Guess the community (protecting the streets for Halloween)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Name the community with the following neighborhood security for Halloween:

  • A dozen fire trucks and ambulances, all revving engines and shining spotlights
  • A helicopter circling overhead
  • A crew armed with immobilizing darts stationed around the area
  • Firecrackers and high-pitched whistles
  • 151 cell jail, with helicopter flights out of town for an anticipated prisoner overflow of a further 25

Churchill, Manitoba (pop.1,000), protecting against one heck of a polar bear problem:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/25/polarbearpatrol_041025.html

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In “hommage” to DocCathode, this gives a whole new meaning to tasty Halloween treats! :stuck_out_tongue:
How nice that this didn’t turn out to be a gated community / small town somwhere in the American south, which is what I was half-expecting…

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Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!

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Guess the state (US):

Suburban county officially changes Halloween to Saturday, so that it does not fall on the sabbath.

Georgia

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It sounds a bit silly, but it warms my heart to see a town that would go to such lengths to let their kids trick or treat.

There’s no freaking polar bears around here, and every years there’s less and less kids coming to my door. If it takes a freaking team of armed guards with tranquilizer darts to make parents feel safe to dress up and get candy door-to-door, then so be it.

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So, the life-sized polar bear costume is out, then?

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And don’t even think of dressing like a seal.

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You look like you just blew a seal…[/bad joke about polar bears/penguins]

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It’s just ice cream, I swear! ; :stuck_out_tongue:

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Gotta be the same in Utah, I imagine. They used to do the fireworks on Saturday night if the 4th was a Sunday. Except, of course, those rebels in Park City (outpost of sanity in a state gone crazy) - they don’t change their holidays for anybody!

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i’ve been to churchill. it is a great town. it is on my list of places to move to in a flash.