Vancouver’s Park Board commissioner and mayoral candidate, John Coupar, is getting mercilessly roasted on social media for his take on dollar store gardening tools..Coupar took to Twitter Monday voicing safety concerns with respect to how easy it is to purchase what he thought were machetes at Dollarama. However, the perceived machetes were actually pruning saws..“Machetes on open store shelves at Clark and Hastings not a good look,” Coupar Tweeted in response to a “concerned citizen’s” photo of the pruning saws.. John Coupar TwitterJohn Coupar Twitter . Pruning sawPruning saw .The curved, serrated blade is a common gardening tool used to cut small tree branches..“Pruning saw attacks on the rise?” wrote one Twitter user..“The man never pruned a tree branch in his life,” wrote another..Several people called out the park commissioner for not knowing the difference between a common gardening tool and a machete, but some cut him slack given the recent influx of random, violent crime, including an actual machete attack in Vancouver last week..However, four hours after Coupar’s machete mixup he presumably still hadn’t realized the item was indeed a pruning saw, as the mayoral candidate further tweeted about the need for responsible retailers to “put machetes behind a locked glass case.”.“I gotta keep coming back to see if you’ve yet figured out that a pruning saw is not a machete,” one user replied..Coupar supported a recently shut-down motion to expand a closed-circuit television camera system throughout Vancouver to "deter violent crime."
