the “environmentalists” have never lived close to nature and depended on it for food. How about people who raise rabbits — little “Bugs Bunny” is delicious, better than chicken. Goats (usually in petting zoos) are the tastiest of all.
    They would be horrified about what occurs on the farm. We used to drown the barn kittens when they got overpopulated — all the farmers did it. What else are you supposed to do when cute little animals overpopulate to the point that they are no different than vermin?
    One of the biggest causes of hunger in places like modern India is because many Hindus refuse to kill the vermin in case they might be reincarnated relatives. The result is that rats consume almost 50% of the harvested grain. People in India die of hunger so rats can live long happy lives.

  13. There are many similarities between Canada and the US….besides being separated by a common language.
    One marked similarity is the west coast phenomina…..British California has a dysfunctional government for the same reason….a critical mass of dysfunctional people….this chicken thing is proof.

  14. Please don’t confuse all BC residents with the latte left, which predominates the urban areas of southwest BC.
    These lifetime urban dwellers have no concept of self-sufficiency, they only understand teh Suzuki view of the world.
    Put them in the wilderness, and they are lost unless there’s a starbucks or MickyD’s around the corner.
    From someone like myself, who has lived the rural lifestyle for the first 25 years of my life, the urban lifestyle, for various reasons, is a necessary evil of my life. The wingnuts and weak minds that predominate the various local councils here in Greater Victoria leave much to be desired, but they keep getting elected, a reflection of the urban dwelling lefties here.

  15. TimR – could we worse. I lived at an off-campus fraternity house in Point Grey about 10 minutes bike-ride from the main campus. About 15 years ago someone bought the next-door property for over a million $(apparently sight-unseen) and moved in the day before one of our two annual parties. Never mind the 50 year old zoning ordinance, or pictures of the “block” showing it was the only house still there from the 60’s, “we had to go”, and he was friends with the mayor, you know. Fortunately for us when word got out to some of our alumni what was afoot, the neighbour found out that backroom power plays against 80 year old institutions don’t always work as planned.

  17. I suppose backyard chickens are no less neighborly than the nuisance of free range dogs and cats, although I’d bet fewer plump tasty chickens will be repeat offenders. I wonder how many chicken-nappings will be reported around Christmas and other holidays?

  20. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Chickens+city+backyards/2728442/story.html
    just so ya’ll know that not all the crazies are kept in Van City…
    I don’t have a problem with the neighbors keeping chickens, or ducks (I bought a house here in cow town that just prior to my first visit, the home owner was keeping ducks in the basement, I believe she was eating them, not the eggs). The realtor suggested we don’t look inside the deep freeze. 😉 As well, I don’t have a problem with folks that have fires in their back yards, at 3 in the afternoon or at 10 pm, who cares really? or as my former neighbor did, in his front yard beside his red and white (like a flag!) greenhouse. I would have a problem with city councils passing bylaws that regulate front yard greenhouses, or if cats are required to have bells so that the sparrows have a chance (if it saves just 1 robin!) more than 4 chickens in your back yard, specific breeds of dogs, and no I don’t care if you eat the eggs or the chicken, it’s a matter of profound indifference with me as to which came the the dinner table first…
    *I’m not going to buy your house because your neighbor keeps 4 chickens in the back yard? okkkkkkkkk……. we didn’t really want to sell our home to a bunch of haters anyway. 😉
    generally, when people don’t like the color of a house, or that every wall inside has wallpaper from 1974, similar rules apply, and they don’t buy it. Wouldn’t the same rule apply to buying near the Beverly Hillbillies?
    The money spent on the chicken shelter / morgue / crematorium or chicken social workers, is tax payer money, and that makes all the difference.

  21. agreed grok, I take in battered chicken from time to time, along with battered chicken gravy “product”, and an assortment of fries, coleslaw and condiments.

  22. The award winable comment from the link…….
    Jimmy Choo
    […….Headline correction:Vancouver city council approves bird flu for neighborhoods]
    No-one told the “silly council” about chicken thieves either……

  24. I know…we need an “egg and axe registry”!
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  26. I don’t have a problem with backyard chickens, but $20,000 for a homeless chicken shelter is a bit much. The urban Vancouverite thinks chickens are pets with benefits, not farm animals. The idea that you can’t slaughter your own chickens isn’t based on anything but urban sensibilities, think-of-the-children, in that it would upset the latte-type neighbours to see that. Many of our “less desirable” immigrant groups do this regularly, older Italian and Phillipinos come to mind, and have done so without sanction of a bylaw. But to the urban elites it’s about the 100 mile diet and saving the planet while to our ethnic friends it is simply dinner.

  27. The current crew of nutters running Vancouver is financed by some expat American lady who inherited bags of money and went all new age . . .
    she runs this place
    http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/
    which is the spiritual home of our current crew of enviro whackos at City Hall.

  28. The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
    Don’t know about the world, but this certainly applies to the Left Coast.

  29. Why do the ‘crazies’ keep getting elected ??
    Simple – during the campaign our beloved media will always favor the crazies. Gives them the most air time. Shines favorable light on them. And constantly is on the look out, made up or otherwise, for dirt on any candidate who has common sense.
    Journalism School will do that to ya if one is not already so inclined.
    The media is the root of all evil. (Money has been bumped)

  30. Yeah, Vancouverites are granola people – flakes and
    nuts. It seems a pleasant city – what BC needs is
    another NDP government to run their finances into
    the ground again.

  32. Funny.
    No, strange.
    No, pathetic that most people will cite politics and media as the top bads, yet will turn to them for “information” and fixes.

  34. ron in kelowna:
    “…pathetic that most people will cite politics and media as the top bads, yet will turn to them for “information” and fixes.”
    Who does that? Not me. Only the Left does it because they are the only ones served by it.

  35. Look for Van city council to fund a study on which comes first – the chicken or the egg(heads).

  37. Heh, just finished a telephone poll about the CBC’s use, utilization, and cost-effectiveness in a 1-is-bad 7-is-good format. The average mark was about a 2 (I tried to be honest, they stay on target and topic, I just don’t like the target and topics. Except hockey, if they’d ever shut up about the Maple Loafs.) At the end of the poll I asked if the information would be publicly available. The pollstress checked with her supervisor, who responded that it was not scheduled for public release. My response was a snort and “well, I guess they’ll bury this one then” which got a laugh and sounds of agreement from the pollstress. It’s a good thing that SmallDeadAnimals links to so many CBC stories (ick, I can’t believe I just said that) so that I could honestly state that I do occasionally watch and catch links from the CBC.

  39. Almost as bad as here in T.O. — they would fund a study about funding the study, and by the time they got around to asking the question “do the chicken or the egg(heads) come first?”, they would have to convene a committee to study how they can raise taxes for to pay for $20,000 chicken coop which is now expensed at 2.5 million.
    By the way, how’s the weather out there? You lucky dog — I worked in Kelowna a couple summers ago. Sheer paradise.

  40. Just to clarify, While it is true that roosters will be discriminated against(hey this is a left wing council)
    Transgendered roosters will be okay(Capons)

  44. If you think that’s crazy, you should see the new rules for Payday loans in British Columbia.
    A disability pensioned friend borrows $100 from the Cash Store.
    The lender insists on a 16 day term.
    The repayment due in 16 days is $184.80
    ==============================================
    British Columbia.. Banana Republic?
    Please look at the filled in contract and tell me how this can be legal. Especially as BC has recently tightened up regs for Pay-day loan firms. Numbers pros, accountant?
    I don’t want to take up Kate’s room here. Its two pages.
    http://tinyurl.com/y3ewqvc
    Warning; Do not try this at home!

  45. Let’s have a wager: How long ’til the good citizens of Vancouver remember that the reason China is “ground zero” for so many diseases—H1N1 (“Swine Flu”), H5N1 (“Avian or Bird Flu”)—is that the good citizens of China live with their livestock: they cook and eat where their livestock sh*ts? Large Oriental population in Vancouver.
    How long ’til we see a new mandatory “blue box” program for recycling the chicken sh*t?

  46. I wonder if Vancouver will open up a chicken exchange program, where you can turn in your dirty used chickens for clean new ones?

  48. So if a minor steals a chicken on the way to a safe injection site before going to a rights rally the charge would be?

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