A gang of raging tobacconists terrorized some local sports resorts recently. These nicotine pimps have no respect for .…
“Oops … what’s that? Oh. Sorry. My bad.”
That should read a gang of raging tobogganists. It is so difficult to keep up with criminal classifications these days, especially in Toronto. If you have been listening to some of its police and fire authorities, the city is getting wilder than Chicago during Prohibition. There’s a new crime wave afoot, or maybe that should be a-sled.
The gang was the dreaded Downhill Cruisers — their toque colours spandex crimson and canary yellow. Police have warned that if you see any of these young people hauling their oak boards towards a hill in your neighbourhood — go indoors immediately or hide behind a big tree.
The swarms were alarming. Seven- to 14-year-olds, some of them big for their age, could be seen in clusters of three or four, over and over again, climbing up a hill, then at the very top settling on their hardwood boards, sitting upright, feet forward (known in the underworld argot of tobogganing as “the sitting upward, feet forward position”) and then sliding right back down to where they began.
They practised this till nightfall and then, very probably, went off on an illegal shinny somewhere. Hard crowd these winter thugs.
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