Montreal man threatens kids with chainsaw

[OperationFerret]

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-job-as-pruner

The city of Montreal has suspended Manuel Delisle, the man accused of revving a chainsaw in a road rage incident that was caught on video, with pay from his municipal job as a pruner.

Delisle has been put on paid administrative leave while the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough where he’s worked as a temporary blue-collar employee on and off since 2006 decides whether he’s able to return to work “as much for his own safety as that of his colleagues and citizens,” city spokesperson Gonzalo Nunez said on Thursday.


Delisle was charged with armed assault on Tuesday after wielding a chainsaw as he approached a vehicle that he had allegedly cut off while driving in St-Jérôme on Sunday evening. He pleaded not guilty and was released with a long list of conditions, including an order for him to stay at least 500 metres from the home and workplaces of the couple in the car that he approached with his revving chainsaw.

The couple, whose children were in the car with them, recorded the incident and posted the video on Facebook, where it has been viewed more than 1.3 million times.

Delisle cannot be fired at this stage because the charge isn’t related to his work, Nunez said.

Video of the incident here.

According to the City of Montreal, Pitbulls are too dangerous to be legal anymore but chainsaw maniacs are A Okay for employment. Wonderful.

[Deletedaccount1]

What would firing him accomplish?

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Yes, even here in Quebec we have these kind of things.

Also the pitbull debate is amazingly ridiculous. Its a owner issue, not a dog issue. Same for kids and parents, quite frankly.

[Celista]

But....was he wearing a clown costume at the time?

[OperationFerret]

What would firing him accomplish?

It would send the message that the City does not condone road rage or its workforce acting like Friday The 13th rejects in front of distressed kids?

But....was he wearing a clown costume at the time?

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He's just one step away.