Sadly, dynamite monkeys are a vanishing species. People keep encroaching into the natural rock quarries they inhabit. Or taunting them, of course.

Ok so this suggests this is where Burnaby is (I missed this story the first time around).

This won't be a problem when they limit each home owner to a strict 4 sick dynamite law.

What an unstable explosive might look like

Snarfangel: Sadly, dynamite monkeys are a vanishing species. People keep encroaching into the natural rock quarries they inhabit. Or taunting them, of course.

Fark Rye For Many Whores: Ok so this suggests this is where Burnaby is

Burnaby is next door to Vancouver BC, on the west side of America's Hat.

oldfarthenry: Back in MY day you could mosey on down to the general store and buy a few sticks of dynamite along with your cigars, crackers and molasses.
One time I got chin-wagging with old-man Johnson and lit what I thought was a Producto Corona. I was pretty red in the face after the explosion (which you couldn't see as I was covered in black-sugar & saltines).
Those were good times.

chin-wagging :-)

Old dynamite can be pretty unstable stuff, mind you.

for some reason this is what popped into my head

Where's the picture of that guy from Lost that blew himself up?

Anyway...  You've got to be some special kind of idiot to have dynamite sticks hanging around, and not realize how dangerous it is if it's leaking and unstable.  We talking, that could have blown the top part of that building, and the drugs, completely apart!

Maud Dib: Old dynamite can be pretty unstable stuff, mind you.
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And now I have Tangerine Dream stuck in my head... Thanks a lot.

 I've seen this episode already

But I thought there were laws about  guns in Canada. How criminals  have guns if there are laws against it?

elkraf: But I thought there were laws about  guns in Canada. How criminals  have guns if there are laws against it?

The kind of criminals who can afford an apartment full of cocaine have guns, just like they do in the USA.

The loser who holds up gas stations, convenience stores or liquor stores, on the other hand, does not usually have a pistol the way he does in the USA because black market handguns are too expensive for the average loser criminal.  With no built-in domestic handgun owners to steal from, pistols have to be smuggled over the border which is risky and which jacks up the price of a black market gun 5X-10X.

The result is that high level gangsters tend to kill each other just like they do in the USA but that there is much MUCH less blood being spilled the way there is in our southern neighbours' houses and businesses and streets every day.

Lots and lots of random death must be worth it to you guys because, y'know, "freedom".  Me?  Glad to live in this horrible unfree dictatorship where the right to dodge bullets isn't enshrined as a god given gift.

Bill_Wick's_Friend: elkraf: But I thought there were laws about  guns in Canada. How criminals  have guns if there are laws against it?

The kind of criminals who can afford an apartment full of cocaine have guns, just like they do in the USA.

The loser who holds up gas stations, convenience stores or liquor stores, on the other hand, does not usually have a pistol the way he does in the USA because black market handguns are too expensive for the average loser criminal.  With no built-in domestic handgun owners to steal from, pistols have to be smuggled over the border which is risky and which jacks up the price of a black market gun 5X-10X.

The result is that high level gangsters tend to kill each other just like they do in the USA but that there is much MUCH less blood being spilled the way there is in our southern neighbours' houses and businesses and streets every day.

Lots and lots of random death must be worth it to you guys because, y'know, "freedom".  Me?  Glad to live in this horrible unfree dictatorship where the right to dodge bullets isn't enshrined as a god given gift.

I could set your stereotype straight, but I'd have to introduce another one to do it, so I'll just be(at) off now....

Big_Fat_Liar: I could set your stereotype straight

I am sure you could.   Just not using statistics, murder rates, death-by-handgun numbers etc etc.

Where I live is a safer place to live because people here aren't shooting at each other to settle neighbourhood disputes, because criminals have a hard time getting hand guns, because insane people have a nearly impossible time getting hand guns and because there isn't a fetishistic romanticized "gun culture" that encourages simpletons and whackos to arm themselves because of a moronic misinterpretation of "freeeedom!".

Nor the Trunk Monkey...