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AHA MEDIA at the scene of a supected thief being tackled in the middle of Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

June 18, 2009 ahamedia 1 comment

AHA MEDIA was crossing Main and Hastings in a southbound direction towards Carnegie Center today at 1:20 p.m. when one man chasing another man ran right by us in the northern direction. A man tackled the other to the ground right in the middle of the intersection of Main and Hastings.

Hearing from a Carnegie Centre security guard, ” Apparently the guy had broken into a car parked on Main Street and stolen a camera.”

The tackler held the other man down in the middle of the street holding up traffic until a group of Vancouver cops came and arrested the man.

The following photographs are of the incident:

Below are two photos of the “thief” being held down in the middle of the Main and Hastings intersection by the tackling man with 2 other private secuity guards looking on as cars drove past.

In the next photo, a passerby watched as a Carnegie Centre security guard looked in on the situation between the two men.

The next three photos show members of the Vancouver Police Dept taking charge of the situation and apprending the suspect.

The next five photos show Skip Everall, Head of Security at Carnegie Centre observing the Vancouver Police Officers question both the suspect and the man who tackled him.

Skip Everall and the rest of the Carnegie Centre Security guards always do a great job in ensuring that members of Carnegie Centre always have the utmost in safety and protection.

The situation resolved with the suspect being herded off toward Vancouver Police Station. When the person in custody is being escorted by Law officers it’s nicknamed the “Walk of Shame” in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.

AHA MEDIA is delighted to present Vancouver Police Museum’s first contest ever – “Me and a Tommy”

June 17, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA is very pleased to present the Vancouver Police Museum located in the heart of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Cordova Street right next to Fire Hall theatre

The Vancouver Police Museum is a small non-profit museum dedicated to portraying the history of the Vancouver Police Department. We are located at 240 E. Cordova Street (in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside). We also happen to be housed in a very cool building.

Below are contest details right from http://www.vancouverpolicemuseum.ca/weblog/2009/06/me-and-a-tommy/

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So stoked!

Me and a Tommy. (Image by John Biehler. Some rights reserved.)

This morning, we received an email from a big movie studio, asking if we’d be interested in seeing a sneak preview of an upcoming major summer film. As you might imagine, this caught us a little off-guard, since we’ve never received any sneak preview tickets at the Police Museum before. After the shock wore off, we decided to press our luck and see how many tickets we could get. In the end, they gave us 20 (!) pairs of tickets for the screening. (Screening is in the evening of Thursday, June 25th)

We can’t tell you what film this is for yet, but we’re pretty sure you’d enjoy checking this one out before the masses. So, we’ve decided to run a contest or two in the next week to give you a chance to come join us. The first contest, we’re calling… “Me and a Tommy”.

Doesn’t everyone need an Anti-Bandit Gun?

As you may know, we’re pretty proud of the eight Thompson Submachine Guns we have in our museum collection. Invented by John T. Thompson in 1919, the Thompson became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals. (Vancouver Police bought 42 of them, at $50 a piece!) The Thompson was also known informally as the “Tommy Gun”, the “Trench Broom”, the “Trench Sweeper”, the “Chicago Piano”, the “Chicago Typewriter”, and the “Chopper”. (Thanks for the succinct write-up, Wikipedia!)

To win this contest, you need to take a photograph of yourself with a Tommy; could be a person, an object, a poster, arts-and-crafts, whatever… be creative, as long as it’s clearly a “Tommy’. Once you’ve got the picture, comment on this blog entry with your name and a link to your picture, or post a Twitpic on Twitter with the hashtag “#vpmtommy”. (No photoshops, or digital edits, please!)

To summarize the contest:

1) Take a picture of you and a Tommy
2) Get it online
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!

All entries must be up before 5pm on Sunday, June 21.

Afterward, our elite panel of judge(s) will pick the most creative, unique or awesome entries and award the selected contributors each a pair of tickets to the screening. We may award as few as one or as many as five sets of tickets for this contest, depending on how much awesomeness we receive. You can submit multiple photos, but you can only win once.

Good luck to you all!

ps. The first person to post a real picture of themselves with Tommy Chong, (no photoshopping!!!) wins automatically!

AHA MEDIA films Vancouver Critical Mass Bike Riders on Robson and Burrard Streets

June 2, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

As our urban environment screams for a reduction in pollution, Critical Mass movements around the world lead the way. This event, typically held on the last Friday of every month is where bicyclists and other self-propelled commuters take to the streets en masse.

Critical Mass is a grassroots reclamation of public space — a bike ride and skate — held the last Friday of every month. Bicycles, skateboards, rollerskates, self propelled couches, and any other form of human powered locomotion are all welcomed!

Although this event did not originate as a protest movement many cyclists have adopted this event to ‘reclaim’ the streets and reflect the urgency for environmental care and change.

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In this video, the first wave of Critical Mass Bike Riders become the traffic on Robson St in Vancouver much to the surprise of pedestrians and car drivers.

A Vancouver Police officer rides along with the cyclists and comments about Critical Mass occuring on the last friday of the month

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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In this video, the second wave of Critical Mass Bike Riders become the traffic on Burrard St much to the chagrin of some irate Car drivers!!

Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA in support of Betty Krawczyk To Appeal Criminal Contempt Conviction

June 2, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

Three years (+ 1 day) after the fall of Eagleridge Bluffs, Betty Krawczyk is scheduled to appeal Justice Brown’s criminal contempt decision that resulted in a10-month jail sentence.

BC Court of Appeal
400-800 Hornby St. Vancouver, BC

Betty will be self-represented, basing her appeal on judicial bias as well as the manner in which the Judge invited the crown to seek a criminal contempt conviction on behalf of the court.

*Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA was the only man out of a group of 12 while the rest were all women.

To read more about Betty K. http://tinyurl.com/koo9r4

Categories: Aboriginal, AHA Media, April Smith, B.C., Citizen Journalism, Downtown, Hendrik Beune, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Media Event, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, Native, New Media, Politics, Twitter, Vancouver, Vancouver Police

AHA MEDIA at the scene of a “suicide” Jumper on top of new Lux Hotel on East Hastings between Columbia and Carrall St in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )

June 1, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

There was high drama on the 100 block of E. Hastings St Sunday evening shortly before 8pm when a male perched himself atop the New Lux residence and threatened to jump.

A crowd had quickly gathered with several shouting at the individual to go ahead and jump.

Police responded promptly to string up yellow police line tape blocking off the whole block and moving the growing crowd of onlookers back far enough so as not to excite the individual. The man appeard to be agitated and would lean over the edge of the building every so often.

There was a tense moment as the police escorted an elderly Native gentleman who had found himself behind the police line. As he was being escorted he lost a shoe and one officer kicked it along on the ground which angered several in the crowd as they demanded that “an elder should be treated with more respect”.

Harsha Walia, a activist at the DEWC told the officer that this was not how an elder should be treated.

It was also noted by other DTES activists that there had been evictions at the New Lux and that this may be the reason for the actions of the man on the roof.

The New Lux is one of the new social housing buildings run by RainCity Housing and BC Housing that caters to the hard to house citizens of Vancouver and more specifically the Downtown Eastside (DTES).

At the time of this item going online (9:30pm) the man was still talking to police negotiaters and playing up to the large crowd of approximately 300 area residents.

How the man got onto the roof, why he took this action and what were the circumstances that led to this unfortunate incident are questions that will need to be answered in the following days.