Rifled in Calgary

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We have at least a whole 'nother blog to post, but this is what happened this morning.

Dan woke up this morning to go get a cup of coffee. He was walking down the street when he saw a guy with the same bag as he had his vitamins in. A little odd he thought, to see some homeless guy with the same bag. When he got to the casino (where we got coffee yesterday while playing black jack and roulette) it was closed. When he got back to the hostel he checked on his bike and found his panniers open with stuff scattered around it! He took out the hatchet and went to look for the guy that had the bag (which was missing from his panniers). About that time I came out front with Leche, and he was holding the hatchet and had a pissed-off look on his face.

We went down the block and found the guy with the bag. We got the bag back from him... filled with a dog-chain, half smoked cigarettes and corks! I dumped the stuff out and he immediately scrounged it back up, putting the half-smoked cigarettes into an empty potato chip bag. We started to shake him down to find out where the vitamins (and the pellet gun BTW) were. He swore he didn't have them, blamed the Indians for rifling through stuff and proceeded to "help" us look for them.

He went to the nearest garbage can and started pulling everything out (with much skill I might add) and pulled out an empty Advil bottle. At this point Dan was on the phone with the police, and I was with Leche on the corner. The guy went around the parking lot and came back with a plastic bag he found. It had a bottle of vodka and a 6-pak of beer. He proceeded to put beers into the empty vitamin bag while giving us sympathy for our mis-fortune.

We started to realize that the search was in vain, and walked back to the hostel. We are getting ready to head out to Banff(adventure capital of Canada). Its bear country out there and some guy on the street told us to keep bears away we need to spray ammonia all around our campsite and on ourselves if necessary.."Bears hate that shit, it gets all in their nose and really fucks em up!" he says. But first we need to go to the motorcycle shop and get some motorcycle pants, a tire and possibly a helmet. We're looking forward to the mountains and the wilderness.

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Drugs gone missing
That really sucks guys. I thought Canada had less crime.