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Crashup at Pap and Dorch Tues Aug 2, 3 p.m
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If you ever want to shoot some traffic accidents, get thee down to Dorch and Pap where it's a non-stop festival de l accident routiere, much horrific fun to be had as the grim reaper's demolition derby hits full swing at times known only to him, the top photos were taken yesterday afternoon.
I arrived after the crash but in the second photo there's a dazed-looking black kid who is being put into an ambulance via stretcher. Officials were putting sawdust on the road so I think a pedestrian might have been hit because there was blood on the street. Another white compact was hauled off too.
This fender bender (this photo and the one below) took place about 50 yards south of the top accident on July 30, 2011 at about 11 a.m.
This one took place June 29. A drunken black guy stole a car and went for a joyride, dinging several other vehicles. He fought vigorously against cops but when I arrived they had calmed him enough to bring him to the slammer or an insane asylum. I know these details because a witness told me and police confirmed, although they were not very forthcoming, for reasons I don't know. Perhaps they gave him a well-deserved Rodney King love tap, but probably not.
For the ones that wonder, "Dorch" is actually Boulevard René-Levesque. That's the real name. Dorchester is only a small part in Westmount where a street called René-Levesque would have brought the prices of homes down.
ReplyDeletei dont see how his "ethnicity" has anything to do with his behavior or the story, sure its a detail, a harmless one, but if he was white, would u say Some Drunk White guy?
ReplyDeleteSome people still call it Dorchester St. - even in Montreal. Get a clue.
ReplyDeleteYeah I also dont get why that dude being black is important. why?
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ReplyDeletePosting matching comments on MTLCityWeblog and here? Isn't this a bit ridiculous?
It was Dorchester for 143 years, 24years with another name doesn't erase that. It really isn't that surprising that people still use the original.
Hey! I was just making sure people understand what street we were talking about. The name was changer in 1987 and maybe some reader were not even born then.
ReplyDeleteYes, I did add my point of view to the clarification. Felt good to do so. Thanks for your answer... anonymous!
This ProposMontreal.com person as been all over the Internet splitting hairs and "correcting" people on street names. These are blogs where people engage in casual discussion; not an official government document.
ReplyDeleteIt's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.
ReplyDeleteI used to live on Papineau/Maisonneuve (Craig?). I got to see ambulances and broken glass every evening.
ReplyDeleteSt. Antoine east of McGill st. was Craig. De Maisonneuve blvd. was born in 1966 by joining Burnside, St Luc, and Western.
ReplyDeleteWend your way through old maps of Montreal and you will see many street names had been changed--and not all for the purpose of "language retaliation".
ReplyDeleteSome streets even no longer exist due to district restructuring (slum clearance) and expanded building sites downtown and elsewhere.
I could probably write a novel about this topic.
Check out the old slum area east of St. Laurent (St. Lawrence!) and north of de Maisonneuve (de Montigny). This was the so-called Dozois Project.
Then, how many people know that de Bullion Street was previously called Cadieux Street, and had been changed because back in the 1920s the whole world knew Cadieux Street as Montreal's notorious brothel centre.
Dorchester was actually renamed Rene Levesque illegally by Major Dore who railroaded it through without consultation.
Notice how the authorities love to rename English streets into French ones. How friendly!
Why not rename Pie IX Blvd. to Robert Bourassa Blvd.? Who cares about Pope Pius IX? What does he have to do with Quebec specifically?
Remember how briefly Jarry Park was renamed Pope John Paul Park?
well, saying it's a drunk black or white guy is just part of their description.
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