good on him
too funny!!!
CBCLabour-management relations never meant much to 12-year-old Todd Kot, of Ottawa, until this week. But a strike by thousands of public servants has provided him with a "short cut" to untold riches.Todd Kot
During the strike, the daily ritual at Tunney's Pasture is for hundreds of people to line up at checkpoints set up by pickets. Every five minutes, pickets let someone through the line.
So everyone is prepared to wait, sometimes two to three hours.
Well, not quite everyone.
Some employees stroll nonchalantly past the pickets, down Northwestern Avenue, cough up some cash, deke through Todd's yard, and, presto, they arrive at work on time.
Todd provides impatient labour refugees with safe passage to their office towers.
Just slip the kid two bucks, and one of his friends will escort you around the house, down the side yard, and through the backyard gate — quicker than you can say Reg Alcock.
Word is spreading. Todd's loyal customer base is burgeoning. About 50 people took the backyard access to Tunney's Pasture in the hour a CBC-TV camera was there, Thursday. That's a hundred bucks in just an hour.
A block away, the picket-line bosses don't seem too upset. Strike captain André Albert says, "If he wants to make money from our strike, good for him."
No one taking the short cut wanted to stop and talk to the CBC, and Todd was overheard expressing some concern about the presence of the camera adversely affecting his business, because no one wanted to be seen getting in the back way. He was wishing it would go away.
Who could blame the kid? It brings a whole new meaning to the term "strike pay."
too funny!!!
