6 Shot Dead in Vaughan
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Considering the mandate of the SIU is to investigate every police involved shooting, yes. I'm sure this case will sail through the process.
??? A 73 year old who's been living here for decades is new?
BTW. It is rare to see a thread on a shooting where no one's trying to make this a race issue.
A gun he had a permit for from what I understand. Imagine that, having a legal gun permit and using that same firearm to kill 5 people.
All guns should just be banned for good.
That said, really sad how this guy had mental health issues for so long and nothing was done about it.
That said, really sad how this guy had mental health issues for so long and nothing was done about it.
You would think having a restraining order issued would automatically have any firearm permit revoked and the gun seized.
If you die by a bullet do you think the race of the individual matters?
Do you really believe you would have scared him off from knocking on your door and as he hears you about to open it, opening fire at the big DOG?
While the shooting can never be justified it sure looks like the condo board dicked him over royally. They ignored two inspections of clear problems. And between sleep deprivation, electromagnetic effects on the brain, toxic fumes effects, his own probable mental health issues, helped create the powder keg he became.
The fixes I read involved installing a drop ceiling, plugging caulking holes to further stop sould carrying, adding proper ventilation( reported as inadequate).
Add in some sound proofing and it sounds like this could have been fixed. But it looks like they chose to either be cheap didn't like him, and didn't want to admit liability.
He was also a former builder from reports, so he had a grasp of what was wrong.
The fixes I read involved installing a drop ceiling, plugging caulking holes to further stop sould carrying, adding proper ventilation( reported as inadequate).
Add in some sound proofing and it sounds like this could have been fixed. But it looks like they chose to either be cheap didn't like him, and didn't want to admit liability.
He was also a former builder from reports, so he had a grasp of what was wrong.
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Just out of interest, would like to know if the humming and vibrations he complained of coming from the electrical room underneath his apartment really existed. Why would an electrical room be under his apartment? What would cause the noise and vibrations? Will the next tenant/owner of his apartment experience the same problems?
Evidently, with six dead, their fears were warranted.
So no, I don't think anyone went to far. Just too slow.
Actually they did. News reports show two separate inspections, one city, one paid for by the condo showed clear problems with toxic fumes, electromagnetic waves, and constant noise(fans going off every hours, 24 hours a day).
The board chose not to fix it.
Or retired?
FWIW, I have met Mandrill at a Mirage Christmas Party in person. And know him by his real name, And know he is a lawyer. And a really decent guy.
Actually i wonder if it wasn't. Either way there is a human failure here by the condo borad to address a very real health and safety issue not just for this tenant but others in the area as well. This is their job.
If you live in a subdivision, go up to one of those big green Hydro transformer boxes and put your hand on it. You will feel it vibrates with a dull hummmmmmm. At 60Hz. Your doorbell AC transformer is the same.
That transformer might serve 20 houses.
A condo transformer room contains 1 or 2 HUGE transformers that serve as many as 500 condos. Plus the chiller, pumps etc. When you go into that room or "Vaujlt" you can hear it humming.
Most condos are made of concrete which conducts sound to some degree. Developers keep cutting corners and one area is to not isolate the mechanical equipment adequately. So fans, pumps, elevator motors and massive air conditioning chillers can transmit sound and vibration into adjacent units.
In my building, a malfunctioning 400 Ton Chiller (central air conditioning) transmitted a weird oscillatiing sound through the glass curtain wall into my second bedroom 5 floors below. It transmitted a harmonic resonance that was only audible in that one room and only on my floor. The glass wall/window acred as a speaker membrane and amplified the sound.
Fortunately, the malfunction was readily identified, fixed and the sound went away.
Our building spent over $100k engineering and implementing sound and vibration mitigation measures to stop the sound of the elevators going past certain suites.
Some Boards have ignorant and cheap Directors and won't spend money for fear of commiting the Cardinal Sin of Condo's... "raising the fees"
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