Just like many other zeitgeist-fearing cities, Hamilton is showing its support of all things LGBT by sporting several rainbow crosswalks on its streets to act as “a symbol of inclusiveness among the LGBTQ community.”
One of them has black skid marks on it, leading the suspicious to conclude that there has been a heinous act of vandalism: after all, cars should be screeching to a halt before reaching a crossing of many colours, not while on it. Unless you have deliberately hit someone and are accelerating to escape, an act only slightly less hateful than defacing these multicoloured emblems of love, peace and harmony.
We will probably never know who is vandalising these prismatic bridges of diversity and tolerance but at least we can rule out all Anglican clergy, who would rather bear the pain of reciting the Nicene Creed without crossing their fingers than put a black mark on a rainbow.
From here:
Debate among city staff as to whether the marks were made deliberately, says Mayor Fred Eisenberger.
Black tire streaks on Hamilton’s new rainbow Pride crosswalk in front of city hall are causing some concern they were deliberately made by a driver spinning tires to vandalize the LGBTQ flag symbol.
Mayor Fred Eisenberger said there is some debate among staff as to whether the marks were made on purpose or are a normal occurrence of rubber wearing off tires on hot pavement in the dead of summer.
“I’m suspicious,” he said. “Just the way it (the marking) sits there. It’s odd that it’s just before and after the crosswalk (and into the crossing).”
Now that is really something to be concerned 😦 about. Forget poverty, war, and injustice. Not to mention the drug crisis or the illegal alien mess. This is beyond satire.
Just as an aside, what happens to somebody who is found guilty of such a heinous crime?
Mayor Fred Eisenberger and those on his staff debating the cause might take note that the marks occur in parallel pairs with a uniform distance between the two members of each pair. Additionally, there seems to be a standard distance between some pairs of pairs of such marks – together suggestive of the marks being left by a vehicle with four wheels on an axle, or multiple of such axles. That is, a heavy truck. One might speculate on there being a negative correlation between drivers of such vehicles and their sympathies to the intent of such a painted crossing, but more pertinent is that you cannot spin the tires of those vehicles. (In any case, spinning tires causes a sideways drift, for which there is no evidence).
Good Lord, Watson, what do they teach people in school these day about inference from observation, and about Occam’s Razor ?
Seriously these people need to get over themselves. We all know that there are bad drivers out there that accelerate far too quickly at a green light and brake far to hard at a red light. Just open your eyes a look around your city and you will see the exact same skid marks at all intersections.
But the alphabet sinners will still try to convince us that this is a hate crime directed deliberately at them and that all of society should feel guilty about it.
Well done, the rebel.
The world, or at least the country, has gone mad, tiptoeing with such silliness around this story. From calling it a hate crime to the head shaking excuse that rubber is just happening to come off hot tires in the summer weather.
Is it deliberate? Yes, absolutely! Is it a hate crime? Probably not. It’s just a place on the road that some young guys with hot cars see as an opportunity to lay rubber. Fifty years ago I probably would have done it myself and considered myself awfully clever. In fact, fifty years ago I probably did. It’s no different than doing donuts in a parking lot. Just get over it people
The fact is that society should NEVER consider homosexual activity as normal and no government at any level should take any action to support or promote same. This crosswalk is nothing less than a complete waste of public money and those who supported this action should be called upon to pay for ALL costs involved. I do not promote destruction of public property but this action basically shows such activity on both sides of the fence.
Alas, now that vox populi of Ontario have said a resounding red light ‘No’ to the indicted, and just released from prison, creators of the Ontario public school sex ‘ed’ program, all Cultural Marxist banners thus placed on pubic, taxpayer funded thoroughfares will have ‘Stop’ marks on them. That even includes the one placed at the entrance to Hamilton’s McMaster University, whose sound doctrine Baptist foundations are reflected in its + Philippians 4:13 motto:
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
All things? No you can’t. Not in His Holy Name, anyway.
They’ve had rainbow crosswalks in Ottawa too (on Bank Street). There has been a problem with them though: apparently the paint isn’t as durable as the regular yellow and white variety (which – duh – is actually formulated for the demands of road- and street-marking).
Result: the colours tend to wear away much faster. As a consequence, lucky ratepayers end up funding a higher frequency of crosswalk-repainting to maintain these vanity projects.