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| This woman was acquitted in Laval |
Montrealers are being punished by our local police forces for not giving them enough work.
We've become too lazy, stoned, indifferent, empathetic to give them enough to do. (What happened to your great theory about plastic turning men into wimps? - Chimples).
So police, since they have to do something with their time, are now punishing people for minor and totally stupid victimless non-offences.
Recently in Laval cops ticketed a masseuse because - get this - she didn't have a masseuse license and wasn't wearing a pastel or white smock.
Are you freaking kidding me?
The Russian Montrealer was ticketed based on testimony from Gilles Lemay and Frederic Guay, officers tasked with the heavy responsibility of policing massage parlour licenses and attire.
The officers said that upon their visit on January 17, 2013, the receptionist misled them by telling them that there were four massage artists in the joint when there were actually five.
They then accused one of the women of not being able to present a permit in accordance with Laval bylaw L-8433.
Seriously, they say you need a permit to rub someone's back.
The officers slapped her with two tickets, one for practicing the art of massage without a license and another one for not wearing a white tunic.
A week ago Judge Michel Lalande, to his credit, acquitted the poor woman, presumably because the bylaw as well as the act of policing the bylaw are totally stupid.
Lalande noted that it was not proven that the woman was a masseuse because the officers didn't see her giving a massage and that even though she wasn't wearing white, she might've been wearing something pastel.