IT WAS A JOKE. Good Lord.

Incredible. You'd find it incredible. You'd BE incredulous. For all intensive purposes, anyway.

However today would be a pretty good day for the cops to go through the trash cans.

He was also calling up someone to meet him at Muzik I'm guessing...

Seconded.

Here, here.

Very few higher level detectives are dim bulbs. They may have blind spots and they work in a screwed up system, but they are generally tough, bright, methodical people.

Ha ha, come on. There are times when you just have to admire the guy.

I think the 'imminent arrest' rumours came from low level TPS sources who heard that the investigation had gone to OPP to sign off on and assumed it was a rubber stamp.

Eek! The sweat stains! My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

It is possible (but unlikely) that TPS have not shown their full hand to OPP. It is also possible that the latest outbreak of public sniping is just the tip of the iceberg of hostility and distrust between the two forces, in which case TPS may indeed have been wary of oversharing. And it is...

Wow, what a c*nt. <-- British, forgive me My takeaway from all this is that TPS have been publicly humiliated today. They now have an extraordinary amount to prove. Blair in particular has been made to look like a complete ass. Two possibilities 1. They give up and move on 2. They target...

Well, Lisi probably doesn't have much choice. If he rats out then he's a marked man whether in prison or on the streets. And I strongly suspect there's a lot of bad stuff he's done that could be revealed by third parties. So he probably figures he just has to take his lumps and get his reward later.

'Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk' - Thoreau The problem with that is that you can't prove what Rob and Lisi were talking about, nor can you compel them to testify. In order to make a conspiracy to extort charge stick you have to prove beyond a...

That's not gonna happen. TPS is going to close ranks and pursue this independently. They're not going to let OPP put a Major Case Manager on it at this point.

Has pud99 been replaced by some kind of weird spammy robot?

I also suspect the outgoing OPP chief took this with some reluctance and then handed it over to the new guy, who took a look at it and though 'screw this, what's the upside?' The reason for Giroux's bafflement is probably that the cop he was talking to was just doing what his bosses told him --...

Looks like it, doesn't it? I would not expect TPS to take this lying down. Will be interesting to see what their next move is.

I find this baffling. It's not either/or. Both can be true. One doesn't negate the other. I think what really happened is this: OPP would only sign off on this case if they felt sure it was going to stick. Otherwise it would reflect badly on them. They have no investment in the case at all --...