Toronto Garbage Workers Assault Toronto Crime Lawyer but No Justice Meted

Sunday morning, faced with the prospect of wasting three or four hours of his time when he had scheduled client meetings, he got out of his car and walked over to the dump, a fenced compound in Caledonia Park in the Lawrence Ave. West and Dufferin area, and placed his garbage inside. He toted in eight bags from his home and his law practice.

For his efforts, he said he was yelled at and eventually pushed around by two strikers. Police were called, and much to Mr. Lindsay's dismay, they declined to press charges against those he say accosted him. And to add to his feeling that justice sometimes works in strange ways, or doesn't work at all, police later called and told him, as the alleged victim, that he wouldn't be charged either.

The whole episode left him fuming.

"The message that gets out to ordinary members of the public is if you get assaulted by the strikers, don't waste your time seeking the police's help because the police will not help you," he said.