For those of you who either don't live in Vernon, or don't watch CHBC news, you likely haven't heard about all the controversy surrounding the local halfway house here as of late.
A couple weeks ago an elderly couple was home-invaded by a man who had visited them earlier to check out their van that was up for sale. He returned during the night, tied the couple up, robbed them, and during the process beat the 75 year old grandfather to the point where he eventually succumbed to his injuries while in hospital. An APB went out on the front page of the Morning Star, (the local newspaper), and a suspect was nabbed by police seemingly hours later. Immediately afterwards, a badly decomposed body was discovered over an embankment near adventure bay. The body was later identified as a 60 year old man who met with foul play nearly a month ago. The newspaper was quick to point out the fact that the home invader had disappeared from the Howard House just over a month ago, and was already a suspect in that killing as well.
Eric Norman Fish is the third man in 8 years to bugger off from the Howard House and find someone to kill... the exact same offense that landed him, and the two previous murderers, in the clink in the first place. Three people that have been deemed by their parole board as "safe to be reintegrated into society" have reoffended amongst the population of our quiet little town. I say we relocate the Howard House to it's own little peninsula off the North coast, 200 miles from any other sign of civilization. Let the residents learn to live with and take care of each other. Let them form their own little town, with proper structure and an internal government. People who manage to excel in that environment would be given the option to return to the rest of the world... and the remainders would just kill each other off. We could call it Australia II. Perhaps the Howard Peninsula would become a destination for surfing tourists in a couple centuries.
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