[MolsonExport]

Is this for real? Right in my neighborhood!

Really offtopic - but wonder if any of you have seen this before: http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Surrey,+Greater+Vancouver+Regional+District,+British+Columbia&ll=42.991127,-81.366511&spn=0.002786,0.006845&t=h&z=18

[Acajack]

We have to console ourselves in that it only takes one single dork to pull off something as ignominous as that.

[caltrane74]

omg... LOL!!!!

someone with way too much free time on their hands.

[harls]

I wonder if that thing is anywhere near this guy's place (this guy lives near London too).

HS0CnwxJOss

[JayM]

I think they need the 'Handyman's Secret Weapon' Duct Tape.

[Epicurean]

If I'm not mistaken, that is the Buddhist swastika (http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/symbols/swastika.htm).

[MolsonExport]

^yes, in theory. More likely some backwoods arsewipe just didn't know better. Maybe so flying nazis can feel at home.

[Canadian_Bacon]

Lol... It's funny to see that in that neighborhood surrounded by those big homes.

[1ajs]

I wonder if that thing is anywhere near this guy's place (this guy lives near London too).

HS0CnwxJOss

nothat guys living somewhere outside winnipeg

[vid]

Figures that you know the person if it involves a shitty car. :haha:

[1ajs]

Figures that you know the person if it involves a shitty car. :haha:

hahah no i've seen about 100 of his 1300 videos lol

[JHikka]

If they're trying to be derogatory and (are probably) a little dumb, they should realize that their swastika is backwards.

I highly doubt some buddhist would do that to his field.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Could be Jain or Buddhist.

[vid]

I highly doubt some buddhist would do that to his field.

My cousin considers himself a Buddhist and he had a steak for dinner. In North America, I can totally see a Buddhist cutting a giant swastika into his field.

[jeremy_haak]

Maybe it's one of these people's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance_%28Canada%29) property. For what it's worth, even if the person were Buddhist, I'd wager their still an idiot for putting a swastika in their field.

[harls]

nothat guys living somewhere outside winnipeg

hm, on his youtube profile it says London..

[matt602]

hm, on his youtube profile it says London..

He's in Lucan, which is somewhat near London.

[Flamesrule]

Wow. That's something...Kinda scary if you know what I mean...

[Tony]

What a pussy. If this douche really was a tough guy, he'd have a big sign plastered in his front yard to let the whole world know he's an ignorant moron.

[rousseau]

Tilted on its edge and "spinning" clockwise it's a Nazi symbol. Turning counter-clockwise and seated on one of its square sides, as in that field, it's a Buddhist symbol. You see them all over Taiwan; the traditional sign for a vegetarian restaurant is a simple Buddhist swastika.

Whether this guy just outside London actually knew he was making the Buddhist symbol and not the Nazi one is another question.

[Stingray2004]

The guy who created that in his field is a nutbar - certainly no Buddhist since it's common knowledge hat the emblem has a serous negative connotation. BTW, I've seen Nazi swastikas that are both clock-wise and counter clock-wise. I'm also surprised that this matter has not already hit the national news.

Reminds me of the swastika planted in a forest outside eastern Berlin during the 1930's and was not public knowledge until the Berlin Wall fell post-1989:

http://www.swastika-info.com/images/europa/german/oranienburg/verfassungsfeindlich-baume-oranienburg-mi.jpg

Source: http://swastika-info.com/en/startpage/germany/1059862869.html

And I've now just ran across the current flag of the Finnish Air Force. Frankly, I don't know what to think anymore:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Finland_Air_force.gif

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

[Xelebes]

Just remember, the Nazi swastika is in a square lozenge not a square where the arms are parallel with the edges.

[Rico Rommheim]

Reminds me of the swastika planted in a forest outside eastern Berlin during the 1930's and was not public knowledge until the Berlin Wall fell post-1989:

http://www.swastika-info.com/images/europa/german/oranienburg/verfassungsfeindlich-baume-oranienburg-mi.jpg


And I've now just ran across the current flag of the Finnish Air Force. Frankly, I don't know what to think anymore:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Finland_Air_force.gif

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika


since you got that off wiki perhaps you also read that the swastika symbol was in use as the logo since 1918, well before its adoption by the nazis:

Von Rosen had painted his personal good luck charm on the Thulin Typ D aircraft. This charm – a blue swastika, the ancient symbol of good luck – was adopted as the insignia of the Finnish Air Force. The white circular background was created when the Finns tried to paint over the advertisement from the Thulin air academy.[5] The swastika was officially taken into use after an order by Mannerheim on 18 March 1918. The FAF had to change the insignia after 1945, due to an Allied Control Commission decree, where the swastika had to be abandoned due to the association with Nazism.

[Stingray2004]

since you got that off wiki perhaps you also read that the swastika symbol was in use as the logo since 1918, well before its adoption by the nazis:

I realize that. But after WW2 the swastika was ... well ... a proverbial persona non grata worldwide for obvious reasons. As your link states:

The FAF had to change the insignia after 1945, due to an Allied Control Commission decree, where the swastika had to be abandoned due to the association with Nazism.

Nevertheless, for whatever reason, the Finnish Air Force still utilizes same, strangely enough, as shown here in a 2008 military parade (certainly the Finns are NOT Nazis):

http://tietokannat.mil.fi/lippujuhla08/static_images/91_640.jpg

Source: http://tietokannat.mil.fi/lippujuhla08/static_images/91_640.jpg

[vid]

Finns are weird. Nothing they do surprises me.

As long as it isn't in a white disk on a red background, I guess it is ok.

[MolsonExport]

Maybe it's one of these people's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance_%28Canada%29) property. For what it's worth, even if the person were Buddhist, I'd wager their still an idiot for putting a swastika in their field.

Probably (re: Northern Alliance). Definitely (re: Idiot).

Pisses me off badly. I live just off of Gainsborough Road, in adjacent Hyde Park. Perhaps 2kms away. I do not relish the thought of Nazi Fuktards in my neighborhood.

[Flamesrule]

hmm will the finns ever take the nazi sign off?

[Darkoshvilli]

Probably (re: Northern Alliance). Definitely (re: Idiot).

Pisses me off badly. I live just off of Gainsborough Road, in adjacent Hyde Park. Perhaps 2kms away. I do not relish the thought of Nazi Fuktards in my neighborhood.

Go TP his house.:D

[MolsonExport]

MYSTERY SOLVED.

It is a Swastika, placed there by fuking nazi, after all.

Bandidos | Bandidos trial | News | London Free Press [New Window]

Oct 15, 2009 ... The property of Martin Weiche in Hyde Park has a swastika similar to the one on the property of Wayne Kellestine. Kellestine and four others ...

http://www.lfpress.com/news/bandidos/2009/10/15/11411366.html


Martin Weiche, (who, according to the London Free Press in the 1970’s and 80’s made local headlines for his support of Nazi causes and held a Ku Klux Klan-style cross-burning at his home west of Hyde Park),
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wm87Bnk6RtYJ:www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit1998/audit1998-05.html+Martin+Weiche+in+Hyde+Park&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

In the 1980s, Martin Weiche, leader of the Canadian National Socialist Party, drew attention when he allowed the Ku Klux Klan on his Hyde Park property for a cross-burning ceremony.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mhPLv8pi2pQJ:www.mail-archive.com/osint%40yahoogroups.com/msg07590.html+Martin+Weiche+in+Hyde+Park&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

here is the vile fucking pile of shit.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a2A_lnEkDQA/SupDgkZXeNI/AAAAAAAABxY/3SJoLIpQkF4/s320/Weiche.jpg

[MolsonExport]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_K._Weiche

Martin K. Weiche (born circa 1920) was a far-right neo-Nazi political figure and building contractor in Canada.

Born in Germany, Weiche was a member of the Hitler Youth[2] and fought for Nazi Germany as a pilot and soldier during World War II.[1]



In 1981, Weiche was named as one of the financial backers of Operation Red Dog, a failed white supremacist plot to overthrow the government of Dominica....

His property near London, Ontario, included a room designed to approximate Adolf Hitler's Alpine retreat.[1] The room reportedly included "oil paintings and photographs of Hitler hang[ing] on walls inside, [along with] two faded swastika pennants. An autographed copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf sits on a study bookshelf. And there are photographs of former U.S. Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell and the Queen,"

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OVmqMWJtxCQJ:community.hour.ca/blogs/up_to_the_hour/archive/2009/11/20/crop-circles-by-nazis-from-outer-space.aspx+Martin+Weiche+nazi&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

Crop circles by Nazis from outer space?

http://community.hour.ca/blogs/up_to_the_hour/NeoNutzi.JPG
What's wrong with this picture? (Click on it first to enlarge.) A clue: There's actually something very, very right with it. You could almost say far right with it...

Look in the upper left quadrant, just underneath the pond. See it now? Yep, yet another reason to be proud of my London, Ontario hometown. The farm, just to the northwest of London, belongs to noted neo-Nazi Martin Weiche, a former Hitler Youth member during the Second World War who would later be accused of involvement in a plot to overthrow the Caribbean island of Dominica (ostensibly to move all the black folks off and set up a sunny white supremacist island state, where one assumes that tanning would be strictly verboten). He is well-known around the London area for the KKK rallies and cross-burnings he used to have on the property.

I came across a similar picture of Weiche's farm while reading Alex Caine's new novel The Fat Mexican: The Bloody Rise of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, which Caine infiltrated while working as a police contracted agent, eventually becoming a full-patch Bandido in the process. I sat down with Caine (who is originally from Quebec) this week and had a fascinating chat with the man (much of which you can find in this week's instalment of Babylon, PQ). The Fat Mexican is, in large part, about the slaughter of eight Bandidos just outside of, yup, London, Ontario in 2006, and it turns out that Weiche's son Dave "Concrete Dave" Weiche, also a full-patch Bandido, is said to have been a close associate of the folks now convicted of those murders (the younger Weiche is not believed to have been involved). So you can say a lot of things about London, but you can't say it's boring... Actually, yes you can.

Anyway, long story even longer, after seeing a photo of the Weiche place in The Fat Mexican, I decided to Google satellite map the Weiche estate, and sure enough, the swastika is, somewhat unbelievably, still there. And I can tell you, as someone who landscaped for many years (at a landscaping company that used to be situated directly beside the Weiche property actually), it ain't easy to cut circles that perfect.

[MolsonExport]

macleans.ca

That landscaper was a complete Nazi

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/18/that-landscaper-was-a-complete-nazi/
Forgive the non-Québécois digression, but it’s mighty slow around here. Parizeau wrote a book, the Habs suck and kids are getting flu shots. It’s enough to keep a man from getting out of bed.

So, yeah, Nazis. The above picture is a screen grab of a farm in the verdant suburbs of London, Ontario, and referenced in Alex Caine’s The Fat Mexican, about The Bandidos motorcycle gang. As an amateur labyrinthian, I can attest to the difficulty of properly sculpting anything into the landscape, which makes the above oeuvre all the more impressive. Clean lines make for easier goose stepping, I guess. (I’m told by someone who knows that the ponds to the north of the swastika are stocked with “very, very blond fish.”)

The land is owned by Martin K. Weiche who, according to his hilariously straight Wikipedia entry, is “a far-right neo-Nazi political figure and building contractor in Canada.” Mr. Weiche is a lifelong Nazi, a would be usurper of small Caribbean nations and father to notorious biker gang member. Apparently, he’s also dyslexic. By carving a left facing swastika into his pasture, Mr. Weiche is actually declaring his affinity for Hinduism and Buddhism–not the Third Reich–to low flying airplanes and the prying eye of Google Earth.

It’s an odd but surprisingly frequent mistake among Nazis, who are usually rigorous in making sure everything is right, perfect, straight and pure. Read this and check the picture:
...

[Acajack]

Nice people. :(

[go_leafs_go02]

Just seen this thread now.

Dave's Farm is located north of Lucan, he's actually on Highway 4, about 5 km north of the town of Lucan.

This dude is on Gainsborough Road. There's about 40-50 km between the two locations.

You can actually see the circle if you drive by on Gainsborough. You just need to know where to look.

There's no streetview on the road. Sure I could point it out if there was though. It's on a grass knoll elevated 5-10 feet above the rest of the yard.

[Phil McAvity]

here is the vile fucking pile of shit.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a2A_lnEkDQA/SupDgkZXeNI/AAAAAAAABxY/3SJoLIpQkF4/s320/Weiche.jpg

C'mon now Molson, even you're smart enough to see the irony in that. On top of that, the guy is 90 years old. It's amazing he's even still alive.

[The_Architect]

Lot of odd landscapers/architects???
Weird Swastika building in San Diego (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=san+diego&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=27.725603,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Diego,+California,+United+States&ll=32.675867,-117.15727&spn=0.004407,0.009645&t=h&z=17)

[Phil McAvity]

Lot of odd landscapers/architects???
Weird Swastika building in San Diego (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=san+diego&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=27.725603,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Diego,+California,+United+States&ll=32.675867,-117.15727&spn=0.004407,0.009645&t=h&z=17)

Yes, clearly the work of nazi architects. :rolleyes:

[-Harlington-]

Nazi alien crop circles, thats the answer

[Wharn]

Finns are weird. Nothing they do surprises me.



Half-Finn here. Yeah, we're weird, but this is another special case of Finnish weirdness. As a nation, we are somewhat similar to the people from Swastika, Ontario with regards to this kind of crap: it was ours first, Hitler stole it due to his lack of creativity, and we refuse to change it because he ruined a perfectly good ancient symbol.

Interestingly, this is not the ONLY Swastika in London. There is a building at Lyle and Dundas Streets that has a dual-swastika brick motif on the top, although it is obviously pre-Nazi (like the Air Force flag).

[MrOilers]

Edmonton 1916 hockey team:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Blackjebus/edmonton-1916.jpg

[The_Architect]

Yes, clearly the work of nazi architects. :rolleyes:

Obviously it isn't.. it just goes with the theme.

[BretttheRiderFan]

Edmonton 1916 hockey team:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Blackjebus/edmonton-1916.jpg

haha

They could probably beat the Oilers anyway

[MTLskyline]

WOW, what did they call that team?

[Kitchissippi]

WOW, what did they call that team?

The Edmonton Gassers? :haha:

[MrOilers]

I think the Oilers should make that their third jersey for Heritage Classic.

That would definitely turn a lot of heads. :D

[circle33]

I think the Oilers should make that their third jersey for Heritage Front Classic.


There, I fixed that for you :D

[Phil McAvity]

I don't know which is weirder-the fact they have swastikas on their jerseys or that there were women's ice hockey teams almost a century ago. :shrug:

[Phil McAvity]

DP due to extreme slowness.

[vid]

I don't know which is weirder-the fact they have swastikas on their jerseys or that there were women's ice hockey teams almost a century ago. :shrug:

It's not unusual if you know history. During the women's rights period from the late 1800s to when they were granted suffrage, there was quite a bit of women participation in sport. It waned after they were granted the vote, they sort of lost their steam or something. Until Hitler's regime, the swastika was associated with good luck and found all over the place.