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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: fatman on May 06, 2007, 05:10:47 PM

Title: Oh Those Silly Canadians
Post by: fatman on May 06, 2007, 05:10:47 PM
Bad enough that they leave their posts at a border crossing when there is an armed fugitive headed their way, but refusing to deliver mail because of a cat?

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said on Friday.
 
A Canada Post spokeswoman said the agency was concerned about the safety of its carriers, although it hoped for an amicable solution to its dispute with cat-owner John Samborski.

"The letter carrier who delivers mail there ... was brought up on a farm, she is very comfortable with animals," spokewoman Kathi Neal told the newspaper. "Apparently this is a very threatening cat."

Samborski told the paper that his eight-year-old, declawed, black cat Shadow is docile, and it was "ridiculous" for Canada Post to make him to pick up his mail from a post office instead of delivering it to his door.

Shadow "likes to eat and sleep and cuddle. You could drop a bomb and he'd just open one eye, take a look, then close them and go back to sleep," Samborski, 41, told the newspaper.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/od_nm/cat_dc;_ylt=ArJM4LlDC6imxLCFIIDnf5EuQE4F (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070504/od_nm/cat_dc;_ylt=ArJM4LlDC6imxLCFIIDnf5EuQE4F)
Title: Re: Oh Those Silly Canadians
Post by: sirs on May 06, 2007, 11:13:45 PM
But......was the cat black?         ;)
Title: Re: Oh Those Silly Canadians
Post by: fatman on May 06, 2007, 11:25:52 PM
his eight-year-old, declawed, black cat Shadow

Yup
Title: Re: Oh Those Silly Canadians
Post by: sirs on May 06, 2007, 11:35:56 PM
his eight-year-old, declawed, black cat Shadow

Yup

Welp, there's ya answer      ;D