Proof that Canada is *very* different from the US...

[kallistii]

Can you imagine the US Government's Secretary of Foreign Affairs taking the subway home?

ttyl


Pettigrew mugged in Montreal subway
Last Updated Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:55:21 EST
CBC News

Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew was attacked in a Montreal subway station Wednesday night as a man tried to steal his cellphone.

A 19-year-old bystander jumped in to help Pettigrew fend off his attacker.

Both Pettigrew and his Good Samaritan suffered minor injuries. Pettigrew's cellphone was returned to him after the incident.

A man has been charged with aggravated theft and has undergone a psychiatric evaluation.

Pettigrew's office told French-language media that it wasn't rare for the minister to take public transportation without bodyguards.

They said the minister was not targeted, but was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/12/30/pettigrew051230.html

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine the US Government's Secretary of Foreign Affairs taking the subway home?

Given that senators, congressmen and government officials regularly ride the DC Metro, easily.

Although the subway is in New York -- the REAL center of the US ;)

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Metro is just the word the French call a subway. In Montreal, it is called The Metro, but it is a subway...that is, a subterranian by-way, or subway for short.

ttyl
Farrell

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

And I was also wondering why Pettigrew didn't just turn into a rat and escape ;)

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Because the other rats would have eaten him!

But tanj, Better Pettigrew than Harper!

ttyl