Attention Citizens of Toronto

Killer

Good news! Apparently if you have no priors and can hold down a job, it is now all but legal to attack complete strangers on public transportation and kill them.

The Toronto Star reports today that John Paul Vallon has been handed a sentence of 10 years (minus 4 years and 4 months “credit” – though the crime took place only 2 years ago) for his lethal attack on student Nick Brown. On April 13, 2007, both men were on a near empty subway car in the early morning hours when Vallon attacked Brown, stabbed him 14 times and left him for dead. For no reason. At all.

So Brown is dead and Vallon will be a free man by 2014. For his part, Ontario Superior Court Justice Eugene Ewaschuk blamed not Vallon for the attack, but rather, the knife Vallon was carrying: “That’s what brought it all on. He got the knife and he was looking for trouble.” Ewaschuk is the same judge who sentenced two reservists to ten years for the stomping death of a homeless man in Moss Park.

So the next time you feel the need to release a little stress and get some of that rage out, go ahead and attack a fellow citizen. Chances are you’ll be free before the 905 gets a hockey team.