One Old Green Bus

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08/02/06

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Categories: From The Desk of Sue

How far do you go for that dog in the window?

Yesterday I wrote that it was whopping 117 degrees in Toronto, Canada. Today is not much better. However tomorrow clean, cold Arctic air will sweep in and push out the hot, humid and polluted air that has been lingering over most of southern Ontario (which has been making it feel unbearable here).

Yesterday, at our local mall's underground parking garage a dog was rescued by two shoppers. The dog had been left for who knows how long in a car ... and yes it was 117 degrees by mid afternoon so one could only guess the interior temperature of the locked vehicle.

The shoppers smashed the window of the car liberating the dog.

I personally agree with their actions, although not everyone in our local news seems to think this was a good idea. The owner of said vehicle and dog is now insisting they were only dashing in for a few minutes, left the car running and had the A/C turned on. They now state they are going to sue the shoppers!

Several people in the media are now saying what the shoppers did was vigilantism! I absolutely disagree.

Years ago, my bus man was confronted with a similar situation. In this case he did not smash the windows, but he did call police. The police along with our local SPCA rescued the poor animal.

Have you had a similar experience? What did/would you do?

Cheers!
Sue

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This blog was started in April of 2006... its original itent was really twofold. One was to be a "sounding board" for it's author... and the other... well...

At the time we started this, your humble author was unemployed and going through the usual crisis situations that arise from being jobless.

We (my wife, stepdaughter, and I,) used to "amuse" ourselves (read: Take our minds off our troubles) by more-or-less fantasizing as a family about what we'd do when things "turned around". Along this route, we discussed going to England on a vacation... and in that, alighted on "double-decker buses".

We kind of adopted one bus... Regent Low Height 3... as Our Bus... and we used to talk about what we'd do with "our bus" if we got it... from fixing it up to the trips we'd take on it.

Along the way, we became students of the history of this bus which HONESTLY seemd it was truly for us... trouble was, we couldn't afford the bus and weren't in a position to work towards the bus... so we had a couple of options...

Since the bus' position was sketchy (there's a chance she might be sold for scrap or "carved up" in other ways,) we could forget about her and pretend she didn't exist...

...or we could TRY... ask for help... put our dream of owning and saving "One Old Green Bus" into the universe and see what happens...

As of February, 2008, we knew that there was a perspective buyer for the bus (not us, obviously,) and made some difficult decisions... The first was that we wouldn't "beg" for help anymore and give the little money we received to a few different charities both online and off... and the second was simply hope that either we find a corporate sponsor (for an "ad" idea we have, click here to about read that,) or even a patron who see's the value in a silly family's dream...

But, if the bus is about to be purchased by someone who's planning on restoring it and they "get there first", we wish them well and are glad that at least Our One Old Green Bus is in a safe place being looked after.

For now, though, we are still hoping WE might be the ones to get our One Old Green Bus and see a family dream come true...

Regardless, this blog WILL continue... and we will still "go for" a bus of our own... but this blog will ALWAYS be dedicated to our own One Old Green Bus.

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