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Liquor stores told to take down Christmas decorations after bugs found
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW AM(980)
Laura Baziuk | Email news tips to laura.baziuk@corusent.com
11/22/2012

Employees at public liquor stores have been asked to take down Christmas decorations after bugs were found in them at one location.

Oliver Rohls, a spokesman with the BC Government and Service Employees Union, says the order came down this morning from the main office as a precaution after insects were found in a container.

“I don't know how many stores are impacted by this directive, but I'm presuming it's any store that had started putting up Christmas decorations has been asked to withdraw them temporarily."

Rohls wouldn't say which location had the bugs, only saying it was in Metro Vancouver.

He adds federal health officials have been called in to investigate.

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  1. Ron_26 posted on 11/22/2012 07:46 PM
    I'm so glad I know this now. Definitely big news.
    1. HedgeH posted on 11/22/2012 08:15 PM
      @Ron_26 Beat me too it!!! Certainly top story I must say. And what are they doing putting up their xmas decor in November anyway??
    2. Garp posted on 11/23/2012 08:29 AM
      @Ron_26 Great comment
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  2. WilliamS_3961 posted on 11/22/2012 08:01 PM
    Oh, the Humanity !!! Say it isn't so !! Not an actual real live insect !!! They should shut the whole store down........ and all the others, just to be on the safe side.
    1. AnneH_4 posted on 11/23/2012 12:48 PM
      @WilliamS_3961 Yes and everyone going into the stores should be sprayed with bug spray 'just in case'.....So Canadian - one thing happens and they change everything for everyone and everything
  3. PaulJ_angryman posted on 11/22/2012 09:00 PM
    Hahahahaha.....funny sarcastic comments..... :) what kind of bugs are we talking about?
  4. amateya posted on 11/23/2012 08:33 AM
    Brought my Christmas decorations out of storage, and found a bug..okay a spider...in one of the boxes. Had to burn the whole house down. You know, cause storage space bugs are evil and all.
    Seriously though, unless there is something special about these "bugs" that were found, it's kind of a silly issue.
  5. RegA [deleted] posted on 11/23/2012 09:10 AM
    I assume the decorations were manufactured in China? With all Schnookums's visits to China, while she was initiating her new consulate job, maybe she did B.C. a favour, and picked out the best decorations, always having British Columbia's best interests in mind. Toss in the miners, and this province is turning into quite the conundrum. Oh, I forgot, oil for the pipeline which would go to China to make plastic, to send back to us via Walmart?
    1. DenisL_3 posted on 11/23/2012 09:26 AM
      @RegA [deleted] Typical uneducated left wing garbage. Is so far off topic makes me wonder if this person is capable of being unbrainwashed.
    2. RonE_1902 posted on 11/23/2012 09:48 AM
      @RegA [deleted] Hey don't forget the old bugs in the NDP party like Adrian Dix
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  6. RonE_1902 posted on 11/23/2012 09:47 AM
    Most likely old BCGEU shop stewards reincarnated.
  7. RegA [deleted] posted on 11/23/2012 10:36 AM
    Ron and Denis, At leaST WE NOW KNOW WHO ARE














    At least we now know who the liberals are in the crowd. I am not a card carrying NDP member, who spent the last 13 years of my working life negotiating against unions, and was successful in putting an end to the BCGoofs trying to raid the union I dealt with, most frequently.
    On Mr. Dix, to you Ron, he is at least a domestic "BUG". Enjoy the election night celebrations, you 2.
  8. RegA [deleted] posted on 11/23/2012 10:54 AM
    Sorry, We now know who the liberals are in the crowd. I fought against unions, including the BC Goofs. And Mr. Dix, to you, Ron, is at least A DOMESTIC bug.
  9. commonsense posted on 11/23/2012 12:07 PM
    This isn't a liberal, socialist, union or whatever issue. It's a crappy product issue. They're massed produced, stored in dumb places and sure enough some liquor stores got the bad batch.

    One argues that it's unions producing crap products, but the same argument can be said for management cutting costs and ordering crap supplies.
  10. amateya posted on 11/23/2012 12:18 PM
    Don't you guys have some political forum somewhere you can bicker at each other? You are ruining this wonderfully buggy Christmas story.
    1. Ron_26 posted on 11/23/2012 04:19 PM
      @amateya Well said.
  11. joes_2868 posted on 11/23/2012 04:14 PM
    HedgeH: Because they do not how to keep themselves occupied work wise. Maybe storing decorations in a clean heated area might help.
    1. Ken280 posted on 11/23/2012 06:20 PM
      @joes_2868 maybe if you to use some lice meds you can control your problem!
  12. joes_2868 posted on 11/23/2012 04:15 PM
    RegA: It's been a long time since I was a kid. GROW UP!
  13. joes_2868 posted on 11/23/2012 04:18 PM
    Ken280: Where is the readers consultant? A man with a briefcase 50 miles away from home. Readers are requesting your comments. They love your shooting from the hip comments.
    1. Ron_26 posted on 11/23/2012 04:24 PM
      @joes_2868 He's in deep thought over Justin.
  14. joes_2868 posted on 11/24/2012 12:58 AM
    Ken280: FANTASTIC! Tempers rising! Blood pressure rising! Stroke coming next from the neck down. GO LIBERALS, GO!

    Readers note Ken's spelling in his comments. I just love it that I am the cause for him to blow so many gaskets. Such a bad temper, does not have time to check over his work.
  15. MikeyM_2 posted on 11/24/2012 01:56 PM
    are these the kind of bugs that see and listen or are they the kind nature put on earth
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