By Staff
October 21st, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A reader sent us the following:
Halton police said a Burlington senior received minor injuries when her vehicle was stolen as she loaded groceries Wednesday, Oct. 9. At about 10:42 a.m., the 80-year-old was in the parking lot of the No Frills on Brant Street and was loading groceries into her Mercedes sedan when a man approached, said Const. Jeff Dillon, Halton Police media officer.
It’s alleged the suspect got into the victim’s Mercedes and drove away. Dillon said the senior sustained minor injuries from falling as a result of the vehicle pulling away. The suspect is described as wearing black shoes, black pants, and a black sweater.
Car hijacked in broad daylight from the No Frills parking lot on Brant Street.
This is a very frightening incident. To have someone dart into your car and drive it away while you are loading groceries in the trunk in broad daylight shows that the thieves have become more brazen.
This happens in Toronto – and now Burlington?
We need to arm and have open carrry so we can defend ourselves. The police won’t.
Safety and protection of residents and particularly seniors and those with disabilities is not a high priority in Burlington, Halton, Ontario or Canada. In 2018 it was publicly stated at an all candidates meeting that one candidate was told at police officers doors knocked on that the Halton crime statistics were improperly under reported. Something our audits had told us for years as we and victims became examples of shoot the messenger rather than fix the problem.
We have been making our audits of such available to Federal, Provincial and Municipal representatives since the 90’s. The voice of the vulnerable, regardless of how often we speak out is ignored. Effie advised on Hansard we are a strong voice and the Gazzette chronicles there are those who are fed up of hearing it.
There are those who have listened and acted, even this week, and prevented tragedy but they are few and far between. We are hopeful that before 2026 we can get before the public the publication almost complete in our files that tells the story of deaf ears at all government levels of those we elected that shows how we got to this stage with the latest brazen crime at Brant Street No Frills Plaza taking place as it did.