A mountain of stolen bikes

The guy who owned and ran a bike shop called 'bicycle clinic' at Queen St W and Strachan Ave was busted for possession of stolen bikes. And they brought all the bikes from his shop to the police station. I heard there was a bike mountain of stolen bikes.

How many? They don't know yet, but it's several thousand. They've found about 5000 bikes in various storage places around the city that he was renting.

So I went to the warehouse at Strachan and Ordinance that the Toronto police were using to display all the bikes they recovered from his shop for people in the city to check if their stolen bike happened to be there. There were 2 buildings with the bikes sorted in alphabetical order. I was hoping I'd find our daycare ladies' daughter's bike in the mass of bikes recovered. It was stolen a week after she got it for her birthday a few weeks back. But unfortunately I didn't see it.

National Post article
Toronto Sun article
CTV news
The Toronto Star
CityTV news.ca

If you go to canoe.ca and do a search with "igor kenk" you will find a bunch of articles related to this bike theft ring.

Apparently behind the shop there was a mountain of bikes. It was like where bikes go to die or something. The police basically watched these guys in broad daylight take a pair of bolt cutters and cut a lock and bring the bike right into the store.

The guy had the balls to do an interview with a newspaper reporter (who was writing an article about 12000 reported bike thefts in Toronto every year) a few weeks before his arrest to say that he had nothing to do with the mass of bike thefts in the city.
Ya right.

Here's the article and Igor's quotes from iBikeTO.ca: Bike Theft in Toronto

It was common knowledge on the bike section of toronto.craigslist.org that this guy perpetuated bike theft in the city.

Then a few weeks later he was busted. He basically pays people to steal bikes and bring them to his shop to resell. What a ......! You fill in the blanks.

Queens of the WWF

They are the two strongest women in High Park. Who knows where else. Direct from the Ukrainian capital of Toronto.

These half Brit half Slavics were around before the British Buldogs were ever on the scene.

It's Slawka and Marika. The WWF Slam Sisters.
These two are unbelievably strong. If you need a fridge or stove moved. Slawka there on the right can do it by herself. Marika will come along just to supervise. She's more the management type and tends to wrestle opponents much smaller.

We were invited to dinner for Slawka's birthday. And we were even joined by a celebrity. That's Andre the Giant's offspring. He's still a toddler, but man can this kid eat. He's gonna be 10ft tall by the time he turns 5 years old. He injured his wrist lifting what he thought was his bottle, but it was a keg of beer.




Click here for more photos with the dinner with the wrestling family.

There's some sewage pipe work being done on Annette St and those are the metal shoring structures they put in as they replace the pipes.

Can't these guys hurry up and finish so we can get on with our garage sale?!




Kieran was bringing a piece offering so that he wouldn't get mistaken for sushi.




Oh and if anyone wants a new kitty. Keetcha had 6 brand new kitties.

Get em while they are still available. There's a bunch of blackies, orange and tortoise shell ones.

It's Sukaboy day!

It's another year gone by for Sukaboy.
I kinda knew stuff was going on, but still I was surprised.
Kids below the age of 6 don't know what a secret means.

I think I'd been a good boy this year. I did my best.
I didn't get any traffic tickets that I had to go to court to fight. So it was a good year I think.

Plus I got a FutureShop gift card from the daycare ladies.
So when you're good, they call you "rent-a-husband".


My cousin came over the other day. So I drank a bottle and a half with Wino-centric to celebrate another year of not hitting a car while riding my bike.


And a big happy birthday to my cousin Cathy, it's her birthday too. I'd call you but I don't have your number. She's had a tough year and hugs and kisses from all of us and the kids at daycare and kiddies everywhere to her and Dave, and the kids.

And thanks for all the birthday voicemails....I'd return them, but we deleted them to make room for the folks who are supposed to call about the work on replacing our windows and sills.

Click me for more photos of me drinking wine with ChrisR, and kids singing "happy birthday teaser tootie".

The Bacani Cup 2008

It was the Bacani's versus the world.
There's so many of them they can have their own tournament.






ChrisR was bragging about being able to drink 5 glasses of wine in a brown bag test, critique them and indicate the varietal and winery and all by the time Tan touches his finger to his nose.

He's not Wino-centric for nothing you know.



Grace was keeping an eye out for birds of prey. People were saying that they had been hearing the screech of a screaming eagle all afternoon.

But the screaming stopped when we stopped playing. Hmmm...coincidence?

Click me for more photos of all the Bacani's ...there's a lot. Since there's so many of them.

The Wino-centric in Niagara On The Lake

This is him...Winecentric.
Click the link on the right nav bar for a whole wack of wines he's reviewed.

He's also practicing for Captain Morgan competition too.





We did tastings...
and more tastings.






And more tastings...
Drink and you shall have all your wishes come true,
but your soul will be mine forever.

And so will all your credit card bills.
That's why ChrisR drinks so much.
To lessen the blow.



It was ChrisR get out of Goldhawk pass card so we hit as many wineries as we could under the legal limit.
It was a taste of freedom that he's never had before in Canada.
See the look on his face. He's in his element.





We kept going until we started putting our wine goggles on.





Or when you look like you are listening, but the words just go in one ear and out the other like the wind.
Just like how ChrisR is demonstrating here.



Here's where we went and the ChrisR reviews I could recall:
Cattail - thumbs down
Maryinissen - 5 thumbs up, keep the wine coming
Reif - okay
Inniskillin - thumbs up, wallet empty
Peller - okay
Wayne Gretzky - needs work
Thirty bench - should be benched
Cave Springs - thumbs down
Strewn - good
Pilliteri Estates - lots of awards, good


Click me for more photos of the Wino-centric in Niagara On The Lake with his posse