A Montreal dad was fined after a neighbour complained about a street hockey game. In the municipality of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, it is illegal to play street hockey. A neighbour called the city to complain about the noise, and a city worker came out and asked the guy to move it to a park. He wouldn’t.
I grew up playing street hockey in front of our house (are you from Canada…do you play hockey?). I can’t imagine what the politicians in that municipality were thinking when they created a by-law banning it from the streets. What about cars, you ask? What about public safety, the safety of our children? That’s why the first person to see an on-coming car shouts CARRRRRRRRRR, the goalies grab the nets and move them off to the side and the rest of the players stand at the side of the road, leaning on their sticks, waiting for the driver to move on through. That’s the way it’s done. Any old fool knows that.
Shame on the municipality of Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Shame on the city worker who had the temerity to issue the ticket. Bravo for the brave street hockey player who stood up for street hockey players across this land.
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We did the same thing as kids in Minnesota. Eventually the local law would run us off the street, but it was a ritual that would resume again next year. On a cul de sac the running off would happen only much later.
My guess is that the municipality is likely not as evil as their insurance company. I can’t really see any Canadian politician promoting a law banning street hockey without some serious pressure being exerted. It would not surprise me to find that some municipality somewhere was sued because some kid was hurt by a car while playing street hockey and that had inspired insurance companies which provide liability insurance to lean on the lawmakers. After all, if a kid is playing hockey illegally the municipality and their insurers would be able to dodge any liability claims. This could be another instance of the insurers secretly running the world and I tend to lump this in with stuff like seat belt laws. Governments dont care if you wear a seat belt but the insurance companies certainly care and they have the clout to have insidious laws passed which maximize their profits.
You just don’t mess with hockey tradition in this country. Just don’t do it.
This is ridiculous!! The guy who complained needs to move either into a retirement home or to an adult community. Seriously – get a life and let the rest of the ‘normal’ people with children enjoy theirs!! Was he never a child himself