[HoosierDaddy]

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Two Major League Soccer coaches, an eight-year-old driving a van, an Albertson's parking lot, a bottle of Canadian whiskey ... that's a recipe for adventure right there.

Pictured here we see Mark A. Belanger, 34, of Sarasota, who was arrested on charges of child endangerment on Sunday night when he allegedly let his eight-year-old son drive a van, which almost plowed into two Toronto FC coaches who were walking nearby. Some tremendous quotes here, so let's get right to them.

Belanger told police he was "feeling woozy and didn't want to drive." He also told them he let his child drive "because he wanted to have a bonding moment with his son." The two pedestrians nearly hit by the child driver are coaches with a Major League Soccer club team, Toronto FC. The team has been in the area for about a week in a training camp.

Witnesses said the boy crashed the van into a tree, shattering the driver's side rear window, after the two coaches got out of the way. The boy then crashed a second time into a tree, damaging the car's radiator, the police report said.

When police arrived, Belanger fell to the ground after he dropped his wallet. When he fell, he slammed his face on the pavement, leaving a gash on the bridge of his nose. The boy told police his father took "liquid medicine in order to feel better." He pointed to an empty bottle of Canadian whiskey in the vehicle.

Mark A. Belanger just pawn in game of life!

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[Sparkimus]

See? Even Canadian boys don't like soccer

[HoosierDaddy]

Teaching your son booze is liquid medicine? Life lesson right there.

[Sparkimus]

Bourbon, Tums and duct tape is the only three things a man needs to survive anything.

[RodeoRanch]

I've had that medicine too. Works for awhile but the side-effects in the mornings are killer.

[Mentalist]

Leave TFC alone

that is all

[Sparkimus]

Mentalist, on Feb 12 2009, 05:57 PM, said:

Leave TFC alone

that is all

Never.

[Darkwatch]

Mentalist, on Feb 12 2009, 05:57 PM, said:

Leave TFC alone

that is all

The very fact that it's from Toronto, means it must be ridiculed until it dies of shame.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Pffft...these Canadians are such amateurs.

But let's all become inundated in Canadianess.

Baseball and syrup!

[Darkwatch]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 13 2009, 06:32 AM, said:

Pffft...these Canadians are such amateurs.

But let's all become inundated in Canadianess.

Baseball and (a word is missing here) syrup!

You can't seem to get your stereotypes right.

The correct response would have been:

"Hockey and Maple syrup"

[Tsundoku]

Darkwatch, on Feb 13 2009, 10:29 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 13 2009, 06:32 AM, said:

Pffft...these Canadians are such amateurs.

But let's all become inundated in Canadianess.

Baseball and (a word is missing here) syrup!

You can't seem to get your stereotypes right.

The correct response would have been:

"Hockey and Maple syrup"

Well now, what's that all aboot, eh?

Cheers,

La Sombra, remembers Loosecannon was the biggest Leafs tragic ...

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Besides which, baseball is now called "steroidball", and is recognized as the only sport where men take ridiculous amounts of chemicals to make themselves super-athletes, get paid loads of money, and still ends up as one of the most boring games in history. Jane Austen liked it ffs.

[Anomander]

Sombra, on Feb 13 2009, 09:14 AM, said:

Darkwatch, on Feb 13 2009, 10:29 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Feb 13 2009, 06:32 AM, said:

Pffft...these Canadians are such amateurs.

But let's all become inundated in Canadianess.

Baseball and (a word is missing here) syrup!

You can't seem to get your stereotypes right.

The correct response would have been:

"Hockey and Maple syrup"

Well now, what's that all aboot, eh?

Cheers,

La Sombra, remembers Loosecannon was the biggest Leafs tragic ...

I don't know what jackass started this stereotype, but at least on the east coast I've yet to hear any local pronounce it "aboot". We do use "eh" a lot.

Oh, and because someone has to, go Leafs go!

[HoosierDaddy]

Every Canadian I've met has said the same thing, Anomander. And, they then for the most part when and said aboot.

[LadyMTL]

Ohhhh...Anomander, you didn't just say go Leafs go? I think you've earned a spot in the 9th circle of hell for that (says the lifetime Habs fan, despite their present crapitude). Anyway, how can anyone cheer for a team that's grammatically incorrect? Leaves dammit, not Leafs. Only Torontonians could screw up the plural of leaf.

I will add, however, that I have never heard anyone say "aboot" either. Mind you, I live in Quebec so most people speak French.

[Sparkimus]

I'm yet to hear 'aboot'' from my girlfriend, but I do hear lots of other crazy shit spew out of her mouth so I figure it's only a matter of time.

[HoosierDaddy]

I'll say this, for the most part we don't hear our own accents. And, not all Canadians say it. I'd say aboot 60%.

[Catherine]

I have lived in Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario in my 25 years in the Canadian military and have never heard anyone say aboot. I have no idea where this came from, does anyone know?

[HoosierDaddy]

You are canadian, you wouldn't hear it, it would just sound normal. People up in Minnesota and the Dakota's do it too.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 14 February 2009 - 12:13 AM

[Bhurnae]

Catherine, on Feb 13 2009, 11:19 PM, said:

I have lived in Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta, Quebec and Ontario in my 25 years in the Canadian military and have never heard anyone say aboot. I have no idea where this came from, does anyone know?

Wild Guess.....................probably from all the Scots that were shifted over there during the clearances etc.
We are guilty of saying aboot.................