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Sick of loud cars revving their engines at night? Toronto could look at noise cameras to crack down

Sick of loud cars revving their engines at night? Toronto could look at noise cameras to crack down

The city of Toronto could soon have a new tool in its battle against scofflaw drivers: noise cameras are up for discussion Thursday afternoon at city council’s monthly meeting.

Coun. Lily Cheng is introducing a motion at this week’s council meeting that calls on staff to look into bringing noise cameras to the streets of the city to catch drivers making excessive noise. She wants city staff to look into noise camera use in other jurisdictions to find out what technology works best.

Accompanying her motion is a letter of support with 264 signatures.

Where I live angry residents cornered a couple of motorcyclists who persistently revved their engines in our above ground parking lot – they love the Canyon echo effect.

They should have burned the cycles at the least.

Other persistent idiots still hang out at Apache and the Tim Hortons. I’m all for this.

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Germans deserve answers after the Leipzig car attack

Germans deserve answers after the Leipzig car attack

Monday afternoon’s car attack in a pedestrian zone in Leipzig – a city celebrated for its Bach choir and its proud history of pro-democracy demonstrations before the fall of the Berlin Wall – has left two people dead and dozens injured. A 63-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man were killed, while three others are in a serious condition.

The suspect, a 33-year-old man born and raised in Leipzig, was arrested at the scene. Authorities were swift to announce he had no terrorist affiliations – a declaration greeted by some commentators almost as a relief. But the relief is premature. The hard questions are only just beginning.

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2 dead in Leipzig after car is rammed into crowd

2 dead in Leipzig after car is rammed into crowd

Car runs into crowd in German city of Leipzig, with fatalities reported

Two people have been killed and two severely injured when a car ran into a crowd in the centre of the eastern German city of Leipzig, local broadcaster MDR has reported, citing police.

Leipzig police confirmed to Reuters that there were injuries from a driving car but could not give more details.

 

This tweet shows the perp being arrested, they seem to be limiting access to video of the perp.

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Six wounded after stabbing attack at high school in Washington state

Six wounded after stabbing attack at high school in Washington state

Five people were recovering in the hospital on Friday following a mass stabbing incident at a high school in Washington state.

A high school student was charged with multiple counts of first-degree assault after five people were hurt during the stabbing incident on Thursday at a campus in Tacoma.

Authorities in the city said four of the victims from the incident at Foss high school were taken to hospital in critical condition after being stabbed or cut. Four students and an adult security guard were hurt. The alleged perpetrator received minor wounds, was treated and was taken into custody.

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LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

Pilot safety concerns about New York’s LaGuardia airport were filed to aviation officials months before Sunday’s collision between an airplane and a firetruck left two pilots dead and 41 other people hospitalized.

According to the aviation safety reporting system administered by the US space agency Nasa, a pilot using the airport in the summer wrote, “Please do something,” after air traffic controllers failed to provide appropriate guidance about multiple nearby aircraft.

A miracle’: Canadian flight attendant ejected from plane survives New York crash

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Harrowing video captures deadly LaGuardia Airport crash as plane collides with fire truck

Chilling footage captures the moment an Air Canada Express jet barrels into a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Sunday night, killing the two pilots aboard.

The fire truck was crossing over to another part of the airport to help with a call involving a separate plane when it was struck, according to video captured from inside the airport.

h/t Patti Jo PA Cat and everyone else!

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Two pilots dead, 41 people hospitalized after Air Canada plane hits fire truck when landing at LaGuardia, causing airport closure

An Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday — killing two pilots and hospitalizing 41 others in the horrific crash that obliterated the front of the jet and forced the major travel hub to close for most of Monday.

Emergency vehicles swarmed Runway 4 at the Queens airport after a regional jet landing from Montreal struck a rescue truck responding to a separate incident just before 11:40 p.m.

Horrific images showed the front of the commuter plane obliterated and tilted up in the air, with debris and cables hanging from the mangled cockpit.

h/t All who sent this in. This happened at 11:40 last night, I hit the hay at 11:30 because today is “New Fancoil Day” an all day affair I am told.

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Spain: At least 39 people have died in train crash

At least 39 people have died and dozens more have been injured after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, the country’s Civil Guard has said.

The accident near the city of Córdoba, in southern Spain, has been described by local officials as Spain’s worst rail crash in more than a decade.

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‘An incomprehensible nightmare’: grief turns to anger over Swiss bar fire as Le Constellation owner arrested

Like many young people across Switzerland, Kenzo Ronnow, a university student in Lausanne, slept in on 1 January after celebrating the new year.

But as he scrolled through his phone soon after waking, he saw the lead story of a foreign news website was about Switzerland.

A fire had ripped through Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, an Alpine ski resort in Switzerland’s Valais canton and a customary haunt for New Year’s Eve revellers.

One of the two bar owners was on Friday taken into custody.

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Owner of the Swiss ski bar where 40 people died spent time in prison for ‘fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment’ and was ‘a known pimp’

The owner of the Swiss ski bar at the centre of a New Year’s Day inferno that claimed 40 lives and left 119 injured spent time in prison for ‘fraud, kidnapping and false imprisonment’ and was a known pimp, it emerged today.

French national Jacques Moretti, who is in his 60s, faces charges for the inferno at Le Constellation, in Crans–Montana, Switzerland, on New Year’s Day.

His venue became a death trap, after sparklers placed inside champagne bottles ignited the basement ceiling.

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Hero ‘saved ten youngsters’ from Swiss ski resort blaze after his daughter rang him pleading for help

A hero banker saved ten youngsters from the Swiss ski resort inferno by forcing open an emergency door after his teenage daughter rang him pleading for help.

Paolo Campolo, 55, raced from his home in Crans-Montana to Le Constellation bar, where he prised open a side door to allow panicked revellers to run for their lives as the building filled with roaring flames and smoke in seconds.

At least 40 clubbers were killed and another 119 injured, 80 of them critically, when a devastating blaze ripped through the basement of the packed club as it hosted New Year’s Eve celebrations.

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Owners of Swiss nightclub that burst into flames, killing at least 40, during New Year’s Eve bash break silence

The distraught owners of the Swiss nightclub where at least 40 revelers were killed in a raging New Year’s Eve fire insisted their venue followed every safety regulation before the unthinkable tragedy.

Jacques and Jessica Moretti spoke out for the first time since the deadly blaze tore through Le Constellation nightclub after sparklers attached to champagne bottles ignited the ceiling during the boozy bash.

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‘I hid from a wall of heat’: Eyewitnesses describe escape from Swiss bar inferno

“I thought my little brother was inside so I came and tried to break the window to help people to exit, and after that I went in.”

The 18-year-old man, who did not want to give his name, was speaking to the BBC after a huge fire at a New Year’s Eve party in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana rapidly turned what was an evening of celebration into a nightmare.

Police say around 40 people died when the blaze broke out in a bar called Le Constellation at around 01:30 local time (00:30 GMT) on Thursday. A further 115 more were injured, mainly with severe burns.

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Parade attacker jailed for 21 years and six months

A man who used his car as a “weapon” to plough into more than 130 people at Liverpool FC’s victory parade has been jailed for 21 years and six months.

Paul Doyle, 54, drove at crowds “in a rage” after his “anger had completely taken hold of him” shortly before 18:00 BST on 26 May, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Judge Andrew Menary KC said the ex-Royal Marine, who stared straight ahead with no expression as he was sentenced, had generated “fear and panic” and his “disregard for human life defied ordinary understanding”.

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