Here’s an interesting article from the Vancouver Sun…let’s keep this in mind for future road trips:
PORT ALBERNI — A Vancouver Island rugby team announced Monday it will apologize to an Abbotsford woman for the players’ “offensive” behaviour.
Teresa Stewart said she spotted the Port Alberni Black Sheep Rugby bus while driving from Langley to Abbotsford earlier this month.
As she drove by, the players held up homemade signs “emblazoned with nude frontal drawings of women and accompanied with obscenities and crude directives of what they wanted me to do for them,” she said in a letter.
“I was horrified, offended and sickened and immediately dropped back behind the bus to collect my thoughts.”
The team was in the Lower Mainland for a tournament.
Stewart said she contacted Abbotsford RCMP and also complained to Port Alberni city officials.
Black Sheep spokesman Jas Purewal said he was not aware of the signs until he was advised of the complaint.
Purewal, who was sitting at the front of the bus when the team drove by Stewart, said the signs included phrases such as, “show us your breasts.”
He said the team held a meeting earlier this month and decided to write Stewart a letter of apology.
“The signs were offensive,” he said. “At the end of the day, we offended someone and that isn’t right. It’s certainly not good for our club, and we don’t want to show the community in a bad light.”
Stewart said the Black Sheep should develop a code of conduct for its players, both on and off the field.
“The older guys, hopefully, will teach the younger guys how to behave,” Stewart said. “They’re representing the community, and they’re also representing men — Canadian men.”
