If you’ve followed my posts in the past you will recall that, when I visit Canada, I like to report on the “horrible crime problem” in small Saskatchewan towns and cities.

Below is the police report from the latest edition of The Weyburn Review. (Weyburn is a city of about 10,000 residents, about 35 miles from the North Dakota/Montana border).

It’s shocking, but you will read that, among other atrocities:

- Harassing text messags [sic] were sent from one man to another! Thank God the investigation is still ongoing!
- The police attended several parties . . . (Shouldn’t they have been working, rather than attending parties?)
- And . . . a chronic problem here . . . a man left a motel without paying! And he is a “serial non-payer”!
- I like this one: “Police investigated a fraudulent e-mail that requested personal credit card information. The complainant became suspicious and avoided personal loss.” Whew! That was a close one! Can you imagine! A fraudulent email requesting personal information! I’d call the police, immediately, if I ever received such a thing! (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, just send your credit card and bank account information to Ethel@EthelTheFrog.com and I’ll show you how it works).

Please don’t misunderstand me . . . I’m not making fun of these small town Canada “problems” . . . To the contrary, I’m envious! How would those of us who live in Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix, San Jose, New York, etc., etc. like to say that our biggest crime problem is a noisy party, the receipt of a “fraudulent e-mail”, or the occasional intoxicated individual outside a bar!

Yes, it’s a little bit cold and snowy up here . . . but I don’t have to worry about being the victim of a drive-by shooting or a random crack-head murder. Poutine (Google it) is a bigger killer here than guns, drugs or gangs.

I’m off to sleep soundly.

Ethel