The incident started shortly before 4 p.m. MT Wednesday when Blackfalds RCMP responded to a call about a break-in at a rural home on Highway 595, east of Red Deer. There they found that firearms and other items had been taken from the home.
Just over an hour later, police got a call about a stolen John Deere tractor crashing through fences and smashing trees in the area.
While out searching for the stolen farm vehicle, an officer came across a snowmobiler who was also looking for the tractor that had plowed through his property.
"So in typical Alberta fashion we asked him if we could borrow his Ski-Doo with him driving and help us because in central Alberta we still have lots of snow in the fields," said Larocque.
"The owner of the snowmobile said, 'Sure jump on,' and they went off together."
He said the pair followed at safe distance to not put the snowmobile driver's life at risk.
They followed it until the tractor thief, who did not have much experience with the big machinery, stalled. When he got it going again it happened to be on a hill and the tractor rolled.
"There was no injuries at all, so our member then went up and arrested the 25-year-old male driving this tractor with no incident," said Larocque.
He said the officers were able to find the stolen firearms and other stolen property inside the tractor.
"That pretty much solved both break and enters," said Larocque.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
well I do have friends in the Toronto area so maybe??!? I will make a note!
I'm in Ottawa which is a bit of a drive away from Toronto, but it's close enough to possibly meet up there, or in Montreal! Keep me posted; I wouldn't mind making the trip.
I know it's super cheesy, but I really do love this country
It's beautiful, big, spacious, full of nice people
A bunch of our politics are WHACK, but we still got a bunch of shit figured out
Gay marriage, free health care, anti-discrimination and anti-hate speech laws
strong beer
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Do you guys have reenactments of Dudly Do Right asking if it's ok that Canada move out of Mummy and Daddy's house and go out on it's own to find itself?
I've heard Canada pays their teachers pretty nicely too. I've been trying for years to get the wife to move up that way, she current teaches, I have the degree to (but I'm in tech support for financial reasons). We're already in Maine, what's a few more miles north?
I've heard Canada pays their teachers pretty nicely too. I've been trying for years to get the wife to move up that way, she current teaches, I have the degree to (but I'm in tech support for financial reasons). We're already in Maine, what's a few more miles north?
I know my mom does pretty well
But she's been at it for a while and specializes in autism units
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I've heard Canada pays their teachers pretty nicely too. I've been trying for years to get the wife to move up that way, she current teaches, I have the degree to (but I'm in tech support for financial reasons). We're already in Maine, what's a few more miles north?
a few more miles north of Maine?
New Brunswick, possibly the most boring province in Canada
I've heard Canada pays their teachers pretty nicely too. I've been trying for years to get the wife to move up that way, she current teaches, I have the degree to (but I'm in tech support for financial reasons). We're already in Maine, what's a few more miles north?
Don't make the move unless you have a guaranteed job or a bunch of teaching experience. At least in Ontario, it's ridiculously hard to get a job as a young teacher unless you're willing to move to the middle of nowhere, and even then. I know a lot of folks who got the education required to teach and then had to go into a vastly different field.
Once you're in you're good for employment though, I think.
Also it was 33 this week and you would have looooved it
oh noooo don't even tell me, I bet if I do make it up there it will be suddenly freezing.
Gonna try and get some freelance work to cover my expenses for the next few months, in which case it will be Travel City.
hello canada
who wants to let me crash on their couch if I decide to come through the BC area this summer
tynic YO YO YO let's do this
Also it was 33 this week and you would have looooved it
oh noooo don't even tell me, I bet if I do make it up there it will be suddenly freezing.
Gonna try and get some freelance work to cover my expenses for the next few months, in which case it will be Travel City.
Yesssssssss, you are welcome anytime! I'm in Newf for a month and the forumers in and around Vancouver are really amazing
Heck, if timing works out you might be here for my birthday/PAX shenanigans and that would be ridiculously awesome
Interesting - she's had 10 years in special ed now. We're looking at buying a home here in Maine now, so suppose it's probably off the table until my son graduates high school which is quite a ways off.
hello canada
who wants to let me crash on their couch if I decide to come through the BC area this summer
tynic YO YO YO let's do this
Also it was 33 this week and you would have looooved it
oh noooo don't even tell me, I bet if I do make it up there it will be suddenly freezing.
Gonna try and get some freelance work to cover my expenses for the next few months, in which case it will be Travel City.
Yesssssssss, you are welcome anytime! I'm in Newf for a month and the forumers in and around Vancouver are really amazing
Heck, if timing works out you might be here for my birthday/PAX shenanigans and that would be ridiculously awesome
well I do have friends in the Toronto area so maybe??!? I will make a note!
I'm in Ottawa which is a bit of a drive away from Toronto, but it's close enough to possibly meet up there, or in Montreal! Keep me posted; I wouldn't mind making the trip.
well I do have friends in the Toronto area so maybe??!? I will make a note!
I'm in Ottawa which is a bit of a drive away from Toronto, but it's close enough to possibly meet up there, or in Montreal! Keep me posted; I wouldn't mind making the trip.
Oh oh oh we should do a collective Montreal trip!
Yes! Montreal is a fantastic city. Plus, @Psykoma lives there!
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If you're working in the states do you get friday off? A lot of places will give the day adjacent to the 4th
You could celebrate canada day then, which is subversive and kinda awesome
And then there is meeting they want me to physically be at in the evening.
Also the best commercial is mini-hippopotamus
that reminds me of a real police chase from last year, probably the most Canadian police chase ever, in which an RCMP officer got a lift with a snowmobiler to chase a stolen tractor across a farmer's fields.
And yes, we really do have a strategic maple syrup reserve.
Plans are to get drunk, play board games and then see fireworks on Parliament Hill which is a five minute walk away from my apartment
Gonna do this one up right
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Real maple syrup ruined what's normally sold here as "maple syrup" for me.
who wants to let me crash on their couch if I decide to come through the BC area this summer
I didn't have "Real" maple syrup until I lived in Sweden and I did not like it, no sir.
Give me Mrs. Butterworth's please.
I mean, I have a couch, but I don't think I can ship it to Vancouver, sorry
(but if you want to visit Ontario that is an entirely different story!)
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I'm in Ottawa which is a bit of a drive away from Toronto, but it's close enough to possibly meet up there, or in Montreal! Keep me posted; I wouldn't mind making the trip.
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Canada: The Good Time Place.
Only Gay marriage, we haven't gotten around to that other marriage yet
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It's beautiful, big, spacious, full of nice people
A bunch of our politics are WHACK, but we still got a bunch of shit figured out
Gay marriage, free health care, anti-discrimination and anti-hate speech laws
strong beer
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
@tynic YO YO YO let's do this
Also it was 33 this week and you would have looooved it
I know my mom does pretty well
But she's been at it for a while and specializes in autism units
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
a few more miles north of Maine?
New Brunswick, possibly the most boring province in Canada
Don't make the move unless you have a guaranteed job or a bunch of teaching experience. At least in Ontario, it's ridiculously hard to get a job as a young teacher unless you're willing to move to the middle of nowhere, and even then. I know a lot of folks who got the education required to teach and then had to go into a vastly different field.
Once you're in you're good for employment though, I think.
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oh noooo don't even tell me, I bet if I do make it up there it will be suddenly freezing.
Gonna try and get some freelance work to cover my expenses for the next few months, in which case it will be Travel City.
Yesssssssss, you are welcome anytime! I'm in Newf for a month and the forumers in and around Vancouver are really amazing
Heck, if timing works out you might be here for my birthday/PAX shenanigans and that would be ridiculously awesome
I am not Canadian, but I visited Toronto once, and thought it was pretty cool.
YES
TYNIC COULD JOIN US FOR NOT-PAX
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Oh oh oh we should do a collective Montreal trip!
Yes! Montreal is a fantastic city. Plus, @Psykoma lives there!
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A miserable pile of apologies.
I'm sorry but we are a delightful pile of apologies
A mighty stockpile of syrup.