I just love the lead sentence on this story from the Abbotsford Times, titled “Sex-trade worker honoured with plaque”:

More than 30 Lower Mainland drug addicts, prostitutes, friends and family gathered in Abbotsford Tuesday afternoon to honour the memory of dead sex-trade worker Penny Jodway….

…Jodway was known to rule the area with an iron fist. She used a combination of drugs, violence and intimidation to secure the corner for dealing and prostitution, said Barry Shantz, Fraser Valley director of the B.C. and Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors.

No, this isn’t a joke. The BC and Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors really does exist. Note how the article quotes this group, and not the police, on the issue of Abbotsford’s first street walker. (Really? The first one? Ever? What a boring town.)

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