"Pleads Guilty To Armed Robbery," Winnipeg Tribune. September 20, 1943. Page 11.
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Pleading guilty to a charge of robbery with violence, Joseph O. P. Fabro, 68 Boyle st., was remanded for sentence by Judge Whitla in county court today.
Steve Hrynchuk, also of 68 Boyle st., jointly charged with Fabro for the same offense, pleaded not guilty and was remanded for trial Oct. 26. Fabro will be sentenced after Hrynchuk's trial.
Fred Phillips, the Crown's complaining witness, alleges that on Aug. 9, when he was acting as clerk in the King's hotel, Higgins ave, he was robbed of $6 by two men, one armed with a revolver.
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I have stress hives now...what fun
so at the hotel I work night shift at we have a few people that try to check in every now and then who, ten time out of nine, will not have the money to actually pay for the room they reserved, they will insist, “oh you lost my money” “no way you already charged me” “oh gosh all my money is gone” mysteriously this happens to them a lot.... After a few strikes we usually put blocks on most online booking for them, and turn them away if they try to show up as a walk in.
One such woman has been here three times this week. Not only did I have to cancel her reservation the one night, I needed to run night audit and she was a no-show (again) she comes in at like 5, and is angry that I cancelled her room, as she should have until seven... and I had to tell her no, our audit runs at 4 so you have until 4 a.m. (well, like 3:50 as I give myself a grace period for running to do no-shows/money drops what have you. She is angry naturally because “that one girl told her seven.” (Also she was quite put out that when she demanded I give her my phone so she could go online to “get money” as her phone was dead, I flatly refused. (didn’t bother mentioning that I don’t actually have a cell phone but I digress...
Now, tonight with the whole nonsense, “that one girl” has been me, my manager, the person on the phone, or potentially the “app”. Sus to say the least.
First I had seen some people just around the big trashcan right outside and they just kept being there. So I finally went out to see who it was. Imagine my joy when I saw my current headache...
Anyway, she and the guy she’s with come in to complain about me “staring at them” and I replied that I was in fact doing my job and just checking on the random loiterers. Didn’t say anything to them at the time, had just braced myself...
And I was right to, they come in saying they want to check their “cash-apps” and “move some money around”
So I wait, and they mostly sit there, talking... inappropriately as well, for a public lobby no matter the time of night, and the half-hour mark, I ask if they are intending to actually rent a room or not. They get mad, trying to insist they were trying but it was my fault for cancelling their reservation the day before. I pointed out that even if they had arrived on time for that one and checked in, they would have still needed to check out at 11:00, 12:00 if they asked for a late check-out.
Then they were mad again, I guess I stole their money from the previous stay, even though that card declined and did not go through, so no charges could be made. The guy starts calling me “rude to customers” saying “it’s a free country” (?) and telling me I was going to be fired tomorrow. Joy.
He appears to leave and the woman is suddenly my bestie and “just let her finish figuring out her finances.” hour and half later I ask again, unimpressed with her staring off into space and not “finding and sorting her finances” so now someone has stolen her deposit from cash app and can I let her sit inside until she can get a ride? The guy she was with had left her blah blah, now she does use a cane and has a bad foot, so I said alright, then she makes some personal calls, none of which involve getting a ride, then she snuggles down and goes to sleep in the chair...I’m trying to ignore this, there is a homeless lady I let sleep in the chair sometimes when she passes through so fine...only I go to the bathroom and when I come out, there is the guy “who left her oh no!”, who was hiding in a camera blindspot, and he’s playing on his phone and I tell them, nope, all kindness has fled my soul now, I need you both to leave the premises. They get mad at me again, saying “they’ve been trying” ...the candycrush app open on his phone and her snoring says otherwise.
They get out of the building at least, and both are screaming nasty things at the door (aimed at me) so I finally call the non-emergency police number (they were white locals so I figured they’d be safe enough) (any person of color would have to be like, threatening me with actual death before I would call any cops on them, once I did get a Hispanic guy to give me his mother’s phone number though, when he would not stop being a problem (very drunk and was kicking holes in the hallway walls)...good as gold after she ripped him a new one) because while I want people to behave and not be giant problems, I really, really don’t want anyone getting hurt or worse...)
Anywho, call them to ask them to come escort them from the premises, and I believe problem lady heard me as she was coming in as suddenly I was “ma’am” and “I hate to trouble you” and they suddenly were able to leave...
But yeah, stress hives now, and I seriously hope my manager blocks her from now on.
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the fact that first Justin put Taako, From TV* into a Steeplechase episode, and then once the novelty of that had worn off, put Shrek** into the same episode and spoke exclusively in a Shrek voice for about half an hour, meaning that as soon as the boys moved onto a new area, I was fucking quaking in my boots about who the next NPC could possibly be — only for Justin to decide to play a 5'7 ordinary guy named Justin, because he was just so tired of doing voices and wanted to signal to his family that this guy was unimportant, yet instead somehow incited such an utterly bonkers feral energy in the PCs with that decision that Beef Punchley fucking punched Character!Justin in the face with brass knuckles in front of a security camera, immediately knocking him unconscious and jeopardizing the entire heist, is possibly the single greatest series of consecutive rug pulls in the history of The Adventure Zone
*cast member portraying Taako at Fantasy Disney World for presumably minimum wage
**by Shrek I actually mean Shroog. kiss him and you'll get an "I Smooched Shroog" sticker
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THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME 😭
Why don’t they make her taller than him, since that’s their alleged body stats? They ended up changing Laura’s height from originally 5’6” to 5’1” in all new Wolverine to match her current look. I know it’s not a big deal but I feel like I want them to change the stats if they’re not accurate strictly because my brain doesn’t like that it doesn’t match. I know I’m being annoying and this doesn’t matter at all but it’s okay for him to be a short king too, you know? Or we can update these numbers for all of the neurodivergent fans who are overly obsessed with small facts??? 😅
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