Gotta love Canadian priorities. I mean, I worry most about the noise if Chalk River starts leaking.

[theweaselking]

Forty-six air-raid-style sirens, purchased for $1.6 million more than a year ago for Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations, are gathering dust in an Ajax warehouse while Pickering politicians try to come up with an alternative that doesn't make as much noise.

In Pickering, local opposition to the 27 planned sirens has been strong in the Bay Ridges and West Shore communities, where residents feel the sirens would lower property values and possibly create panic if they ever sounded.

Comments

And you call us stupid...

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I love this. The irony is so fucking thick you could cut it like cake and eat it.

Re: And you call us stupid...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There are stupid people everywhere.

In vast numbers.

I need a bigger gun.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Isn't the whole point of the sirens to create panic?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

But not to lower property values.

In case of a nuclear emergency, they'll need to save that any way they can.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Because, you know, your house is going to be worth so much when you don't need to buy light bulbs since the walls now glow in the dark.