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4:43

On July the fifth of two

4:46

thousand and fifteen residents of Calgary

4:48

Alberta were caught off guard

4:50

by an unexpected side described as

4:53

a scene straight out of the

4:55

animated movie Aren't. It. Was

4:57

a man sitting in a loan shade

5:00

drifting across the sky line tethered to

5:02

an array of colorful helium. Balloons.

5:05

Residents. Were transfixed by the

5:07

side and set social media

5:09

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5:12

of whatever was happening. Some.

5:15

Thought it might be an approved

5:17

stand related to the Calgary Stampede

5:19

which was on that same weekend.

5:22

Others didn't know what to think.

5:25

As the news spread, Calgary Police

5:27

scramble to monitor the man as

5:29

he seem to be drifting higher

5:31

and higher into the sky. The.

5:34

Public may have been amused by

5:36

distant. That. The authorities certainly

5:39

weren't. According to reporting

5:41

by the Calgary Herald, Air

5:44

Traffic controllers at the international

5:46

airport first spotted the man

5:48

in the balloons here contraption.

5:50

Shortly after he rose from

5:52

the ground, but as he

5:54

continued to ascend into scattered

5:56

clouds, they started to lose

5:58

sight of him. By.

6:01

This point he was estimated to

6:03

be at about four thousand feet

6:05

more than double the height of

6:07

the Cn Tower in Toronto. The.

6:10

Air Traffic Sour spotted him

6:12

again at about seven thousand

6:14

feet after the balloons rose

6:16

through another layer of clouds.

6:19

That. Contraptions path was veering dangerously

6:21

close to the flight path

6:23

of commercial aircraft which raised

6:26

serious safety concerns. There is

6:28

no way to divert at

6:30

she tried to balloons that

6:32

ends up floating towards an

6:35

oncoming a craft. And. He

6:37

aircraft itself would have been flying

6:39

too sauce to avoided. A

6:42

crash at three hundred kilometers an hour

6:44

would not only be catastrophic for the

6:46

guy on the chair. But. It

6:48

would cause extensive damage to the

6:51

aircraft in a number of ways

6:53

and could cause it to fall

6:55

and crash into the densely populated

6:58

downtown Calgary area. And who knows

7:00

how many lives would have been

7:02

at stake. The.

7:04

Calgary Police continue to monitor the

7:07

balloons his movement as much as

7:09

they could. What? Goes up,

7:11

must come down. And they didn't

7:13

know who the man and the

7:15

chair, why he was up there

7:18

and what his plan was for

7:20

the end of his journey. wherever

7:22

that may be. Media.

7:24

Outlets rapidly picked up the

7:27

story, circulating images and live

7:29

footage of the airborne balloons

7:31

hair. But. Then the

7:33

man appeared to jump from the

7:36

chair and was falling from the

7:38

sky. A parachute opened and the

7:40

man managed to land safely on

7:43

a Calgary road with the police.

7:45

quickly located and arrested him. The.

7:48

Chair itself continue to float

7:50

away, still tethered to the

7:52

giant bunch of balloons. Reporters

7:56

scrambled to gather information and

7:59

soon details started to emerge

8:01

about the man on the

8:03

chair. His. Name is

8:05

Daniel. He was twenty six years

8:07

old and he identified himself as

8:10

a skydiver who had jumped about

8:12

thirty times. And while he

8:15

may have been a thrill seeker

8:17

on this occasion, he was more

8:19

of a business person eyeing up

8:21

his next opportunity for free publicity.

8:24

Daniel own to Cleaning Products Company

8:26

and he planned to stance has

8:28

a bold marketing move to promote

8:31

his company during the Calgary Stampede.

8:34

He fully cooperated with police telling

8:36

them he'd been planning the

8:38

stunt some month. At

8:40

first he said he wanted to

8:42

parachute out of a plane into

8:44

the stampede groans. But. All the

8:46

pilot seat contacted refused so that's

8:49

when he came up with the

8:51

balloon lawn chair. Idea. He

8:54

told police that he did contact

8:56

the Nas Canada Flight Planning and

8:58

Reporting Center as well as Transport

9:01

Canada to ask for permission, but

9:03

he didn't receive it. He

9:05

decided to go ahead with his

9:07

plan anyway. Daniel.

9:10

Told the media that he spent

9:12

about twenty thousand dollars on the

9:15

Stand which included the purchase of

9:17

about thirteen thousand dollars worth of

9:19

industrial size balloons which he bought

9:22

online. There. Were about a

9:24

hundred and twenty giant balloons, each

9:26

with a diameter of about two

9:29

meters. Daniels employees

9:31

reportedly helps him fill them all

9:33

with helium at a park in

9:35

North West Calgary and then tied

9:37

them to the lawn she was.

9:39

She said he bought from Canadian

9:41

Tire for twenty, but. He

9:44

also bought a Gps to go

9:46

price to video the stunt and

9:48

and oxygen tank for when he

9:50

got high into the air. The.

9:54

balloon said took off with a

9:56

bad dangling from it displaying his

9:59

company logo Then,

10:01

Daniel floated over the city

10:03

skyline, intending to end up

10:05

over the Calgary Stampede during

10:07

the truck wagon races. He

10:11

planned to cut the balloons loose at

10:13

that point and parachute into the rodeo

10:15

as some sort of viral stunt, with

10:18

his parachute also showing the

10:20

company's logo, but it didn't

10:22

work out that way. In

10:25

an interview with the Calgary Herald,

10:28

Daniel described his ascent through the

10:30

first couple of thousand feet as

10:32

pretty scary. He didn't

10:35

know if his contraption would hold up,

10:37

but after that, he said it

10:40

was incredible, both relaxing and frightening,

10:42

but also peaceful as he looked

10:44

down on the streets of downtown

10:47

Calgary as he floated silently in

10:49

the air. As

10:51

he got above the clouds, quote, I

10:54

was looking up at the balloons,

10:56

they were popping, the air was

10:58

shaking and I was looking down

11:00

at my feet dangling through the

11:02

clouds at a 747 flight taking

11:05

off and a few landing. Yes,

11:09

you heard that right, he was

11:11

so high that he saw several

11:13

commercial aircraft flying underneath him. The

11:17

balloon lawn chair reached heights estimated

11:19

to be about 14,000 feet,

11:23

about four kilometres in the

11:25

air above Calgary. Daniel

11:27

described it as the most

11:29

surreal experience imaginable. The

11:33

problem was the weather didn't

11:35

cooperate. High wind currents

11:37

were starting to shift his course

11:39

away from Stampede Park, but he

11:41

said he did get really close.

11:44

He recalled taking one last breath

11:47

of oxygen and turn to his

11:49

GoPro, where he set a variation

11:51

of the same line uttered by

11:53

Neil Armstrong when he stepped on

11:55

the moon. One

11:57

small step for man, one giant

11:59

leap. for Daniel's cleaning company.

12:03

Quote, I then proceeded to flip

12:05

out of the chair and do

12:07

a spin, got stable and pulled

12:09

my parachute. The winds were so

12:11

aggressive once I was under my

12:13

parachute that they were blowing me

12:15

backwards and I had to pick

12:17

an alternative landing spot. Daniel

12:20

landed on a road a few

12:22

kilometers from Stampede Park where he

12:25

was soon arrested by Calgary police.

12:28

It may have been an eventful journey

12:30

but it was a relatively short one.

12:33

Daniel had only been in the air for

12:35

about 20 to 30 minutes.

12:39

He said he sprained his ankle

12:41

but was otherwise unharmed claiming it

12:43

was because of his months of

12:45

planning. His aim was

12:48

apparently to make the voyage as

12:50

safe as possible for everyone else

12:52

and only put himself in danger.

12:55

Evidently he thought he'd been

12:57

successful. But the

13:00

Calgary police did not agree. Inspector

13:02

Kyle Grant called the

13:04

stunt irresponsible. Quote, that

13:07

chair has to come down and

13:09

there's the possibility it could land

13:11

on a person, a vehicle, a

13:13

house and cause damage. This is

13:15

where that plan wasn't thought out

13:17

very well. There's

13:22

no evidence that Daniel mentioned it

13:24

publicly but his plan was likely

13:27

subconsciously inspired by the Los Angeles

13:29

man known as Lawn Chair Larry

13:31

from 1982. Larry Walters was not the

13:34

owner of

13:37

a company who was attempting a

13:40

viral marketing campaign. He

13:42

was a 33-year-old truck driver who

13:44

just wanted to fulfill his lifelong

13:46

dream of flying after

13:49

failing the Air Force's eyesight

13:51

exam. So he attached

13:53

45 helium weather balloons

13:55

to a lawn chair and packed

13:57

sandwiches, drinks, a camera, B-B

14:00

radio and a pellet gun to shoot

14:02

balloons when he got too high, and

14:05

then he set off. His

14:08

plan was to float over the

14:10

desert and safely descend by shooting

14:12

his balloons one by one. But

14:15

just like Daniel from Calgary, Larry

14:18

from LA unexpectedly soared higher

14:20

than he thought he would

14:22

to about 16,000 feet,

14:25

2,000 feet more

14:27

than it was estimated that Daniel reached.

14:30

When Larry entered controlled airspace

14:33

over LAX, he was spotted

14:35

by commercial pilots and monitored

14:37

by air traffic control. Larry's

14:41

flight lasted 45 minutes

14:43

before he started shooting the balloons

14:45

with his pellet gun, and he

14:47

slowly and safely descended after a

14:49

total of an hour and a

14:51

half in the air, although

14:54

his remaining balloons got caught

14:56

up in power lines causing a

14:58

brief power outage. Although

15:01

Lawn Chair Larry was arrested

15:04

and fined for violating federal

15:06

aviation regulations, his

15:08

stunt made him a minor celebrity

15:11

with appearances on national TV. He

15:14

tried to leverage his fame

15:16

into a career in motivational speaking

15:18

but wasn't successful. In

15:21

1993, 11 years

15:24

after his Lawn Chair balloon stunt

15:26

made national headlines, Larry

15:28

Walters died by suicide. His

15:33

famous lawn chair had actually sat

15:35

in someone's garage for 20 years

15:39

and was later donated to the

15:41

Smithsonian. It's reportedly on

15:43

display at the Stephen F.

15:46

Udvar-Horsie Center in Virginia. The

15:49

same can't be said for Daniel

15:51

from Calgary's lawn chair. While

15:54

Lawn Chair Larry was still in his

15:56

chair when he hit the ground, Daniel

15:58

of course abandoned his when he

16:01

jumped off with his parachute. A

16:03

police spokesperson said they expected charges

16:06

would be laid under the Federal

16:08

Aeronautics Act, but for now, Daniel

16:10

was charged with mischief causing danger

16:13

to life in relation to the

16:15

lawn chair and the injuries it

16:17

may have caused when it eventually

16:20

fell to the ground. As

16:23

it turned out, after Daniel jumped

16:25

from it, the lawn chair continued to

16:28

float across the sky and ended up

16:30

more than 30 kilometres

16:32

away from Calgary's downtown area.

16:34

A local resident

16:36

spotted the strange contraption as it

16:38

was descending and would tell the

16:41

media that at first he thought

16:43

it was a UFO. Only

16:45

about 15 of the 120 balloons

16:48

were still inflated. Later,

16:52

the resident was interviewed as he

16:54

was sitting in that same lawn

16:56

chair, an array of colourful pieces

16:58

of rubber still tied to the

17:00

back of it. The

17:02

resident recalled that after he located

17:04

the fallen lawn chair, he wondered

17:06

if there was someone who fell

17:08

out of the sky that they

17:10

should be looking for. The

17:14

man who did fall out of

17:16

the sky, albeit with a parachute,

17:18

spent a night in jail as

17:20

media outlets named him Balloonatic. He

17:23

was released the following morning on the

17:25

condition that he stay at least 300

17:28

metres away from the Calgary

17:30

Stampede grounds. Daniel

17:33

had no criminal record and he

17:35

would later tell CBC News that

17:37

he knew he would get arrested

17:40

but didn't think the authorities would

17:42

pursue the issue as heavily as

17:44

they did. He announced that

17:46

the police didn't charge the Wright brothers

17:49

but he didn't seem to be aware

17:51

that when the Wright brothers embarked on

17:54

their groundbreaking flight in 1903, it wasn't

17:56

above a highly populated city.

18:01

In fact, the Wright brothers had

18:03

already written to the US weather

18:05

bureau to help them find a

18:07

suitable location with wide open spaces.

18:10

And because it was the first

18:12

flight ever, there were of course

18:14

no other planes competing with the

18:16

airspace. In fact, there

18:18

weren't any airports at all. Daniel

18:23

ended up pleading guilty to

18:25

a charge of dangerous operation

18:28

of an aircraft. He

18:30

apologized for the danger he

18:32

caused, but insisted he doesn't

18:34

regret his actions. He

18:36

described the incident as the greatest story

18:38

to tell for the rest of his

18:41

life and the most fun thing he'd

18:43

ever done. In

18:45

sentencing, the judge told him, there

18:48

was nothing fantastic fun or

18:50

exhilarating about it. It

18:52

was dumb and dangerous. The

18:56

court heard that the contraption traveled

18:58

into the flight paths of incoming

19:00

and outgoing commercial airlines and

19:03

a collision could have led to disaster.

19:06

A fully grown Canadian goose

19:08

can cause devastating damage to

19:11

airplanes, even though they only

19:13

weigh about 20 pounds. So

19:15

imagine the damage that could be done by

19:18

a 200 pound manned

19:20

lawn chair tethered to giant

19:22

balloons. The

19:24

judge stated quote, not only would

19:27

there have been a loss of

19:29

lives of those people on the

19:31

aircraft, the crash would have been

19:33

in a densely populated metropolis, risking

19:35

the lives of those on the

19:37

ground. In 2017, Daniel was fined $5,000 plus

19:40

$1,500 as a victim impact fee. He

19:48

was also required to donate $20,000 to a local

19:50

veterans food bank. A

19:55

Calgary police spokesperson said it would have

19:57

been cheaper for him to rent a

19:59

billboard. After all, Daniels

20:02

dangerous done led to

20:04

calls the try to

20:06

regulations to prevent similar

20:08

incidents, highlighting the difference

20:10

between innovative advertising and

20:12

public endangerment. And

20:15

he did it again the following

20:17

year as he recorded an infomercial

20:19

for one of his cleaning products.

20:21

but at least this time it

20:23

was over the desert in Roswell,

20:26

New Mexico, The

20:28

Red Deer Advocate reported that Daniel

20:30

had other plans beyond that. He

20:33

announced he was getting a license

20:35

to operate a hot air balloon

20:37

and plan to apply for the

20:39

proper permits to launch a high

20:41

altitude flight. Plate. On

20:44

going to break the world record for

20:46

the highest sky from space and we

20:48

going to go up in a lawn

20:51

chair. There have

20:53

been no sir the public updates

20:55

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20:57

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eighties. It's about

23:03

a man who will cold sorry

23:05

sir, who immigrated from Lebanon to

23:07

Canada in nineteen seventy Six when

23:09

he was just sixteen years old.

23:12

It was a year after the

23:14

Lebanese Civil War started, when a

23:17

mass exodus of people were fleeing

23:19

the country to escape the violence

23:21

and find a better life. Choices

23:24

trained as a hair stylist

23:26

and his goal in Canada

23:28

was to establish a business

23:30

that was both profitable and

23:32

well regarded. And

23:35

in the ten years after he

23:37

arrived, he did. He

23:39

opened a hairdressing salon in

23:41

the mid eighties that soon

23:43

became known for it's precise

23:45

and professional service and quickly

23:47

attracted a clientele that included

23:50

local celebrities. Joseph.

23:52

Was able to leverage that success

23:54

to expand the business to another

23:56

location. Is plan was

23:59

going very. He

24:02

was known for having strict

24:04

attention to detail which included

24:06

a type A commitment to

24:08

cleanliness, hygiene and health that

24:10

extended far beyond his professional

24:12

life. By this

24:15

point he had married and he

24:17

and his wife Emma maintained a

24:20

meticulously clean household at all times.

24:23

This included the exclusive use

24:26

of filtered water. It

24:28

all started soon after Joseph had

24:31

started his hairdressing salon when a

24:33

sales representative from a filtered water

24:35

dispensary company visited him to promote

24:38

the benefits of their water and

24:40

get him to sign on for

24:42

regular deliveries. According

24:45

to court documents, Joseph

24:47

became convinced that this filtered

24:49

water was superior to the

24:51

municipal water that came out

24:53

of the tap and would

24:55

be beneficial for the health

24:57

of the family, including pregnant

24:59

women and children. Joseph

25:02

and Emma planned to have children

25:04

and this water sounded exactly what

25:07

they needed for peace of mind.

25:11

Convinced Joseph signed up with

25:13

the company known as Culligan

25:15

Water and installed dispensers in

25:17

his salons and at home.

25:20

He was committed to using the

25:22

water exclusively with regular deliveries of

25:25

large water bottles which would be

25:27

collected when empty. He

25:29

and Emma were loyal and happy customers of

25:32

Culligan Water for more than 15 years as

25:35

Emma gave birth to their first child.

25:38

It really was reassuring for them

25:41

both to know that both mother

25:43

and baby were able to access

25:45

the highest quality water. But

25:48

when Emma was pregnant with

25:50

their second child something terrible

25:52

happened. Whatever

25:55

Joseph or Emma needed to replace

25:57

a water bottle on the dispenser,

25:59

they tried great care to clean

26:01

the new bottle's exterior, particularly on

26:04

the part that slots into the

26:06

dispenser to get rid of any

26:08

residual bacteria that might find its

26:10

way into the water. That's

26:13

exactly what they did on November 21 of 2001.

26:18

But that day, an incident

26:20

happened that offended the family's

26:22

sense of sanctity in the

26:24

purity of their home and

26:26

shattered Joseph's life according to

26:28

a court document. Here's

26:31

what happened. Just

26:34

as Joseph was placing the

26:36

freshly wiped water bottle on

26:38

the dispenser, he suddenly noticed

26:40

something small, dark and blurry

26:43

inside. He looked closer.

26:46

Clear as day, it was a whole

26:48

dead fly, plus a

26:51

part of another dead fly floating

26:53

inside the unopened water bottle. Both

26:56

Emma and Joseph were horrified.

26:59

No one consumed any of the water

27:02

from the bottle, but Emma

27:04

immediately vomited at the sight

27:06

of it and started complaining

27:08

of cramps and abdominal pain.

27:12

Later that evening, Joseph started

27:14

to feel nauseous and vomited

27:16

as well. This

27:18

was only the beginning. Joseph

27:21

became obsessed with the image

27:23

of the fly, mentally tormented

27:25

by images of flies on

27:27

feces or rotten food. And

27:31

then, being in his supposedly pure

27:33

water, he was plagued by

27:35

recurring nightmares. He only

27:37

slept for about four hours each

27:40

night. One of his

27:42

worst obsessive thoughts was about his first

27:44

child and his wife Emma who was

27:47

about to give birth to their second.

27:50

Joseph hated thinking about Emma

27:52

carefully sterilizing a bottle for

27:54

the health and safety of

27:56

their family, and then putting

27:58

formula made with collagen into

28:00

that bottle. It

28:03

didn't stop there. Joseph

28:05

would end up suffering profound

28:07

psychological and physical effects as

28:09

a result of the incident.

28:12

After all, he'd spent more

28:14

than 15 years believing that

28:16

collagen-filtered water was the best,

28:19

better than municipal water. He

28:22

found himself unable to drink any kind

28:24

of water at all and

28:26

his physical health deteriorated to

28:29

a point where he suffered

28:31

from constipation, persistent nausea and

28:33

constant abdominal pain. As well

28:36

as affecting his mental and

28:38

physical health, the incident also

28:40

had a profound impact on

28:43

his personal and professional life.

28:45

He experienced significant changes in

28:48

his behavior, his personality, he

28:50

lost his sense of humor

28:52

and became argumentative and edgy.

28:55

He also reported a loss

28:57

of sexual interest and performance.

29:00

And at work, the changes in

29:02

his personality together with a decline

29:05

in his hair styling skills led

29:07

to a loss of clients and

29:09

revenue started to tank. Joseph

29:12

would say that he went from

29:14

running two hairdressing salons to one

29:16

and revenues decreased by more than

29:18

85%. After

29:22

two months of terror, Joseph visited

29:24

a doctor complaining that his salon

29:26

clients were asking what was wrong

29:28

with him and whether he was

29:31

okay. The Windsor

29:33

Star reported that the doctor prescribed

29:35

antidepressants to help him relax and

29:38

sleep as well as other medications

29:40

to help with his physical health

29:42

problems that resulted from him not

29:45

drinking water. The

29:47

medications worked for a time but

29:49

he reported they left him feeling

29:52

out of control and lethargic which

29:54

caused a new set of problems

29:56

and contributed to difficulties in starting

29:58

his work day. After

30:01

further treatment that included extensive therapy,

30:03

Joseph started to be able to

30:06

shower again but even then he

30:08

could only manage a quick in

30:10

and out and under no circumstances

30:13

would he let any water touch

30:15

his face. Joseph

30:20

decided to sue collagen water

30:22

for negligence claiming the resulting

30:24

incident caused psychiatric injuries to

30:27

him and his wife. The

30:31

case went to trial where

30:33

it garnered national attention and

30:35

prompted public outcry according to

30:37

the Windsor Star. The

30:40

judge dismissed Emma's claim, finding that

30:42

she may have had a reaction

30:44

to the incident but it wasn't

30:46

to the level sufficient to warrant

30:49

compensation from a claim of negligence.

30:52

But Joseph's definitely was.

30:55

The court heard medical evidence

30:57

that Joseph suffered from a

30:59

major depressive disorder with associated

31:02

phobia and anxiety over the

31:04

possible effects on his family

31:06

of drinking water that he

31:08

no longer trusted to be

31:10

clean and pure. The judge

31:13

accepted this evidence finding

31:15

that Joseph became afflicted

31:17

with a recognizable psychological

31:20

injury. Quote, indeed

31:23

he became obsessed believing

31:25

that his health and that of

31:27

his family had been compromised and

31:29

that his trust in collagen water

31:32

had been betrayed. The

31:34

trial judge also concluded that

31:36

the psychiatric effect of the

31:38

fly in the bottle incident

31:40

was due to Joseph's particular

31:43

sensibilities to such an event.

31:45

Acknowledging that Joseph's reaction was objectively bizarre, the

31:48

trial judge found that a number of different

31:50

factors came together to create a situation for

31:52

Joseph that was unexpectedly severe. The fact that

31:54

he was not a victim of the trial

31:57

was not a that

32:00

he fled war-torn Lebanon to move

32:02

to Canada was likely responsible in

32:05

part for his heightened concern over

32:07

the health and wellbeing of his

32:09

family. The judge also

32:12

mentioned that Joseph and Emma's first

32:14

child had been born prematurely and

32:16

at the time of the fly

32:18

in the bottle incident, the doctor

32:21

had recently flagged Emma's second pregnancy

32:23

as being potentially high risk. Quote,

32:26

all of these factors contributed

32:28

to his obsessive thinking about

32:30

seeing the fly, which progressed

32:33

to the state diagnosed by

32:35

his various experts. The

32:39

judge found Culligan Water liable and

32:41

that the company owed Joseph a

32:43

duty of care to ensure he

32:46

was not injured by its

32:48

negligence. The company must

32:50

take reasonable care that the water

32:52

is not contaminated by foreign elements,

32:54

the judge said, and it breached

32:57

its duty of care by allowing

32:59

a fly into the bottle during

33:01

the sealing process. Joseph

33:04

was awarded an amount of almost $350,000

33:06

plus interest for psychiatric injury suffered as

33:12

a result of the incident. But

33:15

the story doesn't end there. Culligan

33:18

Canada did not contest the

33:20

judge's finding that the fly

33:22

in the bottle incident was

33:24

a contributing cause of Joseph's

33:26

resulting illness. Representatives

33:28

for the company testified that

33:31

although highly unusual, there

33:33

was a possibility that a fly

33:35

could enter a bottle in a

33:37

clean facility before it's filled with

33:39

water, or even during. But

33:43

the company was concerned that

33:45

having to pay major financial

33:47

compensation for a relatively minor

33:49

lapse like this could

33:51

set a dangerous precedent. The

33:54

fear was that other customers

33:56

might make similar, highly unusual claims

33:58

to try to for

34:01

extraordinary compensation. Callaghan

34:04

Canada appealed to the Ontario

34:06

Court of Appeal, seeking to

34:08

reduce the amount of damages

34:10

awarded. Their

34:13

appeal was successful and the trial

34:15

decision was overturned, on the basis

34:17

that a reasonable person or company

34:19

could not have anticipated that Joseph

34:21

would react that way to a

34:23

dead fly and therefore

34:27

it didn't warrant compensation. So

34:32

Joseph appealed this decision

34:34

and it ended up before

34:37

the Supreme Court of Canada,

34:39

who was tasked with answering

34:41

the question, was Callaghan Canada's

34:44

negligence to remote or unusual

34:46

to warrant compensation and

34:48

was Joseph's psychiatric injury

34:50

an outcome that Callaghan

34:52

Canada could have reasonably

34:55

anticipated. To

34:58

make decisions like this, the Supreme

35:00

Court of Canada typically looks at

35:02

other similar cases for precedent, but

35:05

in this case there were none at

35:07

the time. So

35:09

it referred to a famous case from

35:11

the UK, the Wagon Mound case from

35:13

1961. The

35:16

Wagon Mound was a ship that

35:19

was refuelling another ship near a

35:21

wharf when it negligently spilled oil

35:23

into the water. No

35:26

effort was made to clear that oil

35:28

up and it quickly spread to the

35:30

wharf where welding happened to be taking

35:32

place. Sparks from the

35:35

welder ignited the oil and

35:37

the resulting fire pretty much

35:39

destroyed the wharf.

35:41

The owner of the wharf

35:43

tried to claim damages from

35:46

negligence, but the court established

35:48

that only damage that could

35:50

be reasonably anticipated by a

35:52

reasonable man could be compensated.

35:55

In Other words, the Wagon Mound ship

35:58

may have been negligent and. Doing

36:00

the oil but couldn't have

36:02

anticipated that such unusual or

36:04

extreme events would have resulted

36:06

from it. They have

36:08

for the ship was not liable

36:11

for damages. The Supreme

36:13

Court of Canada applied this logic

36:15

to the case of Joseph. Finding.

36:18

That while some people are

36:20

more susceptible than others to

36:22

serious psychiatric injuries, it's not

36:24

reasonable to require third parties

36:26

like a company to be

36:29

aware of those possibilities. A.

36:31

Person shouldn't be able to

36:33

use unique personal susceptibility is

36:36

as a means of claiming

36:38

insurance. On the other

36:40

hand, if a third party noise

36:43

that a person is especially sensitive

36:45

and could be more easily hurt

36:47

than any injuries that person suffers

36:50

as a result of negligence might

36:52

be. Seen as predictable

36:54

or reasonably foreseeable, That.

36:57

Collagen Canada did not

36:59

know about Joseph Braces

37:02

sensitivities around cleanliness. The.

37:05

Supreme Court found that the

37:08

psychiatric injury Joseph sustained was

37:10

of a very unusual nature

37:12

and was not one that

37:15

could be reasonably anticipated. Therefore,

37:18

They should be no compensation

37:20

paid by Collagen Canada to

37:22

Joseph. The. Case was

37:25

dismissed and Joseph was ordered

37:27

to pay the Collagen Canada

37:29

as lawyers for all the legal

37:31

action he had initiated on

37:33

top of his own legal

37:35

costs. The.

37:37

Case set a precedent that would

37:39

go on to be cited in

37:42

subsequent cases at trial. One.

37:44

Case was about a car

37:46

collision where one driver sued

37:49

the other a psychiatric damages

37:51

including memory loss, anxiety and

37:54

increase depression. The. other

37:56

drivers legal team used just

37:58

case to argue that those

38:00

damages were too remote or

38:02

unusual to warrant compensation. Another

38:07

case was about two patients at

38:09

a public hospital who were infected

38:11

with tuberculosis and the hospital

38:14

quickly took action to notify the more than

38:16

4000 patients who

38:18

may have come into contact with those

38:20

two. Even

38:22

though only two more tested

38:25

positive for tuberculosis, three

38:27

and a half thousand patients

38:30

claimed damages for psychological injury.

38:33

Again, too remote and

38:35

unusual for compensation and

38:37

no damages were awarded.

38:42

After the Supreme Court of Canada

38:44

ruling came down in Joseph's case,

38:46

he told CBC News that he

38:48

had suffered public ridicule and scorn

38:50

ever since the legal proceedings began

38:53

and he was constantly told that

38:55

it was a frivolous case. But

38:58

he pointed out that it wouldn't have ended

39:00

up with Canada's top court if that were

39:03

the case. He said,

39:05

quote, justice prevails. This

39:07

is the Supreme Court of Canada. In

39:09

their view, this is how it's supposed

39:11

to be. In my view, I don't

39:13

think it should have been in its

39:15

way. His main

39:18

issue was that he believed

39:20

the ruling indicated that Canada's

39:22

top court treated mental injury

39:24

differently to physical injury. That

39:27

said, he told the Windsor Star that

39:29

although he had lost over $500,000 in

39:31

legal costs,

39:35

he had no regrets about it. Money

39:38

wasn't the issue. He pursued

39:40

the case on principle. There's

39:49

not much that's principled in this

39:52

next story about a bizarre home

39:54

invasion in British Columbia. It

39:57

was 2015 and residents of a random little

40:00

fort about an hour north of

40:02

Kamloops in British Columbia arrived home

40:04

from a trip to a site

40:07

they did not expect. There

40:09

was a strange man sitting on their

40:11

couch with a cup of coffee, watching

40:14

television in front of a

40:16

roaring fireplace that had been

40:18

recently lit. The owners had no

40:20

idea who he was or what he

40:23

was doing in their home, and

40:25

they didn't stick around to find out. They

40:28

exited the ranch and flagged a

40:30

passing police cruiser. Shortly

40:33

after that, the homely intruder

40:35

was arrested and charged with

40:37

unlawfully being in a dwelling

40:39

house. The owners

40:41

went through their stuff and realised

40:43

that nothing had been stolen. So

40:46

if he wasn't there to rob them,

40:48

what was he doing there? The

40:52

local police didn't know it yet,

40:54

but this incident was only the

40:56

middle of a story that had

40:58

actually begun a week or two

41:00

earlier in Nova Scotia. The

41:03

33-year-old man who will call Michael

41:06

had been working at a swimming

41:08

pool company that by September,

41:10

as fall quickly approached, he sensed

41:12

he was about to be laid

41:15

off. He needed another

41:17

job and he needed it now,

41:19

and evidently he didn't think he

41:21

was going to find one in

41:23

Nova Scotia. Michael

41:25

decided to drive all the way

41:28

across the country to British Columbia

41:30

to look for work, but

41:32

he either didn't have a car of his

41:34

own or he did have one but didn't

41:36

want to drive it. So

41:38

he stole a pretty new

41:40

model Ford Escape and started

41:42

driving west. By

41:45

the time the owner reported to

41:47

the RCMP in Nova Scotia that

41:49

their car had been stolen, Michael

41:52

was long gone, according to CBC

41:54

News. He

41:56

reportedly drove the stolen car more than

41:58

2,000 years ago. kilometres west,

42:01

ending up in the city of Sault

42:04

Ste. Marie in Ontario. But

42:06

then he had a problem, he

42:08

had severely underestimated how large Canada

42:10

was and how much money he

42:13

would need for gas, food and

42:15

supplies to make it from the

42:17

east coast to the west coast.

42:20

Sault Ste. Marie wasn't even half

42:22

way, he would have driven about 23 hours

42:24

already but he

42:27

still had about 35 hours

42:29

to go. The police

42:31

were on to him and arrested him

42:34

in Ontario where he was charged with

42:36

theft of a vehicle. Michael,

42:39

who had no criminal record,

42:41

was detained for a few days

42:43

and then pleaded guilty. He

42:45

was released with a fine of $400. Any other person

42:51

might have learnt a lesson but

42:53

not Michael. He still felt

42:55

British Columbia was the place to go,

42:58

so he decided to just

43:00

steal another car, this time a

43:02

truck, for the next leg of

43:04

his journey west. By

43:07

the time he arrived in

43:09

the area of Littleford north

43:11

of Kamloops he literally had

43:13

no money left, that meant

43:15

no shelter, no food and

43:17

no gas. Michael

43:19

would tell the court that as

43:21

he was driving along he noticed

43:24

a ranch that he loved the

43:26

look of and appeared to be

43:28

unoccupied, so he made a snap

43:30

decision to turn off the highway

43:32

and into their driveway. After

43:34

parking the stolen truck he walked

43:37

right in and made himself at

43:39

home. He cooked a

43:41

meal for himself and rummaged through the

43:43

freezer, selecting a piece of meat

43:45

to thaw on the bench. He

43:48

did his laundry and helped himself

43:50

to the owner's razor to shave

43:52

himself. He also brushed

43:55

his teeth using their toothbrushes.

43:58

But it wasn't all bad. He fed

44:00

the owners two cats, put out

44:02

some hay for their horses and

44:04

even wrote a diary entry in

44:06

their guest book which they found

44:08

later. It read,

44:11

Day one, today was my first full

44:13

day at the ranch. I fed the

44:15

cats and horses. So much I can

44:18

do here I have to remind myself

44:20

to just relax and take my time.

44:22

I don't feel alone here. I guess

44:24

with two cats and three horses it's

44:27

kinda hard to be alone. Last

44:29

night I had a fire in the house.

44:31

I was so peaceful. I slept like a

44:34

little baby. I saw a picture in the

44:36

basement on the wall of a man holding

44:38

and weighing fish on a boat. Looking

44:41

at him I realise we look a

44:43

lot alike but I think I'm more

44:45

handsome. Smiley face. After

44:51

Michael's arrest he was taken to

44:54

jail yet again and charged with

44:56

unlawfully being in a dwelling house.

44:59

Shortly after that the police found

45:01

his stolen truck on the ranch,

45:04

the second vehicle he had

45:06

stolen during his ill-fated cross-country

45:08

adventure. He was also

45:11

charged with possession of stolen property.

45:14

At his first court appearance

45:16

Kamloops This Week reporter at

45:18

the time Tim Patrick reported

45:20

that Michael looked like a

45:22

completely normal guy. He

45:25

seemed like a very normal person who

45:27

was maybe a bit of a daydreamer,

45:30

except of course for the fact that he

45:32

was wearing a red jumpsuit. Michael

45:35

apologised in court and acknowledged that

45:37

he made a lot of mistakes

45:39

that there were really no excuses

45:41

for. But the

45:43

33 year old was full of compliments

45:45

about his brief stay at the ranch.

45:49

It's unclear how the owners felt about

45:52

this very positive feedback from

46:00

their house intruder. The

46:03

judge sentenced Michael to one year

46:05

probation and barred him from contacting

46:07

either the owners of the ranch

46:09

at Little Fort or the owner

46:11

of the truck he stole in

46:13

Ontario. He also had

46:15

to surrender a DNA sample to

46:17

the national criminal database. He

46:20

didn't have a criminal record when his

46:22

adventure started, but he sure did now.

46:26

When the judge asked him what his

46:28

plans were after the proceeding, Michael

46:30

said he had nowhere to go. But

46:33

in a nit-beak tune, he added, the

46:35

woods is a good place I suppose, there's a

46:38

lot of fish out there. That

46:42

was the last mention of him in the

46:45

news. Coming

46:48

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46:50

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46:52

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next story which takes place in Nova Scotia

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in 2015 was given the name Double

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Double Trouble by the media.

48:26

It all started when two

48:28

employees of Tim Hortons, the

48:30

well-known Canadian coffee and donut

48:32

chain, were confronted by a

48:34

strange sight when they arrived

48:36

for work. As they

48:38

entered their workplace to open up at about 4

48:41

a.m. they stumbled upon a man

48:43

standing behind the counter. He'd broken

48:47

in desperate for coffee. He'd

48:49

already made himself a hot one

48:51

and was working on an iced

48:54

cappuccino. The employees

48:56

called the police but the man took

48:58

his two coffees and had fled by

49:00

the time they arrived to investigate, leaving

49:03

a small mess for the employees to

49:05

clean up. A police

49:07

spokesperson announced that they soon caught

49:10

and arrested the 22 year old man

49:12

in the nearby parking lot of

49:14

a local grocery store. He

49:17

was later charged with break and

49:19

enter and mischief. The

49:21

spokesperson said the police believed

49:23

alcohol may have been involved, adding

49:26

that no money had been taken. The

49:29

man was just looking for a drink. Quote,

49:32

no employees or donuts were harmed

49:34

during the break and enter. Another

49:41

Tim Hortons in Saskatoon Saskatchewan was

49:43

also the site of an argument

49:46

over food in 2014. According

49:50

to CBC News, two 20

49:53

year old men demanded diced

49:55

onions as a sandwich topping,

49:57

but the employee told them the restaurant

49:59

does The

50:02

two men did not take this news

50:04

well and it devolved into an argument

50:07

that culminated in one of the men

50:09

pulling a live snake out of his

50:11

pocket and throwing it behind the counter.

50:15

One of the two men was recording

50:17

it on video which was later published

50:20

on Facebook. The incident

50:22

appears to be less of a

50:24

serious attack and more of a

50:26

stupid stunt to amuse two 20

50:28

year old guys with brains that

50:30

clearly hadn't properly developed yet. Mass

50:33

screaming ensued as the employees

50:35

ran from the store. The

50:38

two men fled the store as

50:40

well leaving the poor snake slithering

50:42

around on the floor behind the

50:44

counter. The police caught

50:46

up with the men nearby and charged

50:49

them with mischief and causing a

50:51

disturbance. The snake

50:53

turned out to be a non-venomous

50:56

garter snake which was not harmed

50:58

in the incident. The

51:00

police announced that they had named the

51:02

snake Outlaw and the two men

51:04

were not getting him back. Outlaw

51:07

was reportedly released back into

51:09

the wild. Here's

51:13

hoping he never saw the inside

51:15

of a Tim Hortons again. Three

51:21

years after that in early 2017 police

51:25

in Belleville Ontario were called

51:27

after reports of another break

51:29

in enter and theft from

51:31

yet another Tim Hortons restaurant.

51:34

It was just before the launch of

51:36

their annual Roll Up the Rim to

51:38

Win promotional event. The

51:41

iconic Canadian coffee chain which has

51:43

actually been majority owned by a

51:45

Brazilian private equity firm since 2014

51:49

stages the event each year

51:51

to increase customer engagement and

51:53

of course sales of coffee.

51:57

Up until 2020 the Roll Up the

51:59

Rim event. sent it around

52:01

specially branded paper cups with a

52:03

hidden area that revealed the prize,

52:06

from coffee and food items

52:08

right up to large prizes

52:10

like cash jackpots. After

52:13

finishing their beverage all customers had

52:15

to do was carefully roll up

52:17

the rim of their cup, the

52:19

coated paper at the very top,

52:22

to reveal a small piece of

52:24

print underneath about whether they've won.

52:27

If they had they needed to hand

52:29

over that cup rim to a store

52:31

employee as proof to collect their

52:34

prize. But in 2017 a

52:38

couple of Belleville teenagers decided

52:40

to skip the whole purchase

52:42

coffee part, they would cut

52:44

out the middleman and go for the

52:46

actual clean cups themselves. Over

52:50

two nights numerous boxes containing

52:52

the special roll up the

52:55

rim cups were stolen according

52:57

to police and as

52:59

it turned out it was an

53:01

inside job. Police soon

53:03

caught up with the two teenagers one

53:06

of whom was an employee of

53:08

the restaurant and charged them with

53:10

break and enter and theft under

53:13

$5,000. Three

53:16

years later Tim Horton stopped

53:18

producing the specially branded cups

53:21

altogether. After all a

53:23

customer handing over the rim of

53:25

a cup they've just sipped from

53:27

as evidence they've won a prize

53:30

is a potential hygiene issue that

53:32

could result in the spread of

53:34

common bacteria and viruses like colds,

53:36

the flu, the latest coronavirus. Before

53:40

the pandemic ignorance really was

53:42

bliss on that issue and

53:44

that's probably why Tim Horton's

53:46

never brought those special cups

53:49

back. But that

53:51

didn't mean the end of the roll up

53:53

the rim event it continued

53:55

via the app which according

53:57

to customers was far more

53:59

annoying. annoying and far less

54:01

satisfying. One customer on

54:04

Reddit recalled the good old days when they

54:06

got excited about roll up the rim and

54:08

made a point of buying a coffee each

54:10

day to see if they'd won a prize.

54:13

But the app took all the fun out

54:15

of it, they complained, and made it

54:17

feel almost like doing a chore. The

54:21

unimpressed customer recounted their latest

54:23

adventure on the app. Quote,

54:26

Well, I just finished spending 10 minutes

54:28

rolling up 20 rims

54:30

in my app. I don't

54:32

even look at my rolls as I purchase

54:34

things, they just build up until I remember

54:37

to roll them. Some

54:40

customers might not like the app as

54:42

much, but at least now there's no

54:44

pops for them to steal. And let's

54:47

face it, Timmy's employees must have

54:49

been relieved that they no longer

54:51

have to personally touch and handle

54:53

those prize-winning rims. That

54:56

said, the app hasn't been without

54:59

its issues. Just a few

55:01

weeks ago in 2024, a

55:04

large number of customers reported

55:07

they'd received a legitimate email

55:09

from Tim Hortons telling them

55:11

they'd won a $64,000 boat,

55:14

one of the major prizes in this

55:16

year's roll up the rim event. Sudden

55:19

excitement turned to severe disappointment

55:21

as Tim Hortons apologized and

55:23

told them the email was

55:26

a technical glitch. They hadn't

55:28

won a prize after all.

55:31

The Canadian Press reported that

55:33

a Montreal-based law firm had

55:35

filed an application for a

55:37

class action lawsuit claiming that

55:39

there were about 500,000 customers

55:42

who'd received that email telling them

55:44

they'd won a boat. The

55:47

lawsuit reportedly seeks punitive damages of

55:49

$10,000 cash for every

55:53

one of those customers. Tim

55:55

Hortons said it believed the lawsuit

55:58

has no merit. Thanks

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for listening to this collection

56:09

of bizarre yet terrifying encounters.

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