Some interesting points of view. A theme that I find intolerable however is that criminally assaulting someone ( with associated injury ) is somehow justified by either the nature of the town ( it’s a mining town etc ) or the person assaulting another is just a “redneck”. Another poor one is the person is not a local. Many many people live and visit Fernie that are from other parts of our great country – we have freedom to move in this country and it is a precious right. Just because someone did not grow up in the Elk Valleyis not a reason to be hospitalized by some thug hiding beind the moniker of a local, coal miner or sawmill worker. Similarly if someone is impoilte then they display their ignorance – you can’t justify smashing there head in for it.
These are all very poor excuses to hide behind and am surpised by some of the themes on this thread that are making light of it or at worst attempting to justify it. These excuses do not justify in any way the beating of another person. The victim can be injured and affected for Life… and my family has first hand experience with the after effects.
