00:00:00.000Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 356 a.m. Monday, October the 19th, referendum
00:00:09.980day in Alberta. I got up this morning. I've been up for a couple of hours and I really
00:00:15.620did not have this on my bingo card this morning. This is not the video I was going to do to
00:00:19.720start today. I had something all prepared to go. As a matter of fact, the two people
00:00:23.680you see on the screen right here, Mr. and Mrs. Albertan, were going to be part of that
00:00:27.620video. I spoke to them 56 minutes ago and I wanted to get their feelings about the referendum,
00:00:34.200what it meant to them. They're out this morning fixing damaged signs again. We've got goons out
00:00:40.620there, mentally ill people slashing signs. 25 after three this morning, shortly after I hung0.98
00:00:46.980up with them on my Zoom call, I got a frantic message from Mrs. Albertan. She called me on the
00:00:51.960phone and she said that Mr. Albertan was confronting somebody with a knife. Mrs. Albertan, I want to
00:00:59.500start with you. I've got some pictures. I mean, you got some pictures of this guy. What was going
00:01:05.700through your head? You were crying. You wanted to hear my voice. I'm here for you too. What was
00:01:11.020going on? What happened? What did you see from your vantage point? Sorry, it was a little bit
00:01:17.160scary to say the least um we had a we we stopped just to dump our recycling at the blue mile
00:01:27.960from doing all our stickers on our signs and we contacted john he was awake and
00:01:35.880as and we did a little zoom and as we're leaving this fellow goes by on a skateboard and i just
00:01:42.280commented he looks kind of awkward on that skateboard and and I really thought nothing
00:01:49.600of it and he's watching him in the side mirror and all of a sudden he went after one of the
00:01:58.780signs while he jumps out in hot pursuit and he had no phone with him nothing and oh my goodness
00:02:08.940anyways next thing i all i heard was by the time i got there and thank god i grabbed my phone and
00:02:15.420i was gonna go live and he yells he's got a knife phone 9-1-1 i just panicked like i just panicked
00:02:27.020and there's kerfuffling right on the middle of 16th avenue in the road they were over in the
00:02:33.460bushes and then all of a sudden he's chasing him down the street and there it's black I can't see
00:02:41.780them anymore he's got no GPS on him because his phone has that but he had no phone I'm on the
00:02:47.940phone with 911 I get back to my car and she's telling me to stay put I said listen if it was
00:02:54.540your husband and someone was chasing him with a knife you'd be on him too and I just I got in the
00:02:59.620truck and i had the trailer behind me and i started driving down 16th avenue because you did yes i
00:03:06.340didn't know where you were you were back in the personal lot by the time i found you wow i just
00:03:12.000phoned john and said i just needed to hear your voice because i didn't know where you were yeah
00:03:18.360i i so i i'm sitting here and i just answered the phone in a friendly way hi how you doing and then
00:03:24.520i heard you and you wanted to hear my voice and i could hear you on two phones you had both phones
00:03:29.820going at the same time 9-1-1 i could hear them talking and i said can i come there i didn't know
00:03:35.000what to do at this point because i'm frantic as well i finally said listen i'm gonna hang up you
00:03:39.820talk to the police and get in touch with me as soon as you can because i was so worried about
00:03:44.100you mr alberton what the hell happened i mean here this is october the 19th i mean for god's
00:03:51.920sakes you're standing in front of a let alberta decide sign at another place you left this
00:03:57.200situation to go fix another sign this morning and i was so worried about you thank god my friend
00:04:02.960that you are okay what the hell happened here well like like the missus said i was just watching him
00:04:10.080my mirror and i because i was suspicious of this guy just the way he was acting he was kind of
00:04:15.600fumbling around on the skateboard and didn't really seem proper so i just watched him and
00:04:20.120sure enough as soon as he got to that sign right there in the blue mile he he reaches out and
00:04:25.980starts messing around with it and is like you can't do that so i i hop out of the truck like
00:04:31.600i didn't say nothing i just hop out of the truck and i'm on him right but he's got the noise
00:04:36.240canceling headphones so even though i'm screaming at him he doesn't even know i exist yet right yeah
00:04:42.200uh-oh cop's in a hurry anyway um so we uh i go chasing after him and he's up to the next sign
00:04:54.180with the knife in his hand about to to start slicing at the next sign right and that's when
00:04:58.760i got in got around so that he could actually see me and that's when he pulled the headphones back
00:05:03.260and we started to have a conversation and he was obviously not not of uh sober mind we'll put it
00:05:10.320that way I could smell alcohol on his breath and he was he was acting really erratically and it was
00:05:15.180kind of weird but then he started trying to move and I kept blocking his way and that's how he
00:05:20.120ended up on the street because I wasn't letting him move forward so he kept having to go sideways
00:05:24.160to the point where he actually ran out onto 16th Avenue and then and Mrs. Albertan by the way is
00:05:30.620snapping photos at this point she's wanting to get a picture of and here's a picture of you in the
00:05:35.180middle of 16th Avenue I mean for people who are watching from anywhere around the world
00:05:39.640this is the trans canada highway basically that runs through calgary and this is one of the
00:05:44.900busiest streets now it's 3 15 in the morning when this is happening so you got this nut case
00:05:50.080what the hell are you doing slashing signs in the middle of the night you're standing in front of
00:05:54.480another sign that's been slashed we had this other person that may be arrested you seem to think this
00:05:59.400sign right here was slashed by the same person that you confronted last week calgary police
00:06:05.400arrest that person but you're you're scuffling with this person they ever try to to get you
00:06:12.020with this knife this person had a knife obviously if they're attacking these signs well i would i
00:06:17.580would say he absolutely said i am not going to attack you with this knife that was the first
00:06:23.020thing he said and i i said i never accused you of doing that i never said that you were going to i
00:06:28.100said you were not to go anywhere you're not supposed to be destroying other people's property
00:06:31.920That's why I'm detaining you. You're not going anywhere right now because you're not allowed to destroy other people's property, especially when it's election material.
00:06:41.140You have to stay right here. And he kept moving and moving and moving and moving.
00:06:44.800And I kept blocking and blocking and blocking. And before you know, we ended up out of her view, which is freaking her out.
00:06:49.920And we're in the back alley. And he's I mean, I may have even known where his home was.
00:06:55.760So I said, yeah, go, go ahead, go home. And then he kind of got a grin on his face and then started walking away from where he was, looked like he was going to go into the house. Right. So, right. So, so you, you basically, when I was talking to you earlier, when you called me back, cause I sent you a message, please get in touch with me. I'm here for you. I sent you a text message. So you basically said to me when I first talked to you, when you called me back, you basically did a citizen's arrest on this guy, right?
00:07:21.900I told him I'm doing a citizen's arrest who are not to move.
00:07:26.580So, so 9-1-1 has been called by the missus. Yep. He's frantic. I'm frantic sitting here.
00:07:33.080Honest to God, I'm sitting here. Why the hell, why do I want to do a video? It means nothing
00:07:37.260until they find out about you. I like, what's the point? Because you were going to be part of this
00:07:41.600great, you know, happy story about how we need to get people out to the polls this morning.
00:07:46.320Your message to people. I'm hoping to put that in a video later today. I'm sitting here,
00:07:51.020what the hell am I going to do? I just sat here doing nothing. So what happened when the police
00:07:56.300showed up? What's the more, what's the ending to this story? Well, when we ended up on another
00:08:02.380street, we came out of that back alley and we were ended up on seventh street, I believe it was
00:08:08.140probably sixth street by that point. And that's where I basically did the arrest. I took him,
00:08:16.600i took him into custody right and he kept trying to struggle his way out and we ended up against
00:08:22.440a fence and that's when the the police officers came down the back alley of the of that block
00:08:29.080and i'm screaming at the police i'm over here i'm over here like we're we're right here come come
00:08:33.320come and they they heard me and backed up and they then they took over i said i've i've i've done a
00:08:37.800citizen's arrest on this gentleman he's been doing uh damage to to election signs and i want to uh
00:08:43.640have him arrested and that's what they did and when we left he was in the back of the cruiser
00:08:49.720so you guys unbelievable he said he's going to jail tonight so
00:08:56.280first i'm i'm so happy you're okay mr albert mrs alberton i i know i could hear it in your voice
00:09:03.480how frantic you were and the story comes out with a good ending i was worried that on the 19th of
00:09:09.720October on referendum day it came to this at the final moment but I'm so well you guys are my heroes
00:09:16.260you know we were at the legislature the other day you came on stage I said you're symbols of the
00:09:21.220great people in this movement the people that are doing wonderful things across this province
00:09:25.520as I'm talking to you right now it's 4 0 5 a.m in the morning you've got a job you have to work
00:09:31.740you're doing this every night I love you too people are just so proud of you and we're so
00:09:37.680glad you're okay both of you tonight well thank you it's uh i mean i'm glad it went down the way
00:09:43.600it did tonight because we've been we've been wanting to catch whoever's been slashing those
00:09:46.600signs all summer long and i i kind of went ape on a little bit on the officers it's sickening we get
00:09:53.860you we have to do your job this should be on the news i just i kind of let them have it with all
00:09:59.100my barrels and then i i apologized when they were leaving and she said please don't apologize we
00:10:04.880understand there's a lot of frustration with what we've been through especially with this other guy
00:10:09.780so yeah well the other guy uh you know an arrest is imminent we'd like to see that happen as well
00:10:15.420i mean enough is enough yeah and and and you know and you're right i mean the calgary police they
00:10:20.860can't be running around all night long chasing people slashing signs but this has been on and
00:10:26.080on day after day night after night and you guys have caught a couple of them in the last week
00:10:31.240i'm so glad you're okay i i was so worried about you about 35 minutes ago i did not know what was
00:10:38.400going down on 16th 16th avenue here in calgary and um thank you for what you're doing out there
00:10:44.940if you need anything you let me know about it you let me know okay please absolutely for sure yeah
00:10:50.460it's been quite the night again it has we left there and we thought oh well we're on our way
00:11:01.900home because we're done doing signs and we thought we'll drive past confederation this is the same
00:11:07.380spot where we have the video footage of the city worker stealing the sign yes and we pulled up and
00:11:15.260we were here twice today it was perfect condition we come over the hill while we're talking to you
00:11:21.060and this is what we see again it's just it's sickening like come on why can't why do people
00:11:27.660think that it's all right to to attack other people's property i just don't understand
00:11:31.060why is it not on the news yeah yeah yeah no kidding well maybe this one should be right
00:11:39.880Maybe we get in touch with them and say, you know, two Alberta patriots are out in the middle of the night.
00:11:45.740Confront man with knife hacking election signs and referendum signs.
00:11:50.460And this is not right. And why aren't the politicians speaking out against this?
00:11:53.480I don't think many have or have said anything about this.
00:11:55.900Good question. Because we're blue. We're not red and white.
00:11:59.580If it's red and white, we'd probably have a totally different scenario.
00:12:03.080Well, you know, the side we're on, these people right here, the Albertans, we would never do anything.0.99
00:12:08.940And Mrs. Albertan are out there having to fix the mess that the other side has created.0.99