Entrenched behaviours

This is a screenshot of a forum posting. A person has lost their driver's license and so is wondering where to buy a small helicopter. Seriously: Where to look to buy a helicopter?

Anything, anything but riding public transport, or car-pooling. Or Heaven forbid, cycling.

SkyTrain purse snatcher sentenced

CBC: SkyTrain purse snatcher says sorry in Vancouver court.

The real tragedy here is that turnstiles at SkyTrain stations would have prevented any of this from happening in the first place.

Evidence of the on-going Financial Apocalypse

The Take 5 cafe in the Metrotown Mall has a sign near the cash register that says We are no longer accepting any U.S. currency. The sign is not hand-written; it has the official Take 5 logo on it and everything.

Unrelated: my calendar tells me that today is L. Ron Hubbard's birthday.