The National Post is full of shit:
"Residents of British Columbia’s Bowen Island are in “lockdown” as a marauding wolf-dog hybrid that has killed at least one dog continues to be spotted across the island, leading fearful residents to keep children and pets indoors."Don't worry. We're not in "lockdown." And one of our "prized" swans was found dead, but no one has established it's cause of death much less from the marauding wolf-dog. My kids play out of doors, although they are being careful around the learning centre near the golf course where the wolf-dog is on the prowl.
God, you'd think the end of the world was nigh.
This was a pickup story pulled from the Province. That story quoted an islander - whom I've never heard of - who said the island was under "lockdown." The paper may have spoken to 15 or 20 people before they found someone suitably alarmed enough to make this tenuous story stick, then dumped all the other interviews. So the post is full of shit, so is the province. Fear sells, as our friends in the united states know well.
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